May 22, 1999
COSMETIC IMPROVEMENT : REVLON BIG NETS $14M ON TALK OF COTY SALE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amRon Perelman's portfolio is looking better with Coty cosmetics. Word that Perelman may sell his Revlon empire to rival Coty boosted the billionaire's personal fortune by a tidy $14 million...
KARMAZIN WOULD RATHER CBS DE-KLEIN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCBS boss Mel Karmazin is trying to fine-tune his fuzzy profits picture at CBS's television stations by dumping the man in charge of them. After 30 years with the broadcasting...
'ENDURANCE' IS ENDEARING
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amRECOMMENDED "ENDURANCE" (G): This beautifully photographed non-fiction feature, which combines re-enactments and documentary footage of the life of Haile Gebrselassie - the world's greatest distance runner - may be a...
THE PRAIRIE FASHION PARADE IS TERRIFIC, OF COURSE, BUT... ; THE DOCTOR IS BAD MEDICINE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amDr. Mike never looks less than fab, whether it's in a corset, a plaid skirt...or the leather riding habit in which she will be strapped to a post for execution....
CARPENTERBUILDS STEAM AT TRAMPS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amM ARY Chapin Carpenter is a differently built diva. The fans know she doesn't demand diva devotion, which make them adore her all the more. But if her two-hour, down-home,...
LEAFLETS URGE YUGOS TO DESERT
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amNATO escalated its war of nerves with Serbian commanders yesterday - air-dropping thousands of leaflets over Kosovo urging Yugoslav troops to mutiny. Seeking to capitalize on desertions in some units...
DIPLOMAT DODGES 2 NATO HITS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt hasn't been a good week for Mats Staffansson, Sweden's Ambassador to Yugoslavia. The diplomat from a neutral country unexpectedly found himself on the front lines of the Kosovo conflict...
BITTERSWEET DAY FOR COLUMBINE GRADS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amLITTLETON, Colo. - The traumatized kids of Columbine HS say goodbye again today, this time in a bittersweet graduation that will be tragically missing two popular classmates. Buoyed by family...
TAINTED SCHOOL BIG MAY BE GETTING PENSION PERK
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amA TOP official at the Board of Education Retirement System is negotiating to retire with an improved pension - even though she was caught allegedly cooking the books at the...
PLATO'S DRUG DEATH LABELED SUICIDE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTormented child star Dana Plato, whose adult life was a minefield of drugs, crime and depression, committed suicide, Oklahoma authorities ruled yesterday. Contrary to initial reports, deputy state medical examiner...
BILL'S FUNNY-MONEY PAL AGREES TO SING
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Funny-money funnel-man Charlie Trie copped a plea yesterday on obstruction-of-justice charges and agreed to cooperate in the Justice Department's campaign-finance investigation. Trie will get probation, and in exchange...
LAWMAKERS' PAY DELAY STRUCK DOWN BY JUDGE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - In a scathing decision striking down a new law, a Brooklyn judge ruled yesterday the state's 211 legislators cannot be denied their paychecks just because the budget is...
ALBANY TAX SLASH HAS CITY WEIGHING LAYOFFS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00am"You can be sure that [a budget cut of] $400 million starts with labor negotiations."CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER PETER VALLONE Trying to fill a gaping $360 million hole in the budget,...
JUDGE KEEPS TUNNEL SHUT AFTER CRASH DRUG COURSE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTold the drug's nickname was "Special K," the judge asked, "Special K is not cereal?" Club king Peter Gatien's Tunnel nightclub will stay padlocked for alleged drug trafficking for the...
VOLPE MAY TAKE STAND TO 'FALL ON HIS SWORD'
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amPolice Officer Justin Volpe might take the witness stand to "come clean" about his alleged sodomy attack on Abner Louima, sources told The Post yesterday. "If he can't get a...
