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| Fun & Different Mom
Clayder Martinez
Ozone Park Stats 34-26-34 Age: 26 Weight: 115 lbs. Height: 5’ 2" She only started modeling in September but described her first shoot as fun and different. “I’ve never done this before. I’m a single mom and I work for Fedex and I’m lifting boxes and wearing sneakers all day so I try to glam up on the weekends but not to the modeling extent,” she said. “It was fun. I’m not used to wearing belly shirts and showing off too much. Now that I can do that, it’s definitely fun.” Clayder is mainly interested in catalogue modeling and enjoys reading fashion magazines. Her dream is to appear in urban hip hop magazines and Essence. She is a fast learner and said she has already discovered that during a photo shoot “little things like moving my hand can make a picture look completely different.” “I don’t have to do a major pose. I just have to turn my leg another way and it’s a completely different pose,” she said. “And you don’t really think about this when you’re doing ordinary photography.” Clayder said that the pictures come out nicer when you’re trying to have fun as opposed to when you think you’re working. “I’ve noticed that when I think of it as work, the pictures don’t come out as good,” she said. Clayder resides in Ozone Park and often hangs out with her son Diondre at Queens Center Mall. “The area that I live in Queens is pretty big and diverse and every part of Queens is so different,” she said. “Where I live is peaceful and I like that. I would rather it be calm and not crazy. It’s more like a suburban area. She especially loves living in Queens because “everyone is nice to one another and I like variety.” |
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| Teaching Rosie
One of Queens’ own went to bat for Asian-Americans—and for all the borough’s immigrants—when talk show titan Rosie O’Donnell poked fun at the Chinese language on last week’s “The View.”
Attempting to describe the media mania surrounding Danny DeVito’s drunk appearance on the show recently, O’ Donnell blurted out: “‘You know, you can imagine in China it’s like, ‘Ching-chong, ching-chong. Danny DeVito. Ching-chong, ching-chong-chong. Drunk. The View. Ching-chong.’” O’Donnell’s linguistic parody didn’t elicit a chuckle from Councilman John Liu (D-Flushing) who wrote to the head honcho of the show, Barbara Walters, and voiced his displeasure with the comment. “Her caricature of the Chinese language hits a raw nerve in our community,” he wrote. Rosie has finally apologized, but a Liu representative said they’d love to rid her of ignorance by offering Chinese lessons in Flushing, so she knows “what it really sounds like.” |
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| Botched Joke
Last week, Tom Brokaw surprised some New Yorkers by trying to make an ill-conceived joke at Mayor Bloomberg’s press conference about sustainability and the future of New York City.
Just after the Mayor told the crowd at the Queens Museum of Art that more than a third of New Yorkers spend more than half of their income on rent, the former NBC anchor's humor seemed to ignore the people the Mayor was talking about. “The mayor and I have been friends and neighbors for a long time,” Brokaw said. “He lives, as you probably know, on 79th Street between Park and Fifth, and now the new governor-elect lives around the corner at Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. So when I have out-of-town visitors I drive them by the two residences and say this is our idea of public housing in New York.” Funny, Tom. |
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| Ackerman Gets Some Press
There it was, a double page spread (pgs 36-37) in this week's Newsweek proclaiming in the lead that Queens Congressman "Gary Ackerman is the last man you'd expect George W. Bush to turen to for advice." Yet the national news mag continued, "Ackerman was a bit surprised when Bush invited him and other members of Congress to the White House . . . "Yes, Ackerman, even though he called the President's handling of the war, "totally inept," was among the select group who "ripped into" the administration's Iraq policy. And they told you with Ackerman's name blasted in 36 point headline size type across the two-page spread. Now we know Ackerman knows his way around the print media, after all, he started the Queens Tribune 36 years ago and has been a part owner since then. He's served on media companies Boards of Directors -- and can still write a mean political column. But Newsweek, the Washington Post-owned newsweekly which has won more National Magazine Awards than any other newsweekly (and with no former Trib reporters involved)? We wondered how the skilled media master manipulated this one, so we asked him. "I have no idea," Gary told us.
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| Goofy's Trib?
No, that's not Goofy, but some affectionately call her father that.
Emma Elizabeth Rafferty of Maspeth, daughter of Trib editor Brian, knows how to enjoy her holidays in Disney World , thanks to the Tribune. No matter where she is, she keeps up to speed on the holidays and everything else Queens by reading our monthly special editions -- she has to. You too can take the Trib on your vacation and make this page. Just email a jpg and details to conf@queenstribune.com. |
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