My tag-team partner Chris Serico (whose been harder to find than Dick Cheney these days on the blog) caught up with Moynihan, and reminisced their middle school days together in Eastchester.

During the first episode this season with Michael Phelps, Moynihan had his first break-out sketch about an overzealous pizza waiter, a character he formed during his days of being a bartender at Uno’s in Yonkers.

Most importantly, Moynihan talks about rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bill Murray and Sarah Palin, and most importantly, what it was like to spank Anne Hathaway (hay chihuahua).

Moynihan gave another interview to the Journal News with Heather Salerno, which means he either really likes our paper, or our editors are really bad at coordinating coverage hahahaha.

(NBC Photo: Dana Edelson)

The story ended up on media outlets all over the country and was even featured on MSNBC on Countdown with Keith Olbermann — a Tarrytown native.

With all the national attention, I asked the mayor, jokingly, if she was shopping around for a book deal.

She e-mailed me saying the coverage was “hysterical,” and added “Next stop – Vice President. I do have the glasses.”

She was joking, but who knows? Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — a city with around 10,000 people. Savolt is mayor of a village with almost 20,000 people.

Hey, it could happen.

(Journal News file photo)

“I haven’t watched the show yet but I will get to see it,” Sheindlin said. “I’m sure she’s terrific.”

As a TV judge veteran, she also had some advice for Pirro, Westchester’s former firecracker district attorney.

“Just be yourself and have a good time,” she said. “Don’t let anyone run you — but you don’t have to tell that to Jeanine.”

Sheindlin lives in Greenwich and is no stranger to the Hudson Valley. Her son Adam Levy is Putnam County’s district attorney and her daughter Nicole Sheindlin lives in Larchmont and is the executive director of Her Honor, the mentorship program I was covering.

You can read my story about the mentorship program here.

( Photo by Frank Becerra Jr. / The Journal News )

A true LoHudder, her connections to the region are seemingly endless. As a child, she attended Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Scarsdale, sang at the Larchmont Shore Club and provided the soundtrack at campaign stops throughout Westchester County for her father, former U.S. Congressman Joe DioGuardi. She later graduated from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. Despite graduating from Duke University with a degree in political science, she abandoned law to become a vocalist in an Ossining garage band called Gramma Trips.

After snagging multiple jobs at Billboard magazine for a five-year span, she got signed to a record deal. Although her singing career never took off, her songwriting and producing gigs did. She was partially or completely responsible for writing Gwen Stefani’s “Rich Girl,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Walk Away,” Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man” and dozens of other recent hits. No wonder she was named BMI’s 2006 Pop Songwriter of the Year.

My full story about DioGuardi is slated for the week ahead, but in the meantime, check out 10 questions and answers from my exclusive interview with “Idol’s” newest judge:

What recent song do you most wish you’d written?
“Irreplaceable” by Beyoncé.

As a singer, how far do you think you would advance on “American Idol”?
“I would hope to the top 10.”

How long have you been watching “Idol”?
“Since the beginning.”

You’d said that you thought “Idol” would have hired someone more famous to fill the fourth judge’s chair. Had you heard of any famous names who were being considered?
“They kind of kept me in the dark. I hadn’t really heard anything.”

As of Aug. 28, who was the most famous person outside of the show to congratulate you for the “Idol” hire?
“Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics).”

From the first seven seasons, who have been your three favorite “Idol” alumni?
“I’d say Kelly Clarkson, (Chris) Daughtry and, hmm, I like Katharine McPhee.”

Who’s the most underrated “Idol” contestant of all time?
“Katharine McPhee.”

What’s your favorite “Idol” performance so far?
“I thought that ‘Billie Jean’ performance that David Cook did was ridiculous.” (In the good way.)

The perception among fans is that Simon Cowell’s the bad cop, Paula Abdul’s the good cop and Randy Jackson’s somewhere in between. With which judge have you sided the most through the years?
“Probably Simon. Sometimes he can be hard, but I also think at times he’s doing people a favor.”