IT WAS A HUGE JOKE TO TEEN GUNMAN : SURVIVOR TELLS HOW CLASSMATE GIGGLED AS HE FIRED
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCONYERS, Ga. - Accused teen gunslinger T.J. Solomon giggled gleefully as he pumped bullets into his high-school classmates, a shooting survivor said yesterday. "He was in there laughing, jumping up...
COPS EYED IN STOX-BRIBE PROBE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amManhattan prosecutors are investigating two NYPD detectives accused by a disgraced Wall Street whiz kid of taking bribes in an attempt to scare him out of suing his former firm,...
CITY NETTLES STATE WITH A LARCH SUIT FIR DAMAGES
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Parks Department is suing a state agency for deflowering the only virgin forest in Manhattan. In the $1.7 million suit, the department accuses the state Triborough Bridge and Tunnel...
IRON MIKE TO GET SPRUNG EARLY PAROLE COULD PUT HIM IN RING BY SUMMER
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amMike Tyson won early parole yesterday and could walk out of prison in two weeks - serving just four months for beating up a pair of motorists after a fender-bender....
DEMS AND GOPERS TRADE SHOTS OVER GUN BILL
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amRepublicans said yesterday it's virtually certain the House of Representatives will follow the Senate and pass gun-control legislation next month, but Democrats hollered that's not soon enough. One top GOP...
HEARTLESS NURSE SWIPED SICK KID'S TOY: COPS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amA Pennsylvania nurse has been charged with swiping a Beanie Baby from the hospital bed of a little girl recovering from open-heart surgery. Suzanne Pinkney, 50, grabbed the "Halo the...
BILL WANTS 50,000 TROOPS READY AT KOSOVO BORDER
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration wants to mass 50,000 NATO troops on Kosovo's border "as quickly as possible" to keep the peace - and possibly double as an invasion force,...
GORE GAINS FROM GUN VOTE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore has gotten a much-needed political lift from doing - of all things - his job. Gore cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate on...
INSIDERS: PATAKI WILL ENDORSE BUSH
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The intense speculation over Gov. Pataki's impending "major announcement" returned to an old theory yesterday: backing George W. Bush for President. Political sources said there was what one...
PERELMAN'S EX RIPS CUSTODY JUDGE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amPatricia Duff got her say in court yesterday, accusing the judge hearing her bitter custody clash with billionaire Ron Perelman of ignoring her daughter's best interests. "I believe my rights,...
TOP PROSECUTOR BUSTED IN DWI COLLISION
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amA well-known Manhattan prosecutor found himself on the other side of the law when he hit a car allegedly while driving drunk - then pretended to be a cop, police...
TOP HS ASST. PRINCIPAL IN MOLEST BUST MADE GIRL WATCH PORN: PROBERS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amAn assistant principal at prestigious Stuyvesant HS was charged yesterday with molesting a 15-year-old schoolgirl and forcing her to watch porn. Veteran city educator Richard Plass, 55, is accused of...
GUTSY KID STANDS TALL AFTER DEATH SCARE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCONYERS, Ga.RYAN Rosa winced in pain as he stepped out of his buddy's Nissan. Parking was tight outside the Heritage Hill Baptist Church where 600 students and their parents showed...
SLAY-MANUAL PUBLISHER TO PAY OFF VICTIMS' KIN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe obscure publisher of a murder manual agreed yesterday to pull the book and pay millions to relatives of victims of a triple murder committed by a hired killer who...
SEX RAP FOR TOP HS HONCHO STUYVESANT BIG IS ACCUSED OF MOLESTING GIRL
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amAn assistant principal at prestigious Stuyvesant HS was accused yesterday of molesting a 15-year-old schoolgirl and making her watch porn. Veteran educator Richard Plass, 55, is charged with third-degree sexual...
LUCCI FINALLY BAGS AN EMMY SOAP SIREN GRABS GOLD ON 19TH TRY
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amSusan Lucci, star of Emmy's longest-running snub, last night put a soap opera finish to the millennium when she won the award of best daytime actress on the 19th try....
