May 12, 1999
STREET VALUE: $1.5B - SHARES UP MORE THAN 200% IN IPO
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTheStreet.com's stunning debut in the public markets gave the money-losing online news organization a value of $1.5 billion, and gave co-founder James Cramer a stake worth $203 million. The stock...
LYCOS DOESN'T LIKE DILLER, WHO ENDS BID
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBarry Diller conceded defeat yesterday, as his USA Networks officially backed out of its bid to take over the third-biggest Internet search engine, Lycos Inc. In the end, Diller was...
IPOS COMING TO TAP CA$H FOR CABLE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Armstrong's AT&T, with a strong assist from Bill Gates, has helped make the cable business hot, betting it's the best way to bring the Internet, phone service and video-on-demand...
ITSY BITSY'S BIG PLAN: A MAG FOR TELETUBBIES FANS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amDON'T tell the Rev. Jerry Falwell, but the "Teletubbies" TV show on PBS is already such a big hit in the book publishing world it may soon have a magazine...
MICROSOFT, SONY IN KEY DIGITAL MUSIC PACT; EXCLUSIVE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Bill Gates' Microsoft Corp. introduced its new digital download system, Windows Media Technology 4.0, in April, it was virtually ignored by the big five music labels. But the world's...
EISNER'S DEFENSE: IT WASN'T PERSONAL
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amMichael Eisner followed his principles, not his personal feelings, when he withheld a $250 million bonus from former Disney film boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, an attorney argued yesterday. Disney's lawyer Lou...
NOT A FINE FAREWELL
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"The Nanny"Tonight at 8 on WCBS/Ch.2 WE hate to say it, but "The Nanny" takes its final bow with an over-long one-hour farewell that reminds us only that it won't...
A MONTH AFTER EXIT FROM CNN... ARNETT JUMPS TO NEWS.COM
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amPETER Arnett has landed on the Internet. The veteran war reporter, who left CNN last month after 18 years, has been named the chief overseas correspondent for foreigntv.com, a soon-to-be...
BOOK 'EM, DAN: RATHER PUBLISHES 99 STORIES FOR END OF '99
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amDAN Rather is the latest network news anchor to produce a book for the end of the millennium. "Deadlines & Datelines: Essays Written at the Turn of The Century" is...
ODD BUT AFFECTING FILM LINGERS LONG 'AFTER'
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am'AFTER Life" is a strange but thought-provoking Japanese film that tackles big issues of love, memory and death with remarkable (non-denominational) lightness and a gently comic sense of humor -...
"TRIPPIN'' NOT DREAMY
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE best parts of "Trippin'" are in its terrific trailer, which, with its daydreaming high-school protagonist given to lurid flights of playa fancy, promises a delirious hip-hop spin on the...
MATT'S INDIAN BUMMER: RED TAPE GROUNDS 'TODAY'S' MAN IN KATMANDU
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWHERE in the world was Matt Lauer yesterday? Grounded in India for seven hours! The ''Today'' show's travelin' man hit a wall of red tape when he was banned from...
FLETCH FANATICS - A MODEST 1985 FILM BUILDS A CULT FOLLOWING
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amNEARLY 15 years after it played in movie theaters, the Chevy Chase comedy "Fletch" has become a cult phenomenon - especially on college campuses. There are fraternities and clubs at...
TEEN GIRLS SQUEAL FOR 'STREET' BEAT
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amHARMONIES soared and hormones roared as the Backstreet Boys played a special after-school concert yesterday at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The show, which was taped for Broadcast on the Disney...
HOLLYWOOD COMES TO N.Y. EATERIES
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amREMEMBER 'My Dinner With Andre''? The 1981 film classic by director Louis Malle is being re-released Friday. Its entire plot consists of two old friends waxing philosophical during a meal...
THE MOST HENPECKED MAN IN MANHATTAN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBILL Higgins is a former FBI agent and retired Navy captain. He carries his solid, 6-foot-2 frame with pride, and shakes your hand with a confidence that lets you know...
A MORE PERFECT UNION
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amUnion Pacific 111 East 22nd St., (212) 995-8500 'GOOD evening. Would you like to see the menu, or would your prefer more time?'' And with those simple words, our captain...
HAVANA A GOOD TIME
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBayamo Nuevo 704 Broadway at West Fourth Street (212) 475-5151 HASTA la vista, Bayamo. la, Bayamo Nuevo. After a decade of dishing out Chino-Latino food, the jumbo-sized Village eatery has...
ZAGAT GOES ONLINE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amHeaven knows the business of restaurant reservations could use a serious makeover. Tim and Nina Zagat say they are working on it. Yesterday the owners of the best-selling Zagat Survey...
