July 28, 2000
FLEET'S GROWING QUICK-LY - Q&R ADDING 300 NYC BROKERS BY 2001
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amQuick & Reilly is hiring like crazy, aiming to add 500 jobs by the end of the year to take on discount brokerage rivals like Charles Schwab and E*Trade Group,...
LEHMAN AXES BEAR STEARNS IN EXPANSION
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amLehman Brothers' move to take its clearing business back from Bear Stearns may signal the firm's intention to expand its own equity trading business in the coming months. By its...
D.H. BLAIR BIGS INDICTED FOR FRAUD SCHEME
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amFifteen officers from the now-defunct D.H. Blair & Co. - including its three top men - were indicted in Manhattan yesterday for running the problem-plagued securities firm as a corrupt...
TECHS DROP LIKE FLIES AS INVESTORS FLEE TO DOW
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTech stocks plunged, but blue-chips gained yesterday as investors sought safety in steadily-profitable companies. The Nasdaq composite index fell 145.49, or 3.65 percent, to 3,842.23, as technology issues were plagued...
BARNEYS HURT BY CEO'S EXIT - QUESTROM OFF TO RESCUE OF DULL PENNEY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBarneys took a serious blow yesterday when its chief, Allen Questrom, announced he's leaving to head struggling J.C. Penney after just 15 months on the job. Barneys has recovered some...
VICTORIA FOUNDER JUMPS FOR JAZZ
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amThere's a Victoria secret at Hearst Corp. Nancy Lindemeyer, the founding editor of Victoria, is leaving after a 15-year run to open a jazz club on the West Side of...
AOL-TW RIPS CRITICS, DEFENDS $138B MERGER
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - There were fireworks between execs at Disney and the planned AOL-Time Warner yesterday, as Disney took its case against the merger to members of the Federal Communications Commission....
THE KID-NAPSTERS - RIAA'S ROSEN TARGETS OTHER BOOTLEGGERS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amFirst she smote the many-headed Napster foe. Now Hilary Rosen, Warrior Princess, says she's going after the other bootleggers. The CEO of the music industry's trade group, the Recording Industry...
VC FIRM IS SINGING GOODBYE TO ITS $15M
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amEasy come, easy go. Venture capital firm Hummer Winblad's $15 million investment looks like it's going up in smoke tonight when they turn off the lights at Napster's San Mateo...
STARS' CHEMISTRY STIRS 'BRIDGE' INTO SUMMER SIZZLER
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHIS is one hot summer movie! French director Patrice Leconte ("Ridicule") turns up the erotic heat in the most gorgeously photographed black-and-white film since Wim Wenders' sublime "Wings of Desire."...
YUMMY 'DINNER'
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amIT'S the finest comedy of 1939, returned to Broadway with all the energy, venom and mischief of that peppy, prewar time. Moss Hart and George Kaufman's "The Man Who Came...
NO CAUSE TO GET CARRIED AWAY BY PONDEROUS 'WIND'
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amABBAS Kiarostami, the Iranian writer-director of "The Wind Will Carry Us," is the undisputed critical darling of the international film festival circuit. This film received the usual praise as a...
DUMP 'KLUMPS' - NOT EVEN 8 EDDIES CAN SAVE THIS TRASH
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHERE are long gaps between the halfway decent jokes in this surprisingly poor sequel to Eddie Murphy's 1996 comeback triumph, "The Nutty Professor" (a remake of the 1963 Jerry Lewis...
SCULLY WON'T BEEX-'FILES'; SEXY GILLIAN SIGNS ON FOR 2 MORE YEARS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00am'X-Files" star Gillian Anderson has signed up for two more years of ghost-busting on the creepy Fox series. Just one week after being paired with new partner Robert Patrick ("Terminator...
JUST A NICE GUY WITH AN ATTITUDE - WIDESPREAD PANIC HITS SUMMERSTAGE
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amSINCE they first started making music together in the early '80s, the musicians of Widespread Panic - the other band from Athens, Ga. - have built a giant following without...
AFRICAN VIGOR SUBDUES GREEKS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAFRICA was pitted against Greece in the New York premiere of "Pour Antigone" given by the Compagnie Mathilde Monnier Wednesday night as the Lincoln Center Festival's final dance offering. Africa...
