June 18, 2000
WHAMMO! WAMEX RUNS FATALLY AFOUL OF THE SEC
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amSLEEP late; avoid fraud. That's the message one might walk away with after Richard Walker, director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, explained why regulators shut down a...
RAQUEL WELCH'S HUSBAND WORKS PIE MAGIC, EXPANDS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. - Richie Palmer owns a booming business, lives in a Beverly Hills mansion and eats pizza every day. And, oh yeah, he's the new husband of living...
NOT ALL LAW FIRMS WOO ASSOCIATES WITH PERKS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amWANT free passes to the "Late Show with David Letterman"? If you're an aspiring lawyer and the answer is yes, the place for you to work this summer is Proskauer...
GROWTH PLUS VALUE EQUALS BIG GAINS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAS the clock turned from 1999 to 2000, investor sentiment turned as well. No longer would shareholders continue to throw their hard-earned money at the unprofitable .coms that had enjoyed...
SOLLY BLOWS EDS CALL
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amYOU'LL have to excuse Marshall Acuff for looking a bit red-faced this week. It seems the top equity strategist for Salomon Smith Barney, in his weekly letter to clients, decided...
SIMPLE MAN'S GUIDE TO UTTER FOOLISHNESS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAH, the junk mail. We recently received "The Simple Man's Guide to Extraordinary Wealth," from the Financial Independence Institute. The pamphlet claims to have a foolproof system for making money...
JUST CALL THIS MAG SPORTS TIME
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE was an added "bonus" this week for some subscribers of Sports Illustrated. Inserted into the center of the issue were stories such as "Bush Hits the Pause Button," about...
'CHICKEN RUN' TEAM DELIVERS COOP DE GRACE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amNick Park and Peter Lord, whose charming claymation shorts have won them seven Oscar nominations and a worldwide cult following, approached the making of their first feature-length film with trepidation....
NON-PROFIT THEATERS NOW A MAJOR PLAYER
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amMary-Louise Parker is a knockout in "Proof."Joan Marcus Forget about those Tony awards. Forget about Broadway and its Britannia Rules. You can even forget about off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. What really...
BACH ON B'WAY : EX-SKID ROW ROCKER GOES LEGIT IN 'JEKYLL & HYDE'
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amNear the end of the first act of "Jekyll & Hyde," Sebastian Bach, in the role of the mad scientist and his evil alter ego, injects an experimental concoction into...
THE SAVVY SHOPPER
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amSpaBody Central99 University Place, 5th floor, at 12th Street, (212) 677-5633 Sale dates: Through August Mon. noon-9 p.m. Tues. 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed. noon-9 p.m. Thurs. and Fri. 8:30 a.m.-9...
WHAT I WATCH
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amJAID BARRYMORE ACTRESS/AUTHOR I'm paying close attention to "Win Ben Stein's Money." Perhaps I can go on and win some. DAVID MARGOLICK CONTRIBUTING EDITOR VANITY FAIR Anything on ESPN. Recently...
RECOMMENDED READINGS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00am* At 9 p.m. tonight, log onto netLibrary.com for a discussion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise." The 1920 novel, which established the 23-year-old Fitzgerald as the darling...
ALIENS INVADE DOWNTOWN!
June 18, 2000 | 4:00am'Liquid Sky," the downtown cult hit from 1983, has been re-released on VHS and DVD. It's the bizarre story of aliens in a small flying saucer who land on the...
GROSS 'ME' OUT! HAPPILY OFFENDING MANY, 'ME, MYSELF & IRENE' TURNS SICK HUMOR INTO BIG YUKS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00am'Me' out! 'Me, Myself & Irene" has something for everyone - to find offensive. It blithely pokes fun at cops, albinos, nursing mothers, black youth, "little people" and, especially, schizophrenics....
STYLE & SUBSTANCE : KATIE WAGNER
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amKatie Wagner, the new host of TV Guide Channel's "Music News," grew up with celebrities literally in her backyard. The daughter of actors Robert Wagner and Marion Marshall recalls, "David...
A TALE OF TRIMMED TRESSES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amOn a recent morning, after a quick shower, I wrapped my hair in towel, put on pink lipstick and dotted on some pale green eyeshadow. But when I removed the...
