October 8, 1999
YOU CAN EXPECT A NOVEMBER RATE HIKE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIN early summer this column said that it would take at least three interest rate hikes to keep the bond market happy - and more if Alan Greenspan actually was...
SNEAK PEEKS UNDER FIRE FROM LEVITT
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amSecurities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt wants to put an end to Wall Street analysts getting a sneak peek at companies' financial information before the public does. Levitt's top...
D'AMATO BROKERS $1.68B TELECOM DEAL
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amFormer Senator Al D'Amato surfaced yesterday with his first high-profile consulting gig since leaving Capitol Hill - hooking up Bell Atlantic and Metromedia Fiber Network Inc. In a transaction brokered...
DOW JONES STAFF FLOOD KANN WITH ANGRY E-MAILS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amDow Jones Chairman Peter Kann got a cyber-earful yesterday as workers showered top brass with hundreds of e-mails protesting a proposed new retirement plan. At the urging of their union,...
3,500 JOBS TO GET CHASED
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amChase Manhattan Bank is moving 3,500 jobs - more than 5 percent of its work force - out of New York City into less-expensive facilities in Dallas, Tampa and Lowell,...
OLIVIA SUES LABEL FOR MORE 'GREASE' ; SHE WANTS TO GET UNIVERSAL PARITY ON $$
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amOlivia Newton-John may be hopelessly devoted to her record label, Universal Music Group, but execs at the company haven't returned the favor. The Aussie songstress filed a lawsuit Wednesday in...
WALKING TALKIES: MANAGING EDITOR JOINSEXODUS FROM TINA'S MAG
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTwo high-level managers have defected from Tina Brown's Talk magazine - bringing to four the number of top staffers who have defected after just three issues. The latest departures are...
VIOLENCE AND NOT MUCH ELSE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am"Harsh Realm" Tonight at 9 on WNYW/Ch.5 SCOTT Bairstow plays a soldier snookered into playing virtual-reality war games in Chris Carter's "Harsh Realm," which is, hard as this might be...
IF YOU KNEW SWOOSIE, LIKE I KNEW . . .
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am"Love & Money" Tonight at 8:30 on Ch.2 THE good news is that Swoosie Kurtz is back in prime time and knocking every line (and look) out of the (Central)...
SKIP THE VISIT TO THIS BURRO OF QUEENS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amMOVIE REVIEW AS sucker bait for the sort of credulous cinast who'll buy anything ugly and boring that looks like it's avant-garde, "julien donkey-boy" could hardly be improved. Writer-director Harmony...
NEW 'GMA' STUDIO DRAWS FIRE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am'GOOD Morning America's" new Times Square studio is popular - maybe a little too popular. Since its debut on Sept. 13, the glass-front, street-level studio at 44th Street and Broadway...
UNSINKABLE MOLLY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S something hilarious about Mary Katherine Gallagher, the parochial high-school student Molly Shannon has played since 1995 on "Saturday Night Live" and now brings to the big screen in "Superstar."...
ELECTRA PROVES TO ERR IS 'HUMAN'
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" does not become Electra - Carmen Electra, that is. This is a witless and vulgar romantic comedy wrapped inside a mock documentary about...
CLIMBER WORKED FOR NBC
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE footage shot of famed mountaineer Alex Lowe, who was killed Tuesday in an avalanche, and his ill-fated expedition in Tibet will most likely never air on TV. The film...
SEXY DANCE MOVESINTENSIFY 'CONTACT'
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIN the last, longest and best of the three parts of "Contact," a dance play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse, ad exec Michael (Boyd Gaines) wins a big award, gives...
THE TRAGIC LIFE AND DEATH OF A BOY TRAPPED IN A GIRL'S BODY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am'BOYS Don't Cry" is a haunting, superbly made film. But it's also an unrelentingly sad and depressing experience, being the true story of a young Nebraskan woman who successfully masqueraded...
GANGSTA TRAP
October 8, 1999 | 4:00am'WHITEBOYS" is an attempt to make a whole movie out of a single joke: the incongruous sight of a white teenager doing his best to look and sound like a...
CABLEVISION HAS THE URGE TO MERGE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amC ABLEVISION, the corporate giant behind "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall Productions, is about to acquire Dodger Endemol Theatrical, the producer of "Footloose" and...
