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| Hold Onto Dream
Jessica Fernandez Astoria Age: 24 Height: 5’5" Weight: 120 lbs. Stats: 32C-26-38 Modeling is not an easy gig, and Jessica Fernandez knows it. The Elmhurst-raised fashion guru has been into fashion since she was five. “I used to design clothes for my dolls,” Jessica said. She loves every aspect of the fashion world, so whether it’s putting on makeup or doodling designs on paper, Jessica wants to be a part of it. Although she adores fashion, Jessica’s other passion is acting. She has been to numerous casting calls, but because of her full time job as a leasing manager for a real estate property management company, she has a hard time making it to callbacks. If it were up to Jessica, she would want to be discovered by an agent glimpsing at a shot of her in a high-end magazine. That way she’ll have all of her bases covered. When Jessica is not at casting calls or getting headshots done, you can find her at her dance classes. “I like dancing to hip hop, jazz and house,” she said. Before focusing on her modeling and acting career, you could find Jessica dancing at the New York City clubs all night. Jessica’s father is very supportive of her dreams to be a model and actress. “He tells me keep going, keep going baby, don’t give up,” she said. With her father’s faith in her and a little hard work, Jessica plans on hitting the fashion and entertainment industries by storm. |
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| Schwimmer Suit
Apparently David Schwimmer likes to keep his friends who are pathological liars to a minimum.
The Astoria native and former star of “Friends,” which ended after a nine-year run last spring, has filed a $2 million lawsuit against celebrity fund raiser Aaron Tonken for allegedly telling the National Enquirer the actor refused to attend a charity event unless he was given two Rolex watches as “payola.” In the suit, Schwimmer refers to Tonken, who last month was sentenced to more than five years in prison for fraud, as “a scheming, pathological liar.” Schwimmer, 37, is set to make his big-screen, directorial debut next year with the dark comedy “Run, Fat Boy, Run.” |
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| Donning Trump
You’ve seen Queens -born Donald Trump everywhere. He’s at the casinos, on TV and now the real estate tycoon is putting his name on clothing. The Jamaica Estates-raised mogul will be launching clothing lines of men’s suits, coats, slacks and possibly golf gear. According to Sheldon Brody, chairman of Marcraft Clothes, “Trump is really a brand name.”
So instead of watching him on TV, you can look like him too. |
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| 9 Into 50?
During a Carling Weekend Reading Festival in England last month, Southeast Queens rapper 50 Cent was booed off stage and pelted with plastic bottles.
After the event, 50 was reportedly wanted for police questioning when a fan claimed the US rapper threw a microphone in his face during his performance. The 18-year-old, from Pewsham, Wiltshire England said: “His parting gift to the crowd was to hurl his microphone into the audience. It hit me and my legs went from under me.” It’s hard to get a break even after being shot nine times. |
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| Bling!
Finally, a literary treat entitled, simply, Bling.
Queens native Erica Kennedy, a writer at the hip-hop magazine Vibe, and a close friend of Southeast Queens emresario Russell Simmons and model/designer wife Kimora Lee, takes readers on a 480-plus-page trip through a fictional career of a hip-hop artist. Kennedy covers all the basic elements of the rap industry people have come to expect from MTV videos and police blotter reports: manipulative managers, tough singers and adoring—and bodacious—groupies. |
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| DiSpirito's Rocked
Rocco DiSpirito, the most famous chef from Queens last year, may just have peeked and faded before his thirty-ninth birthday. Rocco who is about to turn 39, shares a November 19th birthday with another Queens foodie, Congressman Gary Ackerman.
Born and raised in Jamaica, Rocco’s culinary love affair began in his mother’s kitchen. His parents immigrated to New York City from southern Italy in the 1950s and instilled in him a deep appreciation for food. In 1997, Rocco opened Union Pacific in Gramercy Park. He was awarded three stars in the New York Times in a 1998 review. In 1999, he was named Food & Wine’s Best New Chef, and in 2000, Gourmet magazine called him “America’s Most Exciting Young Chef.” And then in the summer of 2003 under spotlights, chronicled on NBC TV’s “The Restaurant,” he opened Rocco’s 22nd Street. Later that summer, more than nine million viewers a week tuned in to see the ups and downs of Rocco’s family-inspired eatery. He was an instant celebrity, successful author and had the City eating out of his hand. Then, after financial setbacks and power struggles with back Jeffrey Chodrow, a Manhattan judge ruled last July that Chodrow, had permission to close the money-losing restaurant. And without fanfare, the short-lived eatery closed recently, and a new Brazilian-French eatery, will be run by chef Claude Troisgros of France, and is also under the control of Rocco’s TV nemesis Chodrow at the 12 E. 22nd St. location. No word yet on Rocco’s fate. | |||||||||
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