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| Plain Jane Girl From Astoria
Bethany Jean Home: Astoria Age: 34 Height: 5’9 Weight: 125 lbs. Stats: 34-30-29 Agency: Icon Her face has recently graced an AT&T ad everywhere from billboards to Glamour, People, and even Sports Illustrated – the Swimsuit Issue, of all things, but Bethany has not let it go to her head. After all, she’s been in the industry on and off for 13 years. Back in 1991, someone from Sassy magazine found Bethany in a coffee shop, and a few weeks later she signed with Pauline’s Agency doing high fashion photo shoots and appearing on the Lifetime channel – just like that. It was easy, the money was good, but Bethany dropped it to pursue other dreams – art and music, and didn’t come back to modeling until a few years ago when a photographer asked her to do some commercial shoots. “When I was young it was more high fashion; now it’s more commercial,” she said. “Now that I’m 34 they’re billing me as the Plain Jane girl.” It obviously works well for Bethany, since even during the slow summer season she goes out on shoots at least twice a week. And her looks, as modest as Bethany is, get the same attention they did that day in the coffee shop. “People come up to me on the street and they’re like: ‘Come do this job.’” When Bethany isn’t posing, she paints, takes photographs and plays drums in a band called Touched by An Uncle. |
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| Split Personality
Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan has found her twin in Rosie O’Donell. They share the same haircut, smile and both love stating their political views. Although Nolan has not been in the spotlight as much as her look-alike, recently-wed O’Donell is hogging enough camera time for both of them.
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| GOP Escapees
The stampede of elephants at the Republican National Convention is scaring away at least some of the most notable faces from Queens.
Actress and talk show star Kelly Ripa won’t be hanging around Long Island City’s Silvercup Studios, where her sitcom Hope and Faith is filmed. The show is on vacation and apparently, the pint-sized thespian is heading out of town. Funnyman and Queens College alum Jerry Sienfeld will be spending some extra time in his luxurious Hampton’s estate when the GOP is in town. |
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| An Appropriate Albany Tribute
The professional lawmakers of Albany won a good deal of notoriety this year, shamefully passing the most delayed budget in state history, deftly dodging a court order to find a solution to the vexing problem of school funding and generally creating an atmosphere of dysfunction so pronounced that a study by a New York University policy center called it the worst in the nation.
With so many claims to infamy and disgrace, it is little wonder that the Albany herd in general—and shepherds Pataki, Bruno and Silver in particular — have become popular targets for scorn and derision, both in the media and among the public at large. As the air of farce hung heavy around the capitol this summer, with lawmakers scrambling to and from special sessions while the budget became ever more tardy, it seemed as if no one looked up to Albany anymore. A new study by the Princeton Review, however, has found that at least one constituency still looks on the state government as a role model. In survey of 357 colleges and universities, based on responses from 110,000 students, analysts named SUNY Albany the number one school for parties in the nation. Apparently, the lackluster, do-nothing approach of the nearby lawmakers has had a profound impact on the student population of the capitol. The report ranked SUNY Albany seventh in terms of both hard liquor and marijuana consumption, ninth in beer guzzling and—most fittingly of all, given the proximity of the state lawmakers — last in the nation in terms of the amount of time students spend studying. |
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| Punchaholic
Corona kid John Leguizamo's newest role will not take him too far from home.
Leguizamo will be playing a boxer in a movie, but unlike Mickey Rourke or Sly Stallone, he would never want to be one in real life, despite his love of the sport. In fact, his role as Lex Vargas in the TV movie “Undefeated” would have never materialized had he known beforehand how hard the training would be. It took John six months of rigorous physical boot camp to prepare for the role in the film that he also directs. “I felt like a masochist,” Leguizamo said about his ordeal. Interestingly enough, the boxer he portrays in the movie is a Jackson Heights native. |
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