September 17, 1999
DESIGNER'S NEW TWIST: PUT FASHION SHOW ON CD-ROM
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amWeary fashionistas have now sat through over 100 runway shows as Fashion Week closes down today. But sportswear designer Donna Haag isn't worried about fashion fatigue. After five years of...
LOEHMANN'S RED INK GETS $31.9M DEEPER
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBankrupt Loehmann's lost a whopping $31.9 million in the second quarter, ballooning its $2.2 million second quarter loss from last year. Also, the retailer said sales at stores open at...
RUBIN SAYS HE'S READY TO HIT THE STREET
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amAfter 9 weeks on vacation, Robert Rubin is ready to head back to work - and he's got his sights set on Wall Street. Since 1993 when he left Goldman...
VENTURA, HOLYFIELD ARE MIXING IT UP IN THE MUSIC BIZ
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amForget this weekend's welterweight fight in Vegas - the real championship battle is going down on the dance floor. Former wrestling wonder-turned-Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura and current boxing heavyweight...
AX FALLS AGAIN AT CAHNERS - BUT ON THE AX MAN
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe head of Cahners Business Information, one of the biggest trade magazine publishers in the country, resigned suddenly yesterday. Bruce Barnet, president and CEO of the company - which publishes...
LEVITT BLASTS DAY TRADING, GETS A SALVO RIGHT BACK
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amSEC chairman Arthur Levitt squared off against the day-trading industry yesterday accusing firms of misleading advertising and failure to follow key regulations. Appearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,...
CAPT. KIRK BUYS 5% OF WYNN'S MIRAGE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBillionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian's unexpected buy-in to Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts gave the lagging stock a boost yesterday when the market took it as a vote of confidence. The cagey...
SONY TO PROVIDE 3 MILLION SET-TOP BOXES FOR CABLEVISION
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe game's on for Cablelevision customers. The New York metropolitan area's top cable operator is paying Sony $1 billion for 3 million cable-TV boxes that can handle movies on demand,...
EVEN CALVIN'S CALLING HIS NEW JEANS 'DIRTY'
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Brooke Shields professed, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins," she obviously wasn't wearing the latest look from the designer: dirty jeans. Calvin Klein announced this week that the...
FEDS MULL M'SOFT BREAKUP
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe Justice Department is considering asking a federal judge to split Microsoft into two companies if the government wins its antitrust suit, it was reported today. The Financial Times said...
WHY CAN'T THESE WOMEN GROW UP! NOW 'AMY'S' BACK WITH MOM
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am"Judging Amy" Sunday 8 p.m. (preview) and 10 p.m.Tuesday (regular timeslot) on WCBS/Ch.2 TEN-year marriage goes bust. Hot-career woman goes home, where she is reminded frequently of many of the...
'GET BRUCE!' GOES BEHIND THE LINES
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBRUCE Vilanch is the roly-poly hairball who occupies the Paul Lynde Chair in Gay Wisenheimer Studies on the new syndicated version of "The Hollywood Squares." But as the awards-show gag...
UNCHARTED COUNTRY - HANK WILLIAMS IIISET TO MAKE HIS MARK
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amLIKE his grandfather and his dad before him, Hank Williams III is going to try to turn country music inside out for his generation of fans. "I just like real...
BILL'S AFFAIR DID ME IN: THREE YEARS LATER, RICHARD BEY CLAIMS...
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFORMER talk show host Richard Bey is breaking his three-year silence over the cancellation of his controversial talk show - and pointing a finger at President Clinton. Bey says he...
NEXT YEAR'SBIG WINNERSSHOWCASEDAT INDIE FEST
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amHOLLYWOOD is in a desperate search to find the next "Blair Witch Project" - that $100,000 flick that captures America's attention and makes $150 million. And organizers of the Independent...
'BLUE' TRUE TOFUN FORMULA
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am'BLUE Streak" is a lowbrow action-comedy vehicle for Martin Lawrence aimed at the teenage market. As you might expect, it isn't particularly subtle or original. But it's a good-natured late-summer...
IT'S MILLER TIME AGAIN
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBROADWAY just can't get enough of Arthur Miller.Fast on the heels of the Tony Award-winning production of "Death of a Salesman" comes word of another Miller revival - his 1968...
TV TICKER
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amJohn, boy! ABC's John Stossel explores America - and what comprises its inventiveness and prosperity - in "Is America Number 1?," airing Sunday (9-10 p.m.) on Ch.7. Stossel visits Calcutta...
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN: HURRICANE STORMS TO RATINGS RECORD
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amE VERY cloud is supposed to have a silver lining - but the rain clouds that brought us Hurricane Floyd carried gold for all-news and weather cable networks this week....
