Monday, March 7, 2011

Who is Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy?

Who is Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy? The entertainment and acting world knows her as Katie Cassidy is an American actress who has performed in The CW TV series Melrose Place, Supernatural, and Gossip Girl, and is considered to be a modern-day Scream queen for her roles in When a Stranger Calls, Black Christmas, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the horror TV series, Harper's Island.[1] Cassidy also starred in Taken, and has roles in the upcoming films Fencewalker and Monte Carlo.

Early life and family

Cassidy was born November 25, 1986  in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor David Cassidy and model Sherry Williams, who first met and dated in early 1970. Sherry and David separated but remained close friends. Cassidy's paternal grandparents were actors Jack Cassidy and Evelyn Ward. She grew up in Calabasas, California with her mother and stepfather, Richard Benedon, an ER physician. She has two older sisters, Jenna and Jamie. She also has a younger half brother Beau Cassidy. As a child, Cassidy took to tumbling, competing and eventually became a cheerleader for the California Flyers, a competitive team. She cheered as a freshman for Calabasas High School where she attended high school and graduated with honors in 2005.[2]

Career

While in elementary school, Cassidy became interested in show business and participated in several community theatre productions beginning at the age of 7, and as a teenager studied with an acting coach. She did some modeling which culminated in a campaign ad for Abercrombie and Fitch in 2004. Her mother would not allow her to act professionally until completing her high school education with college prep courses.
In 2006, she appeared in supporting roles in films such as When a Stranger Calls and Click.[3] Click opened at #1 at the box office with $40 million.[4] She also starred as the protagonist, Kelli Presley, in Dimension Films remake of the 1974 film Black Christmas.[5] The film was released throughout late December 2006 and grossed $21 million.[6]
In 2007, she appeared in supporting roles in films such as Walk the Talk, You Are Here (later renamed to Spin[7]), and Live! in which she played Jewel Jensen an aspiring actress looking her big break in Hollywood.
Also in 2007, she filmed numerous scenes in the film remake Revenge of the Nerds alongside Adam Brody and Jenna Dewan.[8] Production was halted and the movie was eventually cancelled. In 2008 she appeared as Amanda in Taken and had a recurring regular role on The CW's Supernatural as Ruby.
In 2009, Cassidy appeared as Patricia 'Trish' Wellington in the CBS mini-series Harper's Island.[9]
It was also in this year that Cassidy signed on as a series regular on The CW's reboot Melrose Place of the 1990s drama series of the same name.[10] She played Ella Simms, a publicist who works at Amanda Woodward's company. The media has drawn similarities from Cassidy's character and Heather Locklear's character, Amanda.[11] Her role as Ella has drawn positive critical comment from the Los Angeles Times who wrote: "Cassidy is already being singled out as the show's deliciously devious one to watch"[12] and has been cited as "the best thing about the Melrose reboot" by New York magazine.[13] The series premiered September 8, 2009 and was cancelled after one season.
Cassidy also joined the cast of the remake of the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street.[14] She played Kris Fowles, friend to lead character Nancy Holbrook (Rooney Mara) and victim of Freddy Krueger. Filming began in Chicago and was released April 30, 2010.[15] Cassidy was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in the "Horror/Thriller Actress" category for her role which she lost to Megan Fox.[16]
Cassidy has been cast in the upcoming romantic comedy Monte Carlo which was filmed in in Monaco, Budapest and Paris.[17]
In June 2010, Cassidy landed a recurring role as the primary antagonist Juliet Sharp in the 4th season of Gossip Girl. Her character will be a student at Columbia and a love interest for Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford). Her first appearance was in the season 4 premiere and has appeared in 11 episodes to date.[18]

Personal life

She is a spokesperson for the charity H.E.L.P Malawi.[19]
Cassidy previously dated Jesse McCartney and her Harper's Island co-star Matt Barr, and is now dating Los Angeles Kings player Jarret Stoll, which was confirmed in January 2010.[20][21]




