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| Hot Momma
Jennifer Marquarzdt Home: Astoria Age: 30 Height: 5’7 Weight: 130 pounds Expecting Models Inc. Motherhood hasn’t stopped one former Rockette and Broadway star from looking good. Jennifer Marquarzdt, who is a chorus dancer in the show “42nd Street,” gave birth recently to her first child, Sydney. That birth helped launch a new career for the showgirl: as a pregnant model. She’s working with Expecting Models, a New York based agency that hooks pregnant models up with maternity and parenting modeling jobs. After a baby is born, the baby and mom then model together. “It’s wonderful now that we can work together. I just bring my baby with me,” said Marquarzdt. But the competition is still stiff. “I might get the job, she might get the job, or we might both get the job…” “It used to be that when you got pregnant, there was no work for you,” she said during a recent interview. But now, with baby books, cribs, bottles, and walkers, advertisers are scrambling to find a pretty face and round belly to market their goods, according to Marquarzdt. “There’s such a hot market, you can still model, have a baby, and still keep working.” As exciting as her new career sounds, Marquarzdt admits she’s no pioneer. “So many people on Broadway have babies, and the costume people are great at hiding it.” What did the pregnant tap dancer and singer wear as a cast member in 42nd Street? What everyone else was wearing: “Short little shorts and little tops because we were chorus girls of the 1920’s.” Marquarzdt was tapping and strutting across stage until she was seven months pregnant, and took private tap lessons until three weeks before giving birth. She said that helped her and her baby stay healthy. It also explains how the former Rockette got back her figure. |
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| Queens Immortalized In Wax
Queens’ most well-known webcrawler has a new home – the Hollywood Wax Museum.
Starting July 31, Spider-Man will enter the hallowed halls of the museum, along with Harry Potter, and Captain Leo Davidson of “Planet of the Apes.” The Spider-Man wax figure was molded in the image of actor Tobey Maguire, who played Spidey in the blockbuster film last summer. The museum’s wax artist Paul Barnes said, “Creating a real-life wax likeness of a digitally-created character is a challenge. Our team spent 200 hours molding the body and another 150 hours to paint and finish him.” The buff web-slinger will live in the Wax Museum’s front lobby, and will be positioned casting a trap for his arch nemesis the Green Goblin. |
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| Seinfeld At Sinatra High
Funnyman Jerry Seinfeld will be the keynote speaker at the June 25 graduation ceremony at Frank Sinatra High School of the Arts – the first graduation that the recently-opened school has had.
Former Governor Mario Cuomo is also expected to attend the event, to be held at the Main Stage of LaGuardia Community College. Seinfeld, a Queens College graduate, is an expert on graduation day antics. He has said that when he graduated from high school, he grabbed his diploma, hopped on a train, and delivered his first stand up performance that same night. |
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| Sign Of The Times?
Those who don’t think of Queens as a hotbed of Republican politics may want to look around the borough with a more discerning eye.
Case in point, the sign above, on a building near the intersection of Broadway and Steinway Street in Astoria. It’s a 1996 campaign sign endorsing then Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole, running mate Jack Kemp and Long Island City Republican leader Vincent Tabone’s bid for the Assembly. Maybe it's politically fervent displays such as this that got New York selected as the site of the Republican National Convention? |
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| Perfection
While the movie “The Stepford Wives” was being filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios, passersby were shocked to see the “perfect” onscreen wives acting downright dirty in the street.
According to multiple people, dozens of women playing the genetically altered Stepford Wives – women genetically altered to be perfectly subservient to their husbands – took the streets during breaks, smoking cigarettes and getting flirty with the male cast members and stage workers. Apparently, many of them were cursing up a storm, and discussing sex, as well. They must be great actors. Donna’s Killer Look Fashion guru from Forest Hills Donna Karan received her lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America last week. And joining the celebration were several hundred PETA protestors. The protestors stood outside her flagship store in Manhattan holding signs that read, “Donna Karan’s Killer Look.” Another protestor held up a photo of a man clubbing a baby seal. Yet another protestor wore a “body-screen” TV showing video footage of seal’s being slaughtered earlier this year. Still, it was a lovely evening. |
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| Poetic License
We spotted this Benz on Kissena Blvd. by 72nd Rd. but no sighting of Jerry Garcia.
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