TOP DINING FOR UNDER $20 - RESTAURANT WEEK ROARS INTO TOWN WITH DEALS ON MIDDAY MEALS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThere's no such thing as a free lunch, but only New York City can boast that the prices at its top-draw restaurants have risen just eight cents in the past...
TESTING THE WATERS - IS YOUR DRINK REALLY H2O-SO-GOOD?
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amWater, water, everywhere -- but which do or should you drink? Some of us buy the imported brands because they come from bubbling creeks high in the French Alps or...
JURY: MAN KILLED DOG FOR BEING A GAY-NINE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Florida man faces up to a year in jail for beating his pet dog to death - because he thought the animal was gay! George Finley, 58, beat his...
TENNIS SIREN GETS $5M UP FRONT FOR BRA ADS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAnna Kournikova is busting out in a sexy new ad campaign - the curvy tennis ace has inked a $5 million deal to hawk Berlei sports bras. The 18-year-old beauty...
HILLARY RIPS LAZIO OVER NO-SHOW ON KEY OIL VOTE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday took another big swing at her Senate foe Rick Lazio, saying the Long Island congressman was "missing in action" after he skipped a close vote in...
STREET NAMED FOR REVERED B'KLYN COP
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amA beloved police commander who died of cancer last year had a Brooklyn street named in his honor yesterday at a ceremony that drew more than 500 cops, neighbors and...
PALS REVIVE SEARCH FOR LONG-GONE DUO
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTwenty-seven years ago, two teens from Brooklyn vanished without a trace on their way to an upstate rock concert. Yesterday, the couple's former classmates at Brooklyn's John Dewey High School...
YOUNGEST PUNK WAS WILDEST: POLICE :SAY TEENAGER TOOK PART IN 15 GROPINGS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe youngest was one of the most vicious. Roberto Camacho is slightly built, only 16 and the brother of a city cop. So it's hard to imagine him being the...
'FOWL' TEST STOPS QUEENS SKEETER SPRAY
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPesticide spraying for the deadly West Nile virus in Queens was canceled yesterday after blood-test results from a dead chicken thought to have been infected came up negative. "These follow-up...
CLEANER-AIR TREE PLAN ; GROWS IN B'KLYN
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's 21st-century plan to reduce air pollution along the exhaust-spewing Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is to install 400 giant filters along a 2.5-mile stretch of the heavily traveled road. Some of...
SHOCKING NEW VIDEO HORRIFIES DETECTIVES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe NYPD has received a new video of the Central Park wildings that has so shocked hardened investigators they fear showing it to the public. The disturbing eight minutes of...
ELIAN SENDS DAD'S DAY KISS TO FIDEL
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amMessages to dads / Pages 24-25Dictator dad.Signed the card.Fidel Castro got a heartwarming Father's Day card yesterday from an unlikely fan - Elian Gonzalez. The signature of the 6-year-old Cuban...
PORTLY PARSON PONIES UP :SHARPTON FINALLY PAYS PROSECUTOR HE SMEARED
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAL SHARPTON'S immaculately tailored suits have very deep pockets, which is very good for people with short arms. You see, Al cannot reach all the way down to grab the...
ARAFAT NIXES 3-WAY D.C. TALKS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Stymied in peace negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called on President Clinton yesterday to convene a White House summit among the three...
EGAN FACING DIRE SHORTAGES OF MONEY AND PRIESTS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAfter the pomp and circumstance of tomorrow's installation, New York's new archbishop will get down to business - deciding whether to shut schools and churches in the fiscally strapped archdiocese....
FERRY SLASHER FREE AGAIN
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amIF Juan Gonzalez, the sword-swinging madman who killed two senior citizens and injured nine others on the Staten Island Ferry 14 years ago, wasn't from Cuba he wouldn't be a...
TIGER'S LOST GREEN SHOT SPARKS BLUE BLAST ON TV
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amComplete U.S. Open coverage in SportsTiger Woods' hot streak turned blue at the U.S. Open yesterday when the golf phenom let loose with an expletive-laced tirade on national TV after...