THE STARR REPORT
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amQueen's happy meal They don't get many celebrities up in Minnesota, which is why Queen Latifah's visit to Minneapolis this week had the locals buzzing. Latifah visited the Mall of...
INTERPRETERS TRANSLATE ROCK FOR THE GOP
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHE Interpreters U.S.S.A., an unsigned band originally from Philadelphia, has been tapped by Gov. George W. Bush to add a little rock 'n' roll flavor to his conventional ways. The...
WONDERS OF LONDON
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMICHAEL Winterbottom's marvelous multilayered "Wonderland" is one of those rare films in which everything comes together. Its superb performances, music, photography, dialogue, its rhythms of tone and theme all complement...
'SURVIVOR' BARELY 'SURVIVES' B'KLYN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amWANNABE "Survivor" Nathaniel Eaton almost didn't survive his videotaped audition for the hit reality-TV show. The 27-year-old fan from Brooklyn dodged rocks and bottles as he Rollerbladed naked through Bedford-Stuyvesant...
FROM 'HOOCHIE MAMA' TO CHANEL . . . STYLIST PUTS POP DIVAS IN DROP-DEAD DUDS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAT SoHo's D&G boutique, the pop star named Pink bursts out of the dressing room in a blaze of color: purple patent stiletto boots, a gold tube top and a...
THE TRIBES OF POLITICS - WHY BOTHER BEING A REPUBLICAN?
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amHERE we are, on the eve of the Republican convention in Philadelphia, a four-day commercial for the candidacy of George W. Bush that sounds as though it may prove so...
NEW WENDY'S REVELATIONS CHILL VICTIMS' KIN IN COURT
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amOne of the Wendy's massacre suspects told cops he didn't wear a mask during the robbery that left five dead and two wounded because "nobody was going to be left,"...
CHEAP SHOTS AT KATHIE LEE - WHY NO FLACK FOR MICHAEL JORDAN'S FAR FATTER SWEATSHOP PROFITS?
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amIn the sad, sustaining history of modern media double-standards, no one has been victimized quite as relentlessly as Kathie Lee Gifford. Ms. Gifford wraps things up today as Regis Philbin's...
THINK OF THE KIDS, DONNA - PLEASE DON'T DO IT!
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMAYBE it's because I had such trouble adjusting to the 20th century that I'm so far behind with the new millennium. In other words, I'm probably the only person in...
LUCIANO'S LIRA GOING TO TAXES
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amLegendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti faced the music yesterday and agreed to pay Italy's tax man a staggering $12 million - an amount likely to keep the treasury singing for a...
'VAMPIRE SLAYER' GETS NAILED IN THE ACT: COPS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amA Rockland County man - who told cops he was acting under "instructions from a higher authority" when he tried to drive a cross into a neighbor's heart - pleaded...
MOM AND DAUGHTER STABBED IN B'KLYN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amPolice last night were looking for a man they said stabbed his 24-year-old girlfriend and her 5-year-old daughter in their Brooklyn apartment. The girl may have been trying to break...
NAPSTER FANS STILL SET 'SITES' ON MUSIC
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amRock on! Napster devotees yesterday slammed a judge's ruling that will shut down the wildly popular online song-swapping service tonight at midnight - but said it won't stop them from...
SURVEY SAYS IT'S REIGNING CATS & DOGS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMost women think Fido and Fluffy are more sensitive than hubby and the kids, a new survey shows. The survey found that, in general, pets are good for what ails...
FEDS TO SHUT WANDERING GRANNY'S BRONX NURSING HOME
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - A federal agency is shutting down a Bronx nursing home that allowed a senile patient to wander off seven times, The Post has learned. The contract agreement between...
GOOD! WE DON'T HAVE TO SEE HER GET OLD
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBE WARNED, Kathie Lee. Old divas don't fade away. They preserve themselves indefinitely with the aid of a licensed practitioner of cosmetic surgery. On her second-to-last morning as America's most...
FORMER SEX-BIAS CLUB HO$TED LAZIO
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amRICK LAZIO attended a fund-raiser this week at a ritzy New Jersey country club that was part of a sexual-discrimination controversy in 1997. Lazio and New Jersey GOP Senate candidate...
