June 23, 1999
BROUHAHA AT BANK OVER NEWMAN'S PAY
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amDeutsche Bank's executive committee members weighed the fate of Banker's Trust Chairman Frank Newman yesterday, and were believed to be focusing in part on Newman's exorbitant pay. Newman's annual compensation...
TURNER GETS BUTCHERED IN BUFFALO DEAL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amAfter failing to make buffalo Americans' preferred burger, Ted Turner is cashing in his chips. Unhappy with America's weak appetite for bison burgers and steaks, Turner is turning over his...
FREDERICK'S SEEKS LIFT FROM NEW CEO
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amFrederick's of Hollywood named a new president yesterday in the hopes of helping the sexy lingerie company stay abreast of the competition, industry giant Victoria's Secret. Linda LoRe, the former...
2 EX-LIVENT EXECS SEEK BIG PAYOUT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amLivent wants to pay two former execs about $1 million in severance. The curtain may have gone down, but the cash still seems to be flowing for Livent Inc.'s former...
PEPSI, VIRGIN EYE COKE EUROPE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMore than 100 million cans of Coke remained off shelves in most of Europe yesterday over a health scare, creating a bonanza for rivals Pepsi and Virgin Cola. Pepsi officially...
CONDE NAST LOSES SELF-SUFFICIENT EDITOR
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amROCHELLE Udell has bolted from the editor-in-chief's job at Self after a nearly five-year run, creating a new round of tumult inside the Conde Nast empire. Conde Nast CEO Steve...
TV TICKER
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amElvis overhaul? Contemporary rock station Z-100 (100.3 FM) plans to make a "major programming announcement" on Monday. Station execs couldn't be reached, but a source tells The Post there's an...
ANDY DICK: I'M CLEAN, DAVE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amTROUBLED sitcom star Andy Dick insists he's been sober for more than a month following his arrest last month for drug-possession. "I actually have been sober for 34 days today,"...
SHOT HEARD ROUND THE TABLOID WORLD
June 23, 1999 | 4:00am"Judgment Day:The Ellie Nesler Story" Tonight at 9 on USA Network ELLIE Nesler took a gun and delivered the judgment she feared the legal system wouldn't on the man who...
$25G DEAL FOR A REAL ALLY MCBEAL: SEXY LAWYER'S OFFER
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amSKIN-baring attorney Rosalie Osias wants to create a real-life "Ally McBeal" - with a $25,000 law-school scholarship named after the sexy TV lawyer played by Calista Flockhart. Osias, who gained...
THE GAME INSIDE THE GAME : EXCLUSIVE: OUR MAN GOES BEHIND THE NBA CAMERAS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amIN the locker room about an hour before game time, the Knick's newest star, Allan Houston, is choosing a basketball to practice with. "It's like bowling, you've got to pick...
BIG ACTS BAILING OUT IN CONCERT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMUSIC fans are reeling this week from a series of cancellations by big-name performers scheduled to play in the Big Apple. Vonda Shepard, the pianist behind the music of the...
NEVER-ENDING 'STORY'
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amBAGGY, incoherent, grossly underedited, "An American Love Story" may be the most boring and unenlightening documentary ever made in this country. Plowing through the nine hours of what the publicity...
IT'S A TOYS 'R'-RATED AUSTIN DOLL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amOh, behave! Toys 'R' Us asked their stores across the country yesterday to pull PG-rated Austin Powers dolls from their shelves after an outraged mom complained it says. "Do I...
MARTINA BREAKS DOWN
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amAS a Wimbledon upset, it ranks as the greatest in years. Yesterday, Martina Hingis, reigning world tennis champion, and first seed of Wimbledon walked off center court after a 54-minute,...
MORE THAN A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amCello 53 E. 77th St. (212) 517-1200 'WHICH came first, the zabaglione or the egg?" my friend Deborah muses over our intermezzo of Campari-grapefruit crush miraculously implanted inside a hollowed-out...
A MATTER OF TASTE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWHEN Connie Joyce, 28, asked for a catering menu for her wedding, she had one bizarre but firm demand: alongside the wedding cake and the party food, there had to...
GRILL FANS COME CALLING AT LA GRIGLIA
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amLa Griglia 5 E. 20th St. (212) 995-2482 WHAT better time than summer for a place called La Griglia - yes, it is "the grill'' in Italian - to start...
MTA PAYING $39K FOR Y2K DIGS AT GRAND HYATT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMetro-North will spend $39,000 to put up employees at the posh Grand Hyatt Hotel at Grand Central Terminal during New Year's 2000 festivities, officials said yesterday. The suburban railroad is...
