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| A Queens Girl
Janvieve Naemani Parker
Home: Queens Village Age: 32 Height: 5’ 7" Weight: 120 lbs. Stats: 34-26-24 Coming from a mixed heritage – African-American, Cuban, South Asian and Italian, to be exact – Janvieve says she likes the ethnic variety of Queens, the most diverse place on earth. “Every restaurant I go to, they think I’m one of them,” she joked. But aside from her background, this Queens Village native also boasts a diverse range of interests: real estate, personal training, acting and modeling. All these pursuits often go hand in hand, she says, allowing her to meet interesting people and stay in both physical and mental shape. Janvieve first entered the modeling business more than 10 years ago, when a stranger stopped her in Manhattan and asked her if she would like to model. With her toned body, built with hours of exercise (she still weighs the same as she did in high school), she often poses for both glamour and fitness photo spreads. When not working, Janvieve enjoys taking her two children to Cunningham Park and watching them play. It also brings back memories of when she used to win high school cross-country meets along the same paths. Her favorite pastime comes outside the borough, however. She enjoys taking long strolls in Manhattan, observing interesting people and taking in the scenery. “Queens is nice, but it’s usually a bunch of houses,” she said. “Manhattan is my excitement, my therapy,” she said. These days, Janvieve wants to focus more on acting, already having been cast in several independent films. She will always love modeling, but she has one eye to the future. “You can’t stay beautiful forever, but you can act until you’re 100,” she said. |
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| Stop Already
Drop the whitening strips and those gooey gels you have been slathering across your teeth. Dentists across the country are beginning to warn patients of the tooth crumbling hazards related to overexposing your chompers to bleach.
Kevin Ross, a psychologist who lives in Queens, isn’t hearing it though. Ross’ bleaching addiction began seven years ago, when he MacGyvered his first personal fitted bleaching tray, replicating the ones in his dentist office. After layering on the coats of bleach, his teeth became sensitive forcing him to cave in and pick up the over-the-counter whitening strips, which use less bleach. “I insist on having my teeth as white as possible,” he has told the Orlando Sentinel. Ross’s teeth regained their strength, but weren’t that same blinding hue of white, so earlier this year Ross asked his dentist for an upgrade to the professional-strength whitening strips. But when Ross recently asked the dentist for a new set of whitening strips, he was denied and temporarily cut off. “I guess it’s like skinny people who always think they could be a little skinnier,” he said. “I’d like to get another whitening treatment tomorrow.” |
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| Watch Out
It's not a second-hand watch. But it sure isn't up to the minute either. Mayor Mike ruled out a presidential run a while ago indicating his post Mayoral career will be in philanthropy. But if you want this collector's item, try ebay.
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| Ivana’s Revenge
The ex-wife of the man with the Midas touch is bitching that Big Daddy is intimidated by her business abilities.
Ivana Trump is furious because The Donald (she named the guy from Queens that) opposed her plan to use her name as a trademark for her real estate company, saying it would confuse people buying property from him. “Donald needs a girl to come and ask him, ‘Donald, what am I going to do? Can you help me?’” Ivana told PR Inside. “He would love me to come and ask him for help, but I don’t do that. It makes him mad I guess.” The 57-year old insists she is better off without the man she divorced in 1992 and boasts she has a better quality of life than the 60-year-old. Ivana added, “I have no regrets. If I were still married, I would be maybe running the casino. With my divorce, a whole new world opened up for me. It’s rare that he goes on vacation. Now I can travel all around the world. The new challenges are all around and I have the freedom to do what I want to do.” You go, girl! |
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| Subway Record Broken
The record for traversing the whole Subway grid was broken Aug. 23 by two college buddies who apparently had nothing better to do with their last days of summer.
Matt Green and Don Badaczewski set the new record at just over 24 hours, an hour better than the previous record. They started at Queens' Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street S Station. Speaking on the 7 train to Flushing, about seven hours into their ride, Badaczewski said: “Lots of nerds can sit in a room and use their computer to come up with the best route, but we’re willing to put our route on the line and actually come out here.” The two went without sleep during their adventure and one went without food for fear of having to go to the bathroom. |
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| Fake Movie, Real Legend
The fictional characters on HBO series “Entourage,” who hail from Queens but move to L.A. to pursue movie careers, will soon start production on a movie about a real Queens legend, Joey Ramone.
In a recent episode, the manager of Hollywood megastar Vincent Chase (played by Adrian Greneir) gets stuck at the home of an over-the-hill movie producer hoping to make one last hit. The manager, E (played by Kevin Connolly), at first tries to flee the aging producer, but the two eventually bond over a script immortalizing the forefather of Punk, who supposedly grew up on the same street in Forest Hills as Chase. When presented with the script, Chase decides it must be his next project. The episode ends with him slapping the screenplay on his agent’s desk, the title, “I Want To Be Sedated,” written on the cover. It may not be a real movie, but then again, as the quintessential the counter culture introvert, Joey may appreciate the irony. | |||||||||
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