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Age: 22 Ht: 5’ 5" Wt: 112 Stats: 34-25-36 Interboro Fashion & Model Watch out for this knockout: Lareicha Frazier, a former Miss New York contestant who isn’t quite satisfied with her results. She’s taking acting classes and has even co-starred in a music video busting up a drug deal gone bad, setting the tone for some gun toting action. When not tormenting thugs in videos, Lareicha hits the runways in clubs and fund-raisers, as well as modeling for up-and-coming magazines and other photo shoots. Discovered while posing for her senior pictures at York College last May, this Jamaica native says she always wanted to pursue a career in modeling and acting and now she is doing it. She takes acting classes at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Lareicha has put her Community Health Education, degree to work as a secretary and counselor at the Young Adult Institute in Hollis Hills. What separates her from other up-and-coming models, Lareicha says, is her openness. “In this industry, a lot of girls have bad attitudes. I think I am open-minded, friendly and pleasant to work with.” She said she really enjoyed her trip to Albany last month, vying for Miss New York in Trump’s competition, even though she didn’t get the crown. “I met a lot of new people and it was great. All the models helped each other out.” Lareicha says she used to hit the club scene, but has slowed down a bit, going out now for networking purposes. What’s her favorite feature? Lareicha says, “My face, of course.” She added that she doesn’t have to work out much, but really concentrates on her abs. Her dreams include acting in any form of television and movies and she hopes that a honeymoon in Hawaii with her rapper boyfriend is in the works. |
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| Gracing Flushing
As Christmas drew nearer and the networks looked to fill their time slots with repeats from the current season, NBC’s “Will & Grace” re-ran their hour-long Thanksgiving episode last week.
For those not in the know, Grace is an interior designer who lives with her gay best friend and life partner, Will. Well, Will has started dating a cop named Vinny from Flushing this season, and for the Thanksgiving episode Will and his gang ended up making Thanksgiving dinner at his boyfriend’s Flushing home. If you think the inaccuracies of “Friends,” written and filmed in Los Angeles, were severe, this episode of “W&G” takes the cake. First, the “1,600-square-foot” home the blue collar family lived in seemed to be more like 3,000 - unusual for Flushing (except for McMansions). Next, the stereotypes came flying. The grumpy mother and jovial dad (Ernie Sabella) were fine, but their young daughter (Jaime Lynn DiScala from “The Sopranos”) had an accent more North Jersey than Northern Boulevard. The 16-year-old cousin was an over-the-top stereotype Italian. The furniture was all wrapped in plastic. The jokes about not respecting Queens because it had an area named “Flushing” flowed freely - but that’s not the biggest faux pas. Thanksgiving dinner, at what was to be a traditional Queens Italian family (the same dinner that the mother had been making for decades) was turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams and green beans. Any Italian worth their sauce knows that Thanksgiving, like any other holiday, is a food spectacular. Where was the pasta? Where were the meatballs? The only dessert was a pie. C’mon! Besides bad accents and dingy furniture, the only thing about the episode that had anything to do with Queens, was the main character and his boyfriend. |
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| G Unit Boot
Queens-born Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, designed a boot for Reebok released last month. The G-Unit B1 is the first boot Reebok has revealed that is designed by a music artist. Available for both men and women in different color assortments, the G-Unit B1 is made of full grain leather and retails at $100.50 for women and $110.50 for men.
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| Very Odd Couple?
We recently named Brixton Doyle, the aggressive zoning reformer a "Community Crazy." Ally Sheedy, who first caught our attention in the '85 adolescent smash movie, "The Breakfast Club," is a veteran of some five dozen films. The two were once an item -- they, according to one in the know, " dated very seriously."
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| John McEnroe
Douglaston native John McEnroe’s outspoken views of news, sports and entertainment on CNBC apparently weren’t serving up viewers the way he mastered Grand Slam tennis titles back in the late 70’s and 80’s. His show, titled “McEnroe,” which aired Mondays thru Fridays at 10 p.m., was axed earlier this month due to abysmal ratings. According to news reports, the show averaged about 75,000 viewers per night, some nights barely even registering on the Nielsen ratings table. Guests Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Richard Dreyfus, Regis Philbin and Elton John apparently weren’t a set-match for McEnroe, whose show lasted only five months.
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| Bowling For Palestine?
Yasser Arafat was a controversial figure in life, known for bold, unpredictable and dangerous tactics as both a terrorist and a diplomat.
Even in death, the Palestinian leader continues to cast a long shadow over world events. But who could have guessed that, among the many revelations a fashionable bowling alley in NYC and another, "Strike" just over the Nassau border -- widely used by Queens residents -- would be implicated in his network of secretive dealings? Reports reveal that Arafat had invested $1.3 million in Strike Holdings, which returned the investment recently, after learning the source, but not before creating a public relations stir among patrons including former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The strange discovery of Arafat’s bowling investment led to lightning fast political recrimination from the usual suspects, who could not help but draw on the sporting imagery. Congressmember Anthony Wiener, for instance, charged, that the government, “has had more trouble tracking [the money] we’ve already sent over than hitting the 7-10 split.” | |||||||||
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