WHISTLE-BLOWER COP IN THE LINE OF 'FIRE'
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens sergeant who exposed cops cooking the books in her new command may lose her job because, she says, the NYPD is more concerned with silencing the whistle-blower than...
TIME WARNER IRKS VIEWERS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTime Warner Cable wasn't the place to be yesterday - when numerous Manhattanites experienced "service interruptions." Annoyed residents from East 30th Street to East 86th Street between Lexington Avenue and...
'MISSED' DRUG TEST GROUNDED BUSH
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amGeorge W. Bush was suspended from flying as a young pilot for failing to take a medical examination that included a drug test, The Sunday Times of London reports today....
KNOBBY BEANS YANK FAN WITH HIS LATEST GOOF BALL
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amDuck! It's Chuck! The ugly throwing problems of Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch turned dangerous yesterday when his errant throw sailed into the stands, and smacked the mother of Fox...
MOM RIPS COPS FOR 'HUMILIATING' INNOCENT SON
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe mother of a man arrested in the wilding attacks - then released by cops - said her son was "humiliated" by the ordeal. Police released Anthony Bryant, 25, of...
BRONX BOY SUFFOCATES HIS BROTHER
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amA 12-year-old Bronx boy described as "mentally disturbed" killed his 10-year-old autistic brother yesterday by smothering him with a blanket, police said. After cops discovered Japhet Rojas dead at 6:30...
RAMIREZ STUNNER: I'LL RESIGN BRONX DEM POST
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez, the Bronx Democratic chairman who dropped a bombshell last month by declining to seek re-election, says another big stunner is on the way. "Let me...
BAD BOYS AND BADGE BOYS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amWHO'S worse? The animals who attacked the women in Central Park, pulling down their pants and spraying them with water, or the cops who refused to stop the melee? Answer:...
CIRCUS-SLAY LAWYERS MAY SEND IN CLOWNS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe trial of the Brooklyn "Circus Murder" - where many of the witnesses to the stabbing were dressed as clowns - is set to begin this week. Prosecutors will try...
SPIRITED CEREMONIES FOR NEW ARCHBISHOP
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amHere's Archbishop Edward Egan's schedule for today and tomorrow: TODAY Ceremony of Canonical Possession at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Egan officially takes over as spiritual leader of archdiocese's 2.4 million Catholics...
PERELMAN JUDGE A JOKER? : PLAYED GAME IN COURT: WITNESS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe judge presiding over the Ron Perelman-Patricia Duff custody case might not be trying the case with a full deck - a witness claims that while she was on the...
ATTACK ONLY BEGAN HER NIGHTMARE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amONE week ago, Anne Peyton Bryant skated out of Central Park and into a nightmare. The sexual assault by the Central Park wolfpack was only the beginning. The maelstrom that...
NBC MICROPHONES TRAP TEED-OFF TIGER CUSSIN' UP A STORM
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTiger Woods' hot streak turned blue at the U.S. Open yesterday, when the golf phenom let loose with an expletive-laced tirade on national TV after blowing a shot. The teed-off...
ROAD-RAGE BAT ATTACK
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amA 20-year-old man who followed home a woman who fled after her car struck his in a minor accident in Queens early yesterday was beaten with a bat by the...
IRA HONCHO POISED TO PARLEY WITH BILL'S AIDES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe chief negotiator of the IRA's political arm, Sinn Fein, is set to discuss Northern Ireland's peace process with senior White House officials in Washington today. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness...
SUSPECT OFF HOOK AFTER POLICE DROP CHARGES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amOutraged women decried the Central Park wilding attacks at a heated rally yesterday, as cops dropped charges against a man busted for the masher melee because they believe he wasn't...
NEW BLOOD-CLOT CONCERN FOR WOMEN ON THE PILL
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amWomen who take The Pill are 10 times more likely to suffer blood clots in their lungs, a new study says. But researchers stress that the risk of a fatal...
SCOTTISH WEDDING FOR CHARLES? HE'S TALKED TO CLERGYMEN: PAPER
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amIf Prince Charles ties the knot with longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles, it's likely to be in Scotland, an English newspaper reports today. The ex-husband of the late Princess Diana...
