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| Model Writer
A previous QConfidential Model of the Week, Isobella Boucher has fulfilled her dream of becoming a published author. In 2003, when this Astoria girl was featured on this page, she said that along with modeling and finding work as an actor she wants to be a published author. “I would write just for fun,” she said, never expecting this kind of recognition. She penned a bunch of poems that were the catalyst for completing her first book. Isobella explains her writing as “a poetry of love” and “of the moments when you fall in love, how the air changes, the little tiny things like that.” Her vision evolved into a book titled “Perfect Love Deception: A Modern-Day Fairytale.” “I wrote poems which were good and had visions and dreams,” she said. “That is where ‘Perfect Love Deception’ came to be. I am a visionary and my dreams come true. That is how I can write: I get a vision, write it fast, then edit it.” Isobella completed her manuscript in three months after which it was picked up by Publish America and is currently available online but will soon be in bookstores. The illustrations in the book are professionally done by one of Isobella talented friends, Snezic Radulivic from Croatia. He is already working on the second book titled “Streets Where Poetry Began,” which Isobella describes as “a poetic journey through the streets of emotion. When Isobella isn’t working on her literary career, she keeps busy by working in a retail store and continues to model and work in film with directors like Ray Parada and Chili Palmer. Her follow up book is scheduled to be released in 2008. Isobella is hopeful that her books will translate into film and is eagerly searching for her next big break. Isobella Boucher Home: Astoria Age: 21 Height: 5’ 7" Weight: 114 lbs Stats: 32-24-31 |
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| ‘Dalton,’ We Hardly Knew Ye
File this one under “Boneheaded Moves.”
Veteran NY1 anchor/reporter and former PRESS of Southeast Queens columnist Gary Anthony Ramsay was apparently let go by the station for allegedly making a crank call to NY1’s nightly call-in show, “The Call.” According to published reports, Ramsay allegedly dialed in to the Nov. 9 show claiming to be “Dalton, from the Upper East Side,” and delivered his opinion on former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Big no-no, Gary. NY1 has said Ramsay left on his own to pursue other options. Regardless, after 15 years at NY1 it appears Gary Anthony Ramsay’s run has come to an end. But we here at QConf have always been glass-half-full kind of people, so we feel it’s just the beginning of what promises to be a brilliant career for one “Dalton, from the Upper East Side,” a guy who knows Queens. |
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| Brooklyn Fuggotaboutit
Queens homes may have been hit hard by summer flooding, but the borough still fared better than Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx in the Department of Housing and Preservation’s recent survey of buildings citywide with serious violations. Under the new Safe Housing Law, the agency is required to identify neglected buildings and put pressure on landlords to make improvements. Of the 200 buildings that made this year’s list, only five were in Queens. Brooklyn led the pack with 132. Owners have four months to improve living standards. Heat and hot water have been designated as a priority, but 80 percent of other violations must be corrected or the City has the right to initiate repairs and have the landlords reimburse later. |
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| A Queens Starlet
“Like many New Yorkers, she came to the city from someplace else, aiming to go as far as her talent could take her. She was just starting out, and when she arrived from rural Florida, she moved into a small place in South Ozone Park, Queens, so close to Kennedy airport she could hear the planes roaring overhead as she ate breakfast.”
No, they’re not talking about an aspiring singer or actress, but rather a racehorse. A 2-year old thoroughbred racehorse from Queens, Karakorum Starlet, was featured in a Nov. 18 New York Times article. The horse is commercially owned by three dozen New Yorkers, mainly those from outer boroughs. To own a piece of Starlet costs $499 up front plus a monthly fee of $29 - a small price to pay for such a city-savvy equine. |
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| Poison Pen
When two New Yorkers were poisoned back-to-back in 1898, yellow journalists descended on the murder scene, churning out sensationalist interpretations of the crime. Now Harold Schechter, an American Literature and Culture professor at Queens College, has come out with a new book, “The Devil’s Gentleman,” which revisits the century-old mystery.
Schechter has penned over 20 books including the true-crime classics “Fatal, Friend, Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved” and “The Mask of Red Death,” part of his Edgar Allan Poe series. In his latest book, he makes the case that papers like the Joseph Pulitzer’s “World” and William Randolph Hearst’s “New York Journal” ushered in America’s obsession with reality as entertainment. Crime novels currently top The New York Times best seller list making the question of whether Schechter’s book is going to do well less of a mystery. For more info visit haroldschechter.com. |
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| Payback
A warning to would-be robbers: beware of Erick Grocery on 77th Street in Woodhaven. The 50-year-old owner is willing to protect his livelihood at any cost. A 28-year-old gun-toting thug entered the bodega and demanded cash. He didn’t get cash, but he got more than he bargained for. The thug squeezed off two guns shots; the owner, who apparently saw Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, dodged the bullets and then exacted vengeance with a machete. With a few quick swipes the large knife the robber had one less ear and trigger finger. The nine-fingered, one-eared would-be robber was taken to Jamaica Hospital. | |||||||||
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