TODAY'S DEMO PROVES LABOR IS ALIVE AND WELL
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTODAY is Labor Day. There has been a revolution within New York's labor movement over the last five months. That's why today's City Hall demo is going to be big....
DOCTOR RETIRES AFTER DECADE OF BIRD 'BAND' AID
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe Birdman of New York Hospital has flown the coop. Dr. John Aronian, a transplant surgeon who spent the last decade nurturing one of the city's 12 pairs of endangered...
WE CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO HOLD BACK KIDS WHO FLUNK
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amNO MORE delays. And no more excuses. Nimble Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has dodged a simple question: Why don't city schools stop moving kids who are functionally illiterate to the...
HE'D BE FREE TO FIND 'REAL' KILLERS; DEAL WOULD FREE O.J. TO HUNT FOR THE 'REAL' KILLERS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amCHAOTIC rumors from the O.J. Simpson camp that he has uncontested custody of his children could be very good news for law and order. Now undistracted, he can press his...
BELFAST BOMBS NO PHANTOM MENACE TO 'WARS' STAR LIAM
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I remember seeing it ['Star Wars'] in the cinema while I could hear bombs going off in the distance." LIAM NEESON Liam Neeson will never forget the first time he...
JOYOUS SENDOFF FOR BRAND-NEW 'AMERIKAN'
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"We felt this name was appropriate. We owe so much to America." NAIM KARALIJU Seven weeks after his parents were burned out of their Kosovo home, newborn baby Amerikan Karaliju...
U.N. IN DESPERATE APPEAL FOR DOUGH TO FEED REFUGEES
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe agency has appealed for $143 million to cover its costs . . . but received only $71 million.The Kosovo refugee crisis took an ominous turn yesterday as the major...
O.J. CUSTODY DEAL STILL IN TALK STAGE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"There is no deal, but there have been discussions . . . There's a lot to be gained with a resolution." BROWN FAMILY LAWYER NATASHA ROIT LOS ANGELES - No...
LIDDY DOLE'S STUPID GUN TRICK
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am'A gesture like Dole's says nothingabout intellectual independence, andeverything about her slavish desire toappear ''mainstream'' in the perceptionof the self-appointed mainstream.' MAKE no mistake: Elizabeth Dole is Growing. Just a...
CREW: IT'LL TAKE BIG $$ TO PUT END TO SOCIAL PROMOTIONS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew warned yesterday it may be impossible to end social promotion on a vast scale without a big influx of money from several sources. "For any one...
'SCAM' HITS HOME FOR MOB BROKER
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amIt beats sleeping with the fishes. A not-so-wise-guy stockbroker may lose his Westchester home for allegedly ripping off millions from a jailed Mafia capo and his notorious family. State Supreme...
'IT'S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH,' ONE MD SAYS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amCountry superstar Kenny Rogers had liposuction twice by 1990, and says he's completely satisfied - but others have horror stories. "I've never had any problems with it at all," Rogers...
JURY DRIVER'S 'LIES' DON'T TAINT 'CHIN' CASE: JUDGE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amA disgusted federal judge yesterday blasted the "lies and puffery" of a driver for jurors who convicted Vincent "Chin" Gigante. But even as he said driver Alfred Santora could not...
AMY $HOPS AROUND - SPENDS DAY TAKING OFFERS FOR HER STORY
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"I think they want about $100,000 [for an interview]. And I don't think they're going to get it." MEDIA-INDUSTRY SOURCE Amy Fisher spent her first full day of freedom meeting...
ISRAEL COURT KEEPS PLO OFFICES OPEN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinians celebrated with firecrackers yesterday as Israel's high court ordered the government to delay closing PLO offices in Jerusalem until after next week's national elections. The decision averted...
FUNNY-$$ MAN: CHINA TRIED TO BUY ME OFF
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A key figure in the funny-money probe broke his silence yesterday - telling a congressional committee China tried to buy him off to keep him from talking to...
AT LEAST FIVE HAVE DIED IN LIPOSUCTION HORROR: DOCS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amOne of America's most common and popular cosmetic procedures - and supposedly one of its safest - can be fatal, researchers say. Three New York City doctors identified five people...
APOLOGIES FAIL TO STOP VIOLENCE IN BEIJING; TELEVISED APOLOGIES FAIL TO APPEASE THE CHINESE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Chinese saw for the first time yesterday on state-run TV that President Clinton and other NATO leaders have apologized for the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy...
HS SENIORS WON'T MAKE GRADE: STUDY - CAN'T MEET TOUGH NEW CUNY ENTRY STANDARDS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amClose to half the city's high-school graduates will not get into CUNY's four-year colleges next year because they won't be able to pass reading, writing and math entrance tests, a...
