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Photos
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Models Of Queens
Suddenly Susan
photo: Bill Brent
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Susan Stewart
Home: Jackson Heights
Age: 25
Height: 5’7"
Weight: 120
Stats: 34B-29-36
Susan is a multidimensional young woman
from Jackson Heights. She writes, sings, and has played the part of an axe murderer.
Susan kept busy while at Townsend Harris H.
S. She became president of Students Against Drunk Driving (S.A.D.D.) and founded an AIDS
awareness club. She also interned at Big Apple Parent because she wanted to be a
journalist.
Then in her senior year, Susan became a
host on PBS’ In the Mix, a show for teens, produced by teens. She got to
introduce music videos and talk about teen issues. One of the episodes that airs
frequently has an eyebrow ring wearing Susan who trains to skydive.
During her freshman year at Queens College
as a theatre and media studies major, Susan landed a part in an off-Broadway show. She
joined an improv group, "Theatre of Dreams."
Susan also played the character Sooze in
the play Suburbia and was an extra in the acclaimed "Kids," a teen film set in
lower Manhattan.
Susan was also an axe murderer appearing in
a short film called "Medication".
These days she films in her own
neighborhood of Jackson Heights in her first feature length film, "Lovely
Lilly."
Susan plays Susan DeBenedetto, a cocktail
waitress at the Cavalier Restaurant set in 1964. "Working on Lovely has been great
and it’s also hard work," says Susan.
When she’s not acting, Susan writes
short stories and dabbles with the guitar. She also sings for the electronica punk rock
band An Exploding Star.
Susan, the product of a Columbian mother
and a father from the Midwest, wants to perfect her Spanish.
She enjoys the new facilities of the YMCA in Long Island
City for aerobics and karate classes and loves all-you-eat Japanese buffets on Queens
Blvd.
Hooter And The
Spiderman
QConfidential caught up with cat burglar Amy Beth
Bennett at LaGuardia Airport.
Jewel thief caught in a web.
photo: Ira Cohen
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She was trying to make a getaway on a
flight to Tampa, FL for the Thanksgiving weekend. Bennett by night is a sexy dressed
waitress at Hooters. But by day she is an aspiring actress. Her most recent stint was
playing a jewel thief in the upcoming Spiderman movie. Adapted from comic books, Spiderman
is a superhero with wall crawling and web spinning abilities whose alter ego is Forest
Hills teenager Peter Parker. In the movie, Bennett almost pulls off a jewel heist until
Spidey comes along. The cops find her caught in a web.
Created From
Pain; Intended To Heal
Photographer/artist, Middle Village resident Gregory Testa sent us the
above image he created from color slides and newspaper clippings. Greg tells QConf that
the image was, "created from pain and intended to help heal." Greg's work can be
seen at: http://www.testafoto.com.
Elvis
Is In The Cottage
There is a reincarnation of Elvis Presley who strolls around the Irish
Cottage Pub and Restaurant every Thursday night, bringing back the passion of the
60’s when Elvis was "King."
Paul "the King" Muldowney dons the attitude, persona
and body gyrations of Elvis, then croons some tunes like, "Teddy Bear," and
"Can’t Help Falling In Love With You."
Muldowney, a bartender at the Forest Hills Pub, who has been a Presley
fan since the 70’s, reminisced about his early yearnings to emulate the celebrated
rock star.
"I began to appreciate him after he died," said Muldowney.
"I liked his voice, especially the young Elvis, and began to imitate him."
The Elvis idol goes to Graceland, the home of Presley, three times a year, and already
has reservations for next year’s service memorializing the 25th anniversary of his
death.
Paul "the King" Muldowney
Posterior
Patriotism?
Patriotism is on the rise from sea to shining sea but the designers of
a whacky website that sheds some moonlight on our nation’s greatest landmarks may
have gone a bit too far.
Have the designers of this website cracked up?
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The creators of the website
"ButtsAcrossAmerica.com" have some viewers all cracked up with photos of
traveler’s bare assets in front of landmarks like the Statue Of Liberty and the
Hollywood sign.
But, we at QConf couldn’t
help noticing a lack of local landmarks on the site.
Now we don’t advise our readers to do
anything illegal to help put Queens on Butts Across America, but we think its time to show
the world that we are all that we are cracked up to be.
Send us a copy, please!
Inflation
Amid the hustle-bustle on Jamaica Ave. in Queens Village, where the
music, food, and language of the East and West Indies permeate the air, the large faded
red remembrance of the past maintains a presence at its former home.
The F.W. Woolworth Co. sign above its graffitied, abandoned building is
a reminder of the old five and dime store where patrons spoke the languages of eastern and
western Europe, and found household items from safety pins to ironing boards.
But today's variety stores in the area, owned and patronized by new
Americans, offer the same items, only the price is 99 cents. |
