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Alana Smiles
Name: Alana
Home: South Ozone Park
Age: 27
Height: 5’5"
Weight: 135
Stats: 36C-28-40
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South Ozone Park resident and emerging model Alana is starting to fulfill her dream of being a fresh face for the camera.

Appearing in various photo shoots for designers such as Antonio Dasilva, and in calendars for exotic sports cars, she is trying to make her mark on the industry.

“Modeling is something I always wanted to do,” Alana said. “I would practice in front of the mirror, and I love being in front of the camera.”

Alana, who had previously modeled in her teenage years, chose to pursue a college education and put her modeling on hiatus for the time being. But now that she is a college graduate with a degree in education and a teaching job in Queens, she can pursue her modeling career with a little more ease.

When Alana is not modeling, she likes to dance in her spare time.

“I dance in my house, at a club, wherever,” she said. “I’m always dancing, and I’m always playing with my dog, and hanging out with my family.”

Despite the dancing, Alana confesses that she has one other weakness – the films of Quentin Tarantino.
“I am a big movie freak,” she said. “I love Quentin Tarantino movies like Natural Born Killers and Kill Bill.”

Alana’s biggest influence in her life has been her mother.
“My mother was a model before she had me and she’s really beautiful . . . she’s been very supportive of what I’m doing.”

Alana’s advice for aspiring models is to be who they want and to not get typecast.

“I’m a biracial, curvy, not typical model,” she said. “Don’t let yourself be typecast. If you want to be a certain type of model then you should be it, you should go out and get it and be aggressive.”
 
 
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A John Michael Basquiat painting had been stolen from JFK Airport in May, and last week Anthony Porcelli Jr., a 35-year-old truck driver, pleaded guilty to heisting the painting from his carrier truck, right after it had been auctioned off for $1.5 million in Rome.

The painting was to be shipped to Rome after its auction at Christie’s. Porcelli faces up to three years in prison.
When the painting was recovered, Queens DA Richard Brown posed beside it. Could his grit teeth and steely stare be an impression of the painting?

Art, of course, is objective and people have different tastes of what is good and bad. Some might agree, however, with a comment made by a smart aleck photographer back when the painting was recovered. “Who painted that thing, a second grader?” he asked.

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Singing Trump

The Donald & Megan Mullally at the Emmys
Some people just have a Midas touch.

Donald Trump has gone on from investor to TV star to Real Estate cyber-lecturing his Trump University students – and now he has been “idolized.”

Trump was seen belting out the lyrics to "Green Acres" on the Emmy Awards last Sunday.

Well, whaddya know – the Donald can sing! The real estate mogul donned overalls and straw hat, pitchfork in hand and belted out the “Green Acres” theme with Megan Mullally from “Will and Grace” as part of an “Emmy Idol” theme-song competition running through the 57th annual ceremony.

Well, the two won the Idol competition and now it’s official. The host of "The Apprentice" has successfully ventured into pop culture and won.

Another Queens boy makes good.
Citizen

The mere fact that Assemblyman Jimmy Meng is the first Asian elected to the New York State Legislature may have lost its edge. After all, that was so 2004, and the ever-shifting demographic within the Flushing Assemblyman’s district demands greater and better events to marvel over.

Well here comes Jimmy to the rescue. Just to spice things up a bit, Meng will turn to his constituents for ideas on what laws they would like to see. Actually, it’s a contest, and the winner will get his or her law introduced into the State Assembly.

Send your idea in written format only to Meng’s District Office located at 39-07 Prince St., Suite #3C, Flushing, NY 11354 by Nov. 1. The decision will be made in December, and the winner of the contest will have his or her picture taken with the Assemblyman.

The written submission can be in any language, but the person submitting it must live in the 22nd Assembly district.

Ready, aim, fire!
Oh Eric!

Heartthrob Councilman Gioia
When U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton came to endorse Freddy Ferrer for Mayor at La Guardia Community College, who would you think got the biggest ovation?
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None of the above. Try local City Councilman Eric Gioia.
When some of the lesser Democratic politicians in the audience were being introduced, the student-filled auditorium gave perfunctory claps until it reached Gioia, at which time the crowd erupted into hoots and hollers.

Granted, Gioia had home field advantage, being in the core of his district, but we suspect it might be for a different reason. A QConf spy overheard a couple of college-aged girls in the audience using the words “young” and “hot” in reference to the councilman.

Sorry ladies, he’s a married man. But you can vote for him in November.



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