June 17, 2000
HOTEL'S RESERVATIONS SLOW CBS SUIT
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amCity officials were barred last week from entering a posh Midtown hotel when they tried to measure noise levels inside the building during a CBS "Early Show" concert. The Sherry-Netherland...
DOW GOES WITCH-WAY: DOWN 265 ON OPTIONS, FUTURES EXPIRATIONS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amStocks were bewitched, bothered and bewildered yesterday in a triple-witching session that sent the Dow plummeting and the Nasdaq up. Downside volatility was introduced into the trading day when stock...
NJ FRAUDSTER PASSED THE BUCK ... TO HIMSELF
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amEasy come, easy go. A New Jersey man has been charged with insider trading - with himself. Palisades Park, N.J. resident In Shig Ahn opened two online trading accounts, one...
NAPSTER GOES ON WARPATH
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amNapster is fighting fire with fire. The online music-swapping service has landed David Boies, the legal guru who led the goverment to victory in its case against Microsoft, to earn...
RICKY'S CONCERT CAPPER BRINGS DOWN LA CASA
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE last few minutes of the Ricky Martin spectacular at Nassau Coliseum Thursday said all you need to know about the Latin superstar. By the end of the two-hour show,...
PHILLIPS TAKES A&E BIO TO HEART
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amJERRY Lee Lewis, Ike Turner and "The Prisonaires" crooner Johnny Bragg were at the premiere of "Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll." They were in Memphis at...
THE SONS OF SAM: 'MR.' ROCK 'N' ROLL
June 17, 2000 | 4:00am"Biography: Sam Phillips:The Man Who InventedRock 'n' Roll" Sunday night at 8 on A&E THE most incredible people used to show up on Sam Phillips' doorstep. Southern boys with greased-back...
HAVE A BLAST WITH 'TITAN A.E.'
June 17, 2000 | 4:00am(MD+BO)PICK OF THE WEEK(MD-BO) (MD+BO)"TITAN A.E." (PG):(MD-BO) A post-apocalyptic cartoon? You betcha! Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's feature starts off with the Earth being blasted into pizza cheese. Then it...
REAL KIDS REVEAL - WHAT'S THE BEST GIFT YOU EVER GAVE YOUR DAD? THREE OF "THE MUSIC MAN" KIDS AND A FEW OF THEIR FANS FILLED US IN, PRE-FATHER'S DAY (VOX POX)
June 17, 2000 | 4:00am(MD+BO)Michael Phelan (Winthrop Paroo in "The Music Man"), 11, Long Island(MD-BO) A screwdriver kit. He works in construction. (MD+BO)Jordan Puryear (she plays Amaryllis), 10, Brooklyn(MD-BO) A poem that I wrote...
YOURS FOR THE PICKIN' - WHERE TO HAVE A BERRY, BERRY GOOD TIME
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amWhile our friends' families often traveled during the summer, my own family found it fun to toil in the fields under the grueling hot sun. The reward? Piles of plump...
ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amDo you wanna be a rock-and-roll star? We may have just the summer camp for you -- provided you don't expect to play catch, canoe or do any of those...
WHOSE 'AMERICAN SKIN'? : THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT A CONTROVERSIAL SONG
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amTHE immediate reactions to Bruce Springsteen's "American Skin (41 Shots)" have been painfully predictable. Pat Lynch of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association urged cops to boycott Springsteen's concerts and albums. On...
WILLS KEEPS HIS LADIES IN WAITING : ROYAL HUNK COOLS DOWN HOT BABES
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPrince William has revealed he has top-secret tactics for fending off the armies of wide-eyed young girls who are dying to bed him. But his James Bond-like methods are so...
RAT LOVERS PROTEST 'SURVIVOR' CREW'S (VER)MINUTE STEAKS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAnimal-rights activists chanted and waved signs of outrage yesterday to protest that the CBS-TV hit "Survivor" showed its castaway cast killing and eating a tropical-island rodent. Nearly a dozen protesters...
UPS MAN DELIVERS! : HELPS NAIL FRAUD SUSPECT
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAn alert UPS driver tipped off cops when he saw expensive merchandise being shipped in his name to someone else's address - leading to a Long Island man's arrest for...
REGIS 'SWEATS' IT OUT : UNION SAYS CLOTHES FIRM'S FACTORIES HAVE BAD HISTORY
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMove over, Kathie Lee - Regis is embroiled in his own sweatshop scandal. Labor activists say Regis Philbin's hot new clothing line is being made by a company with a...
