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| Versatile Beauty
Jacqueline Chase
Home: Flushing Age: 27 Height: 5’4" Weight: 115 Stats: 34-28-34 photos: cox photography This well-traveled beauty called Queens home last year and brought her versatile skills and bubbly personality to the land of Flushing. A veteran of print work and acting, 27-year-old Jacqueline Chase has strutted runways and posed for numerous photographers. Recently, she was featured in a full page ad for Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzels. Pretzel commercials, however, were mere snack food compared to a role she had in the film “Failure to Launch,” which starred Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker. Though her scene was cut from the final edit, Jacqueline said it was the experience of a lifetime. “It was my first big role, and I had my own trailer and hair and make up person, so I never had anything like that,” she said. She is currently part of a traveling theatre company called Kaiser Permanente, a group that goes to schools and children’s programs to preach nutrition, health, and cooperation. “It’s extremely rewarding because children don’t lie,” she said from her set in Washington D.C. “You get immediate feed back on if they’re enjoying it or not.” Jacqueline said that though she wants to continue with modeling and acting, she also has aspirations of putting out her own fitness instructor video line, as well as being a teacher. “Working with kids in this theatre company has sparked an interest with me to continue with it,” she said. “I definitely really enjoyed the culture and my time in Flushing,” she said. “That was just surreal to me. There’s one block that’s strictly one nationality, and then you go to the next block and ‘poof,’ there’s a different one. It’s a huge saturation of people, and the restaurants and businesses really reflect the area.” Though she is on the set now, she said she looks forward to coming back to Queens soon. |
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| Blame Your Car
Tired? Cranky? Friendless? Your doctor may try prescribing the purple/green/magenta pill, but the answer might lie in the middle of traffic. According to a new study by Transportation Alternatives that included residents from Astoria, people in neighborhoods with high traffic play less with their children, get poor sleep, and have more negative feelings about their block—and basically wear their grumpy pants everyday.
The study’s apocalyptic title, “Traffic’s Human Toll,” doesn’t include any stats on the toll of rush-hour, rubber-necking traffic, but residents of Queens don’t need a study to tell them they’re ticked off. |
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| TV for LL
LL Cool J is focusing his energies on an acting career. The Hollis-raised rapper, who has been off the music scene for a while, is enjoying the attention of Hollywood.
According to All Headline News, after LL’s spectacular appearance on the hit TV series “House” last fall, several television networks scrambled to get a hold of him and numerous television offers have started coming in. It is reported that a “CSI” creator offered Cool J was a seven-figure salary for a role a new TV show he is making titled “The Man.” Cool J will star as an undercover LAPD cop who catches criminals at nights and takes care of his adopted kids during the day. Cool J is set to be working alongside Anthony Zuiker on the new television series. |
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| All Keyed Up
Queens diva Alicia Keys has denied reports that she was arrested in a domestic dispute. MediaTakeOut.com reported that the Grammy Award winner was involved in a domestic disturbance with another woman.
MediaTakeOut.com has posted photos of what certainly looks like Keys being arrested which were supplied by "a tipster" who made the domestic disturbance claim. Alicia’s spokeswoman dismissed the reports and told MSNBC’s The Scoop that the picture is from a concert a couple of years ago and that the man leading Keys along is actually her security guard. |
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| Betty’s Beginnings
When news broke last week about the existence of illegally dumped asbestos at Parkway Village in Briarwood, this paper’s staff went scrambling to get some history – and boy did we find it.
It seems that a little-known housewife, had in the 1950's, been living at the sprawling complex built to house United Nations workers for a few years before she decided to work for the Parkway Villager, an in-house newsletter. Subject matter quickly shifted from recipes and gardening tips to opposition of greedy bankers and fathers playing a more active role in child rearing – no big surprise when the editor was none other than Betty Friedan, author of the great feminist tome “The Feminine Mystique.” Her writings about the changing roles of women in “suburbia” began in no other place than right here in Queens. |
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| Branded
According to a sensationally wonderful New York daily last week, Robert Testagrossa, son of a Queens prosecutor and Nassau County prosecutor, has been charged with “robbery, unlawful imprisonment, assault with disfigurement, kidnapping and criminal impersonation.”
It all started when Testagrossa gave into the jealous whims of his 21-year-old friend Kristina Caban. The seemingly innocent Caban, with her wide brown eyes, was intent on getting “crazy revenge” on an “old lover,” so she called in Testagrossa for some help. Caban lured her one-time lover to Chelsea Inn, where Testagrossa and another man allegedly attacked the man, taking his cell phone and $10. They tied the “old lover up with duct tape, pulled his pants down, branded him, and left. When the tabloid contacted the “one time lover” for a comment, he simply said, “Nobody needs to know what happened to me – it’s nobody’s business.” Personally we’d like to know if we should be watching out for people with scalding slithers of metal. | |||||||||
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