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| Lena Jamon
Lena Jamon
Age: 21 Height: 5’ 6" Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Stats: 32-21-34 www.models.com For Lena Jamon of Jamaica, her latest foray into the world of modeling is not her first. In her teens, Lena had done a good amount of glamour and fashion modeling, “But I wasn’t in anything big,” she said. Realizing that modeling was not going to always pay the bills, Lena took a break for a few years to focus on school. Attending Hunter and Queens College, she graduated with a degree in nursing, and now works full-time as a nurse for two internists and a gastroenterologist on Park Avenue in Manhattan. But her first passion is modeling. “I just went to college so I could have something to fall back on,” she said. Lena is now working with a Brooklyn-based agent from Morena Entertainment, and has posted her information on models.com in hopes of landing more work. While not working or going on casting calls, Lena enjoys many of the things most 21-year-olds in Queens do. She hangs out at clubs in Manhattan and frequents Slate on Bell Boulevard, where she enjoys playing pool with her friends. Despite the popular belief that models only hang out with models, that’s not true for Lena, who said she is the only one of her friends who is into modeling. “My friends are in college, doing pre-med work, they are lawyers. They’re just average people like me,” she said. “I like being around different people and getting to know about new things.” One piece of advice Lena has for aspiring models and anybody else is rather simple: “Be your own self,” she said. “Never try to follow, never compare yourself to anyone.” |
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| Where’s The (Best) Beef ?
Forget how many the Golden Arches have served, or whether or not you get it “Your Way.” The best hamburger in all of New York City, according to Time Out New York, isn’t where you think. The beef-eating editors and trend-sayers of the magazine said the best burger joint isn’t Peter Luger’s, or Bayside’s Uncle Jack’s, or even any of the hip eateries in the Meat Packing District.
The best hamburger is in Donovan’s, on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside. Ironically, the newly crowned king of burgers is down the street from another restaurant called...Best Burger. You be the judge. |
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| Final Charge!
Queens lost a legend as the long-time organist for the New York Yankees, Eddie Layton, 77, died at his Forest Hills home.
His Yankee career began in 1967 and he was well known for sparking the team and its fans with the “Charge” chant, “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” during seventh inning stretches and even inspired numbers such as “Singin’ in the Rain” during delays. His work on the organ symbolized the aura of the storied franchise and he was a trademark of the team’s history. His career not only included 36 years with the Yankees, but he released 26 albums, including “You Gotta Have Heart” in 1997, which sold more than 3 million copies. He also played organ for the New York Knicks and Rangers for 18 years at Madison Square Garden. He had performed concerts for the Hammond Organ Company in more than 200 cities and is a member of the New York Sports Hall of Fame. It will be interesting this season, to see if the Yankees construct another monument to go along with the already stock piled brass display beyond left field. |
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| Check Mate
You don’t have to be old to be wise. Just ask 34-year-old Rego Park resident Alex Stripunksy who lost the U.S. Chess Championship match to a chess wiz kid less than half his age.
Stripunksy played two overtime matches and lost to 16-year-old White Plains resident Hikaru Nakamura. In fact, Nakamura became the youngest American Grand Master chess player ever when he captured the title last year. Nakamura edged out the legendary Bobby Fisher, who captured a similar title when he was a few months older than Nakamura. Unfortunately, the youngest don’t always rule on the chessboard. In a women’s only tournament with a grand prize of $12,500, 16-year-old Glendale resident Tatev Abrahamyan lost to a 24-year-old. |
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| Queens Panther
Alan Cohen, NHL Florida Panthers owner and a native of Queens, has spent $2 million investing in another passion of his – thoroughbred racing. As his team awaits new contracting agreements, Cohen has surrounded himself with other athletes—10 mares and a 2-year-old filly. He also recently bought 500 acres of farmland in Ocala, Fla., where he will undoubtedly keep his new thoroughbreds. Cohen said his passion may have started when he was young and would sneak off to Belmont Park.
G-Unit G-Unit rapper 50 Cent was caught playing good Samaritan on Christmas day when he joined other celebrities in giving back to the community. The South Jamaica, Queens rapper donated money and G-Unit clothing to a charity that treated the homeless to a Christmas dinner at New York’s Bowery mission. Maybe the G in G-Unit stands for Giving. |
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| Woodside MVP
Woodside’s Ed Burns, who has been guiding his own career ever since the 1995 sleeper hit “The Brothers McMullen,” for which he wrote, directed, produced and starred, is at it again.
“A Sound of Thunder,” “Looking for Kitty” and “The River King,” all of which are in post-production are scheduled to come out in 2005. But an untitled piece in pre-production brings Burns’ love for sports back into the spotlight. In the film, Burns plays Cam Stonehouse, a one-time Super Bowl MVP who leaves the NFL after winning the big game to disappear in rural North Carolina. Ten years pass and he’s “rediscovered” at a local high school football game by a reporter from Sports Illustrated and coaxed out of retirement. He joins a semi-pro team called The Townies before once again trying to lead the NFL New England Patriots back to the Super Bowl. | |||||||||
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