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| I Want To Be Teacher's Pet
Cynthia
Home: Astoria Age: 31 Height: 5’ 7" Weight: 115 lbs Stats: 36-25-32 For Cynthia, Queens has always been home. A graduate of St. John’s Prep, she went on to earn her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and later her Master’s in Education before she decided to take a job at a local elementary school. “Everyone always told me that [modeling] would be a great field to get into,” she said in a recent interview. “I had a lot of compliments from people, so I figured it would be a great hobby and why –not? I just do it for fun.” This fun hobby has been going on for about three years, “and is going pretty well, actually,” Cynthia said. “I’ve had people extend me a lot of invitations to work for them.” Just recently Cynthia signed with Influx Media to be a model for Sprint Wireless. “I didn’t think this was going to be so successful,” she admitted. “Still, it’s not my first priority. I do it mostly for fun. I’m kind of more laid back about it. I try to go to casting when I’m off from school.” When not in front of kids or the camera, Cynthia finds herself at the gym. “I like working out, so I go to the gym a lot,” this six-pack beauty said. “I also love watching movies and going outdoors – basically anything connected to nature. I really enjoy being outside a lot when the weather is nice.” When hanging out, Cynthia spends her time in Astoria and on Grand Avenue. “There’s a place I go where I get cappuccino and chocolate crepes that are delicious.” |
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| Spider-Man-ia
Queens’ favorite wall-crawler is taking the entire city by storm, starting at the end of April, as New York City has declared a “Spider-Man Week in NYC” in conjunction with the upcoming third installment of the Spider-Man film franchise on May 4.
As a part of the stunt, the film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 30, and then at the Astoria 14 Theatre in Astoria. It will represent the first time that a major Hollywood feature-film will host its premiere in Queens. There will also be themed events in every borough in the city, all directly related to the superhero picture. Who knew that a kid from Forest Hills High School could go so far? |
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| Huh?
Now lets see if we can straighten out this big circle.
Eric Gioia, the young Councilman from Woodside for the last six years, worked in the Clinton White House before pursuing local politics. He married Lisa Hernandez. The Speaker whom Gioia worked under, Gifford Miller, hired Lisa in 2005 to help with his mayoral campaign that self-destructed in the wake of a mailer scandal. Meanwhile, back to Clinton – in this case Hillary Clinton. The junior Senator from New York, whose husband employed Gioia, works closely with the senior Senator Chuck Schumer, whose protégé is U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner, who was another unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 2005. Weiner is seeking the spot again in 2009 and has hired – you guessed it – Lisa Hernandez-Gioia to help run his campaign. What a tangled web we weave. |
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| Best Of The King Of Queens
Who’d have thought that a modest depiction of the daily lives of Queens residents would become a nationally famed television series – and one that would become a family favorite, lasting nine strong seasons?
The lively, interesting, fun residents of Queens probably did. And now, the rest of the nation will tell Queens residents, and the producers of “The King of Queens,” which part of that depiction they loved best. Sony Pictures Television is hosting “’The King of Queens’ Viewers Choice” where fans will vote for their favorite episodes of the show and then get to watch them air in national syndication in May. From Monday, April 16 to Friday, April 27, viewers will vote on the show’s Web site, thekingofqueens.com, and will then get to watch the five best episodes during the week of May 7. This will be a great lead into the hour-long series finale that airs on CBS at 9 p.m. on May 14. And lucky fans will also get to see the pilot episode that same day on stations across the country. It doesn’t really come as a surprise that the show – with funny characters like Doug and Carrie Heffernan and Carrie’s farther Arthur (played by Jerry Stiller who also played the Queens-based father of “Seinfeld”’s George Costanza) – is the third highest-rated sitcom in syndication. It is, after all, based on the incomparable residents of Queens. |
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| What Accent?
Who knew the Kweenz accent is a Wikipedia entry? According wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Kweenz is cited as having some of the strongest New York accents.
The entry goes into great depth about how and why Kweenz-ites tawk the way they do. In linguist and speech therapist jargon, the explanation refers to geographical, ethnic and class factors in addition to the less obvious causes like “dentalization:” New Yawkers tongues tend to be lazier when pronouncing “t” and “d” thus making them indistinguishable. The “r-lessness” (think pass the butta) that makes the New York accent so famous, can even be heard in the recordings of New York homie FDR, the entry says. Turns out, there’s nuttin’ tha matta wit yo’ afta awl—it’s just your accent. |
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