BYSTANDER SHOT IN VILLAGE FIGHT
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amA stray bullet fired during a fight yesterday inside a Greenwich Village leather boutique smashed through a window, injuring an 18-year-old woman in the eye, police said. The 6:29 p.m....
ADUBATO COULDN'T REFUSE LIBERTY OFFER
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amRichie Adubato began his return to the Garden last November in the Clairmont Diner in Clifton, N.J. A 19-year veteran of the NBA, Adubato had never coached women. But he...
FAIRY TALE STARTS WITH PETER PAN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTen years ago a late-developing colt named Coastal won the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park by 13 lengths, then came back two weeks later in the Belmont Stakes to...
EASY AS ONE ... TWO ... SPREE ; RED-HOT LATRELL HAS KNICKS THINKING BIG
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Latrell Sprewell playoff era is off and flying. The Knicks have won three straight road playoff games in the same postseason for the first time in their history and...
PITIFUL PLAYOFFS GIVE KNICKS A GOOD SHOT
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amT HE Eastern Conference finals are nearly at hand and I'm thinking that by the time the NBA Finals are concluded, someone should be putting an asterisk next to the...
GALVIN TO START DEFENSE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amVeterinarian Dr. Michael Galvin, whose legal slugfest with the New York Racing Association is now in its 14th month, will begin presenting his defense Tuesday in hearings held at the...
LEMKE HANGS ON BY HIS KNUCKLES
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThere are a lot of 30-something baseball players who hang around the minors and don't know when to hang up their spikes. At first glance, the small, older-looking guy wearing...
NASSAU DESERVES HEAT FOR MAKING ISLES MESS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER Islanders coach Bill Stewart lost his job but got it right. The Isles don't have, in Stewart's words, "the resources to acquire National Hockey League talent." And if you...
ALLAN'S AWFUL NIGHT GETS POSITIVE SPIN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe the most formidable statement the Knicks made to the league Thursday night in Atlanta is they won a second-round playoff road game, comfortably, with their howitzer of a shooting...
YOGI: POSADA CATCHES NO BREAKS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amFew people expected the Yankees to repeat their astounding success of 1998 this year, but even fewer thought they would be trailing the Red Sox in the middle of May....
SURE IT'S RISKY BUSINESS, BUT KNICKS ; SHOULD BUILD FUTURE AROUND SPREWELL
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTHIS isn't Patrick Ewing's team as much as it is Latrell Sprewell's team right now. The Knicks are poised for a riotous Garden party sweep of the Hawks because of...
VENTURA'S GRAND NIGHT FADES :INTO JUST ANOTHER DAY
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amJust as he predicted, Robin Ventura had to get up early yesterday morning to take his kids to the school bus stop in their new home town of Greenwich, Conn....
CAMBY'S SLAM IS ONE FOR THE AGES
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt is called "The Dunk." When John Starks soared over Michael Jordan and Horace Grant in the 1993 playoffs, the Garden crowd erupted and a poster was born. Now comes...
CURT WORDS PROVOKE WAR
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amAS A military buff of renown, one good enough to actually serve as a research editor to a twice-yearly magazine dedicated to combat, Curt Schilling knows wars of magnitude often...
HENNIG, PLETCHER BEGIN TO FIGHT BACK
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTrainers Mark Hennig and Todd Pletcher, suspended by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Revenue when post-race tests revealed minute traces of a cocaine metabolite in the urine of one horse...
JETS FINALLY ADMIT THEY'RE UP FOR SALE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Jets yesterday announced the inevitable when they issued a release stating that the team is officially up for sale. In the wake of the May 7 death of team...
SUSPENDED COACH DENIES GIRL'S CLAIMS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCalling the allegations "preposterous," suspended John F. Kennedy baseball coach Peter Lane denied the accusation of a female student that he engaged in improper conduct with her. "I haven't done...