LEO TO LET IT ALL HANG OUT FOR VIEWERS ON INTERNET
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amLeonardo DiCaprio and his stunning model girlfriend will broadcast their every exploit on the Internet this summer as they frolic at a Hamptons spa fortified with webcams, according to a...
HIGHWAY TO HILL : NEW YORK COULD BE MIXED BLESSING FOR GRANT
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amWE WANT Sammy Sosa. We want Tim Duncan. We want Grant Hill. In the Big Apple we want it all. Hill even says the prospect of "trying to help Patrick...
WEIS, KNICKS WORK IT OUT
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amKnicks GM Scott Layden has apparently quelled the concerns of Frederic Weis' agents. The unsigned 7-2 Parisian pivotman is expected to still come to Purchase in late June to work...
RAPTORS NAME LENNY COACH
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amLENNY Wilkens has been hired to succeed Butch Carter as coach of the Raptors, The Post has learned. Terms of the contract are unconfirmed. Because the Hawks owed Wilkens two...
FEEL FREE TO FISH NEXT WEEKEND IN EMPIRE STATE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amNEW YORK State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner John P. Cahill announced that the annual "Free Fishing Weekend" will be held next Saturday and Sunday, allowing New Yorkers from...
GOLF'S MELTING POT : ANYONE & EVERYONE GOES TO BKLYN DRIVING RANGE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amIt is shortly after 6 on Thursday evening - after work and after school - and the golfers are lining up at the bustling Gateway Sports Center driving range at...
HOW TO HIT $1M PICK 6
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE $1 million guaranteed pick 6 used to be a novelty. Now they're common as fleas but still worth taking a stab at for the chance at a life-changing score....
WESTBROOK'S NO HELP TO A SINKING SHIP
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS was early in spring training, but not so early that the signs of danger had not yet arisen. Darryl Strawberry already had been banished, but it was still early...
HAMMON FINDS LIBERTY FINE FIT
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amAs much as Becky Hammon loves playing basketball, there were times last year when it wasn't much fun. "It was really difficult for me," said Hammon, who will get plenty...
ERNIE NEEDS A MIRACLE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Ernie Els might be the only player in the field with a chance to keep Tiger Woods from winning the 100th U.S. Open. But that may have...
ALONE AT PEBBLE BEACH : OPEN WAS TO BE HIS ULTIMATE TEST
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH-The U.S. Open was supposed to be the tournament that kept Tiger Woods from becoming Jack Nicklaus. A tournament that with its preference for narrow fairways, overgrown roughs and...
FAVES CHALK UP STAKES VICTORIES AT BELMONT PARK
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amEven-money choice Country Hideaway completed the favorites' sweep of yesterday's stakes at Belmont Park, charging down the stretch under Jerry Bailey to overtake front-running Hurricane Bertie in the Grade 3,...
TOUCHDOWN, BERNIE! SEVEN RBIS IN DEFEAT
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amBefore last night's game, Yankee batting coach Chris Chambliss talked about Bernie Williams, admitting his struggling center fielder was a streaky player who ran from hot to cold, feast to...
MOUNT WEARS P.J. EN ROUTE TO TITLE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amCHSAA A TITLE Mt. St. Michael8 Xaverian7 There was no denying P.J. Camacho yesterday. First, he hit a tie-breaking home run in the fifth that looked like it would give...
'PLEASURE' GEARS FOR HEMPSTEAD
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amBeautiful Pleasure prepared for next Saturday's Grade 1 $250,000 Hempstead Handicap with a six-furlong workout Friday in 1:13 1/5 over the Belmont main track. "She came out of the work...
INJURY KOS HIGH YIELD
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amHigh Yield, a top 3-year-old who won the Fountain of Youth and Blue Grass Stakes, has suffered a career-ending fracture of a sesamoid bone. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said the...
THROW, NO! CHUCK BEANS FAN :SPORTSCASTER'S MOTHER HIT IN FACE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amChuck Knoblauch's errant throws have gone far beyond hurting the Yankees' defense; in yesterday's 10-9 loss to the White Sox, they started to endanger the Bombers' fans, as well. In...
JETS LOSE LEON AGAIN FOR SEASON
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Jets' running back and valuable all-purpose special teams player Leon Johnson has been lost for the 2000 season with yet another injury less than month before the...
