May 20, 1999
D.H. BLAIR BROKER NABBED FOR TAKING BRIBES
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amA high-earning young stockbroker from D.H. Blair faces up to seven years in prison for allegedly pocketing a $30,000 bribe to hype stock - then scrambling to cover his tracks....
SFX CONCERT COUP - BRONFMAN NEARS SALE TO SILLERMAN; EXCLUSIVE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amEdgar Bronfman Jr.'s Seagram is edging close to a deal to sell his concert business to Bob Sillerman's SFX for about $175 million, The Post has learned. Reps for the...
HICKS CHANGES CHANCELLOR NAME
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amChancellor Media is changing its name and restructuring to tap into the magic of the Internet. The Dallas-based radio giant, which has hit rocky shoals lately, will now be called...
FULLER-PROOF PLAN KEEPS BONNIE AT GLAMOUR
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBonnie Fuller is staying put as editor of Glamour magazine and is no longer contemplating a move back to Hearst Magazines to take over at Harper's Bazaar, said Conde Nast...
TOP-SELLING MARTIN MAKES MUSIC BIZ LOCA FOR LATIN ARTISTS
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amLatin heartthrob Ricky Martin's new album has rocketed to the top of the charts in its first week on sale, heating up a pop-industry scramble for more Hispanic stars. His...
WAL-MART DROPS TUBBIES KNOCKOFFS
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amMore Business News, page 46 Handbag or not, Tinky Winky's no sissy when it comes to battling his imposters. Thousands of knockoff Tinky Winkys and other lovable characters from the...
WHO'S THE MIDGET NOW? - STUNNING COURT VICTORY GIVES KATZENBERG RIGHT TO ASK
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amHollywood big cheese Jeffrey Katzenberg yesterday won a huge victory in his super-nasty, megabucks breach-of-contract lawsuit against The Walt Disney Co. Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge ruled...
EISNER'S PROBLEMS PUT HIM DEEPER INTO MOUSE HOLE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amStill smarting over his public beating on the witness stand, Walt Disney chief Michael Eisner has plenty of other problems to lose sleep over. Eisner admitted on the stand that...
A ROSE ON THE COFFIN FOR 'HOMICIDE'
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amWE will miss "Homicide: Life on the Street." We will miss its anger and gallows humor and intelligence. We will miss its cast, which reflected the population on our corner...
HOLE LOTTA CHANGE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amWHO can tell whether Courtney Love has mellowed or is just tired of her old ill-tempered persona, but with the coming of the big bad millennium, the merry widow seems...
TV TICKER
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBrendan burn ''Mummy'' star Brendan Fraser is turning a cold shoulder to his down-and-out older brother. On tonight's ''Inside Edition'' (1:37 a.m. on Ch.2), Regan Fraser says he's living hand-to-mouth...
DANA LIED 'TIL SHE DIED - PLATO'S PALS TELL 'SALLY' THE PRICE OF DRUG DENIAL
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE first time Paul Petersen laid eyes on Dana Plato, she had so much cocaine on her face that he had to advise her to wipe it off. That was...
THREE PARTS OF 'LIME TREE' ADD UP TO ONE LEMON
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT we do at the plays of Conor McPherson is listen to stories, long narratives meant to enthrall us by their narrative power. Now playing at Primary Stages is McPherson's...
NEWT THE 'RIGHT' MAN FOR VACANT CNN SPOT?
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amCNN has approached ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich about replacing Pat Buchanan on "Crossfire." Fiery conservative Buchanan took a leave of absence from "Crossfire" in February to concentrate on his 2000...
THE MISSING LINK: BABS' NEW BUDDY - EMPTY '20/20' SEAT IS FALL TV'S BIGGEST MYSTERY
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN ABC announced its new fall line-up this week, the network was intriguingly silent about two things: *Who will replace Hugh Downs as Barbara Walters'partner on the original, Friday-night edition...
THE TRAINER WHO COMES TO DINNER ...
May 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I find often people wait to order until I order," says David Kirsch. "And then I love upsetting them. Sometimes I'll order a cheesburger and macaroni and cheese." Sadist! IT'S...
AMY STARTS NEW JOB ON ANNIVERSARY OF SHOOTING
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amLong Island Lolita Amy Fisher was at work at her secret "fashion-related" job in New York yesterday - the seventh anniversary of the day she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in...
TIME TO INVADE - OR GET OUT
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amCAN'T anyone here play this game? I am talking about that deadly game called war. Now we hear that Clinton would consider sending in ground troops to the Balkans debacle....
CHRISTIE'S FORGES AHEAD WITH SUIT OVER 'PHONY' ART
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amChristie's is suing the one-time owner of a phony Alberto Giacometti sculpture for $400,000 - after two experts said the auction house was duped into selling the fake. The auctioneer's...
FEDS AGAIN TARGET AGING ACCUSED NAZI
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe feds are taking another shot at John Demjanjuk - the retired auto worker convicted, then cleared, of being the Nazi gas-chamber operator "Ivan the Terrible." The Justice Department announced...
