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| Breaking My Heart
Cecilia Erskine
Home: Jamaica Age: 24 Height: 5’ 4" Weight: 118lbs Stats: 34-24-34 Don’t be fooled, Cecilia Erskine isn’t just another beautiful face gracing the covers and pages of today’s top magazines; she’s a starlet in the making. After following her sister Ivonnah and learning the ropes of the modeling business, Cecilia began taking pictures, looking up modeling jobs, attending casting calls and hoping for callbacks. The Jamaica beauty’s determination and optimism paid off in no time, or maybe it was her stunning wide eyes and smooth complexion. Whatever it was, Cecilia has solidified her position in the modeling world. Working professionally for the past two years, she had appeared in magazines and films, as well as stopping into recording studios along the way. Style Q Magazine and Passions Magazine have had the privilege of placing Cecilia on their pages, and if readers of Essence, Vibe and Ebony magazines happen to be thumbing through the glossies in the next few months they will get a chance to see her at work. It’s without question though, that her silky cocoa complexion and sleek black tresses were the forces that got her on the cover of Avlon Hair Products’ magazine. Cecilia has also stepped her way onto movie sets appearing in “Home Coming,” where she played a barber and “Closer Cut” as a prostitute. She doesn’t let any opportunity on the road to stardom pass her by — she even opts for the smaller roles like a girl walking in the park in MTV’s film “Miracle Boys.” The budding luminary is proving that she’s more than a piece of eye candy as she pours herself into heartfelt lyrics and lays down tracks in recording studios. It’s hard to believe Cecilia could possibly fit anything else into her hectic schedule, but she manages to catch up on reading as she works towards a bachelor’s degree in education. She even puts in tireless hours at Gymboree as a teacher. When QConf asked her if she would consider modeling as a full time job, Cecilia didn’t hesitate with the answer. “Definitely! Tyra, Naomi, and Heidi get paid thousands to walk the runway,” Cecilia said. “I know it will be hard work, but I am an achiever, and it is something I am willing to work at.” |
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| Poetic License
Dieting will make you want one of these seen at 63rd Rd. and Queens Blvd.
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| Keys On TV
Queens resident Alicia Keys’ life story is soon to be aired on an upcoming UPN 9 TV show. Parts of her childhood history will be told in the series.
Keys was born to an Irish-Italian mother and a Jamaican father. She learned to play classical piano when she was just 6 years old, studying as a teen at the Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music in Flushing. The series will see a young girl doing the same thing, as she gets older, she sets out on a journey to take in her New York surroundings, particularly Harlem. Keys serves as executive producer on the yet-to-be titled show which will be penned by Felicia Henderson of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Moesha” and “Soul Food” fame. “It tells the real story of a young girl trying to find her way – being in a new high school, trying to establish a relationship with her father and his new family and the troubles that her mother is going through to try to raise her,” Keys said. |
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| Angela’s Return
One time Douglaston resident Angela Lansbury of “Murder She Wrote” fame is starring in her first role for the big screen (not counting some voiceover work) in two decades. Lansbury stars as Aunt Adelaide in the family comedy "Nanny McPhee," starring and written for the screen by Emma Thompson.
The domineering Aunt Adelaide refuses to continue to support the widowed father and his seven children unless he gets married within a month. "Nanny McPhee", is which just hit theaters, is a film adaptation of the Nurse Matilda children’s book series by Christianna Brand. |
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| Thankful It Wasn’t McEnroe
Unlike ex-hubby, Douglaston native John McEnroe, who totaled seven Grand Slam titles, Tatum O’Neal said she “choked” when it was her chance to perform on ABC’s hit reality show, “Dancing With the Stars.”
The former child star said recently that she might have felt some of the pressures that her former husband used to endure on a regular basis, when it was her turn to perform the “Rumba.” Giving credit to the man she divorced, after bouts of an alleged abusive and drug-fueled relationship, O’Neal said, “Knowing John and being John’s ex-wife, having kids with the same last name McEnroe, it was like four McEnroe’s saying, ‘Don’t choke,’ (but) I did.” For O’Neal’s stumbling routine, viewers gave her the boot. If it were McEnroe on the show, audience members might have gotten a little harsher reaction from the man known for his outbursts. |
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| Feud Over?
The local hip-hop saturated waters are beginning to settle. Long Island City’s Nasir Jones, aka Nas, announced he would bury his beef with Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z; a new record deal was put in the works between the two. Nas said he is planning to release his next album through Jay-Z’s Def Jam Records.
The Queensbridge native was persuaded to settle his differences with Jay-Z by his manager Mark Pitts, who believed the tragic history of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur could play out once again. “Everybody talks about Big and Pac and how that ended." said Nas, "We talked about showing a different side and what it would mean to the culture of hip-hop. It was bigger than just us and our trivial little beefs. Hopefully, it shows another way.” | |||||||||
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