HAWKS TRY TO FIND LATRELL ANTIDOTE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00am["Sprewell's] just getting the ball and he's just going and trying to score. Most guys look and see and survey what's there. He's getting it and going.HAWKS' TYRONE CORBIN MARIETTA,...
AGBAYANI IS TURNING INTO MAJOR CASE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amGeneral manager Steve Phillips would not say it, but it's pretty clear the Mets won't send Benny Agbayani to the minors when Rickey Henderson is activated from the disabled list....
ROCKET ON A MISSION ROGER INTENSE BEFORE RAIN-DELAYED RETURN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The look in Roger Clemens' eyes when he entered the Yankees' clubhouse yesterday afternoon let everybody know the Rocket was back. During his three-week stint on the disabled...
WILKENS: NO EXCUSES FOR BEING 0-2
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe Knicks have shown superior depth in the series, which the Hawks entered without forwards LaPhonso Ellis and Alan Henderson. While Ellis was lost in March, Henderson was a May...
JACKSON STILL A KNICK FAN
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - A big smile gives it away. Mark Jackson is a bad liar. He tries to offer the company line to the next round prospect of the Knicks: "It's...
BULL-IEVE IT, CHI'S PICKING IN NBA LOTTERY
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amIt seems so strange, but the Bulls will be in today's NBA Draft Lottery. And Knick fans must really be crying over that. Having won six championships (including the last...
SPENCER, KNOBLAUCH UNDER THE WEATHER
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - A stomach disorder that entered the Yankees' clubhouse via recently demoted reliever Jay Tessmer has worked its way into the bellies of Shane Spencer and Chuck Knoblauch. Tessmer...
SEVEN & SWEAT FOR METS : BENITEZ, FRANCO PUT AN END TO PHILS' RALLY
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amMets7 Phillies5 The weather is getting warmer, the days longer and the Mets bats hotter. The Mets broke out with seven runs in the first five innings, and needed almost...
BAFFERT: WAIT 'DAY'
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amTrainer Bob Baffert said yesterday he would wait for the results of tomorrow's Peter Pan to decide whether superfilly Silverbulletday will run in the Belmont Stakes. ''We'll know more after...
JAX ROOTS FOR KNICKS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - A big smile gives it away. Mark Jackson is a bad liar. He tries to offer the company line to the next round prospect of the Knicks: ''It's...
ROCKET'S RE-ENTRY DELAYED
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amCHICAGO - The look in Roger Clemens' eyes when he entered the Yankees' clubhouse yesterday afternoon let everybody know the Rocket was back. During his three weeks on the disabled...
CURT WORDS MIGHT LAND SCHILLING IN NEW YORK ; METS, YANKS WATCH THE SCHILLING BATTLE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amAS A military buff of renown, one good enough to actually serve as a research editor to a twice-yearly magazine dedicated to combat, Curt Schilling knows wars of magnitude often...
PACERS HAVE SWEEP DREAMS
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amPacers97 Sixers86 PHILADELPHIA - Larry Brown didn't have to search long through the rubble to find the right description of his Sixers: "We looked young." And so the flipside of...
VENTURA'S SLAM STICKS GOING TO HALL
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amRobin Ventura may hate to lose the Lousiville Slugger bats he used to become the only player in history to hit grand slams in both games of a doubleheader, but...
BENITEZ EATS 'EM UP : HOLDS FORT IN 8TH AS AMAZIN'S TOP PHILLIES
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amIn a game where the starting pitching was good again, where Mike Piazza, John Olerud and, of course, Benny Agbayani led a seven-run charge, somehow this game came down to...
CATINCA AIMS TO BAG SHUVEE
May 22, 1999 | 4:00amThe 24th running of the Grade 2 Shuvee Handicap at Belmont today is an interesting mix of quality and potential. It will be run at one mile and the purse...