For your first day judging “Idol” contestants, you sat between Randy and Paula at the judges’ table. Where would you want to sit?
“You know at this point, I’m pretty much just like, ‘Where do you want me?’ I’m the new kid in school. I’m not going to cause waves right from the beginning.”

(AP Photo of Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson/Jason DeCrow; AP Photo of DioGuardi/Chris Pizzello)

Did You Know the stand-up comedian and Massachusetts native helped captain a Danvers High School football team that included former New York Giants star Mark Bavaro, then lettered two years on the University of Maine squad? Seriously!

Now a northern Westchester resident, Di Paolo said his favorite on-the-field moment was against the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), whom Maine hadn’t defeated in about two decades:

“My first starting job was as a running back against UMass on Homecoming, and we did a double-reverse. I went 65 yards, outran a kid, Grady Fuller, who ran a sub-4.4 40 (yard dash), and I outran him. ... I went around this kid like he was standing still. The coaches kept rewinding it, because this kid was an All-American and (stuff). So I had the reverse for the touchdown—I had two touchdowns that day and I had 85 yards on the ground and 65 in receptions for 150. And we won 42-16 or something like that.”

“I killed! It was like 300, 400 people there and the pictures were killing. I remember going home really excited.”

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While flipping through photographs of his recent USO trip to Afghanistan, Di Paolo pointed out in an exclusive interview with me last week that he and fellow regulars from the Howard Stern radio show autographed a bomb that he said was later dropped by an unmanned “Reaper” plane onto eight enemy insurgents.

Signing the 500-pound weapon at a military base were Di Paolo, fellow comedians Artie Lange, Dave Attell and Jim Florentine and Stern radio producer Gary “Baba Booey” Dell’Abate.

Mulled Di Paolo:

Imagine getting killed by a bomb signed by Baba Booey? How embarrassing.

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And if you liked that clip and live in or close to the Lower Hudson Valley, tune in to RNN’s “NewsCenter Now” tonight at 5:45 p.m., when they’ll run a full three-minute segment of my interview with Nick D!

Related Suburbarazzi exclusive: Nick Di Paolo fires a few rounds, also shoots machine gun.

(Photo by Carucha L. Meuse/The Journal News)

The northern Westchester resident spent about a week with the USO touring with other regulars from Howard Stern’s radio show: comedians Artie Lange, Dave Attell and Jim Florentine and producer Gary “Baba Booey” Dell’Abate. And just minutes after performing a set at in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the military base came under attack and they were shuttled to a bunker for protection.

More about that later. Right now, I want to share with you a clip of Nick talking about his experience firing a machine gun and nearly starting an “international incident” while flying in a Blackhawk:

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Just as amusing? Attell’s e-mailed response to Di Paolo’s Rambo impersonation:

I don’t think I have ever seen him more excited and happy (than) when he got a chance to shoot machine guns out the door of a Blackhawk helicopter. Thank God he’s on our side.

(Photo by Carucha Meuse/The Journal News.)

The photographs may not have been leaked yet, but I got my hands on the first sketches of what the newborns Knox and Vivienne look like.

Now you might be saying “Aman, this photo looks like something you drew on Microsoft Paint as you were waiting for the Domino’s Pizza guy to bring you a scrumptious deep dish pizza to your apartment.” That’s one way to look at it, but I don’t see any other sketches of Angelina’s babies out there, do you?

People magazine, I shall start the bidding on my photos at $1 million. Now that’s a deal.

Sure enough, at the front entrance, there was No. 27 himself sporting a red polo shirt, chatting with students and autographing their shirts. Resisting the temptation to go all Chris Farley Show on him and say, “Hey, thanks for that triple in the ‘96 World Series,” I opted for the more professional approach:

Chris Serico/Suburbarazzi: “So, what are you doing here?”
Joe Girardi: “Just came to visit the school on my off day.”
Chris Serico/Suburbarazzi: “Nice. That’s cool. What did you tell the kids?”
Joe Girardi: “Reach out. Help others.”

