From left: Beyonce Knowles at NBC Summer Concert Series; E! Television “Wild On” host Cindy Taylor at the Absolut Ritmo party; Rose Falcon, originally of Rosedale, now Columbia records recording artist with her hottest song on Inspector Gadget 2; Mariah Carey at the Fresh Air Fund Benefit; Chris Martin of Coldplay at Madison Square Garden.

photos: Steve Azzara - steveazzara.com

Hanna Brzoza
Home: Ridgewood
Age: 20s
Height: 5’6"
Weight: 103 lbs.
Stats: 34-25-34
UModels #22077

Twenty-something-year-old model Hanna Brzoza  – she doesn’t want her exact age revealed – is used to doing things early.

She graduated from Aviation High School at age 15, having skipped the fifth and 10th grades.

She owns her own business, called Zoza Baskets, from which she makes a living planning events and making party baskets from her home.

The business is enough to make a living, she said, and it’s still on the rise and she recently launched www.zozabaskets.com, and hopes to get some office space within a year.

But it’s her family life that really shows her get-there-quick attitude.

She got married when she was only 17!

Now, she’s enjoying married life as well as the mommy life: she has a five-year-old daughter named Joshua (no, that’s not a typo).

Hanna, whose maiden name is Hosein, has a lot of interesting ethnic connections, too.

Not only is the Trinidad-born beauty mixed – her dad is German and Indian, her mom is Chinese and Spanish – but so is her daughter. Hanna’s hubby is Polish.

Being of mixed race, Hanna said, is a mixed blessing.

It gives her a very unique look, but it also throws off clients who aren’t used to anything but a typical look.

“I think it’s hurting me to an extent because what they’re looking for is either midwestern girls with blonde hair and blue eyes…or the total opposite, the Nubian Princess.”

When it comes to modeling, however, Hanna apparently doesn’t have to worry about what agencies want. Discovered two years ago while vacationing in Florida, the Ridgewood resident has done a lot of event modeling and fashion shows, as well as a women’s empowerment magazine from Virginia called “WSIN.”

In August, she’ll be gracing the floor of the Nubian Fitness event in Manhattan.

And while she said a full-time modeling career would be great, the St. John’s University computer graduate understands it takes a lot of hard work and is looking forward to growing her business.

“It’s about who you know and who can help you more than your talent or how you look,” Hanna said.

Can You See Me Now?

Some of the most delicate of all geological features – salt marsh wetlands – grace the southeast corner of this borough near JFK Airport.

But even the tall grass and snowy egrets of Idlewild Park, a 160-acre sponge next to Jamaica Bay, aren’t enough to keep the most ardent environmentalists from using their cell phones there.

During a recent canoe tour of the wetlands taken by about a dozen community activists, several of them couldn’t stay away from their little beeping, buzzing, vibrating talk boxes.

The Parks Department’s Assistant Commissioner for Citywide Services Jack Linn made sure to point them out, asking one activist, “You call yourself a naturalist?”

When a QConfer sharing Linn’s canoe got a call himself, he said, “It’s kind of hard to talk right now; I’m paddling a canoe in the middle of a swamp,” leading Linn, more amused than offended, to let out a guffaw.

But the joke was on two commissioners when Richard Murphy, Queens Parks Commish, got separated from the other seven boats on the tour.

He could not be seen anywhere and without binoculars or a walkie-talkie, there was only one way for Linn to find his man.

“Rich, where are you?” Linn barked into his trusty cell phone.

It turned out Murphy was already on the ground.

Unlike while driving, there’s no ban on using mobile phones while paddling a canoe.

For the sake of Parks commissioners everywhere, we hope there isn’t one coming!

The Turn Of A Phrase

Motorists cruising down the westbound side of Horace Harding Expressway may or may not have noted that the Cinema City Theater in Fresh Meadows seems to be screening a film not available at any other venue. 

To take the typographically questionable marquee at its word, it appears that Cinema City features a new comedy about funeral home hi-jinks and mix-ups cleverly titled “Wrong Urn.” 

QConf will leave the plot possibilities of such a morbid-yet-zany movie to the twisted mind of the reader.

The truth, as always, is in the proof reading. “Wrong Turn” — an equally morbid but probably less comedic film — is actually playing at Cinema City.  The actual movie is a bloody gore-fest of a thriller by Director Rob Schmidt and tells the tale of young stranded motorists who encounter a trio of cannibalistic backwoods boys on an ill-fated road trip.

Anyone with extra T’s lying around the house is encouraged to contact the management of Cinema City about donations.

Renaissance Man

Queens’ own Oscar winner Adrien Brody has been all over the papers of late thanks to the release of the new film “Love the Hard Way,” which was actually filmed before his career-making star turn in “The Pianist.”

As part of the interview tour the actor conducted to promote his new indie film, Brody told a wire service reporter that he planned to touch base with Rego Park resident Tommy Zarobinski during his time in New York City for the film’s premiere.

According to Brody, his impromptu Oscar night shout-out to Zarobinski – who was serving on the frontlines in Iraq at the time – actually helped temporarily shield his childhood friend from danger. 

“For the time being it kind of protected him a little bit because they pulled him back from the front to Kuwait to do ‘Access Hollywood,’” said Brody, in a remarkable demonstration of celebrity’s long reach. 

Rumors have linked Brody with a new love interest, perennial rock girlfriend Michelle Dupont, who has dated pop idols like Fred Durst, Perry Farrel and Dave Navarro in the past.

Perhaps she is interested because of Brody’s musical side. Other reports suggest that the star of “The Pianist” might be trying out some other instruments on a CD he plans to eventually release. Brody fancies himself a composer and producer of “beats,” the background track to hip hop songs – though he promised he would leave the rapping to someone else.   

“It’s easier for a musician to be taken seriously as an actor than an actor to be taken seriously as a musician,” Brody complained.

Who knows? He comes from the borough of rappers!