August 6, 1999
FOOD PRICES COULD FEED INFLATION
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE drought isn't only costing you a lawn. In the next couple of weeks the weather will determine if you will start paying more for food. But that isn't the...
SEC: FRAUD WENT 'TO THE TOP' AT BEAR
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSaying that knowledge of the fraud at clearing house A.R. Baron went "all the way to the top," authorities yesterday slapped Bear Stearns with a $38.5 million penalty. But authorities,...
INDICES UP, BUT MOST STOCKS FALL
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amA rally in the major market averages masked carnage for most U.S. stocks in a heavy trading session yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 119.05 to 10,793.82, but only...
BAD NEWS BEARS DOWN ON PIER 1
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amPier 1 Imports has been one of the few home furnishings stores that has failed to cash in on the much-publicized "nesting" trend Shares of Pier 1 Imports plunged yesterday,...
WIT CAPITAL TO LAUNCH TRADING SITE ON AOL
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWit Capital, the brewery-turned-online-investment bank, yesterday announced it will launch an after-hours trading site in the fall with exclusive access for America Online's customer base. Any of AOL's 17 million...
WARNER SWINGS THE AX - SIRE RECORDS EXECS CHOPPED IN COST-CUTTING PURGE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWarner Brothers' struggling music division is cutting costs at its Sire Records label, letting some top executives go. Industry pros say the downsizing at Sire is a sign the label...
LAUDER BUYS STILA IN PUSH FOR YOUTH
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amEstee Lauder is buying the trendy cosmetics maker Stila for an undisclosed price, looking to puff up its presence in the higher-end market. Lauder also owns the Aveda, Bobbi Brown,...
BLEEDING CAHNERS MULLS MOVING HQ. HERE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCahners Publishing - owners of 127 magazines including Variety and Publishers Weekly - is mulling a move of its headquarters from the Boston area to Manhattan to save money. While...
NAKED AMBITION - ROCKER SET TO SHOW SHE'S GOT THE GOODS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amYOU may not know who Bif Naked is-yet. But at her stops on the Lilith Fair, among the many soft rockers and girl-with-a-guitar acts, this 27-year-old woman has been a...
OREGON TROUPE SHOWS PROMISE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amOREGON Ballet Theater's touring troupe, which calls itself "Moving Signatures," opened its second program at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday night. To say it's a second program is perhaps an...
LOVE DOES HURT - ... ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT HER AND HUBBY KURT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am"Kurt & Courtney" Tonight at 10 on Cinemax COURTNEY Love didn't want "Kurt & Courtney" made, much less seen. We can understand why. The popularity of records by her band...
A LUMINOUSLY RESTORED 'ILLUSION'
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amMOST serious filmgoers have seen "Grand Illusion," Jean Renoir's 1937 antiwar masterpiece, whose stirring humanism and heartshaking tragic sense stood undiminished by the grainy visuals and scratchy audio track. Now...
A BAD 'ACID' TRIP
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amA derivative, would-be rock 'n' roll romp that trips over its own skanky hipness, "The Acid House" is a three-part film adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his own...
'ADVENTURES' WILL LEAVE YOU 'COLE'
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amBY simply standing there looking horny and available, newcomer Adrian Grenier is easily the most interesting thing about the subpar and totally forgettable "The Adventures of Sebastian Cole." In the...
'FREE ENTERPRISE' IS MOSTLY ON THE BEAM
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am'FREE Enterprise" is a strange but likable mixture: an apparently autobiographical Hollywood-insider comedy about low-level almost-players, and a vision of what happens to nerdy sci-fi fans when they turn into...
GREAT LAWN TO DOUBLE AS SOLDIER FIELD
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCENTRAL Park's Great Lawn tonight will play host to a colorful sunset military parade as the U.S. Army presents its Twilight Tattoo. The free hourlong performance starting at 7 p.m....
AUSSIE FLICK HAS NO 'SOUL'
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE hapless, misfiring Australian comedy "A Little Bit of Soul" has grand ambitions but a distinctly collegiate feel. It's about a pair of scientists who spend the weekend at the...
SAD TRUTH ABOUT DIANE'S DAYS OFF - IT WAS YET ANOTHER KENNEDY TRAGEDY
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amNOW the mystery surrounding Diane Sawyer's failure to appear on "Good Morning America" in the first few days following the the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. can be explained....
