May 22, 2000
SIMON & SCHUSTER IS PUT UP FOR SALE: REPORT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amSimon & Schuster, the literary powerhouse that has published Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, has reportedly been put on the block by parent company Viacom. W.H. Smith...
A BUSTED BROKER TELLS OF A STRETCH IN THE BIG HOUSE
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amWhat's it like to go to jail? Mike Frayler is one of the people caught up in the Oakford Securities scandal of a couple years back. Frayler, like some of...
MOSSIMO IN CRISIS - CREDITORS SEEK TO LIQUIDATE BIZ
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amIt may be "game over" for sportswear designer Mossimo Giannulli. The future of his struggling Mossimo Inc. is in doubt, now that three creditors have filed a petition to liquidate...
FUNDS MISSING THE INTERNET BOAT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amWHILE the rest of corporate America embraces the opportunities of the Internet, the mutual fund industry still has its head stuck firmly in the sand. Unable to compete effectively against...
ON THE NEWSSTAND
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amTHE June issues of the fashion mags are in, and they seem to be interested in brainy babes, offspring of the rich and famous and - of course - Angeline...
TOM GREEN LOOKS AT A LAND DOWN UNDER
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amDUE to the graphic nature of this column, reader discretion is advised. That seems to be the safest way to start off a column about bizarro comedian Tom Green -...
'DARK' SHINES BRIGHT - DANISH FILM WINS FEST'S TOP PRIZE
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amCANNES, France - A controversial Danish film, Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," last night took the 53rd Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme D'Or, at a star-studded...
ABT'S 'SWAN LAKE' A LAVISH BLEND OF OLD AND NEW
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amBRAND-NEW productions of "Swan Lake" do not grow on trees. Until this past weekend, the American Ballet Theater, in its 60-year existence, had only had two full-evening productions. So the...
'GUARDSMAN' SHOULD EXIT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amFOR those who think anybody can create "Kiss Me, Kate," I recommend "Enter the Guardsman," a musical adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's "The Guardsman." The 1910 Molnar play dealt with a...
COSTUME JEWEL: SALLY ANN PARSONS HAS BEEN DRESSING STARS FOR THE STAGE FOR TWO DECADES
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amIN her 20 years as a theatrical costumer, Sally Ann Parsons has seen a lot more of the stars than we have. Bette Midler without makeup, David Byrne in his...
THE STARR REPORT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amHugh betcha! Jack Benny, Henny Youngman, Hugh Fink . . . Hugh Fink? Yep - the "Saturday Night Live" writer is also a violin-playing stand-up comic who's bringing his act...
KIMES CASTING CALL - SILVERMAN MURDER WOULD MAKE KILLER FILM
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amWELL before last week's verdict finding Sante and Kenneth Kimes guilty of swindling and murdering an elderly millionairess, showbiz types were circling around the true-life Manhattan murder mystery. The "ripped...
KIDS PUT SPOFFORD BACK IN BIZ
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amPolice are arresting so many young thugs that the city was forced to reopen the infamous Spofford Juvenile Detention Center - even after two new jails were built to hold...
PATAKI'S CAMPAIGN IS MODEL FOR RICK
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amSTATE Republicans say Rick Lazio will model his new campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton on Gov. Pataki's "tabula rasa" strategy against Mario Cuomo in 1994. But while these GOP insiders...
NEW YORK! IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO WAIT FOR GOD
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amSO HOW come the Gnome was skeptical earlier this month when the city's Department for the Aging unveiled its cheery new campaign, "New York: The Ultimate Retirement City!"? Perhaps it...
HILL RIPS QUICK RICK'S MUD-SLINGING
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Clinton said in upstate swings yesterday she was "disappointed" that her new Republican opponent, Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, "has already started hurling insults." "Every candidate has to make...
'TAME' TIGER TEARS OFF ARM OF CARETAKER
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amA rare Bengal tiger ripped off the right arm of a Colorado animal refuge volunteer who had put her hand in the cage to show a visitor just how "tame"...
RAPPER BLACK ROB 'SIGNS' INTO SLAMMER
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amRapper Black Rob - heir apparent to the hip-hop kingdom once ruled by Puffy Combs - was nailed yesterday on gun and drug charges stemming from an impromptu autograph signing...
LAZIO'S BID IS OFF TO A FLYING START - 11 APPEARANCES ON CAMPAIGN'S FIRST DAY
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amGOP substitute Senate candidate Rick Lazio hit the campaign trail for the first time yesterday, sweeping across upstate New York in a small chartered plane with his family and four...
11 JEWS HERE ARRESTED IN ANTI-BARAK PROTEST
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amEleven Orthodox Jews were arrested yesterday in Midtown as hundreds protested the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. "We are here in force until the people of Israel understand...
GOP CAN'T WAIT TO GRAB GIULIANI'S WAR CHEST
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani is under pressure from top Republicans to hand over his $9-million campaign stash to help Rick Lazio's Senate bid - instead of keeping the dough for a possible...
SADDAM BRIBED RUSSIAN: U.N. BIG
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amFormer U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler reportedly claims ex-Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov took over $1 million in bribes from Saddam Hussein during the 1997 Iraqi arms crisis. The Sydney...
