June 10, 1999
CONTRITE REV. ROBERTSON RESIGNS FROM LAURA ASHLEY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amLaura Ashley will have to look for earthly inspiration to revive the company's fortunes. The Reverend Pat Robertson has resigned from the board of the struggling retailer, bowing to the...
HEARST HIRES KAPLAN, EX-PHILLY BIG CHEESE; EXCLUSIVE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amMagazine veteran Eliot Kaplan is resurfacing with a new job - as a super headhunter for Hearst Magazines, The Post has learned. Hearst wrapped up negotiations to bring the ex-Philadelphia...
NO. 2 EXEC AT CALVIN KLEIN QUITS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe woman who turned Calvin Klein into an international force, beefing up retailing operations and pumping up licensing efforts at the fashion house, is resigning. Calvin Klein President and Chief...
THIS TIME-TRAVELER GETS HIS WISH: SPACE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amTIME Warner could have held onto Lou Dobbs. The "Moneyline" anchor and CNN business news chief wanted to keep his job - as long as he could also go ahead...
KODAK LANDS CARP AS CEO - AFTER 2-YEAR TENURE FISHER HANGS IT UP
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amBruised in a bitter film-price war, Kodak's white knight savior George Fisher is calling it quits sooner than expected. The 58-year-old chairman and CEO of Eastman Kodak said he's turning...
WHITE-SHOE SHUFFLE - NEUBERGER LURES MONEY MANAGERS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWhite-shoe money managers at Neuberger Berman have poached two high-profile investment teams in the last month, upping their funds under management by some $750 million. The father-son team of Gerry...
SAFETY 'NET CAN RESCUE CAREERS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amLou Dobbs' switch from TV honcho to Internet mogul is not the first moonshot in new-medialand. But it is one of the more risky. Leaving a top TV job to...
STAFF EXODUS AT BT AFTER DEUTSCHE BANK MERGER
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDeutsche Bank's takeover of Bankers Trust has some top BT employees, and pension fund investors, heading for the exits. Chris Holter, the BT Alex. Brown co-head of over-the-counter equity trading,...
ALTERNATIVES TO THEGAS ENGINE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Honda announced a few weeks ago that it was pulling the plug on production of its battery-powered minivan, the EV Plus, I was upset. In the three years they've...
ROYAL SWEDES IN TOP FORM IN D.C. PERFORMANCE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDANCE REVIEW WASHINGTON - There is a suggestion of time was, time is and time-traveling at Washington's Kennedy Center this week, where the Royal Swedish Ballet has just opened its...
IN THE X-HAIRS: TWO TV STARS SHOT DEAD IN SIX WEEKS- COULD IT HAPPEN HERE?
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amT HE brutal slaying of a popular Mexican TV personality this week has celebrity security experts in the U.S. on alert. Authorities have no motive and no suspects in the...
HIS 'LIMBO' SPURS LIVELY SAYLES TALK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amJOHN Sayles takes risks. From "Return of the Secaucus Seven," his 1980 directorial debut, to 1997's Spanish-language "Men With Guns," the writer-director has maintained one of the strongest, steadiest voices...
WOODY SET TO STAR IN 'RAINMAKER'
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWOODY Harrelson has joined the parade of Hollywood stars making tracks to Broadway. The actor will star in a revival of N. Richard Nash's "The Rainmaker" at the Brooks Atkinson...
STRANGE NEW WORLD OF CATS & KARAOKE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHINK there's nothing new under the TV sun? Think again. Two new concepts have come to my attention that, though unrelated, should renew one's confidence in the ingenuity of the...
MTV HOST: I'M SICK OF MY JOB - CAROLLA MAY QUIT 'LOVELINE' WHEN 'MAN SHOW' KICKS IN
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amLOVELINES' sarcastic and irreverent star, Adam Carolla, says he's sick of doing the MTV show and is underpaid. Carolla is also the co-host of the upcoming Comedy Central program, "The...
WHY HILLARY IS A BAD CAMPAIGNER
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt was the kind of honest ad lib that usually gets a spouse in trouble. Hillary Clinton - First Lady of the United States and would-be senator from New York...