KINKY FILMS WERE A LOT EASIER
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHE director of "Kurt & Courtney" says it's been some time since he's heard from any lawyers or representatives of Courtney Love complaining about his documentary, which implies that Love...
BIG BUCKS FOIL CBS RAID ON NEWSROOM
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCBS offered ABC News correspondent Jane Clayson a job as the newsreader on the network's new morning broadcast "The Early Show," according to network sources. A clause in Clayson's contract...
'CURSE' A BLESSING FOR SCI-FI
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Curse of the Blair Witch" - the faux documentary which purports to tell the story behind the frightening new film, "The Blair Witch Project"- has been a blessing for...
TURKEY HEROES - MISSING LAUGHS THE REAL 'MYSTERY'
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWHAT'S good about "Mys tery Men": the prospect of spending two comedy- filled hours in the company of an inspired comic cast, including Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, the great William...
IT'LL SCARE YOU 'SENSE'-LESS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am'THE Blair Witch Project" has its justly ballyhooed thrills, but who would have thought a ghost story starring Bruce Willis, of all people, would be even more shriek-worthy and unnerving?...
'CROWN' A JEWEL - RENE RUSSO SPARKLES IN THIS DAZZLING REMAKE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE'S a word to describe Rene Russo in "The Thomas Crown Affair," and that word is hummmina! She's an absolute knockout in this stylish, adult pleasure, a slick caper jazzed...
HOTSHOT ACTRESS IS PULLING STRINGS TO MAKE OLYMPIC TEAM
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amShe already won an Oscar - and now sexy Geena Davis is shooting for Olympic gold. The flame-haired star of "Thelma and Louise" is an expert with a bow and...
HOLBROOKE IS FINALLY OK'D AS U.N. ENVOY
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed diplomatic troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke as ambassador to the United Nations yesterday by a decisive 81-16 vote after a year-plus delay when his nomination got tangled...
SWEETHEART DOCTORS SAY CHOCOLATE IS GOOD FOR YOU
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amHeart-smart foods now include chocolate, Dutch researchers say - but chocoholic New Yorkers knew it all along. A study by Dutch doctors, reported in today's British journal The Lancet, found...
DOG THINKS AIRLINER'S A CHEW-CHEW
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amDog bites man is one thing - but dog bites plane? That's what happened recently when a claustrophobic canine freed himself from his kennel inside the cargo area of a...
THE FIRST SHIKSA WANTS TO BE A YENTA? OY!
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY. Bubeleh! Who knew? All this time, Hillary, you've been playing the Super Shiksa. Mousy suits. Sensible heels. Pearls, yet. And how you kept that thin little mouth buttoned while...
NUTS AND BOLTS OF $73B STATE BUDGET
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The state's new $73.3 billion budget contains huge new spending increases for education and Medicaid, as well as some significant tax cuts. But the 1999-2000 fiscal package that...
MEDALS TO CARTER AND FORD LEAVE BUSH OUT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton will award the nation's highest civilian honor to former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, the White House says - but not to onetime rival George...
BID TO LAND $34M PEPSI AD PLANE FIZZLES OUT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amA business student's dream of claiming a $34 million Harrier jet from Pepsi went down in flames yesterday when a federal judge ruled it was not reasonable for him to...
BREAKAWAY MONTENEGRO LATEST YUGO POWDER KEG
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSerbian ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj warned that the Yugoslavian army would intervene if Montenegro declares independence.Montenegro all but declared independence yesterday, setting the stage for a potentially explosive showdown with...
COMMUTER VANS UNDER BEEFED-UP SAFETY LAW
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amLast year, it was reckless cabbies. Now the Giuliani administration is putting the brakes on dangerous drivers of "dollar vans." The Taxi and Limousine Commission yesterday approved a new law...
HARLEM'S BEING BUILT UP AT LITTLE GUY'S EXPENSE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCALL it the invasion of the building snatchers. Theresa Palmieri knows them as the developers of a proposed East Harlem shopping plaza that plans to use the government's condemnation laws...
O'CONNOR DEFENDS STANCE IN SILO-SEX FUSS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCARDINAL John Cardinal O'Connor stuck to his guns yesterday in supporting an Air Force officer who says he might be tempted to sin if he is forced to serve with...
SENATE: FBI AND JUSTICE BOTCHED CHINA-NUKE CASE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The chief suspect in revealing top U.S. nuclear secrets to China, Wen Ho Lee, flunked a lie-detector test last February, a new congressional report says. But the 30-page...