Filmography

Film
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
2006 When a Stranger Calls Tiffany Madison
2006 The Lost Dee Dee
2006 Click Samantha Newman
2006 Black Christmas Kelli Presley
2007 You Are Here Apple
2007 Live! Jewel
2007 Walk the Talk Jessie
2008 Taken Amanda
2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street Kris Fowles
2010 Fencewalker Karen Post Production
2011 Monte Carlo Emma Post Production
Television
Year↓ Title↓ Role↓ Notes
2003 The Division Young CD Episode: "Oh Mother, Who Art Thou?"
2005 Listen Up! Rebecca Episode: "Snub Thy Neighbor"
2005 7th Heaven Zoe 4 episodes
2005 Sex, Love & Secrets Gabrielle Episode: "Secrets"
Episode: "Ambush"
2007–2008 Supernatural Ruby 6 episodes
2009 Harper's Island Trish Wellington 13 episodes
2009–2010 Melrose Place Ella Simms Main Role (18 episodes)
2010 Gossip Girl Juliet Sharp Recurring; Season 4; 11 episodes.

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Who is Malcolm Gladwell?

Who is Malcolm Gladwell?  The entertainment writing world knows him as a Canadian writer for The New Yorker and best-selling author[1] based in New York City. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He is best known for his books The Tipping Point (2000), Blink (2005), Outliers (2008), and What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009). Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of psychology, and social psychology.

Early life

Gladwell's was born September 3, 1963  British father, Graham M. Gladwell, is a civil engineering professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada; his mother, Joyce E. (née Nation), is a Jamaican-born psychotherapist.[2] Gladwell was born in Fareham, Hampshire, England, but when he was six his family moved to Elmira, Ontario, Canada.[3]
According to research done by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, in 2010 for the PBS series Faces of America, Gladwell's family tree includes ancestors of West Indian, Igbo, Irish, English and Scottish heritage. One of his European ancestors, an Irishman named William Ford, arrived in Jamaica in the late 18th century and with his concubine, an Igbo slave named Hannah Burton, he had a son named John Ford, whose descendants included a long line of privileged mixed-race Jamaicans, the Fords.[4] On his father's side, his great-great grandparents, Thomas Adams and Jane Wilson, left England and Ireland to take part in the Castlemaine gold rush in Victoria, Australia in the 1850s.[2] Gladwell has said that his mother, who published a book titled Brown Face, Big Master in 1969, is his role model as a writer.[5] His distant cousin is the Jamaican-American general and statesman Colin Powell.[6]
During his high school years, Gladwell was an outstanding middle-distance runner and won the 1500 meter title at the 1978 Ontario High School championships in Kingston, Ontario, in a duel with eventual Canadian Open record holder David Reid.[7] In the spring of 1982, Gladwell interned with the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C.[8] He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 1984.[9]

Career


Gladwell began his career at The American Spectator, a conservative monthly.[10] He subsequently wrote for Insight on the News, a conservative magazine owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, before joining The Washington Post as a business writer in 1987.[11] He later served as a science writer and as New York bureau chief for the Post before leaving the paper in 1996. He is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books—The Tipping Point (2000) and Blink (2005)—were international bestsellers. Gladwell received a US$1 million advance for The Tipping Point, which went on to sell over two million copies in the United States.[12][13] Blink sold equally well.[12][14] His third book, Outliers: The Story of Success, was released November 18, 2008.[15] His latest book, What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, was published on October 20, 2009. What the Dog Saw bundles together his favorite articles from The New Yorker since he joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1996.[16] Gladwell has told a number of stories at The Moth storytelling society in New York City. One, which he introduced as a "tall tale", was later fact checked by the Slate writer Jack Shafer and shown to be a tall tale.[11]

Works

Gladwell's first work, The Tipping Point, discusses the potentially massive implications of small-scale social events, while his second book, Blink, explains how the human subconscious interprets events or cues and how past experiences allow people to make informed decisions very rapidly. Outliers examines how a person's environment, in conjunction with personal drive and motivation, affects his or her possibility and opportunity for success. Gladwell stated, "The hope with Tipping Point was it would help the reader understand that real change was possible. With Blink, I wanted to get people to take the enormous power of their intuition seriously. My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances." [17]

