Anna Chibisova
Age: 16 months
Weight: 30 lbs.
Height: 78 cms.

If starting a career while you are young is any indication of success, then the future looks bright for Anna Chibisova from Forest Hills.

With blue-eyes, blonde hair, and a resemblance to Shirley Temple, Anna has looks that make the grown-ups go “ga-ga.” That’s why she was approached by Camera Two Studios to help her career grow from a crawl to something bigger.

Unlike models much older than her, Anna doesn’t worry about watching her calories. According to her mom Yelena, she has a great appetite and is at least a “head taller” than most kids her age. 

This beautiful baby – who is of Russian ancestry – likes the water, swinging in the park, and just sitting around talking. 

Just beginning to speak, she blurts out words like “Mommy,” “Poppy,” “Buddy,” the name of the neighbor’s dog, as well a plethora of Russian verbs notifying her mom that she wants to play, eat, sleep, or drink.

And conversation is coming along just fine, according to Anna’s parents.

Her favorite show is Tarzan, according to mom, who has videotaped Anna’s reactions while watching the screen. She looks at it smiling with wide eyes.

Another activity she enjoys is taking a stroll down the streets of Forest Hills with her parents and her own miniature carriage carrying her toy baby, which she cradles to sleep each night.

Anna is one social butterfly, says mom. “When she meets children her age, she tries to play, give toys, and tries to converse.” 

Her mom told us, “When she was eight months old, she was smiling at everyone.”

No Style

Rapper Styles – a.k.a. Styles P. – a Corona native, and a member of the ‘L.O.X.,’ will be heading to jail in November.  Styles, who says his “government name” is David Styles, will be serving an eight-month term beginning in November for stabbing a man, according to published reports.

Styles’ first solo album, A Gangster and A Gentleman, debuted on July 9 and, according to sources, was “the biggest hip-hop seller of that week” and one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the summer.  Good Times, the hit single off the album, was #17 on Billboard’s chart of top rap singles.

Styles does not appear happy about his government-funded vacation, saying, “Who wants to go to jail?  Jail sucks,” but he was apparently trying to maintain a positive outlook.  “I’ll catch up on my reading, get in better physical shape, and get some rest,” he said.

Fantastick Loss

Queens and the theater world lost one of their own earlier this month with the passing of Lore Noto, the Forest Hills resident who produced “The Fantasticks,” the world’s longest running musical.

“The Fantasticks” opened in 1960 to mixed reviews and later enjoyed enormous success until its final performance in January 2002.

Following the final show, Noto reportedly climbed on stage as the curtain was lowered. “Sort of like the New Year’s Eve ball coming down in Times Square,” he said. “We’re setting the bar at 17,162 [performances]. And God bless and good luck to anybody who wants to beat it.”

Seinfeld
Not Laughing
Over Book

Jerry Seinfeld has a vendetta against East Hampton, and he can’t stand Massapequa.

The funny man and legendary Queens College graduate is currently miffed over an unauthorized biography. Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon, penned by celebrity biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, will hit the shelves on August 6, and is described by the author as being “a celebration” of the popular and successful entertainer’s life.

But Jerry is not amused. “This book is an unauthorized biography written by a tabloid writer formerly employed by the National Enquirer,” Seinfeld fumed in a released statement. “Its credibility is self-explanatory.”

One passage in the book recalls an incident from Jerry’s college days when he was kicked out of an East Hampton community after neighbors complained about the noise from Seinfeld’s unlicensed motorcycle. According to the book, after Jerry purchased a house out in East Hampton years later, he proclaimed to a friend that no one else would have the chance to throw him out of East Hampton a second time.

Another section of the biography alleges that the young Seinfeld saw to it that he graduated early from Massapequa High School so that he could leave the area as soon as possible. Oppenheimer continues to say that Seinfeld thought Massapequa was “provincial,” and the biographer cited Seinfeld’s practically blank track record of supporting Massapequa causes.

Not funny!

Bush Criminals Hit Park Triangle

Someone is skulking along Queens streets by night, stealing city shrubbery.

The thieves are slicing, splicing and chopping bushes, shrubs and trees planted at a City “Greenstreet” at Northern Boulevard and 37th Avenue in Long Island City. The triangle, which once housed a bus stop, was seeded in the late 1990s — part of the City’s effort to provide foliage in those out-of-the-way spaces.

Over the past few months, entire bushes and shrubs have gone missing, a tree has been “chopped” down, and other bushes and shrubs are being cut for transplanting.

It’s obvious — because the thieves are leaving holes in the ground where they’re stealing the bushes — and the spliced shrubbery is getting smaller and smaller as each day passes.

A call to the City Parks Department “hotline” has not stopped the sneak attacks. The site is becoming an eyesore, and that’s a shame since the effort put into creating it was sincere.

It’s the sort of thing Henry Stern would shed tears over.

Confidentially New York . . .

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