Here’s the exclusive clip, all seven seconds of it:

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Go Yanks.

(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

More photos, quotes from Clooney, and my thoughts on the event after the break. Many thanks to the Picture House for inviting me to the Q&A, which was a fundraiser for their planned expansion project.

First, let me just say that, like the editors of Esquire, I think I’m developing a man crush on Clooney. I’m not ashamed to say that. How, after hearing him last night, you could not feel the same way?

The evening began with a screening of “Leatherheads,” which, you might have heard, wasn’t exactly one of Clooney’s biggest box-office successes. What was surprising was just how candid Clooney was about the movie’s shortcomings when he took the stage.

After his big entrance, host Peter Travers asked the audience, “Did you enjoy the movie?” The audience respectfully applauded and cheered. To which Clooney deadpanned, “So the good news is that between you and six other people, well, that’s our entire audience.”

Travers went on to point out that all of Clooney’s directorial efforts—“Good Night and Good Luck,” “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” and “Leatherheads”—have failed to yield the box office receipts that “Iron Man” got in its first five minutes. Ever the affable interviewee, George admitted to “psychosis” and “stupidity” and the need to do “Oceans 47” to help ensure his next project (“They’re changing my colosomy bag. ‘Brad, get over here. Roll over here.’”).

The biggest irony about “Leatherheads,” Travers pointed out, is that Clooney’s sport of choice in real life is baseball. In fact, he was so good that he actually once tried out for the Cincinatti Reds. “I only lacked … skill,” said Clooney. “I had the hat wearing and uniform part down. ... I thought I need something that doesn’t take any skill, so I thought about acting.”

Next, Travers fired out a quote from Roseanne Barr—a blurb she wrote for the new Time magazine “100 Most Influential People in the World” story—which goes as follows: “He can drink too much and still, while standing in a bar parking lot at 3 a.m., discuss the world with such passion and good sense that you actually stop imagining him nude and really listen.”

“Don’t you want Roseanne writing your obit?” said Clooney. “The first time I met her she said, [in Roseanne voice] ‘George, you’re really good looking. Why don’t you take me out back, behind the stage, and make me stink.’”

Thus began the serious part of the interview.

As I said, Clooney was spectacularly candid about “Leatherheads.” “Coming here tonight was an interesting thing for me,” he said, “because this movie bombed. And when I say it bombed, it really bombed. So people ask, ‘how does that make you feel?’ It stings. It’s not like you just showed up. This is a couple years and a lot of work and seven or eight months of a tremendous amount of work. You get knocked back a little bit.” He went on to say—forgive the sports aphorism—that it isn’t how many times you get knocked down, but how you get back up that’s important. “Winning cycles are what we like nowadays. ... People started keeping tabs on box office [around 20 years ago]. Now it’s sort of a contest, which I think is kind of funny. Most of the films you’ll see at the Academy Awards didn’t make much money.”

Travers then brought up the infamous Time cover story, “The Last Movie Star,” remarking, “that’s worse, right, being the last of something.” “Well,” replied Clooney, “It’s better than being the last reality TV star. You know, I couldn’t figure that title out. They said that it came out on the day of the Oscars. So I went to the Oscars, and the thing had just come out, and Jack Nicholson sat down and said [in Jack rasp], ‘oh, so you’re the last movie star?’ Uh, sorry, I didn’t write the thing. I was trying to figure out what he was saying. Then I figured out that what he was saying was that movie stars used to play a version of themselves,” he continued, trailing off. “So really, what I’m saying is that, what they meant as a nice compliment—it was really just a slap in the face.”