STAMP OF APPROVAL FOR 'LIMEY'
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Limey" has cult film written all over it.Wistfully moody, stylized and exquisitely self-conscious, it's filled with 1960s movie references and makes maximum use of the iconic status of two...
ISRAEL MAY BREAK AUSTRIAN TIES OVER PRO-NAZI ECHOES
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIsrael yesterday threatened to break relations with Austria in the wake of the strong electoral showing by far rightist Jeorg Haider, who once praised Adolf Hilter's employment policies and called...
U.S. FORCES FACE 'VERY SERIOUS' BIN LADEN THREAT
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amU.S. forces in Bahrain were on hair-trigger alert last night after receiving new threats from Islamic militants loyal to Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. U.S. counterterrorism experts told The Post...
LOOKS LIKE IT'S THE DONALD VS. THE DUNLEAVY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amYOU see, he had to do it. The Donald heard the resounding echoes of my footsteps fast on his heels. He felt me breathing down his neck. So, he had...
BLESSED BOMBER VS. AMAZIN' GRACE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amFor Kathleen Maciej and Francis Wystepek, a subway series would be the ultimate holy war. "There would be no mercy if we have a subway series," Maciej, a second-to-nun Met...
SCHOOLS' TESTING FIASCO TURNED MOM'S SUMMER INTO A LIVING HELL
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amNINE-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Mayfield has endured an agonizing and emotional hell ride these past few months. The student at PS 269 in Brooklyn was told in June he failed spring's citywide...
SUDDENLY, SADDAM IS MR. NICE GUY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amA kinder, gentler-sounding Saddam Hussein has sent word to President Clinton that he wants to mend fences, is willing to make peace with Israel, and would bring political reform to...
BUSH, GOMORRAH AND THE RIGHT: THE MEDIA DID A DISSERVICE TO THE FRONT-RUNNER'S INTERESTING SPEECH
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amGEORGE W. Bush is getting a bum rap. The speech he gave here in New York on Tuesday was the most conservative address he has yet delivered, and the 1,000...
BRADLEY'S $2B FAMILY-TIES PLAN
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amDemocratic 2000 hopeful Bill Bradley yesterday outlined a $2.6 billion-a-year plan to help families cope with the strains of a harried era when dinnertime is like "a miniature Grand Central...
WEEPING TRAIN-CRASH KIN VISIT TRAGIC SITE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amRelatives of the 127 people killed or missing in the London train collision made a grim pilgrimage to the crash scene yesterday - as the harrowing search for bodies in...
RUDY WON'T RENDER A MEDICAL OPINION
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday ducked a thorny health-care question raised by his likely Senate opponent, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. For the second consecutive day, Mrs. Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, attacked...
FLU SHOT IS BEST DEFENSE IN BATTLE OF THE BUG
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt's time again for a flu shot - and ask your doctor if you should get a vaccination against bacterial pneumonia, too - especially in the wake of last winter's...
FAST RESPONSE TO THE SKEETER SCOURGE WINS BRITS' PRAISE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe city's quick response to the encephalitis outbreak won international praise - even as the metro area was hit yesterday with another death from the mosquito-borne virus. An esteemed British...
HE'LL PUNCH YOUR TICKET! - EX-CON PARKING OFFICER LINKED TO BRUTAL ATTACKS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amJohn Anderson could be the traffic enforcement agent from hell. The 6-foot-tall, 220-pound ex-con hired by the city is facing an assault trial for allegedly beating an Inwood merchant, ripping...
DIET-DRUG MAKER TO PAY FEN-PHEN VICTIMS $4.8B
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amA drug giant settled one of the nation's largest product-liability cases yesterday by agreeing to pay up to $4.83 billion to patients who claimed the fen-phen diet-drug cocktail caused dangerous...
FUGITIVE FINANCIER HIT WITH 36 COUNTS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amEx-fugitive financier Martin Frankel was hit with a 36-count federal indictment yesterday charging him with stealing more than $200 million from struggling insurance companies. The charges - which including racketeering,...
BETTER SERVICE PROMISED ON VEXED LEX
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTransit Authority president Larry Reuter vowed yesterday to improve service on the crowded Lexington Avenue line as the battle rages over building a Second Avenue subway. But some measures will...
HOUSE GOP CROSSES AISLE TO PASS HEALTH-CARE BILL
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The House yesterday voted overwhelmingly to give people more power over their health insurers, including the right to sue HMOs for denying coverage. With 68 Republicans defecting, yesterday's...