THE GIGOLO-IS-UP.COM - SHE CRUISES THE 'NET FOR CYBERCHEATS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amHIS Internet handle is "The Gigolo." He's handsome, works in a local restaurant, plays pool and flirts with every woman he meets in cyberspace. And now he's about to be...
WEB SITE OFFERS ALIBIS TO BACK UP LIES
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amCYBER canoodling? Afraid of getting caught? Have no fear. Just go to a web site for an alibi. For a $35 membership and fees starting at $25, Ace-Alibi.com will back...
DELEGATES LOOK FORWARD TO ; A GRAND OLD PARTY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Republican lawmakers heading to Philadelphia this weekend can look forward to a week of free-booze parties, golf outings and a late-night Blues Traveler concert. While many House members...
BURIED-ALIVE PUP'S 'MIRACLE' - DOGGY'S 24-HOUR ORDEAL GETS OWNER 1 YEAR IN JAIL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAn affectionate 8-week-old mutt - named "Miracle" because he survived being choked and buried alive - has become a poster puppy for animal abuse. "This poor puppy is a survivor....
SHE TALKS, SHE WALKS - TEARS (AND JEERS) ON EVE OF TODAY'S FAREWELL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amA flood of tears and a chorus of jeers accompanied the end of Kathie Lee Gifford's 15-year reign as the queen of morning TV chatter. The preternaturally perky co-host of...
LEVY SLAMS DOOR ON SCHOOL-$$ TRIAL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy stormed out of the politically explosive city school-funding trial yesterday - and got a tongue-lashing from a court officer. A livid Levy - who was observing...
RULING FILLS FINEST WITH RELIEF - AND REGRETS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amDetective Anthony Vasquez and his fellow NYPD detectives breathed a sigh of relief that a grand jury declined to indict - but expressed sadness over the death of Patrick Dorismond....
EX-LOVER GUILTY IN COLUMBIA STUDENT SLAY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe son of a prominent South Korean family was convicted of murder yesterday for slashing the throat of his beautiful ex-girlfriend in her apartment near Columbia University. Edmund Ko, 25,...
FRUSTRATION FOR FRIENDS OF INNOCENT SLAY VICTIM
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amIn his East Flatbush neighborhood and in the Manhattan bar where he sometimes hung out, Patrick Dorismond's friends weren't surprised that the cop who shot him dead is off the...
SHELLS AND INJUSTICES KEEP PILING UP
July 28, 2000 | 4:00am'IF WE can't get it with 41 bullets, we're not going to get it with a single bullet." "It" means justice to Brooklyn community activist Charles Barron, who compared the...
CHELSEA TO PLAY HOOKY TO HELP MOM
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amChelsea Clinton will skip the start of school at Stanford University this fall to campaign for her mother and spend more time with her father during his final months in...
HILL HAMMERS RICK ON AIDS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amHillary Rodham Clinton yesterday pointed to Rick Lazio's support of a group that questions whether the HIV virus causes AIDS as evidence he is "out of the mainstream of New...
HUNT ON FOR NEW E. SIDE ATTACKER
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amPolice yesterday released this sketch of a man wanted in a string of sex attacks on the Upper East Side. He has accosted six women, four of them this week,...
CHENEY CHOICE GIVES BUSH A BIG BOOST: POLL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAUSTIN, Texas - Republican George W. Bush seems to have scored a bounce by picking Dick Cheney as his running mate, despite Democratic efforts to demonize Cheney as a right-wing...
JURORS CLEAR COP IN DORISMOND DEATH - OUTRAGED FAMILY DEMANDS THAT BILL PUT FEDS ON CASE
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amA Manhattan grand jury yesterday cleared an undercover cop of criminal charges in the controversial shooting death of Patrick Dorismond - prompting his furious family to call for a federal...
CITY RESTARTS ANTI-SKEETER SPRITZ BLITZ - DESPITE FOES
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amThe city began its spray assault on West Nile virus in Manhattan neighborhoods yesterday as two big-time environmental groups joined a chorus of critics of the pesticide assault. Mayor Giuliani...
