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| Conveying Emotion
Nathaly Leon Kew
Gardens Hills Age: 17 Height: 5’ 8" Weight:110 Stats: 33-24-35 It helps to have good friends. Just ask 17-year-old Nathaly. This Queens native, whose parents hail from Colombia, heard from a friend about QConf, and reached out to us to get her name (and face) in print. “My first runway was in spring 2004 during Fashion Week New York,” she said. “I have since modeled in many runways and I have done editorial work for the magazines Blend, Allure and Glamorous in Japan. None of this would have been possible if not for a friend. “I sort of stumbled into modeling,” Nathaly said. “I have always been into fashion. I am currently a personal stylist, but modeling came to me in a funny way. My younger friend who is 15, she’s 5-foot-11. She was doing an editorial shoot for an Italian designer in SoHo and she invited me to go with her. When we got there most of the models were running late and two of them were no shows.” Kismet. “The photographer had initially thought I was one of the models so when the designer got there with the stylists and props they just assumed I was one of the models,” she said. “I was so self-conscious but after I got in front of the camera I felt this inner glamour.” This, of course, is coming from someone who admits that she hates to brush her hair or put on make-up. “I used to look at modeling in such a prejudiced way,” she said. “Everyone thinks its easy but its not. No matter how beautiful you are on the outside, if you don’t feel it and connect with those feelings on the inside you your pictures will be bland and they wont convey any emotion.” This Hunter College fashion student is planning a trip to Japan for 2006 to get more serious about the business. In the meantime, she’s happy to kick around Queens, take in all that she sees and wait for the moment to be right. |
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| Meeks’ Ali Disappointment
Louisville, Kentucky may be quite a ways from St.Albans, but when it comes funding the “Greatest” of all time’s vision of the future, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks is getting flustered.
Meeks, who is a longtime friend of Muhammad Ali photographer Howard Bingham, and who helped solicit funds for the Ali Center in Louisville, said he was stunned by an unwillingness of black sports figures to give to the program. The U.S. Rep said none of the athletes or boxing promoters he solicited to make a contribution showed interest or followed through with a check. “I was shocked by it,” he said. “I thought it would be a no-brainer – that you could just call and mention it was for Ali.” But that wasn’t the case. Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Tiger Woods name’s were nowhere to be seen on the list of contributors. Not even notorious boxing promoter Don King or Louisville legends like Allan Houston and Darrell Griffith made the list, Meeks said. The fund-raising effort that was said to be one of the most significant in the state’s history, depended on those states away from Kentucky like Meeks and Angelina Jolie. |
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| Battle Of The Giants
Ozone Park is taking on Far Rockaway in a multi-billion-dollar deal involving one of the largest corporations on Earth. Well, at least their representatives are.
In Ozone Park’s corner is Time-Warner executive Dick Parsons, who is trying to keep the media goliath together as a single entity. Representing Far Rock is the iconic Wall Street monster Carl Icahn, who is rumored to be the model of the Gordon Gecko character in the Michael Douglas, “Greed Is Good” film “Wall Street.” Icahn, a powerful shareholder, wants to rip Time-Warner apart, tearing it into four separate entities. Parsons, known as the more laid back of the two, said, “I grew up in a neighborhood where just yelling at someone didn’t get it done.” Icahn, known for toppling such empires as Texaco, U.S. Steel, PanAm and more, jabbed back with “I came from a part of Queens where if you didn’t do a good job, you’d be fired. I guess Parsons came from a different part of Queens.” We’ll keep you posted as the grudge match of the century. |
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| We All Have Aids Campaign
Laurelton native Alicia Keys is among the entertainers and political activists joining Kenneth Cole’s new public service campaign on AIDS awareness.
The “We All Have AIDS” campaign was unveiled Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, and will run in newspapers, magazines, radio and outdoor public service advertisements. The campaign poster features Keys and others stepping into cement, with the message spread out declaring, “We All Have AIDS…If One Of Us Does.” The campaign’s aim is to encourage millions to learn more, protect themselves, get tested and find treatment for HIV/AIDS. Along with Keys, some of the other figures pictured in the campaign are Elton John, Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sharon Stone, Tom Hanks, Ashley Judd, Whoopi Goldberg and Elizabeth Taylor. |
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| Top Honors
The Kennedy Center’s honoring of Astoria-born Tony Bennett was shownlast week on CBS.
Bennett watched with delight as his songs were rendered by Vanessa Williams, John Legend, k.d. lang, and Diana Krall. The 79-year-old Bennett, who is celebrating his sixth decade in the business, was honored alongside singer Tina Turner, actors Robert Redford and Julie Harris and dancer Suzanne Farrell. Bennett was rejected as a teenager by the New York High School for the Performing Arts but made it into New York’s High School of Industrial Arts where he developed his talent for painting. He continues to paint using his given name Anthony Benedetto. |
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