DISNEY'S 'DINOSAUR' GOBBLES UP 'GLADIATOR'
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amA Cretacious creature bested Roman Empire brawn in this weekend's box-office battle, as Disney's dyno-mite animated "Dinosaur" doubled the haul of reigning champ "Gladiator." Studio estimates released yesterday showed "Dinosaur"...
CLINTON KNIFE-MAN JUST BLUNTING HIS BLADE AGAINST RICK
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amHAROLD ICKES, once the sharpest knife-man in the political kitchen of the Clinton mob, is sadly starting to disappoint me. Here was a guy who once could make dust out...
SILVER CRUSHES COUP AND CALLS FOR 'UNITY'
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The coup attempt against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver collapsed last night when rebel Queens Democrats threw in the towel. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was unexpectedly challenged last week...
19 PERISH IN FIERY PA. PLANE TRAGEDY: SLAMS INTO SCRANTON AIRFIELD
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amA twin-engine casino charter from Atlantic City crashed in a fireball, killing all 19 aboard as it tried to land in bad weather yesterday at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport in Pennsylvania....
DAME BARBARA CARTLAND DIES AT 98 - ROMANCE QUEEN SOLD BILLION COPIES
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amDame Barbara Cartland - queen of the gushy romance genre - died in her sleep at her London home yesterday. She was 98. Cartland dictated her stories about womanly virtue...
19 PERISH IN FIERY PA. PLANE TRAGEDY - SLAMS INTO SCRANTON AIRFIELD
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amA twin-engine casino charter from Atlantic City crashed in a fireball yesterday, killing all 19 aboard as it tried to land in bad weather at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport in Pennsylvania....
COPS FEAR COMEBACK OF VIOLENT PUNKS - STATISTICS SHOW CITY TEENS ARE GETTING MEANER
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORK'S kiddie criminals are getting younger, bolder and more vicious - fueling fears the city will soon be besieged by a wave of "superpredator" youths. After four years of...
BLOW-BY-BLOW DIARY OF JUVENILE MAYHEM
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amThe following is a recent four-day sample of teenage violence in New York City:- MAY 4 -2:29 a.m.: Three 16-year-olds, including two girls, are busted and charged with going on...
ANOREXIC EDITOR: I'M A VICTIM OF FASHION - CLAIMS SUPER-THIN MODELS FUELED HER EATING DISORDERS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amTHE fashion world on both sides of the Atlantic is reeling after an attack on the use of skinny models in women's magazines - by none other than the top...
LIFE IS CHEAP ON STREETS OF FEAR
May 22, 2000 | 4:00am- CASE 1 - Hopeton "Baby Luk" Suarez was a 14-year-old member of the Crips gang last April when he calmly pumped 11 bullets from an automatic into 17-year-old Wade...
ORSENO: EXCUSES ARE LAME ; 'BULLET' TRAINER SAYS TRACK WAS NO FACTOR
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amIN THE rain-sodden backstretch at Pimlico yesterday, in the aftermath of the shock Preakness result, trainer Joe Orseno was in no mood for excuses for beaten horses especially the odds-on...
YANKS KNOW RIGDON NOW ; ROOK FIRES BLANKS IN DEBUT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amIndians 6 Yankees 1 CLEVELAND - Pathetic. When Pedro Martinez, Mike Mussina, David Wells or Chuck Finley make you look ill at the plate, you doff your cap because they...
FLYERS HOPE TO STAY FOCUSED
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amVOORHEES, N.J. - The most dangerous obstacle facing the Flyers tonight in Game 5 is not the Devils. In fact, the Devils haven't presented much of a problem in the...
SOR-E-ANO STRUGGLES AGAIN
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - When Alfonso Soriano was summoned to play shortstop while Derek Jeter is on the disabled list, it was believed the 22-year-old stud prospect would fare better defensively at...
SHANE JOINS SIT LIST
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - If Joe Torre ever has a full compliment of bodies, he may not know what to do with them. Add Shane Spencer to the list of...
LITTLE DRAMA, BUT WIDE OPEN
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The past three years, Belmont Park was the place to be on Belmont Stakes day as 80,000-plus fans packed the track to see Silver Charm, Real Quiet and...
'LOVE' & 'DREAMS' TAKE SPLITS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amShopping for Love and Winter Dreams came off the pace to win the split divisions of the Bouwerie Stakes for 3-year-old New York-bred fillies. Each race was run on a...
REPLAY'S DIFFERENT ON RE-PLAY
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S not that TV cameras lie, it's more that they don't necessarily tell the truth. The next time you're the least bit inclined to advocate the installation or perpetuation of...
HERO NEEDED: DEVILS LOOK FOR SOMEONE TO STEP UP AND SAVE DAY
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Coming back from 3-1 the way the Devils will have to come back against the Flyers is about execution, discipline and focus, it's about all of that. But...
ORSENO: EXCUSES ARE LAME:'FUPEG,' 'RED' TAKING AIM AT BELMONT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Fusaichi Pegasus and Red Bullet, who ran 1-2 in the Wood Memorial in April, then reversed that order in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, appear on a collision course for...