BOY, 9, SAVES CHOKING PAL'S LIFE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amA heroic Long Island boy used the Heimlich maneuver to save a fellow third-grader's life yesterday when the friend choked on a potato snack. "We have a real hero," Ronni...
SYRIA TO BARAK: LET'S TALK PEACE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Fallout from the Israeli elections continued yesterday as Syria signaled it was ready to reopen peace talks after a three-year break - and Menachem Begin's right-wing son quit...
DON'T YOU EVER WISH THE FORCE TO BE WITH ME
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amNo, I did not join rain-drenched terrestrials who risked careers and compromised home lives in frenzied competition to hurl hard-earned bucks into outer space . . . I will not...
COURT GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO DWI CAR SEIZURES
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir seized a major court victory yesterday when a Manhattan judge upheld their controversial DWI car-forfeiture policy. The ruling by state Supreme Court Justice...
SHEL-SHOCKED PATAKI WILL GET TAX-KILL BILL NEXT WEEK
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amThreatened with a Republican lawsuit, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday he'll unshackle the bill abolishing the commuter tax next week so Gov. Pataki can sign it into law. A...
GOV'S GUESSING GAME JUST GETS WACKIER
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Three new theories on Gov. Pataki's planned "major political announcement" emerged yesterday as state politicos continued to buzz with speculation. The leading and most complex of the new...
COPS TAKE AIM AT DRUG VIOLENCE; EXCLUSIVE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe NYPD is launching a new crime-fighting plan in at least 18 precincts where drug-related murders and shootings are on the upswing, The Post has learned. By the end of...
RAGIN' ROSIE AMBUSHES SELLECK - TALK-SHOW HOST OPENS FIRE OVER HUNK'S NRA AD
May 20, 1999 | 4:00am"I didn't come on your show to have a debate. I came on your show to plug a movie . . . I think you're being stupid." TOM SELLECK "Queen...
KIDMAN: WE PUT ON A HOT SHOW FOR KUBRICK
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amNicole Kidman says Stanley Kubrick knew her about as intimately as Tom Cruise - because the late director watched as they sizzled in an R-rated sex scene in his final...
CBS WHACKS MOB SHOW OVER COLUMBINE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amCBS President Les Moonves has axed a long-promised Mafia series from the network's fall lineup - saying media violence played a role in the Columbine HS massacre. "Anyone who thinks...
POLICE-WITNESS SHOCKER: VOLPE BOASTED OF IT ALL - TESTIMONY STUNS COURT
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amAn out-of-control Justin Volpe bragged about sodomizing Abner Louima with a stick - then brazenly shoved it in a fellow cop's face and ordered, "Smell it" - a surprise witness...
RUDY STRANDS PREZ AND G0V AT STATI0N
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday snubbed President Clinton and Gov. Pataki - boycotting the unveiling of their $464 million plan to build a new Penn Station. Clinton and Pataki exchanged pleasantries as...
BX. JURY CONVICTS BREAST-FEED MOM OF STARVING INFANT
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amJurors convicted a Bronx woman of starving her breast-fed baby to death, because of the "grotesque" photos of the skin-and-bones boy, panel members said last night. The seven-woman, five-man jury...
STRAW THINKS ABOUT COPPING PLEA - COULD LEAD DA TO DROP SEX AND DRUG CHARGES
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry's legal team is seriously considering entering a no-contest plea to charges of cocaine possession and soliciting a vice cop. Strawberry, who will be arraigned...
AXED WALL ST. HUNK: 'I GET DEATH THREATS'
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amDisgraced Morgan Stanley whiz Christian Curry said yesterday he's been besieged with death threats since he appeared on the cover of a gay porn magazine and was fired from his...
ISLANDER SUITORS LOSE GUTKOWSKI
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amIf SFX Entertainment owners Bob Sillerman and Howard Tytel buy the Islanders, it will be without Bob Gutkowski. Gutkowski, the former MSG president who was SFX pointman for NHL commissioner...
ANGRY BAFFERT: ALL BETS ARE OFF
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amTrainer Bob Baffert blew his California cool yesterday over reports that led Bob Lewis, owner of Kentucky Derby-Preakness winner Charismatic, to propose a $200,000 side bet in the Belmont Stakes...
HOUSTON, SPREE: FUTURE IS WOW!
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Allan Houston pours in 34 points. Latrell Sprewell connects for 31 and the scary thing about the Knicks' scoring duo is they remain a work in progress destined...
BETTORS LEFT SCRATCHING HEADS
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Just Kissing dumped Diane Nelson and ran off prior to the running of the second, she was announced as a late scratch a couple minutes later. Right after that...
THE NEED TO RE-SEED - AS IT STANDS, CUP FINALS ARE ANTI-CLIMACTIC
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amTHE STANLEY CUP Finals are coming one round too soon again, one round too soon for the fourth straight year. Once again, the Western Finals will produce the most compelling,...
