Models Of Queens
Here She Is: Miss Julian

Julian Gordon
Home: Laurelton
Age: 23
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 100 lbs.
Stats: 32b-23-33
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This Laurelton lovely told us she started modeling in 1998 and since then she’s been making waves at some top area beauty pageants including the Miss Chaka Fashion Contest, the Miss Jamaica U.S. Beauty Pageant and the Miss Jamaica Fashion Model Pageant which stresses the beauty of Jamaican women living in the United States.

Julian was the second runner up.

“I have a beautiful face and a great smile that can capture any audience, ” Julian said about her features.

Modeling for Julian is about having fun – she’s serious about school, she said.

Julian currently attends Brooklyn College where she is majoring in televsion and radio.

She hopes her modeling will help open the door to a career as a television news anchor.

“I like talking and I enjoy the spotlight . . . I like to be in front of the camera,” Julian told us.

Julian plans to graduate in the spring of 2003 and eventually pursue a Masters Degree.

As far as her modeling future goes, she would like to do more print work – “but I’m short,” she said.

In her spare time she likes to go bowling and go to the movies and church — she belongs to a parish in Brooklyn.

Her favorite Queens hangout is at home, she said.

And its her favorite place to eat too.

“Do you hang out anywhere in Queens,” we asked.

“Well, I spend most of my time studying, she replied.

'Go To Hell Mike Piazza'

Shea Stadium could be the site for a new film shoot. This time, New York native and actor Ben Stiller is scheduled to produce a film whose working title is Go to Hell Mike Piazza – a comedy about a hot dog vendor who blames the Mets catcher for ruining his life.  The protagonist gets revenge on his childhood best friend after winning a TV game show that sends him to a major league all-star game. 

Amidst the buzz, insiders say that Stiller himself may play the hot dog vendor and unconfirmed reports that actress Sandra Bullock – best known for Miss Congeniality and Speed – will play opposite the Zoolander star. 

So far, a director has not been named but high on the list includes, among others, Road Trip director Todd Phillips, and The Nutty Professor Director Tom Shadyac and Director Jay Roach, who also worked with Stiller in Meet the Parents, according to Hollywood.com, an online film site.

Reports that Mets hurler Roger nicknamed “The Rocket” Clemens stars as the hot dog vendor are untrue.

Publicists from the Bullock and Stiller camp could not be reached to confirm.

Star Power

John Liu, the kid from Flushing continues to shine. The first Asian American elected to the City Council was invited to lead the State Dem. Convention in the Pledge of Allegiance last week. With him is Dem. State Chairman Herman D. Farrell.

Cuomo No No

Queens boy Andrew Cuomo, son of former Guv Mario,  is not a popular guy amongst the Democratic Party’s elite these days, or at least that’s how it seemed at the recent State Dem Convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel.

Cuomo, a Jamaica Estates native, is expected to get on the ballot for Governor by petition, which will place him against party favorite Carl McCall.

While hundreds of top political players held up signs and wore stickers supporting McCall at the convention, Cuomo was nowhere to be seen, electing not to attend to show his independence. The party didn’t appreciate it.

They  were screaming their support for McCall and the joke that could be heard murmured through circles was, “Has anyone seen Andrew?” When one speaker at the convention started a sentence with, “Now that we have two viable candidates for governor . . .” there was an angry murmur from the crowd, and then a small chant of  “McCall, McCall.”

Signs in support of McCall were then displayed by just about every politician there – including several from the Queens delegation.

Politics and borough loyalty apparently don’t go together.

The Corona-Manhattan Connection

A slice of Queens life – the Lemon Ice King Of Corona – is also a flavorful fixture inside a semi-hidden store at Manhattan’s Penn Station. Photo : Julie T. Messina-Palacios

According to Queens folk music legend Paul Simon, Rosie is the Queen of Corona and for those who know their local folklore, there is only one king of the neighborhood when it comes to Italian ices.

The homemade flavors of the Lemon Ice King of Corona are the stuff of Big Apple legend and now Queensites can enjoy the great taste outside borough borders.

The Lemon Ice King of Corona also serves up their own special brand of treats to commuters at Manhattan’s Penn Station from a counter tucked away inside a small hard-to-find Smoothie King/ Italian Ice store near the Eighth Avenue side of the Long Island Rail Road level of the station.

At the counter, ice aficionados can choose from 26 Lemon Ice King flavors — served with an ice cream scoop instead of the spatula used at the Queens location.

The Penn Station counter will also mix flavors – a no-no at the Ice King’s Corona home, so don’t bother asking.   

The original Ice King on 108th Street and 52nd Avenue has served Queens since 1944. When the king himself, Peter Benfaremo, started the business in Corona with his father, there were only two flavors — lemon and pineapple. 

Today, all 29 are a cool summer treat whether in Queens or Manhattan.

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