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She Started In Pampers

Noelia Crystal Diaz
Home: Flushing
Age: 22
Height: 5’ 5"
Weight: 115 lbs
Stats: 34-26-33

Noelia landed her first modeling job as a baby in a Pampers commercial. The green-eyed beauty said she’s been modeling steadily for eight years. She’s done print ads, Internet modeling and was an extra in about five different movies including “Carlitos Way,” “Splash” and “The Long Kiss Goodnight.”

Noelia works at New York Sports Club in Forest Hills and volunteers for the Bayside Volunteer Ambulance Corps when she is not modeling. She graduates in May with a BA in Psychology from Stony Brook University.
Modeling would make a great full time career for Noelia but she says, “it takes a lot of dedication and the competition is pretty fierce!”

Noelia hangs out at the College Point Theatre and the Bay Terrace Shopping Center, shops in Flushing and visits out in Astoria from time to time.

“I love living in Queens. The fact that it is so big that when you go through different parts its like passing through many different cultures,” she said. “There are also so many great places to eat and hang out at without having to go into the city.”

Noelia enjoys dancing, working out, reading and friends.
“I once went for an audition where I had to read lines," Noella told QConf a favorite modelling story. "I was so nervous about being on camera that I forgot my own name when they called me in! Surprisingly I made the callbacks!”
We’ll call you back.
 
 
Two-Bit Cuz

50 Cent, Two Five
Change please.

50 Cent took the country by storm with his gangster lyrics and his self-portrayed film about life growing up on the tough streets of Jamaica, but now he has another obstacle to face and one that has half his name.

Hard to believe, but aspiring rapper Two Five or 25, whose real name is Michael Francis, has gone public recently, telling the Associated Press that he is 50 Cent’s first cousin and the two grew up drug dealing together on the same streets made famous by 50 Cent’s controversial film, “Get Rich or Die Tryin.”

Francis, 22, says he was often referred to as 50 Cent’s younger brother and claims they both even grew up in the same house.

According to Francis, the two had a falling out a number of years ago, but the word from 50 Cent’s camp is that there is no relation between the two.

The reasoning, Francis said, is that his older cousin doesn’t want him to “inherit” the same beef that regularly keeps 50 Cent vested in bullet proof attire.

As for Francis, who hopes to make it big in the music industry without the help of his cousin, his message to him was simple. “You stay on your side of the street, I’ll stay on mine.”

Do I smell a sequel?
Liu, Liu

Jackson Height's Lucy Liu
Americans can’t get enough of celebrity gossip, and one of the first new glamorous couples to draw the attention of both the public and the paparazzi are Jackson Heights-born Lucy Liu and the debonair George Clooney.

The two were seen together in a Manhattan restaurant, and shared a passionate kiss in the back of Clooney’s limousine. They cuddled so close that many publications quoted an onlooker as saying, “She looked like she was going to devour him.”

The Liu and Clooney love boat has swirled in the past, when the two dated in 2000. But since then, Clooney took up a relationship with British supermodel Lisa Snowdon and talk of his relations with Liu simmered down greatly. But in early 2005, Clooney said bye-bye to Snowdon and seemingly has Liu once again in his sights. Liu’s agent, however, declined to comment on the supposed romance rekindling.

Aside from their love relations, one link that the two share is polished and blood-spouting director Quentin Tarantino. Clooney starred opposite Tarantino in 1996’s vampire-flick “From Dusk Till Dawn,” which Tarantino co-wrote. In the director’s hit revenge saga “Kill Bill Vol. 1,” Liu played villain to Uma Thurman’s “The Bride,” only to fall victim to the main character’s blade and not make it to the sequel.

Let’s see if Liu’s love for George doesn’t die out so quickly this time around.

Inventors Unite

A Woodhaven man is giving inventors the best thing since sliced bread – exposure.

Arthur Gabriele will launch “The Invention Channel,” a weekly television show on Queens Public Television.

“Inventors short of capital have had a hard time finding sources of exposure for their inventions, even after the hefty cost of the patenting procedure,” said Gabriele.

Gabriele said that there will be presentations of 10 new inventions to each show, up to two and a half minutes per spot. Also, new inventions are now being excepted for presentation for the first show. Inventions can be submitted from anywhere in the world. Interested inventors can go to http://www.agabrieleproductions.com/contact.html to learn how to enter.

It is fitting that Queens cable host the Invention Channel. After all, one of the most popular inventions in history was perfected by a Queens man – the light bulb was courtesy of Lewis Latimer of Flushing.

Just Another Queens Welcome Sign

Welcome to Forest Hills Gardens
The Forest Hills Gardens Park is a small enclosed park in the old, upscale residential community that well, seems less friendly than the local tow truck contractor that boots your car for parking on their "private streets," and charges you gasoline barrel type prices to get it back.

Not only can't you play, bike, barbecue, catch, throw in their park, or walk your dog, you can't ever be there at night. But, unless you're one of the wealthy locals, you can't even enter their "Private Park."

"Residents Only" reads the friendly sign which first welcomes you and then lists the rules that only the real local locals need to follow.

The rest of us aren't welcome on their streets or in their park.

Welcome to Queens at its best.
Favreau’s Martian Dreams

It looks like while Jon Favreau was directing the intergalactic adventure “Zathura” he was bitten by the sci-fi bug and now the after affects are determining his next directorial project.

The Bayside native has been throwing around the idea of following in many sci-fi fanatic directors’ steps by making yet another adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “John Carter of Mars.” Favreau thinks this project, which is in pre-production, could really have something to it, since the film would have only one human character and the rest are 15-foot tall green Martians.
He’s also said with all the technology available today that there has been no better time than now to get the Martians on the screen.

For now Favreau has artists hard at work researching green Martians and he’s working on an out-of-this-world script that he hopes by the spring will help the crew determine whether or not the movie will go ahead.

“It’s pretty big,” he has said. “Theoretically it could spin out into a fully fledged franchise, which is, I think, what the Holy Grail is for the movie studios now.”

Having Fun

Richmond Hill's Cyndi Lauper
Queens native Cyndi Lauper is a girl having fun in her Broadway debut in Bertolt Brecht’s “The Threepenny Opera.”
Cyndi got the chance to come out and play Jenny, who is one of the prostitutes in the show, when Edie Falco of “The Sopranos” dropped out.

“The Threepenny Opera” is about a highwayman and his sweetheart. He marries the young girl whose father does everything in his power to end the union. The show was first seen on Broadway in 1933. The musical re-make, directed by Scott Elliot, will begin previews at Studio 54 on March 24 and open April 20.

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