SUBWAY SHOVER DRIVEN BY 'RAGE' AT WOMEN: DA
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amAndrew Goldstein pushed a beautiful aspiring screenwriter to her death in front of a subway train because women rejected, enraged and frustrated him, the prosecutor in the schizophrenic's murder trial...
DEMS CHARGE GOP BUDGET RIP$ OFF N.Y.
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican spending plans in Congress will lead to cuts of more than $230 million for New York, including money that would have hired 1,062 new city cops, two...
CBS SPORTS EXEC TESTIFIES AGAINST WOMAN 'PHONE STALKER'
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe president of CBS Sports took the witness stand yesterday as the "victim" in an embarrassing sex- and booze-tinged Manhattan trial - describing his "mortifying" experience with an alleged telephone...
BILL GIVES HILL A BOOST WITH LABOR
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday cozied up to New York's most powerful union leaders, giving a lift to the first lady's campaign for the U.S. Senate. When the president mentioned Hillary Rodham...
'SENSATIONS' ART COLLECTOR PUT 160G INTO SHOW: CITY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amBritish advertising exec Charles Saatchi secretly pumped $160,000 into the Brooklyn Museum's controversial "Sensation" art show - featuring his private collection - because funding was hard to find, the city...
TEACHER'S AIDE IN COKE BUST
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amA city teacher's assistant was busted yesterday after cops found 53 bags of powdered cocaine in her Brooklyn home, police said. Michelle Wilcher, 39, who works at PS 56, was...
TRUMP PUMPED TO HIT STUMP - WANTS TO RUN WITH OPRAH ON HIS TICKET
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Donald and The Body met in Manhattan last night to discuss The Presidency, which Trump wants to seek with Oprah Winfrey as his running mate. Trump and Minnesota Gov....
YANKEE FANS HAVE BROOM FOR ONE MORE - POISED FOR SWEEP AS TEAM TAKES GAME 2
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amYankee fans had sweep dreams last night after the Bombers roped the Rangers 3-1 to go two games up in the American League Division Series. "The house is going to...
LITTLE MET FANS WILL BE WIDE AWAKE TONIGHT
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amNew York's littlest Met fans say they'll be glued to the tube tonight - after being shut out from watching the Amazin's in the playoffs because the games started too...
STATE PANEL PLANS 'CIVILITY' CLASS TO STEM STUDENT ANGER
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amA state anti-school-violence task force yesterday urged mandatory training in "civility, citizenship and character education" in all New York classrooms. The task force, headed by Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, also...
BILL SAYS BUSH IS 'STUCK' WITH THE GOP RIGHT
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday scoffed at Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush's high-profile efforts to distance himself from the GOP's right wing. Before leaving the White House to huddle with union...
RUDY PAYING PRICE IN POLL FOR MUSEUM FOR 'ART' STANCE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani's "art war" against the Brooklyn Museum has hurt his popularity - but he's still leading would-be Senate rival Hillary Clinton, a new poll shows. Asked whom they would...
REAGAN'S SON GIVES 'DUTCH' RAVE REVIEW
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Reagan's son says a pilloried new biography of his dad hits the nail right on the head - he's a "very strange" and "inscrutable" man who easily could have...
AN OCTOBERFEST FOR KINGS OF QUEENS: JUST GETTING HERE NOT GOOD ENOUGH ANYMORE FOR METS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amALL SEASON long, the Mets have been a team that needs to do something bad before it can do something good. That is why they needed to drop to 27-28...
BACK WOES HOBBLE HARRIS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amNET NOTES Nets guard Lucious Harris hopes to resume light workouts with the team today. The guard is especially bummed out after experiencing renewed back problems, which hampered him last...
KEITH PREFERS POWER, BUT ...
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTIC CITY - To play the 3 or not to play the 3 and play exclusively at the 4. Aw, stuff it. At this point, Keith Van Horn just wants...
NOW'S THE TIME TO HOOK TUNA
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amSURFCASTERS from Cape May to Montauk found September to be a big disappointment, but with this week's cold snap and a steady dose of northwest winds, October should make a...
THERE'S THUMBTHING WRONG WITH WILLIAMS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES All Brian Williams kept repeating was "don't know." That about sums up his status for Sunday's game against the Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium. The Giants don't know...
GIANTS PRAYING SNAKE STAYS IN HIS STUPOR
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amQuiet, please. Jake Plummer is napping and the Giants don't want to wake him. "Just stay asleep until next Monday," Jessie Armstead said. "He can come out of it after...
