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| Both Sides Of The Lens
Laura Picallo
Home: Jackson Heights Age: 24 Height: 5’7" Weight: 140 Stats: 36-29-38 By total accident, Laura Picallo found her self in front of the camera watching the shutter quickly close capturing her sophisticated yet raw beauty. Accustomed to being behind the camera, the process was entirely foreign, but somehow familiar, to the aspiring Jackson Heights artist. “My boyfriend and I are both great lovers of photography and would often go out taking photos together. He wanted to expand his portfolio and since I was always around, he started using me as a model,” Laura said of her first modeling experience two years ago. Since being in the pages of her boyfriend’s portfolio, the captivating photographer’s sultry appeal has filled the frames of underground fashion and avant-garde photos, as well as appearing on the cover of New York City goth band Losing Venus’ latest album. Laura’s stunning features and provocative femininity reach far beyond photographs but into the political realm, as in Theresa DeMyers’ exhibit “Birth Begins at Conception,” which addresses opinions on abortion. “Right now, I’m working doing what I’m comfortable with. I don’t think I’d be happy with myself if I ended up on the front cover of a magazine in a bikini lying on a car,” said Laura, who believes she has a lot more to offer than what is at face value. Between being in front of and behind the camera, Laura finds time to wind down close to home at Cafe Mocha in Sunnyside or Flynn’s Inn. “They’re really friendly, neighborhood places which I love. And if I’m in the mood to play pool I go to BQE Billiards, where I always have a good time,” she says. While at times she may rather be behind the camera, Laura says modeling for someone else has definitely given her a great perspective of what you need from a model and how to direct him or her. “That old cliché that modeling is ‘a lot harder than what it looks’ is pretty true,” she said. “By the time you see a single photo there’s so many other things that went on behind the scenes to make that shot happen.” |
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| Schwimming To Broadway
David Schwimmer, the Astoria native who played Ross on the hit series “Friends” is now on Broadway in “The Caine Mutiny.”
Schwimmer plays Lt. Barney Greenwald, a brilliant defense attorney who loves legal gamesmanship as much as he loves winning, a far cry from the geeky love-sick Ross. Schwimmer said he has always wanted to appear in a Broadway play but “there was that little TV show I was doing for 10 years, and I didn’t have the opportunity to take the time off.” “I have financial freedom to choose the projects I’m passionate about,” Schwimmer said. “I look for roles that are very different from the previous characters I’ve played.” “The Caine Mutiny” is playing at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th Street and is based on Herman Wouk’s best-selling of the same title, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and later became a successful film, with Jose Ferrer and Humphrey Bogart. |
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| He Wasn’t Watching
Baseball Hall of Famer, announcer and Queens native Phil Rizzuto might have called it quits years ago, but his lasting memory can still be heard from time to time on Yankee broadcasts.
During a recent game Yankee announcers Jim Kaat and Ken Singleton were discussing the nearly lost art of score keeping. Unlike most announcers and devout fans, “Scooter,” as he was known, had his own method of tallying game stats. Kaat, who occasionally would glance over at Rizzuto’s score card, once saw a strange symbol throughout his partner’s page. It read, “WW.” When asked what kind of stat Rizzuto was referring to, he allegedly replied, “Wasn’t Watching.” |
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| Couric’s Send-Off
America’s sweetheart TV personality and orthodontic marvel Katie Couric said farewell to the Today Show last week, leaving a legacy of hard hitting interviews, countless corny jokes between colleagues, and an on-air colonoscopy.
Couric left the show for a gig as anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, which she is slated to begin in September. As many Today Show fans bid their good-byes to Couric on May 31, two of the voices that helped to send her off in style belonged to Harvey Fierstein and Queens native Tony Bennett. Those two, along with the cast of Jersey Boys, offered a musical performance to open up that Cheshire cat grin upon Couric’s face. The veteran Bennett, a native of Astoria, serenaded Couric appropriately with “The Best Is Yet to Come,” using his smooth vocal talents to delight the audience. The Tony Award winning Fierstein, though born in Brooklyn, knows a little bit about “queens” of another sort, sang a tribute. The salt and pepper bearded performer certainly has a set of memorable vocals, with a voice that sounds like a drunken frog belching. If we had to choose between the two, we’d surely go with Queens’ own Bennett to save our ears. |
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| Vallone Makes It In The Russian Press
It took a fight with graffiti artists and his name being tagged with profanity to get Queens Councilmember Peter Vallone international media attention.
The most recent account we've read of the on-going war between the former Assistant District Attorney who has made quality of life issues one of his calling cards, appeared on the Pravda website. You remember Pravda -- the official news outlet of the USSR Communist Party during the extended Cold War. Now, in a story titled "Graffiti artists tag New York city councilman as enemy No. 1," they report: "Pick a fight with graffiti artists and you can expect to see your name plastered around town." "New York’s graffiti artists and their supporters have tagged City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. as their archenemy. And they are making their disgust plain by putting his name everywhere, in graffiti, on Internet message boards and in court papers challenging his crackdown." We wonder how the conservative Democratic Councilman likes being the graffiti fighting poster boy on a website which explains its mission as, "PRAVDA On-line takes a pro-Russian approach to forming its policy." |
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