August 26, 1999
EURO COUTURIERS GET SO HAUTON SOHO
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe European fashion invasion of SoHo is picking up speed. Chanel is the latest fashion house ready to test life outside the rarefied air of the Upper East Side. President...
INDIE FILMMAKERS MAKING ONLINEMARKET PREMIERE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amAd man and restaurateur Jerry Della Femina and real estate mogul Bill Rudin both lent their homes and tennis courts for cameo roles in the low-budget flick. A guy who...
CA'S WANG WINS BIG BROUHAHA OVER $1B BONUS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amComputer Associates Chairman Charles Wang and his top two execs will keep their controversial bonus scheme that paid the trio more than $1 billion in stock last year. Shareholders in...
COSMO GIRL TO EDIT OPRAH'S MAG
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amOprah Winfrey has tapped Cosmopolitan's executive editor, Ellen Kunes, as editor of her new magazine. But there will be plenty of other top editors looking over Kunes' shoulder as she...
$65M HOTEL BILL - HYATT BUYING THE RITZY STANHOPE; EXCLUSIVE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe posh Upper East Side Stanhope hotel is about to be sold to Hyatt Hotels, The Post has learned. A deal, in the neighborhood of $65 million, could be announced...
NEWSWEEK BUILDING SOLD FOR $140 MILLION
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: The Newsweek building at Broadway and 58th Street has been sold for $140 million. The new owner is David Werner, a Brooklyn-based real estate mogul, who got financial assistance...
SATURN'S NEW WOMAN PRESIDENT
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amIT may be difficult to imagine the president of an auto manufacturer being hugged by assembly line workers and dealership employees or being asked for an autograph. It may be...
'SPIN' MAYOR A RUDY COPYCAT - PLOT POKES FUN AT RACE VS. HILLARY FOR SENATE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am'SPIN City" Mayor Randall Winston will contemplate a run for the U.S. Senate against a tough-as-nails female opponent. Sound familiar? That's because ABC's Gotham-based "Spin City" is having fun with...
NO REAL COUNTRY AT THIS BOGGUSS GIG
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amCOUNTRY singer Suzy Bogguss is a competent singer, an OK songwriter and, for about six songs on Tuesday night, an entertaining performer. In spite of the applause she garnered for...
TV TICKER
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amJealous? ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is apparently getting under NBC's skin. A press release issued yesterday by NBC was headlined "Who Wants to Win Tuesday Night?" In...
B'WAY'S BIG 'KAT' FIGHT - WILL MIXED REVIEWSSPELL DOOM FOR SHOW?
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amTHE question on Broadway this week is: Can "Kat and the Kings," the new musical about a South African doo-wop group, survive? A slender summer entry with negligible advance ticket...
FOX'S CAVUTO AN ALLY IN MONTEL'S BATTLE WITH MS; BUCKMAN: ROSEANNE ON CH. 55
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Neil Cavuto heard that Montel Williams had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he felt compelled to call him. "I put a call into his office just to wish him...
'FOREVER': A PUFF OF SMOKE & MIRRORS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amFOREVER - Puff Daddy; Bad Boy Anyone who saw Sean "Puffy" Combs' "Family Tour" concert engagement at the Garden last year knows that this is a man who gets by...
HIT & DI$$ FOR 'MILLION' FANS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amBad blood is starting to build around the wild popularity of ABC's new hit game show, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" For every contestant who wins $500,000, as Michael...
FALUN GONG FOLLOWERS JUST EXERCISING THEIR FREE WILL?
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amPROPONENTS of Falun Gong, a Chinese movement founded in 1992, claim that its meditation and breathing rituals are simply a source of healing and fitness for its over 100 million...
'WITCH' FLIES TO VIDEO - INDIE BLOCKBUSTER WILL HIT TAPE IN RECORD TIME
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amAFTER earning more money than any low-budget movie ever, "The Blair Witch Project" will soon set another record: It will be released on video faster than any other blockbuster film...
SATIRISTS THINK 'PROJECT' IS A REAL PANIC
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amJUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods, "Blair Witch" has sprouted another kind of spin-off: the spoof. The movie's eerie twig figures and star...
