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| Making It In Queens
Miho Makamura
Home: Rego Park Age: 36 Height: 5’2" Weight: 110 Stats: 32-24-34 This Rego Park babe has been in the game for quite some time, appearing in numerous photo shoots, advertisements, and commercial prints. Miho has appeared in a music video for Queens rapper 50 Cent and has also done commercials for Castle Lager Beer. Miho has a great deal of acting experience with American Independent films and stage performances. Two years ago, she starred in Silver Spring Studio’s “In Search of Mr. E.” Her favorite acting roles, however, came in the plays she performed with the Subaru Theatre Group in her native Tokyo, starring in plays written by Shakespeare and Chekhov among others. Miho believes that American actresses rely too much on their looks and not enough on their talent. “They think that just because they are pretty, they could be successful,” she said. “You need the brains to go along with it. If people just want to stand out because of their looks, then they are not for the arts.” Miho loves to cook and said she can whip up anything from Japanese to Italian food. She enjoys going down Flushing, where she can experience a wide variety of restaurants. She also likes going to Astoria for Greek food. Now living in Rego Park, Miho moved there from neighboring Forest Hills a year ago. She said she likes living in the area because of Austin Street and other accessible shopping venues. “It’s a fantastic place to live because everything is so convenient. All you would ever need in life is close by.” |
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| Government At Work
A Fresh Meadows Marine who just embarked on his second Iraq tour posted a note on his MySpace Web page as a caution to anybody else who may find themselves in his situation – headed into the war on terror: no small weapons allowed.
“So I am getting ready to board the plane to Kuwait City and I am loaded for bear,” he wrote. “We all have our weapons on us with other assortment of gear and we are told that we cannot carry knives onto the plane with us... Plane full of Marines, all carrying weapons and I can’t carry my four-inch pocket knife on board. The perfect start to a long deployment. I am in Kuwait now and will be leaving for Iraq in a few days. Hope everyone is doing well. Miss you guys. Take care.” From all of us here at Q Conf, we wish him luck and hope the big weapons they have waiting for him over there do the trick. |
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| Not-So-Naughty Nancy
Nancy Giles has had to fight stereotypes all of her life.
The 6-foot-1 black woman from Southeast Queens has been an actor, radio personality and, most recently, a commentator for CBS Sunday Morning where she uses her wit to point out what she deems to be social wrongs. “I resent looking at fashions and having them on emaciated women who look like teenage boys,” she told the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. “I like to debunk ’isms’,” Giles said. “Sexism, racism, ageism — these topics are going to be with us.” Besides her work in films such as “Working Girl” and “New York Stories,” Giles is the writer and performer of the one-woman shows “Notes of a Negro Neurotic” and “Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Racism.” “When I was in college I met people who immediately assumed … I knew where to get the best drugs,” she told the Citizen Times, “I was a virgin. I didn’t do drugs.” Giles pours that fresh attitude into her work on the stage and on TV on Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. on Channel 2. |
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| A Good Knick’s Sleep
Just how big is 1-800-MATTRESS these days?
Sure, you can leave off the last S for savings, according to this Queens success story. The company founded by immigrant and longtime Queens resident Napoleon Barragan and now run by his son Luis has carved a niche in the market by over small prices and big savings. But recently they went beyond king size to do a custom job for another prominent New Yorker. New York Knicks forward/ guard Quentin Richardson just couldn’t find the right bed for his 6-foot-6 frame, let alone even think of sharing his boudoir – even on a king size pillow top. So along came Barragan and 1-800-MATTRESS to save the day. They crafted him a custom made, 10-foot-square mattress and box spring to help give the man a good night’s sleep. It is made with memory foam, cashmere, wool and silk. Okay, so with that problem solved, and Richardson now able to get a good night’s sleep, could the Knicks actually turn themselves around? |
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| Katrina Faker
The storm has followed Donna Fenton from Mississippi to New York.
The 37-year-old Brooklyn woman was arrested this week when the police finally realized she wasn’t really a Hurricane Katrina survivor, but rather a con artist who brought along a long record of fraud from her former home in Mississippi (before she moved to Brooklyn years ago), adding on several counts of welfare fraud and grand larceny when she reached a Queens hotel. Fenton, who was the focus of a New York Times article earlier this month, was already under suspicion from Brooklyn prosecutors that she was a faker and was trying to get a little more than the thousands of dollars in aid she had already gotten from government agencies. Good catch. Send her back, even though she’s not from there. |
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| LL’s Fashion Tips
Laurelton-born rapper LL Cool J has evolved a great deal since the days when he was swinging out rhymes and flexing his muscles with a white undershirt or nylon track suit and Kangol hat.
As maturity and confidence began to seep into his mindset, LL maneuvered his career down many avenues of entertainment, as he became a successful actor and a fashion designer. Sure, he’s made a mark on Hollywood, starring in movies like “In Too Deep” and “S.W.A.T.,” but with his fashion career beginning to blossom, BET tapped the Queens superstar to host “Rip the Runway,” which premiered March 23. The Brand Jordan, G-Unit, Enyce, Stephen Burrows, Bathhouse, Aqua Couture, Qristy Designs were some of the designers that were featured during the evening. BET’s “Rip The Runway” was a successful spring bash, as a slew of entertainers, including recent Oscar winners Three 6 Mafia as well as Busta Rhymes, and Mobb Deep performed while long-legged models strutted down the runway. | |||||||||
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