MATERIAL GIRL BUYING A HOME NEAR HARRODS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMadonna is expanding her real-estate empire once again - plunking down $16 million to buy House No. 6 in London. The pregnant pop goddess' new home is a stunning four-story,...
DEMS CONCEDE ENGEL'S RIGHT ON THE BUTTON
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA RACE in the north Bronx has become so racially charged that the black challenger, Larry Seabrook, has yanked a campaign button urging voters to make him the borough's first...
PALESTINIANS BACK AT D.C. PEACE TABLE
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPalestinian negotiators returned to U.S.-hosted talks with Israel yesterday - but Yasser Arafat warned that "many obstacles" stand in the way of a Camp David-like summit to wrap up a...
CITY CANS SPRAY PLANS TILL BUG-VIRUS TESTS COME IN
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe city's plan to begin spraying Queens with mosquito pesticide remains on hold. Officials said yesterday that results from a second round of tests on a "sentinel" chicken suspected of...
EXPERTS URGE NYPD TO TAKE REPORT TO HEART
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe federal report hitting the NYPD for racial profiling isn't likely to prompt a whirlwind of overturned convictions and racial-discrimination suits - but the city can't ignore it, legal experts...
RONETTES ARE SINGING 'DOUGH PAY ME!'
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amRonnie Spector and the Ronettes were rockin' and rollin' in the dough yesterday - a Manhattan judge ordered producer Phil Spector to pay the '60s girl group more than $2.6...
TRAVELGATE HEADS TO COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Independent Counsel Robert Ray will clear Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing when he files his report on the White House Travel Office firings, sources said yesterday. Ray is...
HILL ATTACKS AND RICK REACTS : LAZIO: HER NEW ADS ARE 'DESPERATE'
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday turned up the heat on her GOP Senate foe, hitting the airwaves with two mega-attack ads that declare: "Rick Lazio: The more you know, the more...
RUDY: PANEL'S OPINION 'NOT REALITY' : SHARPTON: MAYOR IS 'IN DENIAL' ON REPORT
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani yesterday blasted a federal civil-rights panel that accuses the NYPD of racial profiling, insisting its report "bears no relation to reality." But the Rev. Al Sharpton contended the...
HEAD CASE: COPS SAY AIDE HURT 2ND-GRADER
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA Queens teacher's aide bashed a 7-year-old special-ed student's head against a desk twice yesterday, telling cops he had to discipline the boy because he was acting up, officials said....
THONG-QUIZ TEACHER'S BOTTOM LINE: OUTRAGEOUS!
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA Lower East Side teacher lashed out at her principal yesterday for demanding to know whether she wears thong underwear to school. "I would almost want to see her humiliated...
FOURTH VICTIM SUES OVER NIGHTMARE IN MASHERS' MAELSTROM
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA woman who stuck it to Central Park wilders with the staff of her Puerto Rican flag is joining a parade of lawsuits claiming cops failed to intercede in Sunday's...
BIAS-SUIT COPS JITTERY AFTER VICTORY
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMinority cops who won a $1.2 million verdict against the NYPD this week over race-based transfers say they fear retaliation from police brass and fellow officers in the scandal-scarred 70th...
SAVING RODENTS: A LOT OF GARBAGE
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amKeeping the lid on garbage will go a long way toward reducing the rat population, health officials said yesterday. The city will soon begin putting up signs urging people to...
MOB BROKER PUT HIT ON PC: FEDS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAn enraged mobster in a massive stock-fraud case got so angry about office equipment that he shot a computer, federal prosecutors said yesterday. In a bail hearing designed to keep...
MAN-ABOUT-TOWN BILL PUTS IN GOOD WORD FOR HILL HERE
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPresident Clinton got in plugs for his Senate-candidate wife Hillary from Harlem to Queens yesterday as he went to two public schools to pitch programs to relieve overcrowding and put...
APPEALS JUDGE CANS $5M VERDICT OVER STRIP-SEARCH
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA federal appeals court yesterday threw out a $5 million verdict against the city for a woman who was strip-searched in jail - saying taxpayers can't be punished for the...
PINT-SIZED COPYCATS BUSTED
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amThe Central Park wilding episode has sparked two frightening copycat incidents in The Bronx, cops said yesterday. And in both cases, girls 10 years old or younger were involved. One...
FOUND! HARD DRIVE WITH NUKE SECRETS TURNS UP
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amTwo computer hard drives holding nuclear secrets - which disappeared and triggered a major federal probe - have been discovered behind a copying machine at the Los Alamos weapons lab,...
AX HANGS OVER COPS WHO IGNORED WILDING
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAs many as five cops could be fired for turning a blind eye to the Central Park wilding attacks - in which up to 50 marauding thugs groped and assaulted...