RUNAWAY TIGER STANDS : UP BY 10, WOODS CAN MAKE HISTORY
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - There was a mysterious moment on the wild and windy 106-yard par-3 crapshoot seventh hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links yesterday afternoon when Tiger Woods stepped to...
TIGER TRULY IN CLASS BY SELF
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Most disappointing in this championship week has been the lack of pressure applied to Tiger Woods by the rest of the so-called elite players in the world....
AMAZIN'S WILL BUS IT TO BRONX
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - The Mets don't plan on taking the subway for their day-night, two-stadium double-header with the Yankees on July 8, team officials confirmed last night. One of the ideas...
AMAZIN'S GET CREW CUT : RUSCH IS WILD, BREWERS SNAP NINE-GAME LOSING STREAK TO METS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - The Brewers' third-place batter last night, Charlie Hayes, was cut by the Mets in spring training. The Brewers' payroll is $36 million. The combined salary of Mike Piazza...
SWEET WIN FOR MOSLEY : SUGAR DETHRONES OSCAR IN SPLIT DECISION
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES-The Battle of Los Angeles ended pretty much the way it began, with Oscar De La Hoya coming forward, shoulders hunched, chin down, waiting to find the KO punch...
EVERYBODY IN THE CESSPOOL! : WHEREVER YOU TURN, VULGARITY RULES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amDOWN and down and down we go. Where we'll stop, it'll be too late to know. Another week in the express lane to hell: Fox baseball analyst and former MLB...
ISLES CAN'T BLOW THIS ONE :MILBURY'S SITTIN' PRETTY AT NO. 1
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Islanders have a chance here, really have a chance here this summer to take some meaningful strides toward reclaiming NHL respectability and honor. What a fine thing it will...
WHAT A SHORT, STRANGE TRIP : MET FARMHAND ON FAST TRACK TO SHOW
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amSATCHEL Paige once said, "Don't look back - something might be gaining on you." For any Met farmhand hopeful of a call-up to the big show, that something is Pat...
JESPER PUTS BLAME ON HIP
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES PEBBLE BEACH - If there was one European player whom many believed had a good chance to win the 100th U.S. Open, it was Jesper Parnevik. Parnevik, the...
SOUTHERN CAL: COACH UP TO OLD TRICKS AT MEMPHIS WITH WAGNER FAMILY RECRUITMENT
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amJohn Calipari has always been a fast worker. The former Net coach got hired by Memphis University on March 11, and has wasted no time in doing what he does...
TOP FIGHT, NOT FLIGHT: DE LA HOYA, MOSLEY PUT RISK ON THE ROPES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - OK, let's everyone raise a toast to Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosley for what they did last night. Since this column was written approximately nine...
HURRICANE FORCES: OLD MIAMI BUDDIES BARROW & ARMSTEAD PLAN TO WREAK HAVOC AS GIANT LINEBACKERS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThere was an argument. Mike Barrow doesn't recall what it was about, although he knows it was his red-shirt freshman year at the University of Miami and that he had...
MIGHTY MIKE'S THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThey would explode out of their stance, fix their eyes on the ballcarrier and sound the alarm for the chase to begin. Jessie Armstead knew he had better get there...
IT'S SHOWTIME N.Y. FLOOR GENERALS BARKLEY AND CLAXTON GOING ONE-ON-ONE FOR CHANCE TO GET DRAFTED BY KNICKS
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amThe game that has never been played will be played Thursday. Erick Barkley and Speedy Claxton have played with each other, played against one another, rooted for each other, and...
BERNIE HUNTING FOR NEXT SURGE: HOPES PRAYERS LEAD TO TEAR
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amImagine a job where failure 70 percent of the time equates success, where missing the mark two-thirds of the time could make you a star and breaking even would make...
BENNY DOIN' ALL HE CAN: AGBAYANI MAKING MOST OF LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - On May 31, Benny Agbayani started against the Dodgers and went 0-for-4. Then he wasn't on the lineup card until last Wednesday, which was two weeks later. In...
YANKS NEED JAKE TO BE REAL THING
June 18, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS was early in spring training, but not so early that the signs of danger had not yet arisen. Darryl Strawberry had already been banished from working out with the...