DOWNEY GETS 3 YRS. OF HARD TIME ON DRUG RAP
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County judge threw the book at Robert Downey Jr. yesterday, sending Hollywood's bad boy up the river for three years on drug-related convictions. Judge...
A NEW YORK STATE OF CHAOS - ALBANY'S ANNUAL INSIDER FOLLIES AT THEIR WORST
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Not so long ago, New York state had a weak Legislature but a strong governor: The Rockefeller era and Hugh Carey's first six years come to mind. More...
ALBANY EXTENDS RENT PROTECTIONS FOR LOFT DWELLERS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - The Legislature voted to renew the New York City Loft Law late yesterday - but only for 21 months. Efforts by the Democrat-controlled Assembly to convince Gov. Pataki...
COURT TOSSES GUARD FROM DUFF'S HOUSE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am"We've been under such horrific intrusiveness for such a long period of time - almost two years. It's hard to believe I'm really a free bird." PATRICIA DUFFRON Big Brother...
TA SCANDAL BIG STAYS ON FAST TRACK - PROMOTED DESPITE SLAM BY SCAM PROBERS; EXCLUSIVE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe Transit Authority has promoted the head of a scandal-scarred unit - who investigators charge was asleep at the switch while employees skipped out of work early - as a...
RAIN-THIRSTY NEW YORKERS GET A DROP IN THE BUCKET
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amBone-dry conditions in the New York region this summer are raising fears of forest fires, threatening plant and animal life and signaling an early start of the misery season for...
BRADLEY: PREZ AND GORE HAVE DONE ZIP FOR POOR KIDS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Democratic 2000 hopeful Bill Bradley took his first tough shot at President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore yesterday, telling black activists that the administration has have failed...
GIULIANI'S CRITICS ON CHARTER LET 'EM HEAR IT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe public got its first crack at Mayor Giuliani's proposal to change the City Charter last night, in a wild and raucous public hearing at Queens Borough Hall. More than...
TEEN THUGS KILL QUEENS CABBY: COPS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTwo teens killed a young livery cabdriver for less than $100 during a stick-up yesterday in Queens, police said. Roder Minchala, 23, who had recently arrived from Ecuador, "was just...
FIRST LADY'S JEWISH BOMBSHELL - STEP-GRANDPA WAS A ROSENBERG, BUT SHE NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT UNTIL NOW
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - New York's likely Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate - has some Jewish roots, it was revealed yesterday. News of Clinton's Jewish relatives - her...
BOLTING CARRIAGE HORSE HURTS 2
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amA runaway horse and carriage jumped the sidewalk and struck two elderly pedestrians and a car on the West Side yesterday, police said. The bizarre incident occurred around 4:30 p.m....
HEART SCARE FOR HUBBY OF SHARON STONE
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSharon Stone's hubby Phil Bronstein - nicknamed "El Macho" by co-workers at the San Francisco Examiner because of his tough reputation - was rushed to the hospital yesterday with chest...
MEDIA GIVES DARRYL KID-GLOVE TREATMENT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amI want to be extended the same sympathy ... that Strawberry has received, time after time I'VE never been arrested, let alone been arrested a bunch of times. But if...
ISLES EYEING MORE DEALS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWith the signing of first-line right wing Mariusz Czerkawski, the Islanders have just two more negotiating headaches on their hands: top-six forwards Mark Lawrence and Mats Lindgren. Both are restricted...
FISHING IS HEATING UP
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amWE haven't really felt the bite of the dog days of summer, at least not yet, with inshore fishing remaining steady on most fronts and offshore fishing showing definite signs...
LEE'S LAST LAUGHS - TREVINO THINKS ABOUT RETIRING
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amYou will still get a good show watching Lee Trevino at this weekend's Lightpath Long Island Classic at the Meadow Brook Club. Trevino is still one of golf's funnymen, engaging...
BIG APPLE BEAUTS - VENTURA, JETER LOOM AS CHOICES FOR MVPS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amIT HASN'T happened in 43 years, but if the baseball season were to end tomorrow, it might just happen this year. In fact, it used to happen all the time,...
SOME AMAZIN'S GETTIN' IN MOOD FOR OCTOBER
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amA miniature Al Leiter and miniature Mike Piazza sit atop the shoulders of the Met fan like the comic book devil and angel. One preaches optimism and excitement, the other...
KEITH HAS MILLIONS OF REASONS TO STAY
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amTwo years ago, after completing his fourth season at the University of Utah, California-born Keith Van Horn heard the Nets wanted him in for a workout. Immediately, questions filtered through...
