June 15, 2000
TIME WARNER-EMI DEAL HITS A EURO SNAG
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe merger between Time Warner and EMI has hit a speed bump with the European Commission insisting it needs four more months to investigate the combined company. The probe will...
FED RATE HIKES WORKING - CPI REPORT SHOWS RED-HOT ECONOMY IS COOLING
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amSlowly but surely, inflation is disappearing from the U.S. economy. Yesterday the government released its consumer price index - which each month measures the prices of different goods, such as...
NEIGHBOR NOBODY WANTS - NRA EATERY VEXES TIMES SQ. TENANTS
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe NRA is scaring prospective tenants out of Times Square's Bow-Tie Building without firing a shot. Sources tell The Post that Toys "R" Us and LVMH are refusing to sign...
ARNAULT TO LAUNCH CYBER SITE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00ameLuxury, Bernard Arnault's gamble on luxury e-commerce, will start serving up its high-class wares next week. LVMH Managing Director Myron Ullman told reporters in Paris yesterday that the LVMH site...
WATER BIZ RUSHING TO TAP INTO THE ELECTRONIC FLOW
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amAu revoir, utilities! Bonjour, Hollywood! That's what execs at the French conglomerate Vivendi are saying now that they're close to a $30-billion-plus takeover of Universal Studios' and Music's parent, Seagram...
ALLEN IS BAILING OUT - MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER SOLD 42% OF HOLDINGS FOR $11B
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amAlthough he's a co-founder and loyal director of Microsoft, Paul Allen has been bailing out of the company in a big way before it possibly gets busted up. The 46-year-old...
THE STARR REPORT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLate shift for Babs Barbara Walters takes a trip back to her past on "The View" when Irving Fields visits the show next Tuesday, June 20 (11 a.m. on Ch....
'CURRENT' IS ABOUT AS EVENTFUL AS A BAD SITCOM
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amA play about family dysfunction cannot itself be dysfunctional. David Marshall Grant's new drama, "Current Events," at the Manhattan Theatre Club, commits, among other failings, the sin of never knowing...
60,000 QUEUE UP FOR CHANCE TO BE HARRY
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amSEEMS it's not enough for kids to be avid readers of "Harry Potter" - at least 60,000 of them want to be the young sorcerer-in-training. Warner Bros. has been besieged...
ROCK NAMES IN PC GAMES
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amNO longer content just to be rock stars, many musicians want to be superheroes of the computer screen.A new PC game featuring Kiss will keep the band alive on computer...
MTV MORMON IN 'REAL' BIND - SCHOOL NOT COOL ON HER 'SLEEPING' WITH 4 GUYS
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amA MORMON cast member on MTV's new season of "The Real World" is on the verge of getting tossed out of Brigham Young University because of the show's co-ed living...
IN THE 'SWING' & SETTING RIGHT 'MOOD'
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amENTHUSIASM, accessibility and theatricality - not always in that order - are the stock in trade of the Parsons Dance Company. The company, founded by David Parsons in 1987, is...
CURTAIN'S UP BUT KELSEY IS STEAMED
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amKELSEY Grammer is on top of the world about his Broadway debut tonight in "Macbeth" before the world's toughest audience in the world's toughest city. But TV's biggest comedy star...
MOOOO! - THE COWS COME HOME
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amGOTHAM turns cow town? Believe it.Unlikely as it sounds, something udder-ly wonderful is happening in New York. The CowParade is bringing about 500 bovine beauties to the big city. No,...
TOO LATE FOR 'LATER TODAY'?
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S looking more and more like "Later Today" will not make it to September. Insiders say "Later Today" staffers have been told to start sending out their resumes and look...
FINEST FEATHERS - HONORS BESTOWED BY DESIGN
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amCONTRARY to popular perception, the Oscars don't have the best-dressed crowd on the awards show circuit. That honor belongs to the fabulous fashion folk who will attend the American Fashion...
OLD METROCARD CAN BE A FARE-LY PROFITABLE ITEM
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amDon't throw away that used MetroCard - it may be worth thousands of dollars to a growing legion of underground collectors. Since the MetroCard's debut in November 1993, the Metropolitan...
BOXER ENLISTS DA IN FIGHT VS. HIS MANAGER
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLOU DEL VALLE, the former light-heavyweight boxing champion, walked into the Manhattan district attorney's office at 2:15 yesterday afternoon. He filed a criminal complaint against his estranged manager and promoter,...
