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| Stepping It Up
Paola Rico
Home: Elmhurst Age: 25 Height: 5’3" Weight: 103 lbs Stats: 34-24-31 Queens girl Paola Rico has been modeling since the age of 12. Her mom – whose foresight was astute – enrolled the Flushing-born Colombian beauty into a modeling school in Jackson Heights where she learned to work both a runway and a camera. Modeling was a hobby for Paola until recently when she realized her profound interest in the world of fashion, clothing and celebrity. The 25-year-old hasn’t met too many celebrities, but one’s enough: she’s currently dating a member of Paulie’s crew – a minor character from the HBO drama “The Sopranos.” Paola graduated from LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City last year with a degree in accounting, but has since spent most of her time doing promotional modeling for various companies, including Verizon, Reebok and Irish Spring. The salsa and hip-hop dancer who attended jazz school for sometime also works as a shot girl on the weekends at Tropix bar in Rego Park. She has somehow found the time to do some acting in small independent films, but said she’s hoping to gain more exposure during her next two gigs — promotions for a car show in Brooklyn and modeling for a new clothing line in June. She’s also leaving her Elmhurst home to travel to Atlanta for another gig soon and, though she’s bound to enjoy it, she’ll miss some of her favorite Queens hotspots, which include Austin Street in Forest Hills and Bell Boulevard in Bayside – Slate and Crazy Moose will simply have to do without Paola’s presence for a few days while she reps Queens down south. |
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| We Like Mike
His airness Michael Jordan showed he was a baller both on and of the basketball hardwood when he made up for a bad tip he gave an associate on the horse races.
Tichina Arnold of Queens, better known for her role as Pamela James in the sitcom “Martin” and Rochelle on “Everybody Hates Chris,” complained after Jordan gave her a bad tip at Churchill Downs in the sixth race. Although Arnold only lost a Benjamin, to appease her, Jordan reached into his deep pockets and reimbursed Arnold 10 times over with a cool $1,000 to bet on the Derby. Now that’s a day at the track. |
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| Queens ‘King’ Dethroned
The King has resigned his throne.
The hit comedy “King of Queens” bid adieu to the airwaves with its final episode. The popular show that set its fictional stage in Rego Park called it a wrap with its 207th show, though you can still catch it in syndication. But where will national TV audiences get their fill of our Queens? Doug (Kevin James) and Carrie Heffernan (Leah Remini) reeled in about 8.7 million viewers a week with their loving yet sometimes dysfunctional marriage. That’s a lot of eyeballs focusing on the glamour of our borough since it first aired in Sept. 1998. James, who plays a delivery man, said he was leaving a piece of himself behind here in Queens, even if the show was filmed in California. “It’s longer than I’ve done anything in my life,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve never held a job for that long, so in that respect it’s bittersweet, you know? You look back, and you’re proud of what you did…It’s so sad because right down to everybody on the crew, I spent more time with them than I did with my actual family in the last nine years. Remini lamented the show closing its curtain: “I’m unemployed now for the first time in 10 years,” she said. “I so grew to love being Carrie that in a way, it’s hard to imagine not being her anymore.” We’ll miss you. |
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| Blue Day
It turns out that JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day debacle left one more person heartbroken and stranded – founder David Neeleman (above).
With dozens of planes stranded on the tarmac and hundreds of angry passengers left for as long as 12 hours just yards from the warmth, safety and food of JFK’s terminals, the Queens-based airline tried its best to make it up to their customers. After free ticket vouchers, pledges to avoid future catastrophes and a statement of passenger rights the airline took its final step last week to shake its unfriendly skies image. They canned their founder, CEO David Neeleman. Neeleman will still stay on as a member of the board of directors, but his focus will be on long-range planning – not the day-to-day operations. The former CEO was featured in a recent edition of the Tribune that focused on the borough business success stories. As news spread of Neeleman’s departure, the airline’s stock shot up 5 percent – guess this was yet another move toward success. Oops! |
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