CLEANED-UP VERSIONS OF RAPPER'S HIT BAFFLES FANS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amCompeting versions of the hit single 'What It's Like,'' by white rapper Everlast, have fans wondering what gives with the multiple edits of the song, currently No. 19 on the...
BEN THERE, DONE THAT: VETERAN ACTOR BEN GAZZARA IS BACK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amSitting in the sweltering lobby of a Bowery hotel, the 69-year-old star of the low-budget indie movie 'Home Sweet Hoboken'' - a film set in New Jersey and helmed by...
MAKING A MONSTER COMEBACK: THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF FASHION'S PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amTUESDAY night was the first time artist/socialite Julien Schnabel opened his West Village studio to a fashion crowd. It was also the first time said fashion crowd got to lay...
REACTION IS MIXED TO ETHNIC 'TARGETING'
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew's plan to set "performance targets" for black and Hispanic schoolkids to close an alarming racial test-score gap drew a split reaction yesterday. One critic branded the...
CIGARS CAN SEND YOUR LIFE UP IN SMOKE: DOCS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amCigars - the ubiquitous stamp of success for late-century strivers - have been found to double their smokers' risk of mouth, throat and lung cancer, researchers said yesterday. Cigar smokers...
WIESEL: VICTIMS MAY BECOME VICTIMIZERS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel says he believes NATO troops will have to stay in Kosovo for years to keep peace - and he fears returning Albanian refugees will...
NO ONE SHOULD BELIEVE KORNBERG'S TOXIC LIES
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amNOBODY in this city should believe Marvyn Kornberg today. His words are mud and fog. They are mischief and poison. Kornberg opened the trial of Abner Louima with lies about...
INDONESIA VOTE-TAMPER FEARS GROW
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amIndonesia's ruling Golkar Party jumped into second place yesterday in the nation's first democratic election in 44 years, prompting cries of fraud and vote-buying. The glacial pace of vote-counting added...
PATAKI'S CUNY PICK UNDER FIRE FOR BIAS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki yesterday nominated an aide - who allegedly called blacks ''savages,'' threatened a top Democrat, knocked Jews, and slurred an assemblywoman - as a City University trustee....
THE ATTENDANCE SCAM REVISITED
June 10, 1999 | 4:00am'Given all that has been learned overthe past year about 110 Livingston'sinstitutional inability to tell the truth,certainly it can't be assumed that thisyear's testing was on the up-and-up.' THE results...
CALL IT FAMILY VALUES, CALIFORNIA-STYLE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHE man who turned Autumn Jackson in to authorities, then married her, then fathered her babies, was home alone with the twins. The twins that Autumn Jackson gave birth to...
NOW, IF COPS COULD JUST BREAK THE PAY 'BARRIER'
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amIF THERE is a Blue Wall of Silence, I will happily lay a few bricks to make it higher - particularly after this week's high drama of cop-bashing. This doesn't...
TRESS-OBSESSED BONO GETS A DRESSING-DOWN
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amRep. Mary Bono obsessed about her hair and undressed in front of a reporter profiling her - prompting a Democrat to lecture her on congressional dignity. In its July issue,...
BINKS' STAR TREATMENT REALLY GOES TOO FAR FAR
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S something wrong with the world when the most-hated cinematic character since the randy hillbilly in "Deliverance" can get on the cover of Rolling Stone. But there's Jar Jar Binks,...
JAR JAR GAY? THE TRUTH IS 'OUT' THERE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amMove over, Tinky Winky. There's a new gay superstar in town, and his name is Jar Jar Binks. Sci-fi fans, movie critics and gay writers across America say the flamboyant,...
LAWYER VS. LAWYER OVER VOLPE TALE OF WRONG MAN
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe Abner Louima trial seemed far from over yesterday as lawyers sparred over Justin Volpe's claim the wrong man was convicted as his accomplice in the police-station sex torture. Volpe's...
TOP STUDENTS TOWER ABOVE THESE ISSUES
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWhen the powers that be start waxing poetic about how Johnnie can't read in this town, the Johnnies and Janes who convened yesterday can be excused from the lecture. About...