STUDY: WE'RE LIVING LONGER THAN WE THOUGHT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amWe're living la vida longer. People in industrialized countries will live a lot longer than official estimates predict by the middle of the century - to nearly 83 in the...
TWO KOREAS SIGN PACT IN UNITY PUSH
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLeaders of North and South Korea took a huge step toward peace yesterday by signing an agreement pledging to work to reunify the nation split for half a century. The...
FIRST LADY LASHES LAZIO AS A HEEDER, NOT A LEADER
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amHer voice thundering, Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday let fly an A-to-Z attack on Senate opponent Rick Lazio, charging, "On issue after issue, he is a follower - not a leader."...
PATROLMEN: WE'RE IN A CATCH-22
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amFrustrated cops say the Central Park mayhem shows they're caught in a Catch-22 every day - damned if they do and damned if they don't take action. "Last week we...
PULL THE PLUG ON OUR DANGEROUS ENERGY SECRETARY
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S pretty clear that a gout-ridden, elderly Wal-Mart greeter could do a better job protecting America's nuclear secrets than Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. On Richardson's watch, top-secret information that could...
WHY SHE HAD TO TAKE OFF THE GLOVES
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton's no-holds-barred attack on Rick Lazio marks a major shift in strategy for the first lady -and signals the end of an internal debate within her campaign. After...
FEDS: KEY QUARTET STRUNG INVESTORS ALONG
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amKey defendants in the securities-fraud case: * James Chickara, 47, Holmdel, N.J. The vice-chairman of the Ranch*1 fast-food chain, he controlled stock in the company and another food chain, Manhattan...
JUDGE GREEN-LIGHTS APPLE TOUR BUSES
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amA state Supreme Court judge yesterday lifted the suspension of New York Apple Tours, calling problems with the double-deck buses "the price we all pay ... for the privilege to...
RUDY'S 'HEALTHY' CHANGE OF HEART - MOVES TO COVER THE UNINSURED
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday announced a sweeping campaign to provide health coverage to virtually all poor New Yorkers in a dramatic move to fulfill his promise of reaching out to disaffected...
STUNNED FRIENDS: ARRESTED COP IS 'A STANDUP GUY'
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amStephen Gardell was the kind of cop and union official people turned to when they needed help or were in trouble. Now Gardell's the one who needs help after being...
PARK AVE. PRINCESSES WORK HARD FOR THE $$ - ESTÉE HEIRESS LEADS THE MOVE FROM TEA ROOM TO BOARD ROOM
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amTHE long, thin, swan's neck supports a finely sculptured head. The patrician features, regal chin, confident glare and radiant complexion scream Park Avenue. The tall, cigarette-thin figure, emphasized by four-inch...
ALL LATINOS, COPS ARE WILDING VICTIMS, TOO
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amTHE women terrorized in Central Park last Sunday were not the only victims of the mindless violence that followed the Puerto Rican Day Parade. In a span of three frenzied...
WOULD-BE VEEPS A TALL ORDER FOR BUSH
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amHERE'S a new twist in the Republican veepstakes: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge's pro-choice stand on abortion may not be his only big obstacle - another could be the fact that...
FBI SAYS EX-ARMY BIG SPIED FOR KGB
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration was rocked by another security scandal yesterday, with the arrest of an Army colonel-turned-supermarket-bagger accused of being a KGB spy for 25 years. The nabbing...
WIDOW ADMITS POISONING HER WEALTHY HUBBY
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amA beautiful gypsy woman pleaded guilty in Manhattan yesterday to poisoning and swindling a wealthy husband 57 years her senior. Sylvia Mitchell, 35, of Las Vegas, admitted in Supreme Court...
'SQUEEGEE' COP SUES NYPD - KICKED OFF FORCE AFTER SHOOTING
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amA cop booted off the NYPD for shooting an unarmed squeegee man in the chest at point-blank range filed suit yesterday to get his job back. Michael Meyer "feels he...
PENNSYLVANIA BISHOP SHUTS DOOR ON GORE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Veep Al Gore hit trouble in his bid for swing Catholic voters yesterday when a Pennsylvania bishop barred him from a church hospital because of his pro-choice stance...
COPS: CRACK FUELED AMBU-RIDE FROM HELL
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the two handicapped women who cops say were taken on a terrifying hell ride by a crack-smoking ambulette driver tearfully relived the ordeal yesterday. "He should be in...