Reception



Fortune described The Tipping Point as “a fascinating book that makes you see the world in a different way”, and the San Francisco Chronicle named it “one of the year's most anticipated nonfiction titles”.[18][19] The Daily Telegraph called it “a wonderfully offbeat study of that little-understood phenomenon, the social epidemic.”[20] Reviewing Blink, the Baltimore Sun dubbed Gladwell “the most original American journalist since the young Tom Wolfe.”[21] Farhad Manjoo at Salon described the book as “a real pleasure. As in the best of Gladwell's work, Blink brims with surprising insights about our world and ourselves.”[22] The Economist called Outliers “a compelling read with an important message.”[23] David Leonhardt wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “In the vast world of nonfiction writing, Malcolm Gladwell is as close to a singular talent as exists today” and that Outliers “leaves you mulling over its inventive theories for days afterward.”[24] The Baltimore Sun stated that with the collection What the Dog Saw Gladwell “does what he does best—finds the intersection of science and society to explain how we got where we are.”[25] Ian Sample wrote in the Guardian: “Brought together, the pieces form a dazzling record of Gladwell's art. There is depth to his research and clarity in his arguments, but it is the breadth of subjects he applies himself to that is truly impressive.”[26]
Criticism of Gladwell tends to focus on the fact that he is a journalist and not an academic, and as a result his work does not meet the standard of academic writing. He has been accused, for example, of falling prey to a variety of logical fallacies and cognitive biases. Critics charge that his sampling methods have resulted in hasty generalizations and selection biases, as well as a tendency to imply causation between events where only correlation exists.[27][28][29] One review of Outliers accuses Gladwell of "racist pseudoscience" due to "using his individual case studies as a means to jump to sweeping generalizations on race and class status",[30] while another review in The New Republic called the final chapter of Outliers, "impervious to all forms of critical thinking".[31] Gladwell has also received much criticism for his use of anecdotal evidence and general lack of rigor in his approach.[32][33]
Maureen Tkacik and Steven Pinker[34][35] have challenged the integrity of Gladwell's approach. Pinker sums up his take on Gladwell as, "a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning", while accusing Gladwell of, "cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies", in his book Outliers. Referencing a Gladwell reporting mistake Pinker criticizes his lack of expertise:[34] "I will call this the Igon Value Problem: when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong."
A writer in The Independent accused Gladwell of posing "obvious" insights.[36] The Register has accused Gladwell of making arguments by weak analogy and commented that Gladwell has an "aversion for fact", adding that, "Gladwell has made a career out of handing simple, vacuous truths to people and dressing them up with flowery language and an impressionistic take on the scientific method." An article by Gladwell inaccurately referring to Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds as the "Norwegian hacker Linus Torvald [sic]" was referred to by the group as a typical example of alleged sloppy writing.[37]

Awards and honors

Bibliography


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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Who is Kevin Wesley Love?

Who is Kevin Wesley Love? The professional basketball world knows hims as Kevin Love, he  is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Love is one of the top rebounders in the NBA, and he is also known for his outlet passing, which led to comparisons to Wes Unseld.[1][2] A top ranked prospect out of Lake Oswego High School in Oregon, Love played one season of college basketball for the UCLA Bruins and led the team to a Final Four appearance in the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Love was named the Pac-10 Conference Player of the Year and consensus First Team All-American following the season.
Love chose not to complete his three remaining years of college eligibility and entered the 2008 NBA Draft.[3] He was taken fifth overall by the Memphis Grizzlies, and was traded to the Timberwolves on draft night for the third overall selection, O. J. Mayo, in an eight-player deal.[4]
Love was a member of the gold medal-winning United States men's national basketball team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.

Early years

Love was born September 7, 1988 in Santa Monica, California, he was the second of three children of Karen and former NBA forward Stan Love. A year later, Love's family moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon.[5] Growing up, Stan passed on his interest in basketball by showing Love tapes of the Lakers-Celtics rivalry. In addition, Love studied tapes of all-time great passing centers in Wes Unseld and Bill Walton, along with instructional tapes from Hall of Famers such as Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, and Michael Jordan. For hand and wrist strength, Stan would push Love to do fingertip push-ups as well as other upper body exercises.[6]