UPS MAN DELIVERS SCAM SUSPECT TO COPS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAn alert UPS driver tipped off cops when he saw expensive merchandise being shipped in his name to someone else's address - leading to a Long Island man's arrest for...
RUSSIA FREES IMPRISONED MEDIA TYCOON
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA jailed Russian media mogul was unexpectedly freed last night after three days of protests alleging that the Kremlin was destroying freedom of the press. Vladimir Gusinsky was released after...
SUMMER BUMMER: KIDS NOT INTO WORK
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amFor years, city officials have complained that there aren't enough summer jobs for young people from low-income families. This year they have a new worry: not enough applicants. City Councilman...
BREEDERS' AT BELMONT NEXT YEAR
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amIt's official: Belmont Park will host the Breeders' Cup in 2001. The eight Grade 1 stakes totaling $13 million - known as the "Super Bowl of Racing" - will be...
OSCAR SAYS HE'S READY TO COME OUT FIGHTING
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Oscar De La Hoya says he "can't remember" any details about the 60-something rounds he sparred with Shane Mosley during their formative years, and yesterday I think...
WEIS' GUYS TO KNICKS: SIGN HIM OR FREE HIM
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amFrederic Weis is set to decline an invitation from Knicks GM Scott Layden to work out at Purchase College later this month. The agents for the 7-foot-2 center from France...
SHUG, BAILEY EYE SWEEP OF STAKES
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amTRAINER Shug McGaughey and jockey Jerry Bailey know what it's like to win multiple stakes on the same card at Belmont Park. Today, they both have a solid chance to...
PAT'S LEFT KNEE SEES THE SCOPE
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPatrick Ewing has had four arthroscopic surgeries on his right knee. Yesterday, his left knee was scoped. You knew about the bad right foot in the playoffs. You knew about...
FIELD OF 11 SET FOR SHOEMAKER
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amA field of 11 was entered to compete in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile at Hollywood Park tomorrow. It will go off as the eighth race and will...
NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR LA SALLE'S MONTANEZ
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amCHSAA B CHAMPIONSIPLa Salle7Regis6La Salle's Raymond Montanez isn't intimidated by much. "I like to do things that are said to be impossible," Montanez said. "I think I can do anything."...
KESTNER CAN'T CUT IT :LATE SLUMP PROVES COSTLY FOR LOCAL PRO
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Darrell Kestner has played 15 majors now and is still fighting to make his first cut. Kestner could almost taste it this week at the 100th U.S....
GOLDEN BEAR ENJOYS ONE LAST OPEN HURRAH
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - As Jack Nicklaus stood at the 18th tee box yesterday afternoon at Pebble Beach, he sensed history ... 44 years worth. If this wasn't Nicklaus' last U.S....
FALDO SURGES IN THE NICK OF TIME
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - A big name from the past crept onto the leaderboard and into weekend play at a major when Nick Faldo found his game yesterday, just in time...
DAVID DOES IT, BUT PEN FLOPS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amRarely has a no-decision been so rewarding. But watch David Cone's relieved body language, listen to his tension-free voice, and it is clear just how important last night's performance against...
A SHOT IN THE DARK PUTS TIGER UP BY 3 : 40-FOOTER MAKES WOODS 9-UNDER
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amPEBBLE BEACH - Second-round play had just been suspended at 8:15 PDT last night because of darkness, but Tiger Woods wanted to take one more shot, which was his prerogative....
HAMPTON'S NEXT START PUSHED BACK
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - As a precaution against Mike Hampton's history of groin pulls, manager Bobby Valentine decided again to switch his rotation. Valentine pushed back Hampton's next start to Tuesday against...
AL BENNY ROLL OVER BREWERS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amMILWAUKEE - The moment the 1-2 pitch left Jimmy Haynes' hand to Mets leadoff hitter Benny Agbayani last night, the rout was on. Agbayani sent the pitch 381 feet over...
FOR BALDWIN, CY'S THE LIMIT
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAfter watching James Baldwin smother the Yankees and win a 3-1 pitcher's duel against David Cone last night, there hardly seem to be any limits for the 28-year-old Baldwin or...
CONEY'S CONFIDENCE LACKING
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amAll the TV crews and reporters were at the Stadium yesterday thanks to struggling second baseman Chuck Knoblauch, and his fielding woes. For once, slumping starter David Cone and his...
CASHMAN WON'T SECOND GUESS
June 17, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES While The Post learned that the Yanks have expressed interest in Tiger second baseman Damion Easley, possibly as part of a deal with Juan Gonzalez, GM Brian Cashman...