BIG APPLE TO SHOW ROCKER ITS FINEST
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amNew York brings out the worst in Atlanta Braves hurler John Rocker. But his upcoming visit to Shea Stadium will draw a big contingent of the city's Finest. Police plan...
'DEADLY' SILENCE AT STUDENT-SLAY TRIAL
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amProsecutors say her evil drove a man to kill. But Claudia Seong - a central character in the murder case stemming from the 1998 slashing death of a beautiful young...
SENATE ETHICS PANEL OK'D 250G AWARD FOR MOYNIHAN
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amSen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan accepted a $250,000 award from a private foundation after clearing it with the Senate Ethics Committee, newly released documents show. Senate rules limit most gifts to...
TWO VICTIMS PLAN TO SUE FOR $5M EACH
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amTwo college students from New Jersey say they'll file lawsuits today against the city, seeking $5 million apiece in damages for the NYPD's failure to protect them from the Central...
POLICE HUNT 7 MEN CAUGHT ON TAPE - WOMEN ID THEM AS MOLESTERS IN SEX-ABUSE HORROR
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe NYPD kicked its probe of the Central Park bedlam into high gear yesterday - releasing photos of seven mystery men accused of mauling women. "These are the ones we...
DEAL REKINDLES 'FIRE SAFE' CIGS
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A last-minute deal to force tobacco companies to sell the nation's first "fire safe" cigarettes passed the Legislature yesterday, and Gov. Pataki is expected to be sign the...
FEDS SMASH HUGE STOCK SCHEME - MOB LINK TO BIGGEST SCAM IN U.S. HISTORY
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe biggest stock-fraud scheme in U.S. history was crushed yesterday after federal agents rounded up more than 100 mobsters, brokers and swindlers, officials said - and more arrests are on...
S.I. WATER FOWL GET GATOR-AID
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amScore one for the ducks. Cops yesterday lassoed a hissing and snarling four-foot alligator who had been hiding out in a duck pond on Staten Island. Thomas Lloyd, a local...
WAS SWAYZE 'FLYING' WHEN HE CRASHED?
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThree men helped actor Patrick Swayze remove beer and wine from his crashed plane and then lied about it to cops, authorities say. Swayze, 47, was forced to crash-land his...
SPRINGSTEEN TUNE WINS RAVES FROM RAPPER FLAV
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Rocker Bruce Springsteen has a new public supporter - controversial Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav. Flav, whose real name is William Drayton, praised Springsteen for writing a song...
TIGER BOASTS MENTAL EDGE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - This is how good Tiger Woods is: He might win this week's 100th U.S. Open at venerable Pebble Beach Golf Links not with 300-yard drives and 160-yard...
MONTY HOT FOR MAJOR
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Colin Montgomerie, in search of his first major title and first win in America, conceded yesterday that he's beginning to feel added pressure. "I've had a reasonable...
KURT MAY BID KNICKS BYE-BYE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amKurt Thomas' demands to the Knicks will be clear as day on July 1: long-term or later. Stung by a reduced role in the playoffs, Thomas, the Knicks' free agent...
SUPERCOLT SET TO DEBUT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLike father, like son? That's the hope for Songandaprayer, a million-dollar baby who's being unveiled in today's fifth race at Monmouth Park. The 2-year-old bay colt, trained by John Dowd,...
BOMBERS SPELL RELIEF R-A-M-I-R-O
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amRamiro Mendoza is a man of few words - and many talents. "I don't talk too much," the Yankees' versatile right-hander said. "They just give me the ball and I...
OSCAR STAND A SHAM
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Oscar De La Hoya insists he will take a stand Saturday night when he fights Shane Mosley in the Battle of Los Angeles. No talking the talk...
HOLLYWOOD OFFERS $1M JACKPOT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amOn Sunday, Hollywood Park will guarantee a minimum Pick 6 gross pool of $1 million. The Pick 6 will consist of Races 5-10 on Hollywood's card, and all races will...
ELATED FANS POUR OUT A 'LOT' OF LOVE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amThey were still drained from the dramatic Stanley Cup Finals, but that hardly kept Devils fans from pouring into the south parking lot at Meadowlands Arena yesterday for last night's...
PARTY'S RIGHT WHERE IT BELONGS
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amIN NEW York, we have the Canyon of Heroes, where six years ago yesterday the Rangers rode triumphantly in front of millions of their fans who had waited 54 years...
