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| Van Buren Beauty
Keisha Greene
Springfield Gardens Age: 17 Height: 5’ 3" Weight: 110 lbs. Stats: 32-26-36 Keisha Greene has been modeling for the past five years. She started runway modeling in junior high school at PS 231 where she was trained by English teacher Rita Baffour, who is also the director of the PS 231 annual fashion show. “I did their annual fashion show and I just kept doing it,” she said. “Last year I went back to PS 231 to help the new models to learn how to walk.” She has also traveled to Virginia to model for four different designers at a fashion show there. When Keisha is not modeling, she is busy with classes at Martin Van Buren High School, where she also serves as the senior president of the 2007 graduating class. She also works as a part time cashier/sales associate at one of the stores in Green Acres Mall. “I don’t get to hang out much because my schedule is shaky,” she said. “I just hang out with my friends at their homes. I like to shop, model, and help people with their problems and that’s why I’m planning to major in Psychology in college.” Keisha said she hopes that modeling will become a full time job for her. She particularly likes runway but would also like to do print and “company shows.” The Georgetown, Guyana native said her favorite thing about Queens is that it is so different from Brooklyn where she used to live. “It’s not that rowdy and I love the suburban atmosphere,” she said. |
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| Spidey On The Web
Queens’ most famous superhero hit the internet recently in a trailer for Spider-Man 3, with the film itself scheduled to be released in theatres on May 4, 2007.
The full-length trailer, which shows the Queens hero clad in new black duds, debuted Nov. 9 on an episode of MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” then hit the internet for those who can’t be troubled to lift the remote. The trailer was also attached to the new James Bond film, “Casino Royale,” which debuted Nov. 17. The Spider-Man sequel, shot on location in parts of Queens, including Kew Gardens, Forest Hills and Sunnyside, has already been the subject of hours of fan speculation with the inclusion of several villains new to the series, played by Oscar nominee Thomas Hayden Church and “That 70’s Show” star Topher Grace. |
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| Thanks To Chris
Queens native Tichina Arnold, who plays Rochelle, the sassy, scary, fast-talking, scolding mother of young Chris Rock and self-confessed “ghetto snob” on “Everybody Hates Chris,” said she has the freedom to do her own yabba-mouthing on the show and is quite happy about that.
“I love ad-libbing and kind of going off the cuff, so they give me room for that all the time . . . I’m happy that Chris and Ali [Leroi] trust my abilities to be able to do that,” yabbed Arnold. Arnold said Chris Rock is very hands on with the production aspect of the show and stays up with the writers until 3 a.m. in the writers’ room. “When I walked through the door and Chris Rock was sitting there in my first audition, I knew it was going to be something,” she told UPI. “Celebrities don’t do that!” |
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| A Swift Kick
Queens has become the new and suddenly hip stomping ground for Steve Madden’s clunky platforms and strappy-spike heels—even though the borough is their birthplace.
Madden is rediscovering his company’s Queens roots with a new ad campaign that proclaims: London, Paris, Queens. Marketers are dubbing Queens the “new-New York,” you know, because Long Island City just got its five-borough membership card in the mail from Madden. Either Madden and his minions have no sense of geography, or what they really meant to say is “Queens is the new Manhattan,” ‘cause city transplants are known to use “New York City” as a misnomer for Manhattan. Hello, there is life outside that svelte strip of island, and if you venture over, Stevie, we can show you how we kick it Ka-weens-style in your leopard print wedges. |
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"It's Nacho Cheese" The staff of the Queens Tribune was hard at work watch-dogging government and documenting the tribulations of Queensites last Thursday when a delivery box full of pseudo-cheese turned into an office debacle. The yummy package was filled with Veggie Cheese, a product made from soy to ensure no cow was harmed in the making of the imitation dairy slices. Because we are courageous newshounds, we decided to take a nibble of the Super Stix, hot-dog-looking soy sticks made to be eaten like mozzarella. Well, we didn’t all try it – just the new guy, Matt. We considered it our one shot at hazing the newbie who was triple-dog-dared to scarf down an entire stick before taste-testing it. The self-proclaimed non-vegetarian stuffed it into his mouth as we watched in horror (and pure amusement) his face turn a shade of scarlet. He obviously wasn’t enjoying the soy snack, but like a champ, he kept chomping on it even after our editor—who walked in to angrily tell us to get back to work—asked Matt if it tasted like “moldy liverwurst.” After he recovered from his very first encounter with fake cheese, he had this to say: “It tasted like a human foot casserole.” Mmmm… |
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