Clooney talked about how most of his best films (“O Brother, Where Art Thou,” “Out of Sight”) have bombed at the box office. Which of course bridged nicely into a conversation about what Travers termed “your Coen brothers trilogy”—which includes the forthcoming “Burn After Reading” (which Clooney filmed, in part, in New Rochelle last fall). Like his other Coen bros. roles, Clooney said, “He’s no mental giant. I read the script and thought, this guy’s terrible, he’s an idiot. He’s winey all the time. I called them up and said, ‘I don’t even know how to play this guy.’ And they said, ‘We wrote him for you, man!’”

And his prediction for how “Burn” will do at the box office? Clooney explained their track record: “They do ‘Fargo,’ then we did ‘O Brother’ (people like it now, but we got burned at the time). They did ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There,” then we did ‘Intolerable.’ Now we’ve got the film following ‘No Country,’ which won all the Oscars.” Well, you get the picture. Still, whether Clooney was lowering the bar intentionally or truly thinks his Coen flicks are jinxed, he was eager to point out that if it’s going down in flames, there are plenty of other A-list actors (Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, etc.) going down with him. “It will open September 12,” Travers plugged. “And close September 13,” Clooney added. “That’s what makes me the last movie star!”

Clooney is nothing if not self-deprecating and funny, and the conversation was littered with offhand jokes about his acting resume—1988’s “Return of the Killer Tomatoes,” “Batman” (“The nipples on the front—for feeding little bats”) and “The Facts of Life” (“that’s right, I was the next door neighbor of Tutti”). It’s hard not to like a guy who, when asked if he wears boxers or briefs, admits to going “commando” when shooting on location.

There were at least a dozen other fascinating, hilarious Clooney stories from the evening, including his trips to Darfur, his proudest career moment (hint: it’s not squeezing corns into pumps at women’s shoe stores), and the liberal movie-star conspiracy cabal. That’s last one: not a joke. There really is a lefty cabal! Frankly, it’s too much good stuff to fit into one post. So for the next week or so, I’ll continue sharing about a Clooney anecdote a day.

And in the meantime, if you haven’t already seen my liveblog of the evening, be sure to check it out. This may be the first and last time I ever attempt bloggging via iPhone. An interesting experiment, though one that I suspect Clooney himself would find no less disturbing than Gawker Stalker.

6:42 Just arrived. I’m guessing the audience is 80-90 percent women. No Clooney. Yet.

7:00 Packed house. Standing room only. The Picture House officials tell me the event sold out in 1 minute.

7:11 Roll tape. New Picture House documentary. Very slick.

7:15 New Picture House motto: “Life Art Popcorn”

Catchy, no?

Jennifer Christman now giving fundraising speech.

7:25 Movie just began. Woman to my right is complaining about the bright iPhone screen. Gotta stop typing. (Besides, what do you really care what I think about “Leatherheads”?) See you in a couple hours.

8:30 Quick visit to lobby to pick up Sour Patch Kids. Throngs of young kids assembled outside, behind police barricades, waiting for Clooney to show. Still no sign of the man.

9:10 Movie over.

Christian introduces Travers.

Travers calls down Clooney.

Standing o

9:15 Clooney tried out for Cincy Reds. Who knew?

9:17 Rosanne Barr memories

Time mag article

Happy belated birthday to Clooney (he turned 47 yesterday)

9:20 Clooney: “This movie bombed. Bombed badly”

9:25 Clooney on the recent Time mag cover: “the ‘Last Movie Star’ ... well, it’s better than being last reality TV star”

9:28 Clooney on batman: “the nipples on the suit were for feeding little bats”

9:30 Remember, “Out of Sight” and “O Brother” bombed too

9:35 Clooney thankful for “Ladykillers”—the only Coen bros. movies considered more of a bomb than his

9:38 Stories on growing up clooney (I’ll post quotes later. Can’t type fast enough)

9:45 “Oscar campaigns are like Hillary-Barack”

More Darfur stories

9:56 Questions from audience

Clooney not psyched to mediate with pipeline terrorists

9:59 Q: boxers or briefs?
A: when acting, I like to go commando

10:02 Darfur—“It gnaws at me”

Clooney NOT running for political office

10:25 Last question

Crowd sings Clooney Happy Birthday

Clooney signs autographs for screaming Pelham teenage girls

Clooney and I hop into Chevy Suburban to go booze it up with Danny DeVito and a bottle of Limoncello

Kidding

Thanks for reading

More quotes and pics from the event tomorrow

Many thanks to honorary Suburbarazzo Nicole Neroulias for sending a cell phone pic of the event (the first one in the series below). All of the other photos are by Carucha L. Meuse.