TINO ANSWERS SOSA TALK
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amLIKE red wine on a white shirt, Sammy Sosa is now indelibly on New York's baseball conscious. There are certain electric names in the sport, and his is one. So...
ONE LAST TRIBUTE TO PAYNE - WOODS CAN BE EXCUSED FOR NO-SHOW
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Tom Lehman was among Payne Stewart's closest friends on the PGA Tour. He spoke at one of Stewart's memorial services a few days after his tragic death...
TIGER SHOULD KNOW HE'S GOTTA BE THERE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - The setting was perfect. The cool sea air was delicious to breathe in. The waves of the Pacific at low tide were gently cascading off the rocks...
BOBBY OUT TO KEEP HIS BENCH ON 'ROLE'
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - Bobby Valentine can understand the plight of his bench players. He was once one of them. In the late '60s, Valentine came up in the Dodgers' system as...
PEDRO PROVES HIMSELF HUMAN AFTER ALL
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amPedro Martinez has been so good that Bostonians have come to see him as a sure thing, a win in the bank. The reigning Cy Young winner has been so...
CUBS WILL TAKE SWEET TIME
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amIf George Steinbrenner instructs GM Brian Cashman to get Sammy Sosa today, the Cubs are more than willing to listen and could deliver the unhappy slugger to The Bronx on...
DEVILS' GALA BEGINS AND ENDS AN ERA
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amTo their fans, wherever the Second Coming of the Stanley Cup occurred was Paved Paradise. It is now up to YankeeNets to provide a better party - and first make...
LEDEE: NOMAR'S HIT WAS NOT A HOMER
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amRicky Ledee said two things very emphatically after yesterday's 2-1 win over the Red Sox. First, the left fielder announced categorically: "It was a double." Then, as the questions around...
MIXED BLESSING - TINO'S HOMER SINKS SAWX - BUT ROG DL'D
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amYankees 2 - Red Sox 1 Derek Jeter watched Mariano Rivera flip the ball to Tino Martinez for the final out yesterday. Then the Yankee shortstop tried to conceal a...
ROOKIE IS CALLED UP FOR ROGER
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Since Ramiro Mendoza was slated to start Saturday, Joe Torre will be looking for a replacement after Mendoza worked 5 2/3 innings yesterday. That could fall to Jake...
MANNY SAYS SAMMY LOVES THE RED SOX
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amRumors have it that Sammy Sosa is coming to New York, that the Cub slugger will be wearing Pinstripes before the All-Star break. But Boston infielder Manny Alexander, one of...
AMAZIN'S ON PROWL FOR JUAN
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amMET NOTES CHICAGO - If you were handicapping the Sammy Sosa Sweepstakes, the Mets would have to be considered the third team most likely to land the Cubs' All-Star. However,...
SCOTT, MARTIN TO VISIT NETS
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Nets have scheduled a coaching prospect, Byron Scott, and another key draft figure, Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin, for visits within the next week, league sources said. Scott, the...
BENNY MAKES STAND BEFORE TAKING SEAT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - If you are Vinnie from Queens you might think the Mets don't have enough outfielders. You might think they need one more. You might think they need Sammy...
AMAZIN'S RAIN ON CUBBIES' PARADE
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - At the unfriendly confines here in the Rainy City, the Mets just wanted to get the game in. They don't get many off days so they value the...
ONE TO GO FOR SHAQ & CO. - KOBE'S OT HEROICS PUT INDY ON BRINK
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - This came down to the tantalizing endgame and was being waged the way wars should be fought. Each side sent out its best warrior to do what he...
L.A.'S 'ONE-TWO PUNCH' SCORES KO
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - Shaquille O'Neal carried the Lakers throughout the game and then confidently turned over the rudder to Kobe Bryant, who came through in sterling fashion in Game...
SOSA AIN'T PERFECT, BUT YANKS NEED HIM
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amCHICAGO - He once had the speed to compensate for his many mistakes reading balls off the bat, the way Bernie Williams compensates. His arm was a cannon, as strong...
KOBE GETS GREEN LIGHT
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - There was no piggy back ride needed from the 7-1, 335-pound (estimated) center. Nope, Laker All-Star Kobe Bryant walked under his own power into Conseco Fieldhouse here for...
HACK-A-SHAQ'S ON THE MARK
June 15, 2000 | 4:00amFINALS NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - On second thought, that "Hack-A-Shaq" stuff is a good idea to Mark Jackson. And it is a compliment to Shaquille O'Neal. "When I was watching the...