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| A Passion For Drama
Christina
Home: Flushing Age: Height 5’ 7" Weight: 130 lbs Stats: 34-25-37 Christina has many passions. Though salsa dancing may have been one of her first, she is now steamrolling her way into an acting career while doing some dance and modeling on the side. “Salsa is the biggest influence musically in my life because I grew up listening to it,” she said. “Watching my father play the congas and seeing the passion in him when he played or danced was just a big part of my life and still is.” Christina grew up in Flushing, but attended high school across the borough at St. John’s Prep in Astoria. While there, she got bit by the acting bug. “Yes, I was interested in it during high school, but now is when I’m really going for it and I won’t stop. My goal is to play in dramas. I love using a lot of emotions and having people who are watching me really feel the character.” This Latina sensation hasn’t lost touch with her Puerto Rican roots, and still enjoys heading back to her homeland at least once a year. “There’s nothing like it. I learned how to horseback ride in Cayey when I was younger,” she said. “I’d spend most of my summers in P.R.” But back here in the chilly northeast, Christina has found a career that keeps her warm. She has recently participated in a commercial for MTV and has a small role in an independent film, “Nuestra Vida.” In Queens, for a girl who grew up playing handball at PS 189, across the street from her house, she spends her free time going to movies at the Whitestone Multiplex or just hanging out, being laid back. But with auditions and growing amount of work, that free, laid back time is getting rarer. |
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| Leave It To Gary
At a committee hearing regarding the war on terror Feb. 7, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explained that there is a shortage of qualified translators who speak Farsi and other Eastern languages.
U.S. Rep Gary Ackerman noted that several qualified military translators have been fired in recent years due to their sexual orientation. “For some reason the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are of terrorists because they are very brave with the terrorists,” he said. “If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information they would get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.” When Rice attempted to rebut the statement, Ackerman said flatly, “Maybe you might find some of those competent people are those who have been recently unemployed in the past few years.” |
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| The Last of the Yiddish
Itche Goldberg, the ultimate advocate of the Yiddish language, died from cancer at the age of 102. Goldberg was a writer, editor, scholar and educator whose goal was to pass on Yiddish to future generations. In addition to teaching Yiddish language and literature at Queens College, Goldberg edited and published the literary journal, Yidishe Kultur. The last time he edited an issue, he was 100 years old.
“I only have two dreams,” Goldberg told The Times in 2004 displaying his unique humor. “One dream is that someone will knock on the door and I will open it and they give me a check for $150,000 for the magazine. Second dream is that someone knocks at the door and I open it up and he gives me a corned beef sandwich. Those are my only two dreams. I’m not asking for much. Really, I’m not. And I think they’re both reachable.” |
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| Tony Bennett Out Of Place?
Queens crooner Tony Bennett won a Grammy Award with singer Stevie Wonder in the category of “Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals” for their work on “For Once in My Life.”
Bennett’s and Wonder’s nominations put them along side new-age pop vocals Nelly Furtado and Timbaland for their duet “Promiscuous.” Asuwebdevil.com counted Bennett’s nomination as number two on its “Top Five Strange Grammy Nominations” chart claiming that “in a nomination group full of young pop stars, classic Bennett seems out of place.” The Grammy results tell a different story. |
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| Picture Perfect?
Okay, we understand that Albert Baldeo loves having his picture taken with everybody as he prepares for another State Senate try in two years. Go to the Web site albertbaldeoforcitycouncil.com and see for yourself the abundant pictures with everybody from Bill Clinton to Eliot Spitzer to Peter Vallone Sr. But the latest sent out in an e-mail at the celebration for special election Senator Craig Johnson takes the prize. Here, Baldeo is shown shaking hands with Johnson, but there seems to be an infiltrator in the shot as well. Is it the devil horns or the tongue that gets our attention first? Better luck cropping next time Albert.
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