Award-winner recognizes friend

    KRT NEW YORK-For one shining moment, a soldier from Queens became the best-known G.I. in the world, thanks to a childhood friend who hit it big.
    When Adrien Brody won Best Actor honors at the Academy Awards, he sent a global welcome to his buddy, Army Spec. Tommy Zarobinski.
    "I have a friend from Queens who's a soldier in Kuwait right now, Tommy Zarobinski, and I hope you and your boys make it back real soon," Brody, who won for his role in The Pianist, a Holocaust drama, said.
    Zarobinski's family was thrilled Brody remembered his friend, who is with the 773rd Transportation Company.