Photo: Francis Hills
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Danyelle
Home: Bellerose
Age: 20
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 108
Stats: 34B-24-35
Umodel #5351
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"Personality is number one," when it comes to
Danyelle’s men. They also have to like to dance and, "be able to speak English
properly. I don’t like Ebonics," she insists.
But Danyelle already has a little man – her six-year-old brother
that she takes to Braddock Park. "That’s my heart. He runs around with other
kids and I eat ice cream. I like being a kid," she said.
Danyelle has been modeling since she was 17. To her credit she’s
appeared in artistic galleries, print ads and in a spread for Platinum Plus, an
urban, hip hop magazine. She was also a featured extra in a Reebok Commercial with Allen
Iverson.
She’s pursuing acting. "If I could, I would up and move to
Hollywood," she said..
These days she auditions for hip hop videos and played a part in an
independent film called "Saving Life." As an extra in one of the scenes for
"The Royal Tenenbaums," she met Gene Hackman and got all shy and immediately
showed him a picture of her little brother.
Danyelle lives in Bellerose and is a sophomore at York College where
she majors in education with a minor in performing arts. "I want to be a teacher,
preferably English." She hasn’t decided which age group she’ll end up
teaching, but when it comes to patience she admits, "I don’t have too much.
Maybe I’d be better off with high school kids."
When she’s not spending time with her little bro, Danyelle shops
and shops — especially at Macy’s and Forever21 at Queens Center. She also loves
to watch comedies at the multiplex in College Point. Her favorite dining spot in Queens is
Pio Pio in Jackson Heights, which serves Spanish food. She also devours about four books a
month. At 16, Danyelle used to sneak into the Queens clubs Amazura and Metropolis.
And Danyelle knows Amy Beth Bennett, a recent QConfidential
"Model of Queens," who plays a jewel thief in the upcoming
"Spider-Man" movie. Danyelle knows her because they worked together at Hooters
for a couple of months.
About Hooters, Danyelle admits "the money was good," but the
patrons were annoying. The tight, orange tank top and shorts were too tacky for her tastes
but she didn’t mind showing off her body.
See you at Braddock Park.
Absentee
Ballot
When District 19 City Councilman Tony Avella heard that the
13-member Queens Democratic Council delegation that he is a part of voted 13-0 at a Jan. 7
caucus to back Speaker candidate A. Gifford Miller, he was happy, but very
surprised at the unanimous decision.
After all, he wasn’t there.
Avella said, "It’s funny, when I heard it was 13-0, I
thought, I hope that 13 includes me. I thought maybe they invited the Republican Queens
Councilman Dennis Gallagher to vote or something. But I called and it did include
me."
Apparently, Avella made his opinion known early and often that Miller
should be speaker, so when he couldn’t attend the caucus meeting, Queens Dem County
Chairman Thomas Manton took the liberty of counting his vote in support of Miller.
"Tom was right," Avella said. "If I was there, I
certainly would have voted for Giff."
Avella couldn’t make it to the caucus because of the wildcat bus
strike that stopped all Queens Surface bus service on the morning of Jan. 7. Because the
main part of the protest was happening in College Point – the heart of his district
– Avella said, "I felt I should be offering my services to the people of my
district and to their transportation. It worked out. My vote got counted anyway."
We wonder how many votes Tom Manton really has!
Hot Stuff
Even in times of tragedy, sex sells. Well, Queens FDNY members hope it
does, anyway.
On their website, Queens firefighters are promoting the sale of
the "2002 Female Firefighters Calendar," an item that is guaranteed to keep
purchasers hot all year round. The calendar contains photos of female firefighters from
South Florida, some wearing a lot less than the average firefighter’s uniform. For a
mere $12.95, anyone in the country can own a copy of the masterpiece — for $10 more,
it will come autographed.
While Queens firefighters probably enjoy the calendar for its contents,
the FDNY’s promotion of the item has more to do with charity than with hormones. This
year, $5 from every calendar order will go to the families of fallen firefighters in New
York City as a result of the World Trade Center tragedy. Each of the women featured in the
calendar volunteered to appear for the good cause.
To order a copy, go to the Queens firefighters webpage, located at
www.thebravest.com/queens/queens.htm, and click the link to femalefirefighters.com. Several posters of
the lovely ladies are also available.
Sheldon
Stein?
Shelly Silver
Ben Stein |
McLaughlin? Pheffer? Carrozza? Beuller? Beuller!
While State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver delivered his
response to Governor George Pataki’s State of the State Address on Jan. 9, one
QConfer couldn’t help but compare him to famed dry guy Ben Stein,
whose performance as an incredibly boring teacher in the movie "Ferris Beuller’s
Day Off" topped his career.
Since then, he’s played an incredibly boring teacher on "The
Wonder Years," starred in his own Comedy Central game show "Win Ben Stein’s
Money," and appeared in commercials for Clear Eyes.
As Silver slowly read his prepared speech in the most uninteresting
monotone voice possible, the similarities between his mannerisms and Stein’s became
clear. Silver stared blankly as he talked, refusing to change the tempo or volume of his
voice during the speech. He barely moved his body, showing no emotion whatsoever. He even
wore glasses similar to the ones that Stein wears.
While the QConfer noticed the similarities immediately,
it may be difficult to find another New Yorker who watched the speech and noticed the same
thing. After all, did anybody else actually sit through it?
Political
Payoff
All it takes to become a City Council member is 15 cents. That’s
not a lot considering that some campaigns cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But 15
cents is the service charge that a person must pay when he or she gets inaugurated as a
City Council member.
Former Brooklyn City Councilman Victor Robles is now the City
Clerk and he’s the one in charge of collecting the small fee.
But at John Liu’s inauguration at the Flushing Library, Liu
didn’t have enough. He just had one coin in his pocket, so someone sprung for him. It
was unknown at press time if Liu repaid his debt to the contributor.