PLAN MAY DRAW SWIMMERS BACK TO CLEANER HUDSON; EXCLUSIVE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Pataki administration has set in motion a plan to make the Hudson River a premier swimming location once again, The Post has learned. The Hudson, long shunned by swimmers...
PANDERING HER WAY TO OBLIVION
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am'Hillary will have to answer thisquestion: What are the real New Yorkersdoing wrong? What does New York Cityneed more of? Social intervention(i.e., more welfare mothers)?' MAYBE it's just the August...
KEEP MAYOR'S MITTS OFF PORT AUTHORITY: SURVEY
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amCity residents side with the Port Authority over Mayor Giuliani in the tug-of-war to run the Big Apple's airports, a new survey has found. Fifty-four percent of city residents said...
HEART DOCS HAIL 'AGGRESSIVE STRATEGY'
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amPatients who suffer massive heart attacks complicated by shock may live longer if they have immediate bypass surgery or angioplasty, a groundbreaking new study has found. "This shows that an...
SPITZER OKS DEAL TO RESCUE APOLLO
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amAt long last, it's showtime at the Apollo. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has agreed to drop the state's yearlong lawsuit against the board of the legendary Harlem showplace - which...
WIFE LEARNS CRIME-FAMILY VALUES - MOBSTER HUBBY'S MOM EVICTING HER; EXCLUSIVE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amDonna Malpeso is finding out there's only one thing worse than being married to the mob - the divorce. Malpeso says the mother of her estranged husband, a reputed Colombo...
ELVIS AUCTIONEER BETS ON A SALE-HOUSE ROCK
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe Tavern on the Green became Graceland North yesterday. Although Elvis Presley has definitely left the building, a collection of the King's things were displayed for the media yesterday at...
BEATTY MAY BE IN IT TO SQUEEZE BRADLEY OUT
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amPresto! Enter Beatty as another Dem primary rival to split the anti-Gore vote and take some of it from Bradley. ANYONE who saw "The Parallax View" knows Warren Beatty likes...
'CHICKEN' FILMMAKER STRUTS STUFF AT RUDY'S EMMY BASH
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am"I think I reversed [denial of a permit to film on city streets] in one day, and now I'm going to take credit for it." MAYOR GIULIANI "Roger and Me"...
MOZART WON'T TUNE UP IQ
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amA Mozart sonata can lift your spirits, but not necessarily your IQ scores. New studies detailed today in the journal Nature are challenging old research and the continuing popular belief...
SCALPERS MAY GET $5,000 A SEAT
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amTicket scalpers and brokers are planning to ride the wave of excitement about a possible Subway Series right to the bank - maybe even at $5,000 a seat. "It's hard...
FANS MUGGED FOR SUBWAY SERIES - MUST BUY PLAN TO ENSURE THEY GET PLAYOFF TIX
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amNew York City is catching Subway Series fever, and fans hoping to snag post-season tickets for the Mets or Yankees will have to scramble more than ever. "I would miss...
'NET RAPE RAP IN AFFAIR WITH 12-YEAR-OLD
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amA 22-year-old Long Island man yesterday was charged with the statutory rape of a 12-year-old girl he met on the Internet and had "consensual" sex with, cops said. Nassau County...
MORE SCHOOLS BEING $PURRED TO MAKE GRADE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew and a business group have expanded a controversial program to pay up to $30 million in bonuses to superintendents, principals and teachers who boost test scores...
PREZ FIRES A SHOT AT CONGRESS ON TAX PLAN
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The tax battle roared back yesterday, with President Clinton releasing a horror list of cherished programs he claims would be cut under the GOP tax cut. Republicans fired...
NEW GEORGE ISSUE OFFERS MOVING TRIBUTE TO JFK JR.
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amGrieving staffers of John F. Kennedy Jr's magazine have written a heartbreaking tribute to their late boss in the September issue of George. And they vowed to keep the magazine...
FEMALE GUARDS FIGHT CITY JAILS' SKIRT BAN
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am"Wearing pants is forbidden by my Pentecostal faith." CYNTHIA WILLIAMS Female correction officers, fighting for the right to wear skirts while working at city jails, asked a federal judge yesterday...