NATURAL DRAMA MEETS RESISTANCE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am'LUCIE Aubrac," the Resistance code name of a still-living French heroine who risked her life to spring her husband from a Gestapo prison, is a restrained, oddly undramatic film by...
FINE 'ROMANCE'
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am'ROMANCE" is a bleak, indulgently highbrow but provocative exploration of the dark side of female sexuality by writer-director Catherine Breillat. It may also be the most explicit non-pornographic film ever...
THE SHOW GOES ON: PRESUMED FINALE FOR BILL BLASS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBILL Blass was saved by timing. At 11:30 a.m., half an hour after his rumored-to-be-final collection was scheduled to start, the Bryant Park tent was still only half full, thanks...
THE SHOW GOES ON
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFLOYD almost got the best of the fashion world yesterday when inclement weather forced the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to cancel five presentations scheduled for Thursday afternoon....
'SUGAR TOWN' A COMEDY WITH PERFECT PITCH
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amSUGAR TOWN Starring Rosanna Arquette, Ally Sheedy, Beverly D'Angelo, Jade Gordon, Michael Des Barres. Directed by Allison Anders. Written by Kurt Voss and Allison Anders. Running time: 93 minutes. Rating:...
TASTELESS ADAPTATION MAKES FOR FLAKY 'BREAKFAST'
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS Starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney. Written and directed by Alan Rudolph. Running time: 110 minutes. Rating: R. At the Lincoln Square, the Angelika, City Cinemas...
LITTLE LOVE FOR 'GAME': COSTNER'S LATEST IS WAY OFF BASE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFOR LOVE OF THE GAME 1/2 Starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston. Directed by Sam Raimi. Running time: 140 minutes. Rating: PG-13. At Sony Lincoln Square, Loews Kips Bay, UA Criterion,...
MODELS ARE IMPERVIOUS TO THE STORM
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amTHERE might have been a hurricane outside, but it was business as usual backstage at the Bill Blass fashion show yesterday. Amidst the frantic whir of hair dryers, and last-minute...
MEDIA MUM WHEN THE VICTIMS ARE CHRISTIANS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amTHE Fort Worth church murders were not a senseless act. They had an express purpose: to kill Christians. "It's all bull-- what you believe!" Larry Gene Ashbrook shouted as he...
200 GIS PACKING FOR TIMOR MERCY MISSION
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton said yesterday he would send about 200 U.S. soldiers to help keep the peace in East Timor, where order was slowly being restored after two weeks of bloody...
POP STAR: I'LL BARE SEX BUST IF PAPERS PLUG MY CHARITY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amGeorge Michael says he'll bare the lurid details of his arrest inside a men's bathroom if Britain's top newspapers help him promote his new campaign to fight world poverty, concentrating...
HIS GUNS WERE LEGAL, HIS VICTIMS RANDOM
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe crazed Texas church gunman apparently bought his weapons legally and chose his target randomly, investigators said yesterday as they tried to make sense of the nation's latest massacre. Larry...
WHY THE TAX CUTS DIDN'T SELL - CONGRESS HAS TURNED THE GOP'S WINNING ISSUE INTO A LOSER
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am'In Washington, tax cuts have become little more than payoffs.' THE $792-billion Republican tax cut died a quiet death in the month of August, when congressmen and senators went home...
ENCEPHALITIS TALLY REACHES 12
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amCity officials yesterday confirmed another case of St. Louis encephalitis, the 12th since the outbreak began last month. The latest victim was identified only as a 76-year-old resident of Hollis...
CLINTON'S LATEST FALN-FIASCO OUTRAGE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amIF CHUTZPAH were made of gold, Bill Clinton would not have had to beg Terry McAuliffe to back up a mortgage to buy a house for $1.7 million dollars. "We...
CRADLE-ROB TEACHER'S A 'NIGHTMARE': REPLACEMENT
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amSex-crazed former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau is "an American nightmare" who warped students' minds with her wild sex romps with a 14-year-old boy, the teacher who replaced her in the...
'CARPETBAG' ISSUE STILL HURTS HILL: POLLS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFirst Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton just can't shake the "carpetbagger" label, even after buying a house in New York and conducting a months-long "listening tour" across the state, two new...
SUICIDE NOTE TIES MEXICO PREZ TO SLAY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe suicide note left by Mexico's former top drug cop - who killed himself in his New Jersey home amid money-laundering charges - blamed Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo for killing...