High school career

Love had a successful high school career with the Lake Oswego Lakers. In his sophomore year, Love averaged 25.3 ppg, 15.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, and led the Lakers to the 2005 Oregon state high school basketball championship game, where they lost to Jesuit High School 57–53.[7][8] That summer, Love was the center of controversy when Nike removed him from its Portland Elite Legends AAU team because he had chosen to participate in the Reebok ABCD Camp against other top recruits.[9][10] Love went on to play for the Southern California All-Stars, where the team compiled an unprecedented 46–0 record as he garnered three MVP awards.[7]
In 2006, Love averaged 28.0 ppg, 16.1 rpg, and dished out 3.5 apg as the Lakers returned to the Oregon state championship game. With Love's 24 points and 9 rebounds, the Lakers defeated South Medford and fellow star recruit Kyle Singler, 59-57.[8] In Love's final year at Lake Oswego, he put up 33.9 ppg, 17.0 rpg, and 4.0 apg as the team finished 26-2.[7][11] Earlier that year, in a game against Rex Putnam High School, Love shattered the backboard on a breakaway dunk.[12] Love and Singler met again for the 2007 championship, this time however, Singler and South Medford defeated Lake Oswego 58–54, overcoming Love's 37 points and 15 rebounds.[7][13] After the season, Love was named the 2007 Men's Basketball Gatorade National Player of the Year.
Love finished his high school career as the all-time leading scorer in Oregon boys' basketball history with 2,628 points. The previous record had stood for 50 years.[7] The Lakers went 92-21 in four seasons with Love, and made three straight state championship games, winning once.[7]

College career




Love was ranked as one of the top players in the nation from the class of 2007.[14][15] In July 2006, Love verbally committed to play college basketball for coach Ben Howland at UCLA.[16] He had also considered playing for University of North Carolina.[10][17][18] Love, who had worn number 42 for a majority of his basketball career, received permission from Walt Hazzard to wear the same number with UCLA, even though the school had retired the number for Hazzard in 1996.[19] Since arriving at UCLA, Love had also regularly sought out retired Bruins legends Bill Walton and the late John Wooden for advice.[20]
Love's decision to play for the Bruins brought animosity from fans of the University of Oregon, his father's alma mater, where it was expected he would play. Prior to a game at Oregon, Ducks fans obtained Love's cell phone number and left obscene messages as well as death threats; the fans also subjected Love's family to obscenities and threw garbage at them during the game. This event, along with similar events directed at other players, has prompted a discussion of whether abuse by college basketball fans is becoming too extreme.[21][22] Love finished game with 26 points and 18 rebounds in a 80-75 win.[23]
In the 2008 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, the Bruins defeated the USC Trojans, featuring O. J. Mayo, in the semi-finals. Both Mayo and Love were nominated to the All Pac-10 tournament team. Later, Love guided UCLA to the regular season Pac-10 conference championship, the conference tournament championship, and a #1 seed in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Love helped the Bruins to the Final Four of the tournament, where they lost to the Memphis Tigers. At the end of the 2007–08 regular season, Love was named first-team All-American, Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, and Pac-10 Player of the Year. He led the Bruins with 17.5 ppg, 10.6 rpg, and 23 double-doubles.[24]

NBA career

2008 NBA Draft

In a press conference on April 17, 2008, Love announced his intention to leave UCLA to enter the 2008 NBA Draft.[3] He was taken fifth overall by the Memphis Grizzlies, right after his teammate at UCLA, Russell Westbrook. Following the draft, Love was traded along with Mike Miller, Brian Cardinal, and Jason Collins to the Minnesota Timberwolves, with the third overall pick O. J. Mayo, Antoine Walker, Marko Jaric, and Greg Buckner going to the Grizzlies.[4][25]

Rookie season

Love went on to play in the 2008 NBA Summer League and led all players in rebounding.[26] In his NBA debut on October 30, Love came off the bench to contribute 12 points and nine rebounds in a 98-96 win over the Sacramento Kings.[27] The Timberwolves struggled early on losing 15 of their first 19 games, prompting the dismissal of head coach Randy Wittman.[28] Timberwolves general manager Kevin McHale, a Hall of Famer who acquired Love in the trade, took over as head coach and they developed a close relationship.[29][30][31] Under McHale, the Timberwolves improved their play in January by going 10-4, with Love averaging a double-double.[32] Love was not selected to the NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge, to the surprise of his teammates and coaches.[33][34] After team's leading scorer Al Jefferson was sidelined for the rest of the season with a torn ACL in February,[35] Love's minutes increased, and he was named NBA Rookie of the Month for March.[36]
Love finished the season ninth in the league in rebounding, first among rookies, and ranked third in total offensive rebounds. Love also led all first-years with 29 double-doubles, the most by a Timberwolves rookie in franchise history. He also ranked first in the league in offensive rebound percentage, becoming the first rookie to lead the league since Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984–85. Love was also second in the NBA in total rebound percentage. He was named to the 2009 NBA All-Rookie Second Team and finished sixth in Rookie of the Year voting.[37]