“Denzel Washington presents scholarships at Mount Vernon High” [LoHud]

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Why would a celebrity choose North Salem as a place to live and open a restaurant? What’s a downside to living with Clay Aiken? And what does it feel like to know you’ll be singing your new song on the “American Idol” stage during this week’s results show?

These questions in an exclusive Suburbarazzi interview with “Idol” contestant Kimberley Locke were the ones to make the cut for tonight’s extra-special segment on RNN. Later this week, we’ll post my uncut interview, including a reference to Kim’s stint on “Celebrity Fit Club.” (Although that version will be uncut, don’t exactly expect a Jerry Springer routine from Kim and me, though. We’re not like that. On camera, anyway.)

While chatting with Suburbarazzi last week, she revealed that the nicest A-lister in the music industry was the one and only Patti LaBelle. But it seems Locke won’t be on her own when it comes to planning regional charity events.

Not only is she hoping for LaBelle to appear at an upcoming event at Katonah’s Caramoor to raise money for Camp Heartland, but it appears that “Don’t Forget The Lyrics” host and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” mainstay Wayne Brady will provide hosting duties. Camp Heartland, which Locke said recently purchased the Birch Family Camp in Carmel, caters to children living with AIDS.

We love the charity work, of course, but we also love her dedication to bringing more celebs to the Lower Hudson Valley. It keeps us busy in the best way possible.

Find out how why Locke lists LaBelle as her favorite music industry icon and more about Locke’s charitable works in the following clip:

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In case you missed any of the other audio clips of my interview with Locke, here’s what you might have missed on Suburbarazzi and sister blog Remote Access:

If you want to hear why Locke moved to the region, click here. If you want to know who her one-to-watch pick is for “Idol” Season 7, click here. Hear about her love of motorcycles here, her decision to audition for “Idol” here and her approach to losing 42 pounds here. And you know you want to know what’s on Locke’s iPod.

(Photo by Tania Savayan/The Journal News)

In this clip from my interview of Locke yesterday, she reveals her plans to buy a Harley in the near future and love for ridin’ hogs through the Lower Hudson Valley and her native Tennessee:

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More clips from Locke will appear here and on Remote Access until my story about her appears Tuesday in the Life & Style section of The Journal News, but I’ve posted a few already.

If you want to hear why Locke moved to the region, click here. If you want to know who her one-to-watch pick is for “Idol” Season 7, click here.

(Photo of Locke by Tania Savayan/The Journal News)

Oh, and by the way, she’s performing her new single, “Fall,” on the “Idol” results show this Wednesday.

I have to say, I was impressed all the way around. Classy, funny, sophisticated and beautiful, Locke was a charming and honest interview. As someone who regularly covers “Idol” for sister blog Remote Access, I was a fan of her before, but I like her even more now.

Here’s a clip of Locke discussing why a girl from Tennessee decided to move to North Salem this week; the “Jim and Liam” she references are two of her restaurant partners, Jim Stake and Liam Harvey:

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I’ll post more clips on here and on Remote Access until my story about her appears Tuesday in the Life & Style section of The Journal News.

(Photo by Tania Savayan/The Journal News)

First up, although neither the blog nor my name is mentioned in this clip from the Jan. 2 Howard Stern show, here’s the first on-air reference to Suburbarazzi’s exclusive interview with Norris in Eastchester:

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Later that day, Howard 100 News reporter Steve Langford interviewed me for a Howard 100 News brief that first aired at 5:37 p.m. Jan. 3:

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Hooray for technology!