RUDY TO HEADLINE AT REAGAN DINNER
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani will give the annual speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation dinner in California next month, sources told The Post yesterday. Giuliani, a likely U.S. Senate candidate who's...
LITTLE LEAGUERS' SECRET WEAPON: FAN-DEMONIUM
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Even the opposing players in today's Little League showdown say they're intimidated when the defending world champions from Toms River "unleash the Beast." When they first faced...
TICKET BLITZ II: RETURN OF THE ENFORCERS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amBeware - don't block the box! Hundreds of ticket-writing cops are swarming intersections throughout the city again today in Round 2 against gridlock. That means drivers caught "blocking the box"...
MAYOR RIPS PREZ AFTER MEETING FALN VICTIMS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am"I agree with them that the president should rescind the offer of clemency." MAYOR GIULIANI Mayor Giuliani yesterday continued his attack on President Clinton's clemency offer to members of the...
MARCH LEADER DENIES THREATS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amMillion Youth March firebrand Khalid Muhammad yesterday denied charges he threatened City Councilman Bill Perkins, who has been an outspoken critic of his racially charged rhetoric. "I absolutely did not,"...
FEDS FLIP-FLOP ON WACO TEAR-GAS DENIAL
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The FBI last night 'fessed up that it fired explosive devices into the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, despite repeated denials over six years. Congressional Republicans called...
O'CONNOR ADMITTED TO SLOAN-KETTERING
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Cardinal O'Connor was admitted yesterday to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he is undergoing tests for persistent nausea, his spokesman said. New York Archdiocese spokesman Joseph Zwilling declined to...
HILLARY SPURS HATE PR0BE 0F '94 BRIDGE SLAY
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amEDGARTOWN, Mass. - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton leaned on federal investigators to begin probing the 1994 fatal shooting of a Hasidic Jewish teen on the Brooklyn Bridge, The Post...
NEW QUAKE FUROR AS TURKEY ADMITS TOLL WAS PADDED
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amThe outcry over Turkey's handling of last week's earthquake escalated yesterday when Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit admitted the death toll had been artificially inflated by more than 5,000. Ecevit blamed...
COMIC MARTIN LAWRENCE FIGHTS FOR LIFE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amTroubled comedian Martin Lawrence was in "very critical" condition last night after being in a coma and near death for three days this week following a collapse from heatstroke. The...
YELTSIN'S AIDES DIRECTED MOB $$ LAUNDER: REPORT
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amRussian President Boris Yeltsin's top aides directed mobsters to launder at least $15 billion through two New York banks, law-enforcement officials said in a newspaper report today. The officials said...
BANK OF N.Y. LET TWO VEEPS DODGE RULES: COLLEAGUES
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Bank of New York officials turned a deaf ear to employees who complained standard procedures were flouted when it came to making lucrative wire transfers for Russian banks, The...
NYRA LOOKS TO MAP PLAN FOR ITS FUTURE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The New York Racing Association, reacting to a slew of recent racetrack acquisitions by Churchill Downs and Canadian tycoon Frank Stronach, decided at a board meeting yesterday...
DAVIS EYING MAC AS CAPT.; EXCLUSIVE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amUSTA president Judy Levering told The Post yesterday she is considering John McEnroe to be the new U.S. Davis Cup captain to replace embattled Tom Gullikson. McEnroe, in turn, told...
NO MONKEY BUSINESS THIS TIME FOR COACH
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amWILLIAMSPORT - The Beast cries, too. One year ago, Richie Cunningham's Happy Days were spent bouncing around Lamade Stadium playing the inspiring role of The Beast to the fullest. He...
JINTS LOOK PAST JETS ... TO JETS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am"What's going to happen on Saturday is going to pale in comparison what it's going to be like in December." MICHAEL STRAHAN ALBANY - The smile was so wide that...
'THIEF' CAN STEAL IT - ZITO GIVES 'CAT' THE EDGE IN TRAVERS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - A field of eight 3-year-olds - Menifee, Ecton Park, Lemon Drop Kid, Cat Thief, Vision and Verse, Unbridled Jet, Best of Luck and Badger Gold - is...