WOMAN DIES IN GAS-FILLED OFFICE VAULT
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAn office worker was killed in a bizarre accident last night when she found herself locked in a huge vault and pulled a fire alarm - which released a deadly...
HIJACKER TAKES JFK PLANE - EVERYONE ON JET OK AFTER RUSH TO GET OUT
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amScores of frightened passengers stormed off a Kennedy Airport jet last night after an armed hijacker rushed the cockpit and put a gun to the pilot's head. On the hijacker's...
SPRINGER-SHOW SLAY SUSPECTS STILL ON THE LAM
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amFlorida police issued a first-degree murder warrant yesterday for a man who fled to Maine after beating his ex-wife to death after they appeared on "The Jerry Springer Show," authorities...
WANNABE 'SURVIVOR' BARELY SURVIVES BROOKLYN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amWannabe "Survivor" Nathaniel Eaton almost didn't survive his videotaped audition for the hit reality-TV show. The 27-year-old fan from Brooklyn dodged rocks and bottles as he Rollerbladed naked through Bedford-Stuyvesant...
FURIOUS LEVY SLAMS DOOR ON FUNDING TRIAL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Harold Levy stormed out of the politically explosive city school funding trial yesterday - and got a tongue-lashing from a court officer. A livid Levy - who was...
DEVILS DON'T DO LOYALTY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTHE rest of the Devils should take note. With a choice of destinations, Claude Lemieux came back last fall to New Jersey to do a springtime job. Mission accomplished. No...
WARD'S OFF TO FAST START
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amDedric Ward sees opportunity before him and he insists he's never been more ready to seize it. Ward has been in the NFL for three seasons as a role-playing, deep-threat...
ROOK SCOTT ON THE SPOT
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTony Scott's adrenaline is flowing big time right now, and he can thank Ray Mickens for that. Mickens, the Jets' starting nickel back, will not be available for tomorrow night's...
BIG EAST'S BIG FISH - ALL EYES ARE ON VIRGINIA TECH'S VICK
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amAfter Virginia Tech completed spring practice, Michael Vick hung out the 'Gone Fishin' sign. And that's exactly what he did. Vick, the most exciting young college quarterback in the last...
BOTTOMS UP FOR FLUKE
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amIT was certainly a wet week, but the effects of the rain should do little to dampen saltwater fishing in the waters off New York and New Jersey. Capt. George...
MORGAN'S HOPING TO ROAR LIKE TIGER
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amLast week, Gil Morgan won the Bell Atlantic Classic in Princeton. This weekend, he'll try to make it back-to-back wins at the Lightpath Long Island Classic. If he succeeds and...
METS ESCAPE GRANT'S TOMB
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amOn the brink of disaster in his major league debut yesterday, pitcher Grant Roberts received a first-inning visit at the mound from Bobby Valentine. Rarely does the Mets manager make...
PAT'S NEXT SURGERY SHOULD BE ON BRAIN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amPATRICK Ewing says he thinks he's got three years left in him and he sounded as delusional Wednesday in the Bahamas as last spring when he called himself the best...
STRAW'S ROAD TO RECOVERY: LET HIM PLAY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBEFORE we jump to conclusions on the latest chapter of the soap opera that is Darryl Strawberry, it is essential to remember one key fact. All we know for sure...
KURT CLOSE TO SIGNING
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBuoyed by progress in negotiations yesterday with the Knicks, free agent forward Kurt Thomas is postponing a potential trip to two cities, including L.A., to see if a deal can...
RONDELL: MAKE ME A YANKEE
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amHaving been prominently discussed in trade talks between the Expos and Yankees, outfielder Rondell White said yesterday that he would love to play for the Bronx Bombers. "You get traded,...
HURRICANES PICKED TO TAKE TITLE IN BIG EAST
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amDespite the fact that Virginia Tech has the Offensive Player of the Year in quarterback Michael Vick returning, Miami was voted the preseason favorite to win the Big East. The...
NOW, HERE'S THE DEAL: SORTING OUT THE FREE-AGENT FEEDING FRENZY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amONLY four days remain for free agents, their representatives and upper management throughout the NBA to torment each other. Come Tuesday, their serpentine, month-long, 29-team circus of manipulation and flirtation...