MYSTERY OVER BOOTED ED. BIG'S DC 37 WINDFALL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amA powerful Board of Education official booted in 1996 landed on the payroll of an allegedly corrupt municipal union - but no one can say what he did to earn...
SERB PRISON-CAMP SURVIVOR TELLS OF LIVING HELL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00am"They told me I was a hostage. They said when NATO bombing killed Serbs, we would be killed." AJET GASHI LIPLJAN, Kosovo. AJET GASHI is feeling a little stronger now...
BLAME THE COPS? WHAT A LOAD OF BULL!
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amIt seems there is open season on the best body of men and women you will see in police departments around the world. IN A moment of manic, macho madness,...
MICK & JERRY'S KISS SETS TONGUES WAGGING
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMick Jagger and Jerry Hall stunned onlookers by exchanging a steamy, open-mouthed kiss at a British movie premiere. The surprise smooch early yesterday instantly fueled speculation that the troubled couple...
SHARON MAY LEAD LIKUD INTO COALITION WITH LEFT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Five weeks after he crushed the ruling Likud Party in Israel's elections, Ehud Barak reached a breakthrough yesterday in secret talks to bring the Likud into his coalition...
IRATE INMATE CHARGES BENCH IN EMBASSY-BOMB TRIAL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amTerror mastermind Osama bin Laden's personal secretary erupted in a rage in Manhattan federal court yesterday - jumping a divider and charging at the startled judge. About an hour into...
CMDR. IN CHEAP BILL HAS WEAKENED MILITARY: GIULIANI
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday bashed President Clinton for cutting funding to the military, saying he is leaving the nation's armed forces "weaker than he found it." "I think that this president...
HIGH COURT PUTS A LIMIT ON 'DISABILITY'
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that an airline can't be forced to hire nearsighted pilots - saying a key anti-bias law doesn't cover people whose conditions can...
BROOKLYN RABBI IS INDICTED IN THREAT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amA prominent Brooklyn rabbi was indicted yesterday on charges he threatened to kill a rape victim if she testified against her accused attacker - her own father. Rabbi Bernard Freilich,...
INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE TOP LOBBYING LIST - $12.5M SPENT TO SWAY CITY
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amSixteen companies and industry groups - ranging from an insurance association to the brewers of Budweiser beer - accounted for nearly 20 percent of the $12.5 million spent on lobbying...
GAME 3 WIN JUST THE TICKET FOR SCALPERS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amKnick fans were frantically snapping up tickets for tonight's game against the Spurs at the Garden - as ticket brokers prayed for a Knick victory that could drive up prices...
CHUCK, JESSE GO TO BAT FOR IRANIAN JEWS HELD AS SPIES
June 23, 1999 | 4:00am"We will gladly pursue, with all within us, humanitarian appeals for their release." JESSE JACKSON WASHINGTON - Several members of Congress yesterday denounced the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on...
RUDY TORPEDOES NAVY YARD BASH - SINKS MAG LAUNCH IF HILLARY'S ON COVER
June 23, 1999 | 4:00am"The Navy Yard is city property and you can't use city property for political events." GIULIANI PRESS SECRETARY SUNNY MINDEL Mayor Giuliani is pulling the plug on the mammoth Brooklyn...
JOEY'S LAWYER HIT WITH $9M SEX-HARASS SUIT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amLong Island lawyer Dominic Barbara - whose celebrity caseload reads like a who's who of suburban salaciousness - was sued yesterday for allegedly flashing and fondling a former secretary. The...
PREZ WARNS REFUGEES OF LAND MINES IN KOSOVO
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday went to a tent city of Kosovo refugees across the border in Macedonia and begged them to wait to go home - so they don't...
11 SITES ON CLOSURE LIST ALREADY FACE STATE THREAT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amEleven of the 13 schools Chancellor Rudy Crew slated for shutdown this week were just days away from a state deadline to shape up. State Commissioner Richard Mills had already...
L.I. MOM FIGHTS OFF 'KIDNAPPER'
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amA courageous Long Island mother fought off a would-be kidnapper in a furious hand-to-hand struggle in a suburban supermarket parking lot that left her savagely beaten and choking on her...
G.W. GETS CHEERS, DONATIONS IN D.C.
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush yesterday got a superstar welcome from lawmakers and fatcats on his first trip to the nation's capital since declaring his candidacy. "It...