(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Near the end of their set of classic and standard rock, Norris picked a bespectacled me out of the crowd and said something to the effect of “Hey, that looks like the Verizon Guy.”

I shouted back, “I can hear you now.”

He replied with something like “Well, if any of you need help with your phone service, go see him.” He threw in another joke that I found funny but will choose not to post on a family-friendly blog.

During King Norris’ intermission, I was reintroduced to Norris through his drummer, Frank Fallon, who helped me secure my December interview with him in Eastchester. Norris offered a firm handshake and was as kind as he was at our last meeting. After a brief and casual conversation, I was on my way.

For what it’s worth: Despite the fact I sometimes wear thick-rimmed black frames, I don’t see much of a resemblance to Verizon Guy beyond that. But Norris has a Don Rickles-like quality about him; most of the time, it’s an honor to be tweaked by the guy.

(AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

Among the multitude of celebrities in our myriad People of the Year lists—in InTown, Rockland Mag, Suburbarazzi, and The Journal News—nobody generated quite as much controversy as a certain New City rapper. Yes, we’re talking about Stephen Redmond—henceforth to be know, at his request, as only Lucky Me.

We received a deluge of letters from Clarkstown parents complaining about Rockland Magazine’s decision to feature the artist, best known for his YouTube hit “I Love New City,” as No. 20 in our countdown. One wrote, “Why would you highlight to dregs of the county???” Another alleged, “Your magazine added to the hype of a drug dealer and an adult male who is known to frequent school events and exchange phone numbers with 14 year old girls, perhaps to add to his customer base.” And yet another said, “Does he [the author of said article] realize that he featured a drug dealer next to people who have tried to bring threater and movies back to Riverspace? What a disgrace!!”

Of course, all of the letters arrived unsigned and on the same paper—looking an awful lot like they came off an identical printer. Still, the Clarkstown parent(s) wasn’t the only Lucky Me hater out there. Another person, posting as Tiffany Spencer, had this to say on the blog back on December 5: “i have heard another rapper by the name of Fire who’s music is way more realistic and perfected he is also from Nyack juast as Lucky me.”

Naturally, when Lucky Me himself caught wind of this, it set off a heated comment war. And when we interviewed Fire shortly before Christmas—if only to give give equal time to all Nyack (or former Nyack) rappers—Lucky Me was one of the first people to sound off on the post: “ARE SERIOUS YALL GIVE THIS BUM SOME LIGHT / NO ONE KNOWS THIS GUY / HELL WILL NEVA BE AS GOOD AS ME / I WAS STAYED QUIET UNTIL I SAW THIS.” Lucky was also good enough to share his AIM handle in that comment, and—well, we couldn’t help but take the bait.

An extensive interview soon followed. The full text is after the break, in its full instant-messenger glory …

Sent at 11:11 AM on Thursday

Suburbarazzi: Lucky Me, you there?
Lucky Me: yes sir
Suburbarazzi: ok, ready for some questions?
Lucky Me: NO PROBLEM LETS DO IT!!! LOL

Suburbarazzi: first question: What was the inspiration for “I Love New City�?
Lucky Me: MY FRIENDS FROM NEWCITY . THEY PRETTY MUCH TOLD ME WHAT TO TALK ABOUT FROM THE SCHOOLS TO THE BOWLING ALLEY
Suburbarazzi: Some of your fans have called the song an “anthem� to their hometown. Of course, other residents haven’t been such big fans. Who did you get the most complaints from?
Lucky Me: NYACK HATERS….
OTHER LOCAL RAPPERS
Suburbarazzi: People from New City who hate Nyack?
Lucky Me: NAH
ITS OTHER RAPPERS WHO HATE
NEWCITY LOVES THE SONG
Suburbarazzi: What about parents and school administrators? Have any of them asked you to take the video down off YouTube?
Lucky Me: EVEN THE NEWCITY PRINCIPALS TOLD ME THEY LOVE THE SONG WHILE ATTENDING THE SOUTH VS. NORTH GAME
THEY SAID THE LANGUAGE WAS KINDA RAW BUT THE THEY LOVED IT
SO THATS ALL THAT MATTER TO ME IS MY FANS
THAT MADE MRNEWCITY
Suburbarazzi: Do you mind if we embed the video on Suburbarazzi?
Lucky Me: NO PROBLEM SIR