RESTED FLORISELLI ON THE UPSWING
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTRAINER Bobby Frankel, a transplanted Brooklynite who runs one of the most powerful stables on the West Coast, earned his way into the Hall of Fame by winning big-money stakes...
SURVIVING CAMP GIANTS' MAIN GOAL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amALBANY - The delicate balance is shattered too often by a fall, a groan, an examination, a meeting, a diagnosis and the imparting of news that is all-too commonplace. As...
BARROW FEELS FOR EX-MATES
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES ALBANY - While he played in Carolina for the Panthers, Mike Barrow was a teammate of Rae Carruth and Fred Lane, two players who became embroiled in nasty...
CITY ZIP ZAPS SANFORD FIELD AS THE FIRST LADY LOOKS ON
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - It was ladies' day at the Old Spa as City Zip, trained by Linda Rice, won yesterday's Grade 2, $100,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds by 3½ lengths...
CAT THIEF GEARS UP FOR WHITNEY
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS -Overbrook Farm's Cat Thief, who is winless in eight starts since winning last year's Breeders' Cup Classic at 19-1 at Gulfstream Park, worked seven furlongs over the Oklahoma...
IRABU TOAD THE LINE IN BIG APPLE RETURN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amIn his first start since undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee on May 28, Hideki Irabu continued his slide yesterday in the Mets' 4-3 victory in game two of...
A GOOD START, BUT ... MET, YANKEE TICKET-SCAM BUST DOESN'T TOTALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amWE should be grateful. And we are. But ... Monday, the offices of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced a large ticket...
STRAWBERRY SAYS SI STORY IS BULL
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - A furious Darryl Strawberry is contemplating suing a national sports magazine for failing to get its facts right in a story about him in this week's edition. "I...
MRI CLEAN ON EXPOS' WHITE
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - On the same day Jeromy Burnitz received strong vibes that the Yankees' interest in him was rising, an NL source told The Post that Rondell White underwent an...
METS HIT JACKPOT WITH DAILY DOUBLE: PHILLIPS NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT LF
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBRIAN CASHMAN, once-and-future speedbag for The Boss, rides a Sultan's Chair these days through the Canyon of Heroes. Having traded for Denny Neagle, David Justice, Jose Vizcaino and Glenallen Hill,...
ISLES SIGN 3 FORWARDS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amContinuing to remake their roster, the Islanders signed three veteran free agent forwards yesterday: centers Robert Petrovicky and Jesse Belanger, and left wing Jeff Toms. In 43 games with the...
MERCER TOPS NETS' LIST
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amYesterday, the Nets found out whom they will be playing and when they will be playing and where they will be playing. Today, they may get a gauge on exactly...
HOW LOW CONE YOU GO? LAST-PLACE TWINS LAND DAVID HIS 8TH STRAIGHT LOSS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTwins 9 Yankees 3 MINNEAPOLIS - His numbers reek. The last time he won, school was six weeks away from being closed. By far it's the worst season of a...
KNOBBY SITS AGAIN
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES MINNEAPOLIS - Chuck Knoblauch was in the Yankee lineup as they lost to the Twins 9-3 last night in Minnesota. It was the third straight game he has...
BENNY'S BAT TAKES PRESSURE OFF PHILLIPS
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amBRIAN CASHMAN, the once and future speedbag for The Boss, is a one-man motorcade these days through the Canyon of Heroes. The Yankees have traded for Denny Neagle, David Justice,...
WHO'S LEFT FOR YANKS? BURNITZ POSSIBLE, BUT SURHOFF, WHITE TOP BOMBERS' LIST
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amMINNEAPOLIS - Having broken off talks with the lowly Brewers about a contract extension, Jeromy Burnitz believes he will be traded before Monday's deadline. As the left-handed hitting outfielder listens...
HOW LOW CONE YOU GO?
July 28, 2000 | 4:00amTwins 9 Yankees 3 MINNEAPOLIS - Scott Brosius made a baserunning mistake. Jose Vizcaino was the latest victim of the Metrodome's white ceiling that seemingly swallows baseballs. And Twins rookie...