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| Bellissima Wendy
Wendy Basillama Home: Flushing Age: 14 Camera 2 Studios Wendy, only 14, has been modeling since she was a mere 7-years-old. Her father believed in her and encouraged her to take modeling classes. But Wendy has been ambitious since a very young age, and mere modeling wasn’t enough to keep her occupied. For the past 10 years she has been studying dance, and doing it professionally. “I dance jazz, tap, ballet and hip hop,” said the versatile teenager without a hint of bragging. “And sometimes pop.” As if keeping up with homework in junior high wasn’t difficult enough, Wendy is in dance classes four times a week for about three and a half hours each time. That doesn’t seem to faze her, although she muses on the relatively simple demands of her other career. “Modeling is easier than dance,” she admitted. “Dance is a lot of jumping around all over the place, but in modeling I just walk around, I smile, I turn, and that’s everything.” The one thing she finds in common between dancing and modeling is the ability to share herself and her personality with the rest of the world. “I like showing everybody who I am, just moving around,” she said. Wendy’s protective father is there for her while she grows up, managing both her careers and encouraging her when the stress gets too high. For now, Wendy intends to continue with both, and, judging from her self-assured tone, this 14-year-old will go far. |
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| Punked For The Last Time
Johnny Ramone, the lead guitarist of the seminal punk band from Forest Hills, The Ramones, passed away last week after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 55.
Johnny is the third of the four original Ramone members to die in the last three years. Dee Dee Ramone died of a drug overdose in 2002 and Joey Ramone of lymphatic cancer in 2001. Drummer Tommy Ramone is the only surviving original member of the band. Johnny had the reputation of being the strict leader who carefully managed the little money the band ever earned, despite being credited with launching the punk scene and inspiring such bands like the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Johnny had strained relations with every member of the band but especially lead-singer Joey. Always the romantic, Joey lost the love of his life to none other than Johnny and the band’s relationship deteriorated. The Queens band has been immortalized in a documentary entitled “End of the Century,” playing now at the Angelika Theater in Manhattan. |
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| A Dash of Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken has played the weirdo for the past 30 years and hasn’t gotten much respect for it. The Bayside native whose lines are more popular than some of the movies he played in did receive an Oscar in 1979 for his tortured performance in the Deer Hunter, but ever since then he’s been designated the creep or the super villain in a stretch of supporting roles.
That has won him a cult following but didn’t get much love from the award committees. His portrayal of an overly emotional father in last year’s Catch Me if You Can got him critical acclaim to the dismay of many fans who have been following his career for years – the character just didn’t feel quite Walkenesque. So for those who cherish the Walken that moves like no one else, says things that other actors probably couldn’t mouth, and never lost his super natural look despite age, there is a refuge: Saturday Night Live just released the first DVD of skits by a guest comedian, The Best of Christopher Walken. You could die laughing. |
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| King Of Queens
Louis Armstrong is not the only entertainment star that found his resting place in Flushing. Alan King, one of Hollywood’s less heralded old-timers, died on May 9 of this year after a battle with lung cancer and is buried on the Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills, Flushing.
Unlike the original king of jazz, however, King was a New Yorker, having lived most of his life in Forest Hills after being persuaded to move there from Manhattan, partly by his wife and partly by his search for new material for his comic routines in the 1950s. While King never made it to a big, leading role in Hollywood, he appeared in more than 20 films in supporting roles and was well known as TV actor and then producer. His comedic performances, after his more seedy days performing at bars and nightclubs in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been limited to numerous guest appearances on TV talk shows and roasts of various celebrities. King was almost a staple on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” appearing there 93 times. He was also the King of Queens’ most prominent sporting event, the U.S. Open. During the event he could always be seen in his courtside box hobnobbing, cheering and joking. |
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| Bacharach Goes West Coast
The 76-year-old singer/songwriter and Forest Hills native has turned to rap hitmaker Dr. Dre to give his upcoming album a hip-hop edge.
Bacharach, who has supplied hits for everyone from Neil Diamond to Dusty Springfield, asked Dre to supply beats for three tracks on the record, which is due out sometime next year. A founding member of the seminal gangsta rap group, NWA, Dre helped pioneer the “West Coast” sound with his 1993 debut album, “The Chronic.” He went on to discover and produce such artists as Snoop Dog and Eminem. According to Bacharach, the two have been interested in working together for some time. “I had got together with Dre about a year and a half ago and talked about doing something for the album that we never did,” he said. “Then he gave me the loops, and when I decided to do this album for Sony England, it seemed a natural fit.” |
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