OPPOSING COMMUTER TAX CAN HELP HER; HILLARY CAN SCORE IN SUBURBS BY OPPOSING COMMUTER TAX
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amIF WANNABE senator Hillary Clinton wants to make mischief for Mayor Giuliani, she could come out against his commuter tax - and some local Dems are urging her to do...
C0SBY 'KID' T0 G0 FREE - EXTORTION CONVICTION OVERTURNED
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amBill Cosby's self-proclaimed love child could walk out of prison as early as today after an appeals court ordered a new trial on charges she tried to extort $40 million...
DRAG, UH, DRUG COPS HELP SHUT NIGHTCLUB
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amA "notorious" Hell's Kitchen transvestite nightclub was padlocked after cross-dressing investigators arrested more than 40 people for peddling drugs and prostitution, city officials said yesterday. Club Edelweiss, at 578 11th...
CREW VOWS TOUGH NEW PROMOTION GUIDELINES
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew yesterday announced what he called one of the nation's toughest programs to end social promotion of failing students - and swore he'd find the money for...
SLOBBO TO START PULLOUT TODAY - HIS TROOPS TO BE OUT IN 11 DAYS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Serbian forces vowed to start marching out of Kosovo today under a peace deal with NATO finally signed by Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic to end the 77-day war....
MURDER MYSTERY WAS NOT IN PLANS FOR REDONE PARK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amA woman was killed by a single bullet to the head in a Queens park yesterday - hours before city officials were slated to hold a ceremony rededicating the newly...
HILL ENERGIZES 'CAMPAIGN' AT UPSTATE ELECTRO-PLANT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday brought her still-undeclared U.S. Senate campaign to an upstate high-tech manufacturing plant, fielding questions from factory workers for nearly an hour. The Oprah-like appearance...
HIGHLIGHTS OF NATO'S PACT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00am*All Serbian forces must leave Kosovo in 11 days, not seven days as NATO previously demanded. *The Serbs must leave first from a northern sector bordering on Serbia, then from...
COP SAVES FELLOW OFFICER'S BABY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amA cop's CPR training saved the life of a fellow officer's infant son yesterday. Marcus Wong, 2 months old, had just been released from Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital at about 1:30 p.m....
MYSTERY MURDER MARS PARK CEREMONY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amA woman was killed by a single bullet to her head in a Queens park yesterday - hours before city officials were slated to hold a ceremony rededicating the newly...
VIERI-TO-INTER COMES WITH A HUGE PRICE TAG
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amL ONDON - Is any player worth $50 million? Well, Inter certainly thinks Christian Vieri is, setting a world transfer record to take the striker from Lazio in a deal...
COMMISH: IN-CREASE REF ROLE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Gary Bettman made clear yesterday that he wants to NHL to return referee's judgment to crease infractions, and remove the absolute nature of goal reversals. ''I have a...
TAPIA: SOME DAY PRINCE WILL COME
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amJohnny Tapia insisted that he wouldn't look past his June 26 WBA bantamweight title defense against Paulie Ayala, but his promoter did. "I just had a conversation with the Prince's...
MACARCHUK SET FOR 5-YEAR DEAL AT STONY BROOK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amStony Brook has scheduled a press conference for this morning to name Fordham's Nick Macarchuk as its new head basketball coach. Although Stony Brook would not make it official yesterday,...
BIRD GOES TO BAT FOR CASEY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amPACER NOTES Larry Bird, as a player of some renown, and Don Casey, as an assistant coach, were together as Celtics in Boston. And they had a reunion of sorts...
BIG D ALREADY IN BIG TROUBLE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Those aren't visions of sugarplums, not in this unChristmaslike heat, but the lightly regarded Sabres already have glittery glory, the silver chalice variety, trying to creep into their...
NHL KEEPING EYE ON ISLES
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDALLAS - Gary Bett-man won't exactly say that Ziggy Palffy will go to the Rangers for warm bodies over the commissioner's dead one. But if it's any consolation to remaining...
FIRST-TIMER WINS BELMONT CONTEST
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amCongratulations to Melissa Mahoney, 19, of Rockville Centre, who gave new meaning to the term "beginner's luck" at last Saturday's Belmont Stakes. On her first-ever visit to a race track,...