BASEBALL, UMPS SET FOR SEPT. 2 SHOWDOWN
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amBaseball could have an angry showdown on its hands come Sept. 2. That's because on top of an already acrimonious labor dispute with its umpires, the two sides apparently haven't...
BADOUIZM WINS LAKE PLACID
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Badouizm closed well in the stretch and caught pacesetting Confessional near the wire to win the Grade 2 $150,000 Lake Placid Handicap for three-year-old fillies by a...
FASSEL NO FAN OF SUPE TALK
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - As the morning practice ended yesterday, Jim Fassel called the Giants together, as always, but the message he delivered was not ordinary. Sensing his team, 2-0...
WITHOUT HESS, JETS-GIANTS WON'T BE SAME FOR MARA
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - There will be a twinge of sadness felt by Wellington Mara on Saturday night. When Mara, the Giants' co-owner, attends the Giants-Jets pre-season game at Giants Stadium, he...
FARRIOR NOT BACKING DOWN - NECK & NECK WITH PHIFER FOR OLB JOB
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amEven with a psychology degree from Virginia, James Farrior knows he would have needed a Masters to figure out Bill Parcells. "You can't tell what's going on in his head,"...
BEAST'S READY TO ROAR - TOMS RIVER GOES FOR U.S. CROWN
August 26, 1999 | 4:00am"I hope they stay loose. I don't think they'll tighten up." MIKE GAYNOR, Toms River skipper WILLIAMSPORT - They will play the biggest game of their young lives tonight, but...
PROBE SCRATCH OF SPA FAVORITE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - New York Racing Association and State Racing and Wagering Board investigators are delving into the circumstances that forced the late scratch of Nani Rose, the heavy favorite,...
MANY JEWISH FANS WILL MISS OPENER
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES It won't be a Happy New Year for some Jewish Jets fans. In a case of bad timing, the second day of Rosh Hashana falls on the same...
AGASSI DRAWS EASIEST ROUTE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amOf the Big Three in the men's U.S. Open field that begins Monday, Andre Agassi was provided the easiest route to the finals yesterday. Two-time defending champion Patrick Rafter and...
TORRE WEIGHS GIVING CONEY EXTRA DAY OFF
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amARLINGTON - David Cone looks you in the eye and tells you he isn't hurt and you are left without any other option but to believe him because he has...
THE MAGIC IS (KENNY'S) BACK - SHAKES OFF INJURY AND PITCHES IN
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amOBTAINING the medical report on the Mets' pitching staff is becoming a daily obsession. Yesterday was no different. First there was the MRI on Bobby Jones' stiff shoulder. The news...
A FORK IN THE TOAD - BATTERED IRABU THROWING AWAY HIS PLAYOFF ROLE
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amARLINGTON - Hideki Irabu's August meltdown continued last night in a searing Texas inferno. The best pitcher in the AL during July has displayed all the constitution of an ice...
METS LOOKIN' GOOD - AMAZIN'S CAPTURE RUBBER GAME FROM FIRST-PLACE ASTROS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amBefore last night's rubber match between the Mets and Astros, Houston manager Larry Dierker was asked who besides his first basemanJeff Bagwell should be considered National League MVP candidates. He...
STRUGGLING JETER GIVEN A RARE BREAK
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ARLINGTON - Joe Torre knew he was going to have Derek Jeter and Chili Davis on the bench with him for last night's game against the Rangers at...
AMAZIN'S PICKING ON TOUGH GUYS
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES So much for the weaker opponents theory for now. For those who claim the Mets have simply been beating up on inferior teams en route to their second-half...
CAUSE FOR CONE-CERN - DAVID'S TIRED ARM WORRIES TORRE, MEL
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ARLINGTON - David Cone looks you in the eye and tells you he isn't hurt and you are left without any other option but to believe him because he...
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL - METS, ASTROS HAVE QUITE A 'FAMILY' FEUD
August 26, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: IT is more than just baseball when the Astros and Mets play each other. It's also about family, friends and feuds, all of it meshing together to give us...