August 10, 1999
TRANSAMERICA HIT BY KEY DEFECTIONS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amTreick's departure may trigger huge redemptions by Transamerica investors who worry any new manager can't match his high returns. IT'S strike two for Transamerica, the mutual fund company behind some...
LAUNDRY'S JUST THE TICKET FOR LIZ CLAIBORNE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Now they are using their balance sheet to expand without cannibalizing (their) core customers." LESLIE MCCALL, Brown Brothers Harriman. Paul Charron is continuing his drive to add youth and glamour...
DAY TRADING IS A SCAM: REPORT
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe majority of day traders lose their shirts in an industry that is rife with deceptive marketing and questionable loan practices, an association of state securities regulators said yesterday. In...
BASEBALL'S RECORD SEASON MAY NOT PAY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amToo many baseball records are falling in too short a period of time to keep the national interest. When Mark McGwire belts his 50th homer later this season he will...
DISNEY PITCHING ANGELS - MOUSE STRUCK OUT WITH BASEBALL TEAM
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWalt Disney Co. was not commenting yesterday on a report that it is weighing the sale of its hapless Anaheim Angels baseball club. The team, operated by the entertainment giant's...
ICM CO-CHIEF LANDS AT RIVAL WILLIAM MORRIS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWiatt's arrival also hastened the expected departure of Arnold Rifkin, the long-time New York head of the agency who stepped aside, but has kept the title of president. Hollywood is...
SCHUMER WANTS FIRMS TO DISCLOSE DAY-TRADING RISKS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSen. Charles Schumer called for legislation yesterday that would require day-trading firms to more clearly explain the risks involved, and ban loan schemes that allow traders to go deep into...
IT'S A LOSING BATTLE, TRADERS AGREE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amDay traders yesterday said they resented the way the NASAA report characterized their industry but agreed that most traders lose money. "The report is ludicrous and unfair," said one New...
HACKER GETS TIME SERVED + 1 YEAR
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - A federal judge yesterday ordered convicted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick to pay $4,125 and sentenced him to 46 months in prison, clearing the way for his potential...
DANCE-POP DISC'S A ONE-NIGHT STAND
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am*SOCIAL DANCING Bis Grand Royal/Capitol Records Although the songs of "Social Dancing" are deceptively stupid, Scotland's Bis has an ear for catchy, candy dance-pop that is influenced as much by...
YOUR OWN TOUR DE FRANCE - INTO THE VALLEY: CYCLING THE LOIRE IS A SMORGASBORD FOR THE SENSES
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSO I went bicycling in France. Why would I want to do that when I could go bicycling in Brooklyn or New Jersey at far less expense? Three reasons. One,...
NYC COPS LOOKIN' FOR 'BLUE'S' CLUES - FINEST CUFF THEIR FAVORITE STARS IN STREET SHOOTOUT
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE was a bloody splatter on the floor of Shinbone Alley, but that wasn't why the cops were gathering. They were there to renew a very benevolent association with "NYPD...
GOING 'WIT' THE FLOW - TV STARS JUDITH LIGHT AND GRANT SHOW TAKE OVER OFF-BROADWAY GRITTIEST ROLES
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am'WIT," off-Broadway's most talked-about hit, reopens at the Union Square Theater today with unlikely new leads. Two veterans of TV, Judith Light and Grant Show, are stepping in. Light hopes...
QUEEN MUM'S THE WORD - PRINCE PLANS MOVIE ABOUT HIS GRANDMA
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amGET ready for the (Queen) Mother of all TV movies. England's Prince Edward will produce an NBC TV movie about his grandmother, who turned 99 last Wednesday and is known...
JUDGMENT DAY - PUSH TO GET TV CAMERAS BACK IN NEW YORK COURTROOMS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am'IT'S time for your close-up, your honor" could become the new catchphrase in New York courts next year. State Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Queens) has drafted a bill to get cameras...
TV TICKER
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amShea hey! The Mets set some new viewership records last weekend on Ch.11 (for Mets games, that is). Friday's Mets-Dodgers matchup notched a 7.4 (504,000 households) and was Ch.11's highest-rated,...
WITH PALTROW, PLENTY TO LIKE IN 'AS YOU LIKE IT'
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amYou win an Oscar; you have to do summer Shakespeare. It's a new and charming tradition that started last year when Helen Hunt followed up her Oscar job in "As...
A BIG CHANGE FOR CYBILL - THE ACTRESS HAS A LOT FLASH FOR WOMEN: MENOPAUSE ISN'T THE END
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amTHREE years ago, it was shiveringly cold on the set of her sitcom, but Cybill Shepherd felt like she'd been plunged into a sauna. Her normally pale face was completely...
GWYNETH MANIA - OSCAR WINNER TAKES CENTER STAGE AT FESTIVAL IN BUCOLIC WILLIAMSTOWN
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amGWYNETH Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, David Schwimmer. What is this? The bar at Balthazar? A Miramax opening? A Naked Angels benefit? No, it's just sleepy Williamstown, Mass., a leafy, picturesque village...