ON DAY AFTER, MOOKIE FINALLY CATCHES BREATH
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Mookie Blaylock was running low on energy, running high on mistakes and the Hawks were running their way back into the game behind Anthony Johnson. "That's what happened,"...
LENNY LIKELY TO TURN TO CRAWFORD
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - It was just a simple matter of colors. At the Hawks' practice yesterday, Chris Crawford wore a white practice jersey, the same color worn by unquestioned starters Dikembe...
HAWKS' SMITH: WE WANT EWING IN THE GAME
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES ATLANTA - Times have changed. For years, Patrick Ewing foul trouble was bad news for the Knicks. Now, it may be bad news for the opposition. Listen to...
MUTOMBO LETS EWING SKATE - DIKEMBE WON'T PLAY PATRICK TOUGH
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - After the Knicks drove the lane in Game 1, Dikembe Mutombo drove Patrick Ewing back to his hotel. "He was talking more to my daughter than to me,"...
ABBOTT RUNNING OUT OF CHANCES
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amThere aren't a lot more chances left for Brewers pitcher Jim Abbott. In fact, today may be his last start of a heroic career when the Yankees' former no-hit hero...
ERNIE PLAN LOOKIN' GOOD - KNICKS PROVING GRUNFELD RIGHT
May 20, 1999 | 4:00am... "you don't just throw players on the court and expect them to be a cohesive unit overnight." ERNIE GRUNFELD As the team he assembled continues to forge ahead in...
VALENTINE'S STILL SEETHING - METS OFFICIALLY PROTEST TUESDAY'S LOSS
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amIt's just as well the Mets' game against Milwaukee got rained out last night; manager Bobby Valentine and his team could probably use a day away from this umpiring crew....
LAZIO COPS EURO CUP FINALE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Last rites have been sounded for the European Cup-Winners' Cup, the most absurdly named of all competitions. Starting next season, the ECWC becomes part of the bigger, better,...
BOMBER BACKUPS ANONYMOUS BUNCH - PLENTY OF WEAK LINKS
May 20, 1999 | 4:00am"Every time I turn on the TV and the Yankees are playing there's some guy I've never heard of coming out of the bullpen." ONE AL VETERAN BOSTON - Who's...
HAWKS IN FLIGHT FOR LIVES - SAY GAME 2 IS 'DO OR DIE'
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - Just another NBA Judgment Day. This time, it's the Hawks facing a crucial situation in only the second leg of a seven-game series. "Game 1 was very important...
VALENTINE STANDS BEHIND BENITEZ
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amNow comes reliever Armando Benitez' first true test as a Met: how he handles adversity. Benitez, the former Orioles' hothead, has built up so much good will within the Mets'...
TORRE NEEDS MORE FROM PAUL, POSADA - KNOBLAUCH ALSO STUCK IN DEEP RUT
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre didn't walk into a team hitting on all cylinders. In fact, the engine that drives the World Champion Yankees has been choked by more than a...
LEITER & ABBOTT DUEL IN OPENER AT SHEA
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES With yesterday's Met game against Milwaukee rained out, the Amazin's will play a doubleheader today starting at 4:40 p.m. Al Leiter (1-4), trying to break out of his...
A DIXIE DOUBLE - SPREE, HOUSTON SHOOTIN' TO GIVE KNICKS 2-0 LEAD
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amATLANTA - The playoffs are in the early stages, but one thing has become clear. The path to success is wide open. The Knicks are in position to put themselves...
ZIMMER NOT CERTAIN HE CAN GO THE DISTANCE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - Don Zimmer's right knee may be feeling a bit better these days but the Yankees' bench coach isn't convinced he will stay with the club for...
MAYBE ONLY ROG CAN STOP BOSOX
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre's first decision back on the job already has proven itself worth second-guessing. Fearing rain would make it too risky to pitch Roger Clemens in tonight's series...
ROSE A THORN IN YANKS' SIDE
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Since George Steinbrenner told us what Hideki Irabu is all about, Irabu getting spanked by the Red Sox last night at Fenway Park wasn't the most disappointing thing...
RANGERS, LEETCH CLOSE IN ON DEAL
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rangers and Brian Leetch are on the verge of a contract agreement that will keep the captain off the unrestricted free agent market and in New York for the...
ARROGANT YANKS HAVE DEPTH WISH
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - The pride of the Yankees has been replaced by the arrogance of the Yankees. They think they're so good they can fight 25-man rosters with 21 serviceable men....
TORRE KEEPS FAITH IN BLANKEES
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - Joe Torre looks in his players' eyes and does not see hopelessness coming back at him. Nor is he looking into the mugs of quitters. Sooner or later,...
JOE: 9TH-INNING STRIKES FULL OF BALL-ONEY
May 20, 1999 | 4:00amBOSTON - If Joe Torre had known plate umpire Larry Barnett's strike zone was going to stretch from Fenway Park to Cambridge following a 73-minute rain delay prior to the...