YANKS WILL WELCOME NELSON WITH ACHIN' ARMS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - Two more Class A starts, one tonight and another tomorrow, and the Yankees will likely welcome right-handed setup man Jeff Nelson back into the fold if...
MARK'S ABOUT-FACE WON'T HURT ANDRO
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amIT WAS last spring that White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey started a campaign warning people that some of the body-building supplement androstenedione on the market was adultered and contained...
METS UP TO SPEED AT 55
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Tonight is the 55th game. Bobby Valentine boldly proclaimed on June 6, when the Mets were 27-28 and had lost eight in a row, that if they didn't...
JUMPER'S WIN STANDS UP
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Yesterday's feature here was the $50,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial over the jumps, not the Kentucky Derby. But when jockey Blythe Miller misjudged the finish line and stood...
JINTS HAVE PAIN IN THE BUTT - RB BROWN'S INJURY IS SLOW TO HEAL
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - A month before training camp, Gary Brown was thrown 35 feet off his motorcycle in a hit-and-run accident that left him with a con cussion and a battered...
WHO WILL BE LEFT OUT? - STRAW'S RETURN WILL CREATE LOGJAM IN LF
August 6, 1999 | 4:00am"I would say the most pressure is on Ledee. He is what he is, a young player who is developing and going in the right direction." GM BRIAN CASHMAN SEATTLE...
LOVE OR HATE STRAW, THE CHOICE IS YOURS
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCOLUMBUS - The earliest Darryl Strawberry will return to the Yankees is a week from today, Friday The 13th. How fitting. Strawberry is like Jason from that sequel-endless movie, rising...
JETS FEEL OTIS' PAIN - RCB MAY MISS FIRST 3 GAMES
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe competition has turned into a crisis. The battle that was brewing between incumbent Otis Smith and Ray Mickens at right cornerback yesterday became crystallized - for all the wrong...
FASSEL DOESN'T WANT TIKI FULL-TIME
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - For two consecutive seasons, Tiki Barber arrived at training camp and Jim Fassel had plans to make him the third-down back. For two straight years, Barber...
'STEPHEN' NOT FEELING SO DANDY
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Stephen Got Even, who competed in all three Triple Crown races, has been declared from the Jim Dandy on Sunday after breezing three furlongs in :39 seconds...
OLIWA, DEVILS VIE OVER DEAL
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amEven over salary, Krzysztof Oliwa keeps fighting. Bucking a league-wide trend that has seen 11 of 14 salary arbitration cases settled before the hearing, Oliwa and the Devils squared off...
SO FAR, SO GOOD FOR REHABBING DARRYL
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amCOLUMBUS - The early feedback on Darryl Strawberry was positive. About his hitting. Fielding. And citizenship. Strawberry played his second game for Columbus last night in his latest comeback and...
TUNA'S LOOKIN' TO GO FOURTH WITH ANOTHER RECEIVER
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES One of the positions that's as open as any on the Jet roster is the fourth receiver spot. And, through nearly a week of two-a-day practices the early...
REVIVING THE RAMS HAS HILL THRILLED
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amThe contrast is sharp from the last time Bob Hill coached in New York, when his Knick office was in the World's Most Famous Arena with jerseys representing Hall of...
SETON HALL LANDS BARRETT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amRice High's Andre Barrett, considered one of the best point guards in the country, announced yesterday that he has committed to play for Seton Hall. The 5-foot-8 Barrett, who is...
TORRE HAS HEART-TO-HEART WITH SLUMPING TINO
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Hitless in 15 at-bats, having just four hits in his last 35 at-bats and without a homer in 79 at-bats, Tino Martinez was called into Joe Torre's office...
STRAWBERRY'S RETURN WILL CREATE LOGJAM IN LEFT
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - From the moment George Steinbrenner agreed to take wayward son Darryl Strawberry back and give him a final chance to rebuild a career and a reputation,...
SLUMPIN' TINO TEES OFF - MARTINEZ' 2 HRS BAIL OUT ROGER
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSEATTLE - One day beyond his 37th birthday Roger Clemens found a way to beat the Mariners last night at Safeco Field while pitching again with poor location and an...
TOUGH HOUGH PAIR READY TO ROLL HOME
August 6, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Stanley Hough has two winners from 13 starters so far at this meet, which isn't bad. More important, he has two seconds and four thirds. That's...