....May 12, 10:06 AM
 
 
 
Model Woman
Paola is not your average model. Trained as an actress at the Weist Barron School of New York, she was cast recently in a lead role on the A&E series “Watching the Detectives” and will be featured in an upcoming episode of “The Unusuals” on NBC. She is also collaborating with “En La Escena TV,” a bilingual entertainment show on Latino and Caribbean lifestyle, as Associate Producer and Assistant to Executive Producer.

In her time modeling, Paola has graced the pages of Latina Magazine, Everyday with Rachael Ray, All You Magazine, House Beautiful, Inc. and 20/20 Magazine.

Paola said she carefully picks the type of work she chooses, something “that will match with the proper representation of all women.”

To that end, in November 2007 she was invited by the “Tyra Banks Show” to participate on the “So what” campaign to raise awareness of positive body image.

Whether it is acting or posing for the camera, Paola loves what she does, but also enjoys time out in her new-found borough.

If you want to see more of Paola, you can find her in an upcoming Duane Reade series of ads or simply go to paolacancellieri.com.


Paola Cancellieri
South Ozone Park
Age: 25
Height: 5’ 6"
Weight: 135 lbs
Stats: 36-28-37

 
 
Wearing Woody Allen
T-shirts bearing the image of Woody Allen as a Chassidic Jew will be given away for free in a promotion by the Queens-run Web site 7FatCow.com. 7FatCow, which is a collective of mostly ex-Orthodox Jews, takes issue with Allen’s $10 million lawsuit against American Apparel – a trendy clothing company – which used the Allen image on their ad billboards without his permission.

The image, which is a still from his movie “Take the Money and Run,” has a caption translating to “The Holy Rabbi,” written in Yiddish. A representative from American Apparel explained that Allen – a devout secularist – is the company’s “spiritual leader.” Apparently, the feelings of adulation were not reciprocated.

In addition to promoting the Web site, the point of the T-shirt giveaway is to poke fun at Allen’s ungracious response to the company’s use of his image. 7FatCow, which is run by a Sunnyside resident who goes by the handle “de profundis,” likened Allen to a “petulant autistic child,” and feels that his litigiousness is a result of Allen’s distaste for the Jewish community from which he hails.

The free T-shirts will be made available for order on 7FatCow.com on Friday, May 8. There is no word yet from Allen’s lawyers on the shirts.
'Super Hootie' vs.Parakeets

Whitestone's Super Hootie
The ongoing battle against a flock of wild parakeets responsible for repeatedly destroying high-voltage equipment in Whitestone just got a not-so-new champion.

Workers upgraded Hootie, a mechanical owl intended to scare of the troublesome birds, last Tuesday – painting him orange and equipping him with a bright orange cape.

The workers dubbed the new Hootie as “Super Hootie,” saying the parakeets disliked the color orange.

The upgrade came after the birds knocked out power at nearly 1,500 homes the day before when their nest short-circuited Con Edison’s 24,000-volt feeder reclosure, destroying it.

The cost of replacing each reclosure is estimated at $20,000.
Eric Ulrich’s GOP Gaffe

GOP Councilman Eric Ulrich
We have reported that 24-year-old Eric Ulrich, who won the recent special election to replace Joe Addabbo in the City Council, is a regular guy who drives a Chevy Impala and watches “Family Guy,” as he told New York Magazine. But it was something else he said at the time that has some of our Southern friends up in arms.

“Republicans aren’t all religious fundamentalists from Alabama; some of us are just normal working-class Catholics from Queens,” Ulrich said.

Uh-oh.

“If justifying your participation in the Republican party by disparaging part of its core constituency – those types that ‘cling to their God and guns’ – is what’s ‘normal,’ then, Mr. Ulrich, I’m glad I’m not normal,” wrote Suzanna Logan, a blogger from Birmingham, Ala.

Another blogger, Robert Stacy McCain, wrote “If Eric Ulrich and the New York GOP were half as organized and energized as folks down in Alabama, maybe they wouldn’t have lost that NY-20 seat.”

Ouch.

And those are the comments we can print.
Big Plans
While the government is busy handing out its own stimulus funds, Rego Park’s Bing Sheng Zou got a million bucks of stimulating money thanks to a scratch-off lottery ticket.

The 27-year-old sushi chef purchased the winning ticket at Woodhaven Boulevard’s Quick Stop. He will receive his winnings in installments, with an annual check of $32,000 coming to him after taxes.

His employer might have something to worry about now though.

“I love working as a sushi chef,” Zou said. “Now that I am a millionaire maybe I’ll open up a Japanese restaurant of my own.”
Pro Boxing Makes Queens Debut
Fight promoter Joe DeGuardia brought his Star Boxing brand to Queens last Tuesday.

The event, dubbed VIP Boxing, was held at Russo’s On the Bay in Howard Beach.

Vinny Maddalone, a Flushing heavyweight defeated Benji Baker in lopsided fight that was stopped after the fourth round. The win brought the 35-year-old’s record to 32 wins and 5 losses with 22 knockouts. Maddalone is mounting a professional comeback after his loss to former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield during a match in 2007.

Curtis “Showtime” Stevens emerged victorious by unanimous decision over Dan Mouton during an eight-round super middleweight contest.


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