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| Media Dreams
Jacqueline
Home: Elmhurst Age: 22 Height: 5’ 5" Weight: 120 lbs Stats: 34-24-32 For Jacqueline, modeling is a dream come true. “It’s been something I’ve always loved since I was a child,” she said. “I used to love to see the runway, and to think that one day that I will do it. I know I’m not tall enough to do high fashion, but I decided to take the initiative, to go to auditions, and really give it a shot.” Besides the modeling, Jacqueline could see herself acting, and has been going on auditions long before her first modeling gig. She knows though modeling and acting, may be dream jobs, they may end up just as that – dreams. She is a student at Queens College majoring in media studies with a minor in business. “That’s going to be my main focus,” she said of school. “I’m taking modeling as a part time job. She wants is to be on television and says acting and modeling go hand-in-hand with the media studies. “It all goes together,” she said, “plus you have to know a little bit of business. . . I just hope that everything comes together.” For this Elmhurst girl – who was even born in Elmhurst Hospital – Queens is the place to be. “I love Steinway Street and going to Queens Center,” she said. For this outgoing girl, whose parents attend the Rock Church (the former Elmwood Theater), love for movies and TV runs in her veins. Let’s see if it lands her on the other side of the silver screen. |
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| At A Loss For Words
The Borough President is seeking a wordsmith with the write stuff for the residents of Queens. The Cultural Affairs office of Queens is looking for a replacement poet laureate for the borough, after the departure of former poet laureate Ishle Yi Park vacated the position that she has held since 2004, and that she managed to wrangle out of the assured hands of the Rev. Run, of Run-DMC fame.
According to an article in the New York Times, only 15 people have applied so far, and the Beep needs more submissions to take a fair sampling. The new poet laureate will be selected in May, and the only requirements are living in, and writing about Queens. Couplets, stanzas and iambic pentameter to be used at the poet’s discretion. |
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| Snakes At A Game
At a spring training game in Florida between the Mets and the Cleveland Indians, a snake got loose in the press box, causing sports reporters covering both teams to run out away in terror.
According to ABCnews.com, the three-foot-long black snake crawled across laptops and writing tablets, fans laughed at the assembled press corps, who had bolted from the press box so quickly that it caused a ruckus. When a stadium worker released the snake in the parking lot, the reporters returned, to finish covering a 6-5 Mets win. The victory put the Mets, a favorite to win the division again, firmly in 16th place in Grapefruit League play, only 6 games back of the leading Cincinnati Reds. |
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| Physical Therapy
Sexy schoolteacher Julian Fantechi made some Queensites hot and bothered this week—but not in the way the Playgirl posing mod intended.
Turns out, the 37-year-old occupational therapist at PS 99 in Kew Gardens appeared as the cover model in August 2006 and showed his goods as the mag’s centerfold, much to the dissatisfaction of some parents who caught wind of his expose last week. “I’d want them [parents] to know that just because I was a Playgirl centerfold has nothing to do with my capabilities as a physical therapist,” he told the Daily News. Tell that to the millions of women have used his photos for their own kind of physical therapy. |
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| Wheel Of Fortune
Imagine going on the number one syndicated game show in the country, solving only one puzzle, and blowing a chance for $35,000. Sound like fun?
Well according to longtime QConf cartoonist, “It absolutely was!” Dom Nunziato who has penned (or computer generated) his zany little graphic commentaries at the bottom of the Confidential and Not4Publication pages of our paper for more than five years, claims, “It is better to be lucky than good.” He solved one puzzle and won trips to Alaska, St. Croix, and the Bonus Round! An interesting itinerary even for a creative mind battling his way out of Wall Street. What did Dom learn for the experience? Two things that made him feel better, he says: First, “I wasn’t the only BLANK PAGE in the bonus round. A whole lot of people told me they couldn’t figure out that puzzle.” And finally, the man who gives you those distored faces at the bottom of our page insistred, “I look DAMN GOOD on TV!” |
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| A Good Day
Recently, a working Joe from Queens who hadn’t had much luck with the small gambling he had been doing decided to pay the $300 entry fee and take part in a World Series of Poker tournament at Caesar’s Palace in Atlantic City.
Pete Mavro, primarily a cash-game poker player, told organizers that he played in the tournament because he “had a miserable week in the side games.” That proved to be a wise decision, for Mavro, as he pocketed $23,226 for fourth place on March 5. Though he was leading the tournament after a day and a half, with a purse of $939,000 sitting in front of him when he got down to the final nine of the 1,106-player tournament, he was happy to walk away with a giant wad of cash in his pocket. Queens’ renowned diversity has proved to be just that – renowned, as one major media conglomerate has launched a New York-based reality television show with casting auditions in Queens. Menudo Entertainment LLC, which was part of the huge success of the boy band Menudo from 1977 to 1996, is commemorating the band’s 30th anniversary with a reality show the “Road to Menudo,” on MTV Tr3s, MTV’s bilingual counterpart. The show beginning May 12 will document the journey of several 15-year-olds who want to become boy-band members and is expected to produce a debut album in December. Contestants should be bilingual – and what better place to find such participants than at Queens Center Mall, the largest mall in the borough and one of highest-grossing in North America. Auditions will begin there April 28 and contestants will be asked to prepare by selecting English or Spanish songs from a list on mtvtr3s.com. With Latino cultures and traditions, and the ever-present Spanish in many neighborhoods, Queens residents have a promising chance to bring their incomparable Queens flavor to the mix. | |||||||||
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