TRAVELER'S UPDATE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amAct now! Check out these low rates before they disappear into thin air: *Spirit Airlines' Low Fares Beyond Compare promotion gets you to Florida for $138 round-trip from Aug. 16...
CALIF. COPS PROBE BUS-STOP TRAGEDY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSan Diego police want to figure out what turned a bus stop bench into an electric chair - killing a man as he waited for a bus. The unidentified 20-year-old...
HILL'S LISTENING TOUR DE FARCE HITS BED-STUY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amHILLARY CLINTON was being upstaged - and she didn't like it one bit. We're in the stuffy, windowless basement of a Bed-Stuy church, and Hillary has assumed standard listening mode:...
'GRANDPA MUNSTER' DYING TO RUN AGAIN
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe Senate race took a new twist yesterday as Al Lewis - TV's "Grandpa Munster" - sunk his teeth into Mayor Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton and hinted he may...
COUNCILMAN'S 'PAY' PHONE WASTES BIG $$; EXCLUSIVE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amTalk is cheap in politics, but not if you're City Councilman Al Stabile - who's running up four-figure bills on his cell phone every month. Stabile's phone bills resemble other...
OVEREXPOSED? NOT RICKY! - BARE-LY ANY TRUTH TO EARLY REPORTS OF NUDE PHOTOS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amNo nudes is bad news for millions of Ricky Martin fans who had hoped to see the Latin heartthrob stark naked in a new photo spread. Instead, the hunky pop...
OP HELPS THOUSANDS LOSE WEIGHT
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amA gastric bypass is an operation in which the stomach is reduced to a very small pouch. "Think of it as taking a 20-gallon tank and making it into a...
ANYTHING TO DECLARE? 'NOPE,' SAYS DON'T-RUSH-ME RUDY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amMayor Giuliani said yesterday he's in no hurry to announce his candidacy for the U.S. Senate - as likely rival Hillary Rodham Clinton brought her "listening tour" to Brooklyn. "Nope....
NUDE JOCKS STEAMED OVER RAW FOOTAGE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amMale athletes here are sweating bullets that videotapes showing them nude in locker rooms will soon join the growing number of unauthorized videos of college athletes. "It's absolutely outrageous," said...
REDUCED POLLEN LEVELS NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWhile a "whopping ragweed season" is predicted for much of the country, allergy sufferers in the Big Apple are expected to be a spared because of the drought. Dr. Robert...
(H)OOPS! 'EX-NET' AN IMPOSTOR
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amHe tricked cops and prosecutors. He even fooled his girlfriend and his lawyer. Police are seeking a New Jersey man who is pretending to be former Net basketball star Robert...
VENTURA COY ON PREZ BID
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Wrestler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura seemed to hint yesterday he's open to a draft for a 2000 presidential bid on the Reform Party ticket. "If the party drafted me and...
CARJACKERS SHOOT DEFIANT BIZMAN
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amTwo carjackers were captured yesterday after they repeatedly shot and wounded a Queens businessman as he defiantly kept refusing to turn over his money, police said. The drama began at...
CLINTON AIDE SUGGESTS TAX-CUT DEAL POSSIBLE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - One of President Clinton's top economic aides hinted yesterday that Clinton wants to cut a deal on a tax cut with Republicans - as long as it's a...
GREEN LIGHT FOR APPLE'S FIRST 4 CHARTER SCHOOLS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am"People . . . subject to educational depravation have said, 'We want these schools and we want them now.'" MARSHALL MITCHELL The state Board of Regents yesterday gave the go-ahead...
DROUGHT'S A SPORE POINT FOR ALLERGY SUFFERERS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amNew York's drought brings both good and bad news for allergy sufferers. The good news is that while a "whopping ragweed season" is predicted for much of the country, the...
CARNIE WILSON'S OBESITY SURGERY IN LIVE ON-LINE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSinger and former gab-show hostess Carnie Wilson, who has battled obesity all her life, is doing something drastic about it today - live on the 'Net. In a procedure most...
LUNCH-HOUR TERROR ON WALL ST. - BULLETS FLY AS COPS KILL WOULD-BE ROBBER
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amCops shot and killed a would-be bank robber after a wild shootout in the streets of the Financial District that sent horrified stockbrokers, office workers and tourists scurrying for cover...
$29M TAX BILL HAS ELTON SINGING THE BLUES
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amElton John reportedly is nearly $80 million in the hole - including $29 million he owes in unpaid taxes. And the rock star blames John Reid, his longtime manager and...
VICTOR MATURE, MOVIE IDOL, DEAD AT 86
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amVictor Mature, nicknamed "a beautiful hunk of a man" for his appearances in movie Westerns and historical epics - including John Ford's classic "My Darling Clementine" - is dead at...
N.Y. PRESBYTERIAN AVERTS NURSE STRIKE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amNurses and administrators at New York Presbyterian Hospital reached a settlement yesterday - avoiding a strike that could have paralyzed the 2,268-bed facility - with just 43 minutes to spare....
TUNA: WE'RE NO FAVORITES - CALLS AFC EAST WIDE-OPEN
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSlow down, everyone. The Jets still have a treacherous mountain to climb before returning to the high place they reached last January - 30 minutes from the Super Bowl. That...
