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| Animation Personified
Teresa Kollapallil Home: Elmhurst Age: 25 Height: 5’3" Stats: 34-27-31 She’s cute, she has a bubbly personality and she can sing. Elmhurst resident, model and aspiring singer, who wants to be referred to only as Teresa K., has a lot to offer fellow Queensites. “It’s been a fantasy of mine to model,” said Teresa, the 25-year-old graduate of the Barbizon modeling school. “You get to be sexy, unique, express yourself and do your own thing.” Right now Teresa is working to produce a CD which she describes as being “pop and R & B, a little house and techno.” She writes her own songs and is even taking Bollywood dance classes to incorporate even more into her repertoire. Teresa “loves” Japanese animation, which has influenced her music, saying she is “crazy about it.” “I grew up with it, it grew up with me like a little sister,” she added. Also in her spare time, Teresa is part of a volunteer group that reaches out to members of the community who have isolated themselves from their neighborhood. Teresa also won poetry award. According to her, the judges were impressed with the fact that she “writes from her heart.” While modeling might not work out, Teresa enjoyed posing in front of the camera at the Camera 2 Studios. “I wanted to be more confident,” she said. “It made me feel sexy and allowed me to express myself.” “A girl can dream,” said Teresa. |
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| The Meaning Of Love
Douglaston native John McEnroe is considered one of the greatest male tennis stars of all time. And his foray into the world of color commentators was at least entertaining. But when the former wining athlete attempted a talk show that boasted insightful discussion into everything from comedy to news, well, he lost in straight sets.
Much like he used to embarrass himself on the tennis court with his explosive outburts and constant complaining, McEnroe has managed to embarrass an entire network. His talk show debuted on CNBC with such heavy promotion it would seem hard to lose out in the ratings and at first it seemed everything might work out as 300,000 homes tuned in on his first day. But everyday since, John McEnroe has managed the nearly impossible: a 0.0 Nielsen rating. |
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| Queens Teen Is "Switched"
A girl from Queens swapped spaces with a rising Polo star from Florida for the ABC Family show “Switched.” The point of the show that airs on daily at 3 p.m. is to take two teenagers from different backgrounds and have them live each other’s lives for a few days.
Grace Nutter, a young 17-year-old from Queens, is the oldest of eight children with dreams of becoming an actress and works at a pet store, while Weston Gracida, a 17-year-old from Florida, has one sister and is ranked a two-goaler and was named Rookie of the Year by the U.S. Polo Association. Nutter learned how to ride a horse and practiced playing polo while Gracida went to an acting audition and cooked dinner for the entire Nutter clan. The show is set to air in November and perhaps Queens will have its newest celebrity. |
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| Satchmo Dirt
Louis Armstrong, who spent the last 30 years of his life in a modest house in Corona, is dearly missed for his tricks on the trumpet, his soothing voice and his everlasting influence on jazz. Fans may know about his fascination with food and his obsession with dieting, but few would guess that Ol’ Satchmo had a strong belief in the medicinal value of … laxatives. In Red Beans and Ricely Yours, the Louis Armstrong House and Archives presented a “very personal” collection of materials demonstrating his preoccupation with all things intestinal. Armstrong was convinced that “all illnesses come from the stomach” and praised the use of laxatives, particularly Swiss Kriss, to everyone, including the Queen of England.
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| Kong’s Babe
When King Kong’s heartthrob died, leave it to Queens megastar Adrien Brody to resurrect her.
After surviving a trip up the Empire State Building inside Kong’s giant hand, actress Fay Wray died quietly in her Manhattan home 71 years later. But a month after her death, our QConf sources have heard Brody will bring her – and her ape admirer – back to life in a remake of the 1933 classic. Brody will play the role of Jack Driscoll. The film is set to shoot in England and Australia by director Peter Jackson of the Lord of the Ring Trilogy fame. For those wondering who the ape’s new conquest will be, producers tapped Naomi Watts, the blond babe who knocked audiences dead in The Ring and Dangerous Beauty. |
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| Estée Lauder: Queens Cosmetics Queen
Few outside the beauty and fashion industry and the gossip sheets associated with it know that Estée Lauder, one of the most famous names in make-up, owed a great deal to her uncle and her ability to convince one of the largest stores in America to try something unconventional for launching a career than spanned almost 60 years.
Lauder, who died on April 24, was born Josephine Esther Mentzer to Hungarian Jewish immigrants in Queens, and launched her first beauty products in 1937. She convinced Saks Fifth Avenue to carry the creams designed by her chemist uncle, becoming one of the first beauty products to ever be carried at a department store. A relentless saleswoman, Lauder was also an early advocate and adopter of celebrity marketing. She envisioned her product in the hands of the world’s most prestigious women, and so Lauder sent samples of her products to prominent women, such as the Duchess of Windsor. Lauder turned her line of creams into a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that dominates much of the beauty industry. Under the Estee Lauder Cos. umbrella are such lines as her own, Bobbi Brown, MAC, Stila, Clinique, Prescriptives and La Mer to name a few. As the company grew, her children and grandchildren became executives in the corporation. Her grandson, William Lauder, became chief executive of Estee Lauder Cos. in July. Lauder, along with Helena Rubenstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon’s Charles Revson, are often credited as the pioneers of prestige cosmetics, the creators of the color story and moguls that helped the beauty industry escalate to the $25 billion per year industry that it is today. | |||||||||
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