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| Flower From Rosedale
Michelle Harmer
Home: Rosedale Age: 27 Height: 5’6 Weight: 120 lbs. Stats: 36-26-36 For model Michelle Harmer, a curvaceous Queens-native who now lives in New Jersey, the ability to deflect the attentions of lovelorn men is all in a day's work. When not posed before a camera, this 27-year-old beauty pays the bills by pulling beer taps behind the counter at a raucous sports bar in the Garden State. In fact, Michelle spoke to Conf during a break. “There are 30 different TVs in here with all different sports on,” she said over the din. But televised sports are not the only attraction at this sports bar, especially when the bartender has appeared in a very famous men’s magazine. “I just had some guy ask me out about an hour ago,” she sighed wearily. All in a day’s work, after all, for a former Playboy bunny. Yes, that’s right – the March/April 2000 issue features an intimate look at all of Michelle. The experience was fun, she said, though her parents have a slightly different point of view. “They know but they’ve never seen it,” Michelle explained. “They were not happy.” Michelle’s modeling career started off with a bang a few years back when a friend encouraged her to cold call an agency. “They gave a three-year contract off the bat,” she said. These days, Michelle does a lot of work for the artistic types – painters and photographers – who tend to use her in 19th Century period scenes. “I have a very voluptuous figure, so I do a lot of modeling for painters,” she explained. Her “hourglass shape,” as she described it, could come right off the canvas of a high Victorian portrait. She may have left Queens behind for New Jersey, but Michelle returns to her home turf often to hang out with friends. She can be found dancing to the Reggae tunes at a club called Moment on Linden Boulevard. |
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| Hide And Seek In Queens
Queens may be known as a home to cabbies but that’s not why the greatest “Taxi Driver” of all has been spending time in the borough.
Actor Robert Deniro has been on location in Queens, working on the upcoming film “Hide And Seek.” Published reports indicate that Deniro is playing the part of a widowed father who tries to help his young daughter deal with the death of her mother. The flick has been dubbed a suspense-filled psychological thriller and is in production at Silvercup Studios – home to production on shows like “The Sopranos” and “Sex And The City.” Deniro recently visited Silvercup to announce details of the TriBeCa film Festival which is underway later this month. |
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| D-Somewhere
Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza sent out a helpful press release last week on a mammography bill she sponsored.
Too bad her staff, which sent out an uncorrected draft, made the good-hearted lawmaker look like a boob. Someone in Carrozza’s office sent out a not-yet-finalized copy of a press release heralding a new bill that would require insurers to cover annual mammograms for women over 40. It was interesting to note that the hasty staffer behind the release faxed a draft with penned-in corrections all over the page. As a newspaper operation familiar with the pressure of deadlines, QConf hesitates to mock the typographical mistakes of others. These gaffs, however, were pretty funny. Among others, the release-writer indicated Carrozza as the representative of “somewhere” – as in (D-Somewhere). The corrected version came through the fax just moments later, and the Carrozza team surely regrets the boo-boo. But they should keep up the efforts. Their press releases are few and far between – but funny! |
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| Annoying And From Queens
What is Reginald VelJohnson up to these days?
For those of you that need a reminder, VelJohnson played lovable dad and police officer Carl Winslow on the TV series “Family Matters.” His other most famous role was as a police officer in “Die Hard” and “Die Hard 2.” He also played a police officer in “Turner and Hooch” co-starring Tom Hanks. Do you see a pattern here? VelJohnson – a grad of NYU and Benjamin Cardozo High School – is now featured on the website www.amIannoying.com. The coordinators of the site choose people who they think are just annoying, and give reasons why. Well, VelJohnson is on there! Why is he annoying? He graduated from NYU and he always plays cops. But here’s an insulting one. The site also says he’s annoying because he’s from Queens. The site allows users to vote on whether they think VelJohnson and other celebrities are annoying – Conf voted that he’s not. Queens is not annoying, their site is! |
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| South Ozone Park & Slimy
What do South Ozone Park-born comedian Debra Wilson and any zoo in America have in common? They both harbor seven-foot boa constrictors.
Wilson’s boa constrictors’ names are Victor and Lizzie and they stay with her in her Los Angeles home. The snakes keep her cat, Nala, quite amused while she’s out filming scenes for Fox’s “MadTV.” Wilson better watch out. If she doesn’t feed her snakes before leaving home, she may not meet Nala when she gets back. |
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| Governor Gioia?
In what sounded like the warm up to a bid for higher office, Councilman Eric Gioia told Astoria residents recently what similarities he has with a nationally recognized politician from Queens.
“When I was in fifth grade, I met Mario Cuomo,” Gioia told attendees at a cabinet meeting for Community Board 1. Gioia described Cuomo as an “Italian kid from Queens, [who] grew up in back of a grocery store.” He then went on to say, “I’m an Italian kid from Queens, grew up in back of a florist shop. Maybe I can be governor.” The audience seemed tickled at the idea, and offered Gioia a mixture of laughs and applause. And Gioia went home smiling and thinking about the future.! | |||||||||
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