Here’s the original “I Love New City” video:

Suburbarazzi: Who are the random kids that flash throughout the “I Love New City� video?
Lucky Me: MY FRIENDS
NONE OF THEM DO COKE
THERE MY FRIENDS I WOULDNT HAVE MY FRIENDS,DO SOMETHING I WOULDNT DO
Suburbarazzi: How many videos do you have online now?
Lucky Me: IVE DONE OVER 90
BUT 66 REMAIN
I WORKED REAL HARD IN 07**
Suburbarazzi: It shows
How do you feel about dog fighting?
Lucky Me: I MEAN I LOVE ANIMALS AND I WOULD NEVA HARM ONE
BUT.. I FEEL MICK VICK WAS DONE WRONG
YOU CANT DOG FIGHT IN YA BACK YARD BUT U CAN KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE IN IRAQ FOR OIL
Suburbarazzi: As you know, you were listed as on of the “People of the Year� in Rockland Magazine. Would you have preferred that we listed you as Lucky Me, and not Stephen Redmond?
Lucky Me: LUCKY ME
I WANNA THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE LOVE ON THAT
I WAS TOTALLY CAUGHT OFF GUARD WITH THAT ON E[smile]
Suburbarazzi: Since the story came out, a group of Clarkstown parents started a letter writing campaign, attacking the magazine and the newspaper that publishes it, The Journal News. Why do you think your music has caused such a strong reaction from the community?
Lucky Me: BECAUSE I CAME DIFFRENT
HERE U SEE THIS BLACK KID FROM THE GROUP
WITH WHITE KID ON HIS PAGE AND THERE LOVING ME
THE PARENTS CANT UNDERSTAND THAT
AND ALL THESE NEWCITY PARENTS USED TO BE KIDS ONCE YA KNOW
SO WHEN THEY HEARD THE SONG IT RUNG A BELL!!!
Suburbarazzi: Some of the parents who wrote to us claimed that you are a drug dealer. Have you ever dealt drugs?
Lucky Me: NO SIR
Suburbarazzi: Have you ever been arrested?
Lucky Me: IM 25
CLEAN RECORD
IMM GOOD KID
Suburbarazzi: Do you have a day job?
Lucky Me: YES I DO STOCK AT TARGET
AND IM THE CEO OF TURN ME UP ENT
I HAVE 3 ARTIST

Suburbarazzi: We loved the “Rockland Magazine Freestyle� rap that you posted to MySpace. Especially the Beach Boys sample. What happened to that?
Lucky Me: I TOOK IT DOWN SO I CAN GIFT WRAP IT FOR YALL@T ROCKLAND MAG ON XMAS BUT I GUESS SANTA WAS SLACKING THIS YEAR BUT ILL SEND IT TO U EMAIL CAN U CAN PUT IT UP
NO PROBLEM IT FOR YALL

Here’s Lucky Me’s “Rockland Magazine Freestyle” rap:

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Suburbarazzi: In an interview with The Journal News, you said, “On the outside, I may be modest, but there’s a little man inside me dancing.� Paint us a picture of this little man.
Lucky Me: HE HAS A SMILY FACE ON
HAT TO THE BACK
AND A SHIRT THATS SAYS MRNEWCITY.COM ON IT
HES LAUGHING BECAUSE WHO WOULD OF KNOWN ALL OF THIS FAME
SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS
Suburbarazzi: A feud of sorts has been brewing between you and fellow rapper Gregory Dubuisson, aka Fire. What’s you biggest beef with Fire?
Lucky Me: FIRE WHO?
NO ONE KNOW THIS GUY
AND I WANNA KEEP IT LIKE THATS
HES A BUM
HES BEEN RAPPING FOR YEARS
AND THIS WAS MY ROOOKIE YEAR
AND EVERYBODY KNOW MY NAME
Suburbarazzi: Well, he’s been coming after you like a Mack truck. lots of trash talking
Lucky Me: I KNOW
HES TRASH
HE USE TO THAT
HE TALK ABOUT GUNS AND STUFFF
ROCKLAND KIDS CANT RELATE TO THATS
AND THATS REAL TALK
Suburbarazzi: Doesn’t the whole rap war thing sort of depends on having a geographical distance from your adversary? If both you and Fire are from Nyack, shouldn’t you be teaming up and, say, picking a fight with rapper from Scarsdale, over the Hudson in Westchester county?
Lucky Me: NO
BECAUSE I DONT REAP NYACK HE DO
I REAP NEWCITY
WHEN IM ON TV I WILLL SAY IM FROM NEWCITY
NYACK GET NO LOVE FROM ME
LIVED THE PAST…...
Suburbarazzi: So you don’t live in Nyack?
Lucky Me: BUT I MUST GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO MY NUMBER ONE FAN FROM NYACK
BROOKIE COOKIE
I WANNA GO ON THE RECORD BY SAYING NO
I GO THERE
Suburbarazzi: How important is street cred to becoming a rapper?
Lucky Me: WELL THE STREET CRED THAT I WANT IS DIFFRENT
I DONT WANNA BE KNOW AS THE TUFF GUY
I WANNA BE KNOW FOR MAKING GOOD MUSIC
Suburbarazzi: Not the kind of street cred that involved going to Rockland County Jail for armed robbery in 2004 and 50 days for assaulting a police officer? I mean, the Fire kind of street cred?
Lucky Me: I LOVE YOU MANNNNNN
UR THE BEST
GETTING IN TROUBLE AND TRYNA MAKE IT DONT MIXXXXX
YOU DONT WANNA SCARE THE PEOPLE AAWAY FROM U

Suburbarazzi: OK, last question: What’s the first thing you’ve got planned for 2008?
Lucky Me: IF THE PAPER WORK GET DONE I WILL BE GOING ON TOUR WITH *SHYHEIM THE RUGGED CHILD FROM WU TANG CLAN
ANDI HAVE THE PAPER WORK FOR THAT
TO SHOW THE PUBLIC
FIRE
IS JUST TALK
AND…..I WILL BE DOING 100 VIDEO THIS YEAR
AND WILL MAKE THE 2008 PEOPLE OF THE YEAR AGAIN
CAUS EROCKLAND IS MINES AS FAR AS MUSICK
Suburbarazzi: It’s on!
Lucky Me: NOT TO BE COCKY
BUT I BELIEVE IN ME
[smile]

Suburbarazzi: Thanks for doing this
Lucky Me: NO THANK YOU AND YA WHOLE TEAMMMMM OVER THERE AT SUBURBARAZZI
CAN I GIVE SOME SHOUT OUTS
Suburbarazzi: sure
Lucky Me: MY SON OMAREE HES THE REASON IM RAPPING MY SON JORDAN TURN ME UP ENT I WANNA THANK THE ROCKLAND REPORT 9 10 AM TUES AND I WANNA THANK THE GATLIN FAMILY IN NEWCITY AND OF COURSE NEWCITYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY AND ROCKLAND MAG AND YOU SIR LOL

Lucky Me was also good enough to email us a photo of the T-shirt he created using the page from Rockland Magazine that he was featured on. Here it is:

Lucky Me’s YouTube page

Lucky Me’s MySpace page

(top photo: Vincent DiSalvio / The Journal News; YouTube video, “Rockland Magazine Freestyle,” and additional photos courtesy Lucky Me)