BAILEY STARTS NEW ROLL ON MARQUETTE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It took jockey Jerry Bailey just 1:49.1 to climb back aboard the black-type express. Over the course of eight days last week, Bailey went on a stakes...
TEARY LUKAS: NOW I CAN SAY I BELONG
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - As the standing ovation died down in the packed pavilion, the trademark sunglasses came off to reveal misty eyes. "Wow!" breathed D. Wayne Lukas, dropping his steely...
STONE ENJOYING CAMP
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amThe newest Jet, Dwight Stone, has been a warrior of 12 prior NFL training camps. But none have been as easy as Bill Parcells'. Easy? "I'm afraid to say, but...
STRAHAN A $32 MILLION MAN
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - He was laboring through a mediocre season, worried about his next contract and not exactly showing the world or the Giants that he was worth the big bucks....
TOP PICK THOMAS TO UNDERGO A REAL TEST
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES Guard Randy Thomas, the Jets' top pick in the 1999 draft (second round), has done nothing but impress Bill Parcells during training camp. But Saturday in Green Bay...
BAILEY, LUKAS TOP STANDINGS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Two weeks into the meet, jockey Jerry Bailey has been a dominant force. Bailey has won 18 races in 55 mounts to lead the jockey standings. Pat...
A'S HAVE SWAGGER FOR YANKS
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - The headline in the San Francisco Examiner sports section seemingly started in San Francisco and stretched all the way to the Oakland Coliseum. Having watched the A's take...
BOSS: JOE WILL HANDLE JETER FEUD
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - If there is any fallout over the Chad Curtis-Derek Jeter feud, George Steinbrenner will let Joe Torre handle it. "I just heard about it minutes ago," The Boss...
BELGIUM SOCCER STARTS SWEETLY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amLONDON - Chocolates from Belgium are an exotic luxury item and can be a crucial part of strategy when it comes to watching weekend sports on TV. Hand over a...
HAMILTON TO MISS MOSS MATCHUP
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - The timing of Conrad Hamilton's injury led to some kidding by his teammates, who wonder why it is that the Giants' (for now) starting cornerback has...
JOHNSON'S COMEBACK HITS A SNAG
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - There is no more heartwarming comeback story at Giants training camp than the return of LeShon Johnson, the popular running back who missed all of last season while...
REED LANDS ON DL - STRAINED FINGER SHELVES RIGHTY
August 10, 1999 | 4:00am"Rick has won games and has been winning. He's a battler and he keeps you in games. But we'll overcome it. Nobody's panicked about it." GM STEVE PHILLIPS The Mets,...
HEY, BOBBY, STARTING YOSHII NOT THE ANSWER
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amONE game. That's all the Mets needed to win to qualify for a round-robin playoff to determine the 1998 National League wild-card winner. One game. It could come down to...
METS SET DATE FOR BOBBY BO TO START REHAB
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets have finally arrived at a date for Bobby Bonilla to begin his minor-league rehabilitation assignment, but it won't be until Aug. 26. GM Steve Phillips announced...
SHAW ST. JOHN'S-BOUND
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amWillie Shaw, a 6-foot-6 star swingman for Kennedy High in The Bronx, has verbally committed to play for St. John's. Named to The Post's all-PSAL second team as a junior...
GRIMSLEY SUSPENDED THREE GAMES
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES OAKLAND - Yankee reliever Jason Grimsley was suspended three games and fined $500 by the AL, while Mariner pitcher Frankie Rodriguez was banned seven games and fined a...
REPORT: KNICKS OFFERED LAYDEN GM JOB
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amSo much for Knicks interim GM Ed Tapscott being the prohibitive frontrunner to be Ernie Grunfeld's successor. Sources said Garden president Dave Checketts met Saturday in Salt Lake City with...
BONILLA FINALLY GETS REHAB DATE
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES The Mets have finally arrived at a date for Bobby Bonilla to begin his minor-league rehabilitation assignment, but it won't be until Aug. 26. GM Steve Phillips announced...
FICKLE FINGER POINTS REED TO DISABLED LIST
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amRick Reed, the Mets' most successful pitcher over the past 2 seasons, will miss three to four starts with a strained right middle finger, the team learned yesterday. Reed injured...
IT'S TIME TO PANIC - FOR METS, NOTHING BUT DANGER AHEAD
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amON AN oh-so-pleasant, breezy, dry night that was everything this long, hot, muggy summer has not been, the Mets last night gave their loyal followers more reason than ever to...
2ND-CLASS CITIZENS - BROWN, LA KNOCK METS OFF NL PERCH
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amIt is not even half as long as that other one. But it exists; and it is growing. It is the Mets' current losing streak, which reached three games after...
TAYLOR IN MOURNING FOR FRIEND
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES Bobby Valentine wanted to get Billy Taylor into last night's game, if only to distract the righty reliever. Taylor is grieving the loss of a very close friend,...
4 YANK HOMERS OVERPOWER A'S
August 10, 1999 | 4:00amOAKLAND - On a night that Hideki Irabu was brutal and Allen Watson awful, the Yankees were forced to slug it out with the red-hot A's. And since the Bombers...