BASEBALL INSULTS FANS WITH LATE, LATE SHOW
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWEDNESDAY'S Mets-Diamondbacks playoff game ended Thursday at 2:25 a.m. I know this only because I woke up in time to see the end. While only an 8-inning game, the game's...
BUCK'S NEW BOSS IS HIS NO. 1 BACKER
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWelcome to the return playoff engagement of Buck Showalter in New York. He is not the same Buck that stopped here with the Yankees. Listen to Jerry Colangelo, the managing...
FINLEY'S 'LOADED' FOR BEAR
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the bases are juiced, so is Steve Finley. That's when the Diamondback centerfielder turns into an RBI-monster. Finley did his Edgardo Alfonzo imitation Wednesday night, driving in five runs...
PRACTICE WILL DETERMINE IF CHREBET PLAYS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES With the Jets' critical Monday night matchup against the Jaguars still four days away, Wayne Chrebet is still listed as "doubtful" on the Jets' injury report. But there...
TUNA'S PLAN: STAY CLOSE, STEAL ONE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe phone rang yesterday morning in Bill Parcells' corner office at Weeb Ewbank Hall. On the line was former Chiefs head coach Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer, who now does in-studio work...
RANGERS IN DISARRAY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIf it weren't for bad news, there wouldn't be any news at all around the Rangers, now eight days into a season that somehow seems eight months old. Which is...
AWOL SPREE IRRITATES JEFF
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amCHARLESTON, S.C. - Latrell Sprewell hasn't choked his coach this time, but his actions this past week border on insubordination just the same. Sprewell has disrespected Knicks coach Jeff Van...
LJ HAS ADVERSE REACTION TO CONVERSE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amCHARLESTON, S.C. - Grandmama to Converse: Get lost. Larry Johnson, whose fame rose during those Grandmama sneaker commercials when he played for Charlotte, apparently became insulted over the summer during...
HOUSTON'S PLUGGING HOLES IN THE OUTFIELD
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amNLDS NOTEBOOK HOUSTON - The merry-go-round that is the Astro outfield has taken yet another spin. Out of today's Game 3 lineup are ex-Met Tim Spiers and Daryle Ward, home-run...
NO KNICK TEARS IF EWING RETIRES
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Patrick Ewing talks about retiring with two years ($29 million) left on his contract - should his still-throbbing Achilles prove to be as painfully debilitating as last season -...
THIS IS WHEN THE STARS SHINE ; PIAZZA, BIG UNIT HOLD KEYS FOR METS, D-BACKS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amWITH 25 men on each side, nine men in the game, hot streaks and slumps galore, baseball isn't a sport that lends itself to oversimplification. It doesn't boil down to...
WILPON: WE WOULDN'T HAVE BACKED UP TRUCK
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES It's hard to believe, but just one week ago most people had counted the Mets out and were thinking this team had to be dismantled and restructured. The...
BUCK: D-BACKS READY FOR SHEA CROWD
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amFrom his four years as Yankees manager, Buck Showalter knows how abusive (verbally and otherwise) some New York fans can be to opponents. Especially during the playoffs. So coming in...
CAMINITI FEELS RIGHT AT HOME
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amHOUSTON - If there were ever a situation that would make the Astros' nerves tighten and their knuckles sweat, it would be today's Game 3 of the NLDS, with noted...
LUKAS SETS SIGHTS ON CHAMPAGNE, FRIZETTE
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amFive years ago, trainer D. Wayne Lukas engineered a rare sweep of Belmont Park's top stakes for 2-year-olds, winning the Champagne with Timber Country and the Frizette with Flanders. Both...
TRIBE POWER SURGE HAS BOSOX GASPING
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Leaves change, players change, but never the fortunes of the Red Sox in the fall. Unlike the pages in one of the longest tear-jerkers in sports, their luck,...
PEDRO MAY PITCH GAME 5
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amALDS NOTES CLEVELAND - Pedro Martinez will try throwing tomorrow to determine whether there is any chance he can pitch again in this series, if there still is a series...
AN OCTOBERFEST FOR KINGS OF QUEENS ; AFTER 11 LONG YEARS, SHEA READY TO BUST OUT AT SEAMS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe only playoff game Rick Reed ever pitched in was in 1994 when he was the winning pitcher for Triple-A Indianapolis in the International League championship game. Reed couldn't remember...