GREEN GROUP OFFERS $3M TO RESCUE GARDENS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amA nonprofit conservation group yesterday offered to pay the city $3 million for 63 community gardens slated for the auction block tomorrow. The Trust for Public Land's offer came as...
OBSCURE PERK JUST THE TICKET FOR SEN. BYRD
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Besides a free gym, free airport parking and free junkets to foreign countries, members of Congress can add voided traffic tickets to their list of perks. Sen. Robert...
FANS GO PLUM LOCO FOR RICKY
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe hunky heartthrob who sings the country's No. 1 song, "Livin' La Vida Loca [The Crazy Life]" turned Broadway into "La Avenida Loca" yesterday as thousands of fans lined up...
'IT'S HORRIFYING,' BUT NYERS WON'T STAY AWAY
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"Central Park is not a safe place after dark, but there is not much you can do about it." RENATA ZEMANOVA Outdoors lovers reacted with shock and horror to the...
DRUG-TEST KID'S KIN FILE SUIT FOR $60M
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe parents of a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy filed a $60 million suit yesterday, charging that the city released confidential records that led to his being recruited for a controversial psychiatric...
MURDER AWAITED HIM IN CENTRAL PARK - STROLLER SLAIN NEAR DOZENS OF PEOPLE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amIn "the past week . . . he discovered the park to be a nice place to walk." DEPUTY INSPECTOR JOSEPH REZNICK A 33-year-old West Side man was murdered while...
'STUPID' MANSION MADAM COPS GUILTY PLEA IN N.J.
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amNew Jersey's "Mansion Madam" tearfully accepted a plea bargain yesterday, telling a judge that running a $225-an-hour brothel was "unbelievably stupid." Judith Kelly Dempsey, 46, was sentenced in Morristown to...
4-YEAR-OLD 'SUPERMAN' FAN SURVIVES THREE-STORY PLUNGE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amA 4-year-old Brooklyn boy who likes playing Superman pushed an air conditioner from a third-story window last night - and tumbled to the ground after it. A doctor who happened...
TENSIONS EASE AT EMBASSY IN BEIJING
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Protests around the U.S. Embassy in Beijing eased today as Chinese citizens were finally told that President Clinton and NATO leaders had apologized for bombing the Chinese embassy...
DANGER LURKS WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBy day, Central Park is 843 acres of bucolic splendor in the midst of the city. But by night, the park has frequently become the setting for unspeakable horror. The...
ZITO LOOKS TO BOUNCE BACK
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - Several trainers suffered crushing defeats in this year's Kentucky Derby. Bob Baffert, who failed to win his third in a row; Elliott Walden, a close second for the...
BLUESHIRTS IN MIX FOR ISLES' LAWRENCE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThe chances of the Islanders losing one of their best forwards, Mark Lawrence, to unrestricted free agency now seem almost certain. The Post has learned GM Mike Milbury sent a...
BIG GUNS MAKING SOME LATE NOISE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - While Stephen Got Even, Adonis and Valhol breezed at Pimlico, the real fireworks for Saturday's Preakness Stakes were fired off yesterday at Churchill Downs, where Charismatic, Cat Thief,...
WILLIAMS, SEHORN HAPPY TO HUDDLE UP
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Predictably, Brian Williams' reaction was more emotional, Jason Sehorn's was more analytical. Both players hit the field yesterday for the first day of Giants minicamp after missing significant...
COMEBACK KIDS & QBS GRAB GIANT SPOTLIGHT
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amAs the sun splashed down on the lush green grass, there were comeback stories filling nearly every inch of the Giants' practice field. Right smack in the middle was Brian...
SIZE-INCREASE PLAN FLOUNDERS OUT
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE National Marine Fisheries Service disapproved a proposal by the Fisheries Management Council to increase the minimum size for winter flounder from 12 to 13 inches. The size increase was...
BURN, BABY, BURN KNICKS GOTTA BRING FIRE TO GARDEN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amThey must come with hearts - and offense - afire. There is no other way for the Knicks to approach tonight's pivotal Game 3 at the Garden against the hated...
HOMERS KILLING LEITER SIX LONG BALLS SPOIL OTHERWISE SOLID OUTINGS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - It may be propaganda. It may be wishful thinking. Nevertheless, there is an element of truth to what the Mets are saying about Al Leiter. He's not really...
YANKS PLAY ROTATION ROULETTE: IRABU IN, MENDOZA OUT IN HILL SHAKEUP
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"If Irabu can do the job, I think we are a better ball club with Mendoza in the bullpen even though he has pitched outstanding."DON ZIMMER The message from Don...