2 DEM BIGS WANT NUKES YANKED OUT OF ENERGY
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The drive to shake up and refashion the Energy Department, a favorite hunting ground for Chinese spies, picked up steam yesterday and now appears inevitable. Two influential Democrats,...
BUM RAP FOR 'SUMMER OF SAM'
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amSPIKE Lee's new movie, "Summer of Sam," is provoking cries of outrage from some family members of those unfortunate women and men who were murdered by David Berkowitz back in...
JUST CALL IT LONG ISLAND FAIL ROAD, SAYS REPORT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMore Long Island Rail Road trains are breaking down and stalling service. The number of late trains caused by equipment failure jumped 38 percent from January through May compared to...
BIG TEXAS P0SSE RIDES INT0 T0WN T0 SPUR 0N TEAM
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amSan Antonio Mayor Howard Peak rode to his shaken city's rescue yesterday, leading a high-level cheering section into the Big Apple and confidently boasting the Spurs will take the Knicks...
JERKO JACKO GOES DIGIT-AL WITH HIS FANS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amHere's Michael Jackson as you've never seen him before - angrily flipping the bird at his fans! Wacko Jacko's rude gesture came as he finished a recent shopping expedition in...
LAWYER WHO RATTED ON HILL: WOODWARD BETRAYED ME
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A White House scandal lawyer says she apologized to First Lady Hillary Clinton for blabbing about their secret chats to supersleuth reporter Bob Woodward, but claims the reporter...
CREW SET TO TAKE OVER 38 OF WORST SCHOOLS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe plan includes a 15 percent pay hike to "attract the best and the brightest" teachers. Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew is set to announce a plan to take over 38...
CITY PULLING PLUG ON A LOT OF HERO EDUCATORS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE graduating class of IS 193 in The Bronx is bewildered. Three years ago, the city appointed a tough, take-charge woman named Thandiwe Peebles as principal. You cut class, and...
BUSH BLASTS GORE'S 'CRUMB'-Y CRACK
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican 2000 front-runner George W. Bush last night said he's proud to be a "compassionate conservative" and jabbed back at Vice President Al Gore for ridiculing the idea....
AILING FATHER WORRIES LATE-ARRIVING O'NEILL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - When it comes to logging clubhouse time, Paul O'Neill ranks near the league leaders. Walk into the Yankees' room at any time in the afternoon and O'Neill...
J.D.'S BE-HOLDEN TO LETTER BUYER
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amIn the end, J.D. Salinger got the last word. Love letters sent 27 years ago by the famously reclusive author to his then-18-year-old girlfriend - which she auctioned at Sotheby's...
NMFS GESTURE TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amTHE National Marine Fisheries Service will open the school bluefin season on Friday, a gesture it no doubt considers magnanimous. This charitable offering will allow boaters who have the $18...
NHL GONNA GET UGLY WITHOUT CREASE RULE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amNICKEL and dimed to death by picayune interpretation, zero tolerance wasn't that any longer. So Brett Hull's goal stood as the Stanley Cup winner, as according to some subsection of...
POST ONE CAN BE 'RAIL' BAD NEWS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe old saying that the shortest way home is the fastest hasn't been true at Belmont Park recently, where the rail can be Death Valley and horses, especially front-runners, must...
HURTIN' CHILDS HOBBLING AHEAD
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amDon't even think it. No matter that the identical injury, if it had occurred in the regular season, would have kept Chris Childs off the court for at least a...
MEET THE NEW HOUSTON ON THE COURT, ALLAN NO LONGER A MELLOW FELLOW
June 23, 1999 | 4:00am"Allan is attacking the basket."LATRELL SPREWELL It was hardly love at first shot between Allan Houston and New York. His laid-back on-court persona might have played well in the suburbs...
MARIO TO MSG FANS: BRING IT ON!
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amHe lost the ball. He missed a jumper. He was called for two fouls in the first two minutes, plus a technical. And as he grumbled his way off the...
SPURS FEEL HEAT OF KNICK DEFENSE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThere's a difference of opinion here, which is the way of life in an NBA playoff series. Where one team sees a bunch of hacking maulers, the other sees tough...
SPURS LET GUARD DOWN BACKCOURT WOES GIVE KNICKS BIG CHANCE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThat wasn't just a pimple that broke out on the Spurs on Monday night, but a real scratch that could lead to an open wound if the Knicks can turn...
SPURS WON'T BLOW WHISTLE ON REFS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Spurs pretty much have taken the high road in the wake of Game 3 where they were slapped around with some questionable calls. Yesterday, the Spurs spoke about not...