TEST-SCORES DEBACLE ALSO HITS INDIANA SCHOOLS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amChancellor Rudy Crew has company in his call for an independent probe of the testing company that botched test scores for 300,000 city kids - the state of Indiana. The...
SOGGY BIG APPLE COPES WITH PASSEL OF HASSLES
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amHurricane Floyd - a mere tropical storm by the time it got here - backhanded the metropolitan area yesterday with ferocious rains, occasional gusts of wind, and gloomy, threatening skies....
WORKERS HIGH-TAIL IT HOME AT MIDDAY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amMost city businesses closed early yesterday, leaving Manhattan and the boroughs looking like ghost towns - but a few brave souls thumbed their nose at the hurricane warning and remained...
P.G. WODEHOUSE NAZI SHOCKER
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amNewly released British wartime files indicate the celebrated author P.G. Wodehouse was on a Nazi payroll and would have been tried for treason had he returned to England, it was...
WORLD'S A DARKER PLACE WITHOUT THEIR SMILES
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe four teenagers and three adults killed at the hands of a God-hating gunman were remembered yesterday as devout Christians who spread smiles and good spirit to everyone they met....
RUSSIAN TERROR TOLL IS NEARING 300 DEAD
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amRussia braced in fear of more terrorist bombings following explosions in two more apartment buildings yesterday that brought the death toll from recent attacks to nearly 300. Investigators were particularly...
PREZ'S CLEMENCY CALL NOW VEILED IN SECRECY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amPresident Clinton yesterday invoked executive privilege in the FALN controversy, shielding documents and gagging officials from revealing why he freed Puerto Rican terror bombers. Clinton's claim puts the lid on...
CITY SCHOOLS GET 'F' ON 11TH-HOUR SHUTDOWNS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amParents, students and many public school teachers were caught by surprise yesterday when the city made a sudden, early-morning decision to close the schools in anticipation of Hurricane Floyd. "In...
VATICAN: NOT SMOKING IS HEAVENLY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe Catholic Church is giving smokers the highest reason to kick the habit - a get-to-heaven-quicker offer. Jumping on the anti-smoking bandwagon, the church is set to hand out partial...
THINGS LOOKING FINER IN N. CAROLINA
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amSoggy North Carolinians trudged back home yesterday after furious Floyd killed at least 11 people along the Eastern Seaboard, wrecked homes, knocked out power and forced thousands into shelters. The...
CHURCH KILLER MADE DAD'S LIFE HELL - HORRIFIED NEIGHBORS HID DURING RAMPAGES
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe deranged killer who shot up a teen church group was a hotheaded loner who terrorized neighbors and his elderly father for years before embarking on a murderous rampage, acquaintances...
DROUGHT BREAKS - ALMOST
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe tropical storm that deluged portions of the state went a long way to helping New York get out from under the current drought, Mayor Giuliani said last night. Rains...
MASS TRANSIT? IT WAS MORE LIKE MESS TRANSIT
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amHurricane Floyd wreaked havoc on the region's transit system by grounding most flights, flooding roadways, swamping New Jersey bus service and stalling suburban trains. The tropical swirl caused an unprecedented...
CITY BEGINNING FLOYDIAN ANALYSIS - 'CANE A PAIN, BUT COULDA BEEN WORSE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFizzling Floyd is mostly a bad memory today, after whipping New York into a frenzy with torrential, wind-swept rains and forcing a slew of school and business closings, travel headaches...
SOGGY SUBURBS GET BAD CASE OF WIND
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amLong Island and New Jersey got the worst of Hurricane Floyd last night, as the eye of the storm slid along the coast, causing torrential rains, driving winds and tidal...
KIN OF COP-CHOKE VICTIM IS ARRESTED
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe brother of a Bronx man choked to death by a cop was arrested Wednesday night after he ran a stop sign and fled cops, police said. David Baez, 22,...
EXTREME MCQUEEN
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amWould he or wouldn't he? That was the question that fans of badboy Brit designer Alexander McQueen were asking themselves yesterday when it was announced that because of Floyd's wrath,...
DEVILS GOING WITHOUT PLAYER REPRESENTATIVE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThis Devils team that always seems to live with an undercurrent of unrest is in a difficult position. There is no union player rep. Randy McKay told The Post yesterday...
BELMONT, BIG M ARE DRYING OUT
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amRacing was canceled yesterday at Belmont Park as Hurricane Floyd bore down on Long Island. The decision was made about 6:30 a.m., said New York Racing Association president Terry Meyocks,...
LITTLE SEEKS MONTI REVENGE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amMONTICELLO - Monticello Raceway's fourth annual Media Challenge will go to post Sunday with New York Post handicapper Debbie Little looking to reclaim her title. Little won the first two...