A MINOR ADJUSTMENT - SPENCER GETS WAKE-UP CALL IN TRIPLE A
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE nine games nearly felt like all the previous nine years to Shane Spencer. Bus rides from city to city again. Second- rate hotels again. Toledo. For heaven's sake, not...
RILEY: WE BLEW EDGE IN GAME 1
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"We have a long way to go. They did what they had to do. They came in and got a split."DAN MAJERLE After an embarrassing playoff series opening defeat, the...
ZIMMER: NO REAL DATE YET ON JOE'S RETURN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTESHaving guessed wrong once about Joe Torre's return to the Yankees, Don Zimmer is finished making predictions about when he will hand the lineup card to Torre and go...
TRENDS THAT REALLY PAY OFF
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amAfter a seemingly endless stay in Ozone Park, racing moves today to beautiful Belmont Park for the spring-summer stand that runs through July 25. Highlights of the meet include the...
HOT-AND-COLD HOUSTON NEEDS TO POUR IT ON
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"Just because somebody's aggressive, I have to be just as aggressive."ALLAN HOUSTON Sometimes you understand why the Knicks made Allan Houston rich enough to live in a big house in...
PATRICK'S EGO IS THE REAL ACHILLES' HEEL
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amIT'S a new series for the same old reasons. After an eye-opening Game 1, the Knicks strapped on their blindfolds once again. Allan Houston looked for nobody else, stumbled into...
SHOULDER MAY SEND MAJERLE TO SIDELINE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amOne point you must remember and consider with Pat Riley is that injuries are guarded as closely as all the family's dirty laundry. No sense bringing out that scandal with...
BONILLA PLACED ON DL
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amMET NOTES DENVER - Bobby Bonilla's woes continue. The struggling and injured Met outfielder was placed on the 15-day disabled list yesterday with a severe contusion of the left knee....
CAMBY MUST BE ONE-DERFUL AGAIN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00am"[Camby] didn't have any defensive rebounds [Monday]. That's a problem."JEFF VAN GUNDY Toward the end of the season and right through Game 1 against the Heat, Marcus Camby showed he...
HOBBLING VAUGHN HAS NO REGRETS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amOn the surface, one might think Mo Vaughn would be miserable right around now. He's playing 3,000 miles away from home, playing for a last-place team and not playing all...
PORTER CARRIES HIMSELF LIKE OLD PRO
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWhen Minnesota brought in Stephon Marbury three years ago, it wanted a veteran pro to show him the way, to teach him what the NBA is about. So the Wolves...
EWING REMAINS A PRESENCE
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES Chew on these numbers: Over the last two years against the Heat the Knicks are 1-3 with Patrick Ewing in the lineup and 7-4 without him. What does...
NICKLAUS RETURNING TO MAJORS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amHe looked as good as ever. One never would have known Jack Nicklaus was some four months removed from major hip replacement surgery - even though he heeled his tee...
SHANE BACK WITH A BANG ; GOES DEEP IN FIRST GAME OFF TRIPLE-A STINT
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amTHE nine games nearly felt like all the previous nine years combined to Shane Spencer. Bus rides from city to city again. Second-rate hotels again. Toledo. For heaven's sake, not...
VAUGHN PUTS ANOTHER HURTIN' ON BOMBERS
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amWatch Mo Vaughn gingerly move around the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium with ice on his ankle, or notice how he winces in pain when he swings a bat, hopping...
HIDEKI IN, RAMIRO OUT IN HILL SHAKEUP
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES The message from Don Zimmer to Hideki Irabu could not have been any clearer. "Keep [Ramiro] Mendoza in the bullpen,'" Zimmer said he told Irabu, who was informed...
ANGELS BATTER SHAKY PETTITTE - ANDY GETS 'ND,' YANKS GET 'L'
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amAngels 9 Yankees 7 Add Andy Pettitte to the lengthening list of question marks surrounding the suddenly suspect Yankee rotation. Coming off a solid outing against the Twins last week,...
LIFE'S BEACH FOR METS' JONES:ROCKIES SMACK BOBBY J. AS PITCHING FAILS AGAIN
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amRockies 8 Mets 5 DENVER - The way things are going for the Mets lately, both starting pitchers could have been named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, and the other team's...
DOWN GO JETER AND YANKEES - ZIMMER CLAIMS PERCIVAL MEANT TO DRILL DEREK
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amIt makes no difference to the Yankees what Troy Percival's intent was. It only matters that the Angels' reliever is armed with a nuclear fastball and therefore should avoid throwing...
ROCKIES OUTJONES METS: BOBBY M. WINS DUEL VS. BOBBY J.
May 12, 1999 | 4:00amDENVER - The way things are going for the Mets lately, both starting pitchers could have been named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt - his name is my name, too -...