METS DRAWING JOKERS & KINGS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amIN LESS than three weeks, the Mets have transformed from a team on the brink of a nervous breakdown to a team on the brink of a breakthrough. With their...
US-AGAINST-WORLD MENTALITY DRIVES US, LJ PROCLAIMS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThis is no longer just the NBA Finals, the search for an NBA Championship has become a crusade for the Knicks. Listen to Larry Johnson talk about the mindset of...
THROWN FOR A LOSS WINNING STREAK OVER, SPURS TRY TO REGROUP
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThe Spurs were a little confused yesterday. What was that strange feeling inside? It was vaguely familiar but they couldn't pin it down right away. Maybe they had entered another...
SPURS STILL LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FROM ELLIOTT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMuch was going according to plan. The Spurs dumped the ball inside. The Knicks came after Tim Duncan and David Robinson with numbers equivalent to the beach landing scene in...
CAMBY STARTING OVER WITH NEW PLAN
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amThough Marcus Camby's first start for the Knicks didn't go as well he had hoped in Game 3 of the Finals, Jeff Van Gundy said he will have Camby in...
SPURS GOING TO PLAN C
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amNBA FINALS NOTES The Spurs freely admitted yesterday that the Knicks are a better than they thought and it was shown in the Knicks 89-81 victory Monday at the Garden,...
'TOWERS' WILL STICK WITH PLAN
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amQuality, not quantity. That, in essence, was the message the Spurs delivered yesterday regarding the shots that tall persons Tim Duncan and David Robinson got off in Game 3. Some...
BOSS HAS NO WORD ON D-DAY
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ST. PETERSBURG - Joe Torre lunched with George Steinbrenner at the Yankees' team hotel yesterday afternoon and if the Boss knows what he is going to do with...
PHILLIPS DOESN'T SWEAT LOSING SUZUKI
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES It took exactly five days for Makato Suzuki's Met career to come to an end. Suzuki was acquired on June 18 along with a player to be named...
IZZY WON'T SEE BRAVES
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amHis confidence is shaken and his surgically repaired arm sore, feeling - in his own words - like noodles. And considering blue-chip pitching prospect Jason Isringhausen's past injury history and...
THOMAS LOOKIN' LIKE OAK
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMaybe the Knicks should start calling Kurt Thomas Little Oak. Thomas was phenomenal off the bench Monday, digging out 10 rebounds, five on the offensive boards, and a series of...
BELMONT FIRE KILLS 2 HORSES
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amA small but highly intense fire of unknown origin broke out in a barn at Belmont Park about 6:30 p.m. yesterday, killing two thoroughbred race horses and badly burning another....
MET-AMORPHOSIS AMAZIN'S CAN NOW TAKE AIM AT BRAVES
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amI N less than three weeks, the Mets have transformed from a team on the brink of a nervous breakdown to a team on the brink of a break through....
METS SWAP ISRINGHAUSEN FOR DOTEL
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES With his confidence shaken and his surgically-repaired arm sore, feeling - in his own words - like noodles, Jason Isringhausen is being sent back down to the minor...
AN AMAZIN'LY PERFECT ENDING
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amPiazza HR ties Mets' hit-streak mark at 24 in comeback victory Mets 8 Marlins 2 It's hard to imagine Bobby Valentine drawing up a better picture of a Mets win....
JOHNSON, KNICKS CIRCLE WAGONS: GRUMPY LARRY STIRS THE POT
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amI T WAS hard to know just what Larry Johnson was thinking yesterday when he summed up the Knicks' ability to constantly overcome adversity by saying, "We've got a lot...
NHL, NASSAU MEET ON ISLES
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amNHL commissioner Gary Bettman met for four hours with Nassau County officials yesterday regarding a new arena for the Islanders. Isles co-owner Ed Milstein also attended, along with county executive...
DUQUE FINISHES WHAT HE STARTS
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amST. PETERSBURG - In roughly 24 hours, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez reduced a bobcat and the Devil Rays to road kill. Driving across Alligator Alley from his Miami home Monday,...
SHEA-REY KID STRIKES AGAIN: ORDONEZ' THREE RBIS HIGHLIGHT AMAZIN' RALLY; PIAZZA HR SAVES STREAK
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amLong after the Mets had finished with last night's 8-2 whipping of Florida, after the 30,713 fans had gone home and the lights had been turned off, twin signs behind...
LINEUP SWITCH OK WITH BERNIE
June 23, 1999 | 4:00amABSTRACT: ST. PETERSBURG - No matter where Bernie Williams hits in the Yankee order, the switch-hitting center fielder is constantly developing a feel for what mode is the best for...