BLUE WALL OF SILENCE - MEDIA QUIET WHEN REPLAY MISTAKENLY HELPS GIANTS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amINTERESTING, how the ends can make the means just disappear. The Giants beat the Bucs, Sunday, aided, to some great but indeterminable degree, by a butchered replay rule. The Giants,...
FROM WETTER TO BETTER
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amSO much for the drought. Hurricane Floyd took care of any water shortages we may have had, but it also left marinas, boat owners and anyone else along the Jersey...
THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBeginning tomorrow morning, and every Saturday thereafter, NYCOTB will offer wagering from Great Britain. Eight OTB branches will open early and offer wagering on English racing. The races will also...
PAVEL'S SIMPLY NOT READY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amPAVEL Brendl is only 18 and looks it. He has looked it from the moment he stepped onto the ice for the first day of Ranger training camp in Burlington...
ISSEL GAME PLAN SELF-SERVING - PAYS VAN EXEL BIG TO SAVE HIS OWN SKIN; ISSEL'S JUST SAVING HIS OWN CARCASS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amIF you know how much money Dan Issel has guaranteed Nick Van Exel over the next five years, you totally understand why the Nugget VP had no other choice but...
LESHON WILL GIVE BENNETT BACKING
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am"I've been playing this game a lot longer than [Bennett] and I got to a point now I feel I'm a better back than I was." LeSHON JOHNSON The first...
DRINKING CO$T$ GOLFER DALY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am"[Daly] was thinking about leaving and trying to conquer his demons by himself." CALLAWAY SPOKESMAN John Daly, golf's grip-it-and-rip-it long drive champ, cut a low profile yesterday in his hometown...
SEHORN'S RETURN STILL IN DOUBT SUNDAY
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Whenever Jason Sehorn comes back - and there's a slight chance it could be this Sunday - he will not do so as the starting right cornerback. Jim...
TYSON FREAK SHOW HITS TOWN - STEALS FOCUS FROM 'REAL FIGHT'
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - The big question in boxing used to be, "How will the sport ever survive without Mike Tyson?" Now you can change it to, "How can boxing survive...
RUNNING STAG GUNS FOR WOODWARD
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amFor most of the seven horses running in tomorrow's $500,000 Woodward at Belmont Park, the 11/8-mile Grade 1 stakes is a steppingstone to the Breeders' Cup Classic at Gulfstream Nov....
BAXTER, ANDERSON FIND PATIENCE PAYS; JET ROLE PLAYERS GET THEIR SHOT
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amAsk even the most ardent Jets fan who has most tenure on Gang Green's offense. Unless they have a media guide tucked away in their back pocket, chances are you'll...
NETS EYE CHUCKY BROWN
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amThey re-signed Scott Burrell, but all along the Nets have continued their search to fortify the small forward position, looking at trades, free agents, even a defector from Cuba. And...
GANG GREEN'S DEFENSIVE LINE IN FLUX
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES With defensive tackle Jason Ferguson sidelined with an ankle injury, NT Ernie Logan's calf and rookie Jason Wiltz' progress become even more important. Logan, re-signed when Ferguson went...
IRON MIKE BACK FOR THE BUCKS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00am"I'm not pretty, but I'm not as bad as many people. I have some decency and morals." MIKE TYSON LAS VEGAS - He's gone from the Land of Oz to...
METS: WE WON'T LET DOWN: VOW TO AVOID REPEAT OF '98 COLLAPSE
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amIn Modern Met History 101, they have a seminar on late collapses to inferior teams. The course focuses on the two losses to the Expos last season at Shea. They...
TAMES TRIBE TO REMAIN PLAYOFF PLANS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - Watching Hideki Irabu pace in the hallway leading to the Yankee clubhouse late yesterday afternoon you sensed a different mindset taking over. Intense eyes glared at brick walls...
IRABU, STRAW STAKE CLAIMS
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amCLEVELAND - With all that has been wrong with the Indians and Yankees - injuries for Cleveland and indifference for New York - the expectation is still that they will...
ACHING STANTON ASKS JOE FOR RELIEF
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES CLEVELAND - Until last night, the Yankees had no concrete reason why Mike Stanton had been struggling. But after giving up three runs in the ninth inning of...
MIRER FILLS THE BILL - JET BACKUP GOOD ENOUGH TO BEAT BUFFALO
September 17, 1999 | 4:00amBILL Parcells won a Super Bowl with a backup quarterback. The Jets were 2-3 last season when the backup, Vinny Testaverde, became the starter, and they finished 12-4. Of course...