2009–10 season

In the off-season, Love was invited to participate in the USA National Team mini-camp that was conducted from July 22–25 in Las Vegas.[38][39] Love also generated attention from his Twitter account when he broke the story that Kevin McHale wasn't returning to coach the Timberwolves for the 2009-2010 season.[40]
Love began the season on the injured list when in a pre-season game on October 16, 2009 against the Chicago Bulls, he broke the fourth metacarpal in his left hand by banging it against the elbow of teammate Oleksiy Pecherov.[41] Following surgery, Love missed the first 18 games of the season. He returned against the New Orleans Hornets on December 4, 2009, and made immediate impact for the Timberwolves, who were struggling out of the gate with a 2-16 record.[42][43]
Kevin Love was selected to play in NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge, and collected 12 points and 6 rebounds in the game.[44] He finished the season ranked as the NBA's best rebounder per 48 minutes (18.4), besting Dwight Howard (18.3) and Marcus Camby (18.1).[45]

2010-11 season

The Timberwolves' trade of Jefferson before the season was expected to open more playing time for Love. However, he averaged 28 minutes through the first nine games, exceeding 30 minutes only twice. Chris Mannix of SI.com wrote that many speculated there was a rift between Coach Kurt Rambis and Love.[45] In a home game against the New York Knicks on November 12, 2010, Love became the 19th player to record a "30–30"—30 points and 30 rebounds in a single game—when he had 31 points along with a career-high 31 rebounds.[46] His 31 rebounds set a Timberwolves franchise record and were also the most by a player in an NBA game since Charles Barkley grabbed 33 in a game in 1996.[47] Love became the first player to record a 30–30 game since Moses Malone in 1982.[48] On February 4, 2011, Love was selected by Commissioner David Stern to his first NBA All-Star Game as a replacement for the injured Yao Ming. He was previously not selected as an All-Star reserves by coaches while averaging 21.4 points, a league-best 15.5 rebounds, shooting 43.9 percent from 3-point range, and having 34 straight double-doubles for the 11–37 Timberwolves.[49][50][51] On February 8, Love set a team record (previously held by Kevin Garnett) with his 38th consecutive double-double after scoring 20 points and grabbing 14 rebounds in the Timberwolves' 112-108 win over the Houston Rockets.[52]

International career

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Medal record
Competitor for  United States
FIBA World Championship
Gold 2010 Turkey Team competition

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

[edit] Regular season

Year↓ Team↓ GP↓ GS↓ MPG↓ FG%↓ 3P%↓ FT%↓ RPG↓ APG↓ SPG↓ BPG↓ PPG↓
2008–09 Minnesota 81 37 25.3 .459 .105 .789 9.1 1.0 0.4 0.6 11.1
2009–10 Minnesota 60 22 28.6 .450 .330 .815 11.0 2.3 0.7 0.4 14.0
2010–11 Minnesota 45 45 37.0 .470 .447 .877 15.7 2.6 0.6 0.3 21.6
Career
186 104 29.2 .460 .376 .825 11.3 1.8 0.6 0.5 14.6
  • As of January 22, 2011

Personal life

Love's uncle, Mike, is a singer in The Beach Boys and brother of Love's father, Stan. Mike and Stan's cousins include The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson. Love's aunt, Kathleen McCartney, was an accomplished triathlete. Love has an older brother, Collin, and a younger sister, Emily.[7]
Love's middle name, Wesley, is in honor of Wes Unseld, the former Washington Bullets center and the Loves' family friend.[53]

Love was one of the featured stars in the film Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot, produced and directed by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.Love was also picked to be on the front cover for the video game NCAA Basketball 09.
Love made a brief appearance as himself on the last episode of Season 7 of Entourage on HBO.
Love appeared as himself on the Disney Channel show The Suite Life on Deck during the season 3 episode Twister: Part 1 along with Dwight Howard and Deron Williams.[54]

See also

 

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