SZCZERBIAK'S DREAM: TO BECOME A KNICK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amWith an All-American season behind him and the NBA Draft looming, Wally Szczerbiak seems to have the whole world in his hands. After averaging 30 ppg in the NCAA tourney...
D. DAVIS AT HEAD OF THE GLASS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Pacer power forward Dale Davis is the first to admit he does not get caught up in stats. After all, sometimes they lie. You can't always tell if...
DEVILS LOOKING TO SNAG AVS' SAKIC
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe Rangers tried two years ago via the free agent route. Now it is believed the Devils are trying to trade their excess talent for Colorado's Joe Sakic. The word...
LOOK WHO'S TALKIN' LJ, 10G POORER, BREAKS HIS SILENCE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - A measly $10,000 fine is not going to get Larry Johnson to change his ways - totally. Johnson did talk yesterday during shootaround, something he has...
IT'S DUO OR DIE SPREE & ALLAN KEY TO KNICKS' HOPES VS. INDY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Jeff Van Gundy was looking to get his big guards going last night - even if one was forced to play small forward. If the Knicks didn't click...
NIKE READY TO SPLIT FROM MINOR TOUR AS SPONSOR
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe PGA's minor league Nike Tour is not only hell for the pros but for its primary sponsor, as well. Nike Inc. is set to walk away from the developmental...
BRAVO MOVING TO MONMOUTH
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Joe Bravo, lagging in the standings at the Belmont spring-summer meet with just six winners, is moving his tack next week to Monmouth Park, where he earned the nickname...
POISON PEN'S KILLIN' YANKS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - The only thing that smelled worse than the stale South Philly air hovering over Veterans Stadium Monday and Tuesday nights was the stench filtering out of the Yankees'...
ALMOST MIDNIGHT FOR VG & KNICKS
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amThis was not going to be a Cinderella story, no matter how it turned out for the Knicks. INDIANAPOLIS - Let's get one thing straight before we go any further....
DARRYL DECISION PROBABLY MONDAY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Having already waited more than a week longer than expected, Bud Selig plans on deciding tomorrow how long of a suspension Major League Baseball has in mind for...
HEADED FOR HALL - WILLIAMS: PIAZZA LOCK FOR SHRINE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amImagine if the most accomplished person in your field came over to your house to watch you work. Imagine if you were a lawyer and the best lawyer of all...
SHEA REY KID STAR-STRUCK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDENNIS Rodman and Rey Ordonez always have had something in common. It's just that the common ground has shifted. Ordonez used to be all-defense, no-offense, just like Rodman. That tag...
RELIEVED IZZY FEELS SATISFIED WITH EFFORT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES After throwing 100 pitches Tuesday night against the Blue Jays, Jason Isringhausen gave only a grunt when asked how his surgically repaired elbow felt. "You know, it's got...
ROSE MAKES HIS POINT FILLS IN ADMIRABLY IN PACER BACKCOURT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Pacer guard Travis Best continued to be bothered by a pulled groin muscle, heightening the probability that Jalen Rose would see some playing time at point guard in...
IN THE MARKET FOR A W ; KNICKS TACKLE FIRST ROAD TEST WITHOUT EWING
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The last time they ventured into Market Square Arena, Patrick Ewing was all but threatening the raucous fans, Chris Childs was lecturing a parent on the behavior of...
AGBAYANI HURTS EYE IN FREAK BP MISHAP
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amBENNY AGBAYANIX-rays show no fracture. Benny Agbayani, the hot Hawaiian right fielder, sustained an eye injury last night during a freak batting-practice accident that witness/Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi blamed...
KNICKS' DREAM IS ALIVE AT TIVE: TAKE 3-2 LEAD, CAN OUST INDY TOMORROW NIGHT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The new nuclear Knicks pulled off a stunner last night at Market Square Arena. Getting 29 points from Latrell Sprewell, who was making his second straight playoff start,...
AGBAYANI HURT IN FREAK BP MISHAP
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Benny Agbayani, the hot-hitting Hawaiian right fielder, sustained an eye injury last night during a freak batting-practice accident that Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi blamed on a worn...
