Anna Poslavska - Miss Universe 2010 (performance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74fvpBu4BXU
Anna Poslavska, the 2010 Miss Ukraine, above, has a drop-dead gorgeous doppelgänger who frequently hits the Panera Bread in Hallandale Beach, the same one that I frequently patronize, hence my stealthy detective work here.
Actually, truth be told, it's hard NOT to see her when she's around.
Photos at http://www.missuniverse.com/members/profile/468746
Yes, in Hallandale Beach, scene of so much unspeakable undemocratic negativity at City Hall under the Cooper Rubber Stamp Crew, we'll take our small victories where we find 'em!
November 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier of Panera Bread, Hallandale Beach, and one of the two condo towers of The Duo north of it.As it is, with the the popular Russian restaurant/nightclub Tatiana across the street on Hallandale Beach Blvd., the Panera is already a very popular spot for Russians in northeast Miami-Dade and southeast Broward County, as any weekend afternoon trip there -like yesterday's, for example- proves when you hear the Russian words flying around on cell phones and among people who at least appear to be speaking via Skype with their headphones on. (Unless they're practicing with their Rosetta Stone language DVDs.)
There's also lots of cute and friendly Russian-speaking female employees there, though I suppose that some of them could actually be Ukrainian like Señorita Poslavska.
It's sort of hard not to notice the good-looks and the Cyrillic letters flying all around you.
What sort of friend would I be if I didn't mention this fact to you?
I really have a great facility with languages, if you hadn't noticed, but I must admit that I can't tell the difference between someone speaking Russian and Ukrainian.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html
Now if only Maria Sharapova would swing by there some afternoon or evening when I'm there with some friends.
You know, in the name of Pan-Slavic cooperation?
If you didn't know, right before she was born, Russian Sharapova's parents lived about 100 miles from the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in The Ukraine. They fled months after the 1986 explosion due to the deteriorating health conditions all around them while Maria's mother was pregnant with her, which is how Maria came to be born in western Siberia.
Yes, a photo with Maria is exactly what this blog needs!
Maria's forthcoming website is at http://www.mariasharapova.com/Maria was the focus of a terrific mid-August segment on ABC News' Nightline that I've been waiting to post here on the blog when there was a good reason. Now there is.
It's the second of three segments and starts at 07:34. I'd recommend going Fullscreen.
ABC News Nightline, August 17, 2010
Out of the Ashes: Maria Sharapova
Reporting: ESPN's Rachel Nichols
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/nightline-081710-11425198
Perhaps even a photo taken with me and my friend Csaba, who for months I've strongly been hinting must start a good quality Hungarian restaurant and nightclub here in HB somewhere, so that good Eastern European food -and the platoon of Eastern European models down in South Beach who hunger for it- will have a place to call home where family and friends can go and relax over a good meal.
In the late 1970's, when I was at NMB High School, there was what was reputed to be a great Hungarian restaurant in North Miami on Biscayne Blvd. -near the Wax Museum- called something like Csarda's.
It always smelled intoxicating and delicious when my family drove past it.
I also remember it because the first time I ever went there, that very same week, my theater class at school got a brand new student with a Hungarian name, who rather instantly became one of the five most beautiful girls at NMB.
She had that whole friendly-yet-mesmerizing Eastern European good-looking thing going on from the very start, such a stark contrast to the girls at NMB.
Like, well, Czech-born model Petra Němcová: very sweet, very genuine and instantly likable!
And, this new student with the very Hungarian name sat in the seat next to me in class, hence my recall for all things Hungarian!
In all my conversations with Csaba, whether on the phone while he was up near Cleveland over the summer, when I filled him in on the latest behind-the-scenes antics at HB City Hall, or over a meal at Panera's since he got back, I've insisted that this new hotspot be called Club Csaba.
Hmm-m-m... developing...
Panera Bread #4705
1729 East Hallandale Beach Boulevard, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009-4621
Telephone: (954) 457-9310
Tatiana Russian Restaurant & Nightclub
1710 East Hallandale Beach Boulevard, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
Telephone: (954) 454-1222
http://fltatianarestaurant.com/index1.html