EXILED GILKEY HARBORS NO HARD FEELINGS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amIt's not exactly as momentous as Walt Frazier's return to the Garden after his trade to Cleveland. But for Bernard Gilkey, facing his old team at Shea tonight in the...
BRODEUR LOSES COOL
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amPenguins 7 Devils 5 Revenge was costly failure. Now Martin Brodeur is hoping to escape his first suspension for slashing Matthew Barnaby - the personification of all that went wrong...
TINO'S BUILT A LEGACY THAT SMACKS OF DON
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTINO Martinez smiled and blurted out, "That's great," when told yesterday Don Mattingly would be throwing out the first pitch later for Division Series Game 2. When Mattingly was actually...
RANGERS LOOKIN' SHAKY ; PRESSURE TAKING ITS TOLL ON TEXAS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe bravado approach crumpled like a cheap sidewalk-bought umbrella in Tuesday night's 8-0 loss. So the pathetic Rangers turned to Plan Blast night for Game 2 of their ALDS against...
GREER HEARS JEERS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amGreer Long after a crowd of reporters had left Ranger Rusty Greer to his thoughts, the usually sure-fielding leftfielder was approached by a lone television reporter Tuesday night after an...
BRING ON THE TRIBE: FEEBLE RANGERS OFFER NO RESISTANCE AS YANKS GO UP 2-0
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amGame 2 Yankees 2 Rangers 1 The next time the Yankees pull on their home Pinstripes, the Indians will be the opponent and a trip to the World Series will...
STOTTLEMYRE'S SON MAKES DAD PROUD
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amArizona pitcher Todd Stottlemyre had at least one very interested observer watching him late Wednesday night when he pitched against the Mets in the NL Division Series. "I was terrifically...
AL WEST CHAMPIONS SINK QUICKLY IN EAST
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTuesday night the Yanks beat the Rangers 8-0 with pitching and hitting in Game 1 of their ALDS. Last night the Rangers beat themselves by failing to get the key...
PETTITTE HAS ANSWER TO RALLY IN 5TH ; PETTITE COMES UP BIG ; SNUFFS OUT RANGER RALLY IN FATEFUL FIFTH
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTHE GAME was on the line as well as Andy Pettitte's reputation. Here it was, another playoff game in October with Pettitte on the hill and Yankee Stadium holding its...
LAPSES PROVE JETER'S HUMAN
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amDerek Jeter has always been known for being mature beyond his years, both on and off the field. Last night, while running the bases and at the plate, that maturity...
JEFF COMES THROUGH IN TIGHT SPOT
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amSince arriving in the Bronx before the 1996 season, Jeff Nelson has been a staple in the Yankee bullpen. For some time this year, however, Nelson's future was in doubt....
DUO MAY LEAVE DEVILS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amDisillusioned and frustrated, yet still seemingly defiant, unsigned Devils Brendan Morrison and Patrik Elias are expected to head to Michigan this weekend to skate with collegians. Negotiations for both became...
PHOENIX SON MAKES STOTTLEMYRE PROUD
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amArizona pitcher Todd Stottlemyre had at least one very interested observer watching him late Wednesday night when he pitched against the Mets in the NL Division Series. "I was terrifically...
ZIM KEEPS THE FAITH IN YANKEE HURLERS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amDON ZIMMER took a baseball to the head on Tuesday night. There was some swelling to the side on his left cheek; an abrasion on his ear. But his memory...
LUMBER SLUMBER WEARS OUT RANGERS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rangers packed their bats. The Post checked with the team's equipment manager and confirmed that many dozens of baseball bats had in fact arrived at the Stadium in time...
NELSON FEELS READY TO SHIFT INTO HIGH GEAR
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amJeff Nelson believes he is as strong as he has ever been during the postseason, when his omnipresent curveballs are particularly effective. "The operation was more like a car getting...
ADDING SOME CHILI :TORRE TAPS DAVIS FOR DH DUTIES VS.REELING RANGERS
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amThe Yankee Stadium lights reflected from his batting helmet as he hit one line drive after another in batting practice. While it was 100 minutes before last night's Game 2...
TINO HAS BUILT HIS OWN LEGACY
October 8, 1999 | 4:00amTINO Martinez smiled and blurted out, "That's great," when he was told yesterday Don Mattingly would be throwing out the first pitch later for Division Series Game 2. Martinez was...