THIS ONE WAS A BENCH-MARK VICTORY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It was disguised as energy off the bench when Latrell Sprewell, Marcus Camby and Chris Childs finally got in a game and were able to transform the Knicks...
BOMBERS THE BOSS AGAIN: EIGHT-RUN SIXTH PUTS YANKEES BACK IN FIRST
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - After all the wringing of hands over what the Yankees haven't done across the initial nine weeks of the season, they arrive at the White House today atop...
CHAD WON'T TOSS STONES IN VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Sixty days ago, Chad Curtis was ready to blast President Clinton. A very religious man, Curtis was bothered by Clinton's behavior. Now, as he visits the White House...
ANYTHING STILL GOES THIS STRANGE SERIES AIN'T OVER YET
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - The Knicks-Pacers series to determine who will represent the East in the NBA Finals has officially become a case for the couch, and I don't mean the one...
SPREE & CAMBY PUT INDY ON BRINK
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amGame 6 tomorrow INDIANAPOLIS - These are the new, nuclear Knicks, and last night with Latrell Sprewell and Marcus Camby putting on their high-wire Batman and Robin act, they are...
VENTURA'S HIT FOILS WELLS' BIG NIGHT
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amDavid Wells was booking now, chugging down the Shea Stadium hallway as fast as he could. It was 12:30 a.m. - a full two hours after his 2-2, two-out fastball...
JALEN: WE GOTTA DO OR WE DIE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - This was a re-creation of a locker room from a little more than six years ago - June 2, 1993 to be exact. No, there was no Pacer...
LARRY'S A SHARK BEYOND THE ARC
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - Do not believe Larry Johnson. Don't let him sweet-talk you with that noise that he's been claiming all season long. He was at it again last night and...
BOO-NILLA HITS NEW LOW: INSUBORDINATION ISN'T WHAT METS NEED NOW
June 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Way to go, you guys. We've got the best 24-man roster in the league."BOBBY VALENTINE BOBBY Bonilla reached new depths, making himself unavailable to play the past two nights, even...
BATTLE OF BOBBYS BOILS OVER: BO REFUSES TO PLAY IN MET WIN
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amNot even a stirring come-from-behind, 14-inning victory over the Blue Jays and David Wells last night at Shea could reduce the tension that exists in the Mets' clubhouse. Down to...
KNICKS' GOAL: FINISH FRIDAY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - End it now. And keep dreaming. That was the Knicks' mantra as they left Market Square Arena last night. They don't want to come back here...
MARCUS SQUARE ARENA: CAMBY CONTINUES METEORIC RISE AT PACERS' EXPENSE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - This was supposed to be the series that exposed Marcus Camby. In fact, it has, and as the Knicks rejoice, the Pacers may not be able to recover...
REGGIE PAYS TRIBUTE TO KNICKS' DEFENSE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - At the end, it was the Pacers who looked tired and beat. But it was the Knicks who did so much of the running and chasing. And the...
BOBBY V'S DISGUISE IS THUMB-THING ELSE
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amBobby Valentine was ejected in the 12th inning of last night's 4-3 win over the Blue Jays for arguing an interference call with home-plate umpire Randy Marsh. But the Met...
BAD START DOESN'T GET HOUSTON DOWN
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - It would have been easy for Allan Houston to hang his head in disgust, feeling this was not going to be his night and hoping he could recover...
FANS HECKLE SPREE, BUT CHOKE'S ON THEM I
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amNDIANAPOLIS - It was the first time all year that Latrell Sprewell reacted to the taunts that have been hurled at him from fans all season. With 30 seconds left...
KNICK BATTLE CRY: FINISH 'EM FRIDAY
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES INDIANAPOLIS - End it now. And keep dreaming. That was the Knicks' mantra as they left Market Square Arena last night. They don't want to come back here...
D. DAVIS: MARCUS HURT US
June 10, 1999 | 4:00amINDIANAPOLIS - On almost any given night, the first comments to Dale Davis would have been about his tying his own Pacer playoff record with 18 rebounds. But last night,...