LOTTERY HITS NOTHING BUT NETS: JERSEY BEATS ODDS, PICKSFIRST IN 2000 NBA DRAFT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amExactly 4.4 percent. That was the chance the Nets had to get the first pick in the NBA Lottery. But with the team's administration in turmoil, no head coach, the...
PEGASUS? HE JUST MYTHED
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE is no place for seeing illusions like the racetrack. Every day, more mirages pop up in the pages of the Daily Racing Form than in the Gobi Desert. And...
METS PUT BIG UNIT TO SWEEP ; JOLT JOHNSON, THEN GET WIN ON BELL'S RBI IN THE NINTH
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMets 7 D-Backs 6 Nearly 40,000 diehards pried themselves away from the Knick game to come out to Shea on a damp, blustery afternoon, and the Mets made it worth...
THE END OF AN ERA: LOSS TONIGHT BRINGS SADEND TO MCMULLEN'S REIGN
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA- The Devils' grand era is surely ending, but if the book closes tonight, it ends as a tragedy. The next volume will begin with new characters, probably including many...
METS PUT BIG UNIT TO SWEEP: LITTLE GUY'S THE MCHERO
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amBATTLERS. That's what baseball people call baseball players who aren't big enough to hit a ton of home runs, aren't fast enough to steal very many bases, aren't acrobatic enough...
VENTURA MAKES MOST OF ONE AB
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES Met third baseman Robin Ventura missed his second straight start with a sore left thigh, but he sure didn't miss his chance for late-game heroics. With the Amazin's...
MASH: IN LIKE LION, OUT LIKE LAMB
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - "Ladies and gentlemen, the part of John Starks tonight will be was played by Jamal Mashburn." That's one announcement that easily could have been made before the Heat,...
KNICKS OUST HEAT AND HEAD FOR INDY: CHILDS POINTS THE WAY WHEN HE'S NEEDED MOST
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - It was his opportunity to tell his critics, who have doubted his talent and his heart since he became a Knick four years ago, to take their opinions...
KNICKS ARE WALKIN' TALL ; STRUT OUT OF MIAMI, AWAIT FLAWED INDY
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The walk was that of victory and relief. Latrell Sprewell headed to the showers yesterday in the visiting locker room at AmericanAirlines Arena with the crowd chanting, "Go...
HOUSTON HURTBUT STILL HAPPYWITH THE WIN
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Five points. Two of 10 shooting. No points in the second half. That was Allan Houston's line - one he will not have to live with the rest...
REPEAT AFTER HEAT: THE REFEREES CHEAT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - This one hurt as much as any defeat ever hurt. And the Heat, perhaps unable to stare in a mirror and see another blown lead, another failure to...
WRONG GUY TOOK SHOT
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Ideally, the shot would have been put up by Alonzo Mourning. If not, Tim Hardaway. Next in line would have been Jamal Mashburn or Dan Majerle. But Clarence...
MIAMI TAKES THE APPLE BUT CAN'T TAKE KNICKS - AGAIN
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - The '64 Phillies are off the hook. Red Sox fans everywhere are breathing a little easier, though still not forgiving Bill Buckner. And even backers of the Buffalo...
PATRICK & CO. KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM PACERS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - "Reggie wanted us, so here we come." Those were the departing words of Game 7 hero Chris Childs. He probably was speaking for the Knicks as a whole....
PATRICK'S RING QUEST STILL ALIVE
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Patrick Ewing looked like a shell in that first quarter. Alonzo Mourning blew by him for dunks, outleaped him for offensive rebounds. Mourning had 14 points after the...
HOT SPREE LIT KNICKS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - He's never been afraid to take on the world and that's just what Latrell Sprewell did in the first half yesterday, giving the Knicks the will to succeed...
RILEY HOPES VG, KNICKS GRAB TITLE
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amHEAT NOTES MIAMI - Meet Pat Riley, Knicks fan. The man who lives to win and dies a little with every defeat, be it regular season, the playoffs or whatever,...
KNICKS OUST HEAT AND HEAD FOR INDY: EWING SLAM WITH 1:20 LEFT EARNS DATE WITH PACERS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amKnicks 83 Heat 82 MIAMI - You could believe the Heat are not cursed against the Knicks if you wish. You're probably wrong. The Knicks advanced yesterday to the Eastern...
CAMBY QUICK RECOVERY MESSES UP 'SPOON
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI - Marcus Camby slipped on a wet spot and it could have cost the Knicks the season. When Miami's Clarence Weatherspoon unloaded from 13 feet from the right of...
NO DEAL IN PLACE FOR JARVIS, WIZARDS
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amNegotiations between the Wizards and St. John's coach Mike Jarvis continue but no announcement is immiment, sources close to the situation told The Post. Jarvis told The Post that a...
HEY, COACH, TERRIBLE TIMING
May 22, 2000 | 4:00amTHE coach rescued the season in the nick of time by getting the Devils to sniff the roses. But the bloom is off, along with the paint from the locker...