Cascades dominate on the glass The offence was slow to materialize for the University of the Fraser Valley women's basketball team in their playoff opener on Thursday. But who needs to make shots when you're grabbing the vast majority of the rebounds? The Cascades rode their prowess on the boards - particularly at the offensive end - to a 65-58 victory over the Saskatchewan Huskies in Game 1 of their best-of-three series at the Envision Athletic Centre. UFV crushed the Huskies 43-28 in the rebounding department, including 20 caroms collected off the offensive glass -a remarkable number considering Saskatchewan only managed 22 defensive rebounds. The Huskies had been the better rebounding team during the regular season, finishing second in Canada West in rebounding margin at +8.1 per game (UFV was fifth at +5.5). But the Cascades' decisive dominance in that department allowed them to overcome a poor shooting night, during which they hit just 31.4 per cent of their shots from the field. "We had a lot of shots in the first quarter, but we missed a lot of easy ones," UFV coach Al Tuchscherer noted, alluding to a string of bricked layups in the early going. "But I said to the girls, 'That's fine.' We got a lot of boards, and defensively we were pretty strong, and we were getting the shots we wanted to get. Maybe it was a little bit of nerves, maybe a little bit of over-excitement (with the missed shots). "Second quarter, I thought we turned things around. The D continued for most of the game, and we started to hit some shots in the second and third quarters." The Cascades led 29-21 at halftime and stretched the lead to 14 early in the third quarter, but the Huskies hung around. Even late in the fourth quarter, when UFV had a 60-52 lead in the final minute, Saskatchewan found a way to make them sweat. Three-pointers by Kelsey Trulsrud and Kabree Howard (on a sky-scraping bank shot from well outside the arc) trimmed the Cascades' advantage to 62-58 with 23.4 seconds left. But the UFV women, ranked No. 4 in the nation, sealed the victory in clinical fashion. Nicole Wierks was the catalyst for the Cascades on Thursday. The do-everything forward was a force at the defensive end, and came up with a series of clutch plays late in the fourth quarter to give UFV some breathing room. "That's Nicole, right?" Tuchscherer said of Wierks, who finished with 13 points, five rebounds, two steals and two assists. "She's a superstar in this league, but a pretty quiet one. She can fill a stat sheet, she can rebound, and I think she's the best defender in Canada West. She just does everything for us." Three Cascades -Aieisha Luyken (16 points), Kayli Sartori (15) and Nicole Wierks (13) -scored in double figures in the win. Sarah Wierks, Nicole's younger sister, had a rough shooting night, going 2-for-12 for six points, but she racked up an eye-popping 19 rebounds, including nine of the offensive variety.

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Models eat backstage at the runway shows Glamour broke the news on Feb. 12 that models do eat at New York Fashion Week. In fact, there is an abundance of food backstage at the runway shows. She even got a backstage pass of what goes on in between shows. There was a large table of food backstage at one of the shows. Models get their choice of bagels, pasta and cheese. The models were even helping themselves to seconds and thirds of each one. The choices were quite shocking. People often joke that models rather snack on lettuce and celery sticks than gorge on fattening food. Some of the biggest designers even offer food backstage at their shows. Since it was a cold and snowy week in New York City, Phillip Lim offered hot chocolate to the models. The mugs of coco were topped with tiny marshmallows. Diane Von Furstenburg was also graceful at New York Fashion Week. She offered pasta salad and sandwiches to the models. Of course, there were healthier choices like Fiji water and juice cleanses.

Marilyn Monroe's legend lives on Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe. "And I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid," went the lyrics. "Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did." In this undated publicity photo courtesy Running Press, Marilyn Monroe is shown in the first photo taken of her in the famous white dress from the "The Seven Year Itch." For a brief scene in "The Seven Year Itch," in September 1954, her character strolls on a Manhattan street on a stifling summer evening. When a subway rattles beneath her, Marilyn stands astride a sidewalk vent to catch a cool breeze that swirls her skirt up around her waist. (AP Photo/Courtesy Running Press) Monroe passed away a half-century ago this Sunday, a murky death that remains one of Hollywood's most tantalizing mysteries. But look around: Her legend lives on, more vibrantly than ever. In a development this fiercely ambitious actress surely would have appreciated, the 1950's bombshell has become a 21st-century pop culture phenomenon. Just flip through a celebrity magazine: Some of-the-moment young starlet or pop singer will be channeling (or outright appropriating) those platinum locks, the bright red lips, moist and slightly parted, and that joyously, almost defiantly curvy figure, sheathed in something skin-tight and glamorous. Was that Marilyn on the red carpet at last year's Teen Choice Awards? No, it was Taylor Swift, wearing a white halter-style dress just like Marilyn's in "The Seven Year Itch," in which the actress stood atop a subway grate and let the breeze of a passing train lift her skirts. (Oh, and that dress? It sold at auction last year for a mind-boggling $5.6 million, including commission.) Was that Marilyn in the Dolce Gabbana ad a while back? No, it was Scarlett Johansson, all white-blonde hair and ruby lips. And there was Charlize Theron in a Dior ad last year, meeting up with the real Marilyn, not to mention Marlene Dietrich and Grace Kelly, via CGI. Magazine spreads have featured Nicole Kidman, Lindsay Lohan, Rihanna, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis and others having their Marilyn moment. Madonna, of course, has famously appropriated Monroe's look into her image. So have singers Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani. In June, on what would have been Marilyn's 86th birthday, Lady Gaga tweeted "Happy Birthday Marilyn - They'll never take our blonde hair and lipstick," along with a picture of herself, Monroe-like. Nicki Minaj says she's "obsessed with Marilyn Monroe." On the big screen, actress Williams earned an Oscar nomination for her moving portrayal of Monroe in "My Week With Marilyn." And one of TV's most popular new shows is "Smash" on NBC, which follows a Broadway musical based on Marilyn's life, with two actresses competing to play her. Heck, there's even been a giant Marilyn traversing the country: A 26-foot-tall, 34,000-pound statue of the actress, white dress billowing and undies showing, by artist Seward Johnson, now resting in Palm Springs, Calif. And there are plans for much more - thanks to the purchase in late 2010 of Monroe's estate, which includes among other things her name and image - by Authentic Brands Group and its partner, NECA. The company's CEO, Jamie Salter, says he aims to upgrade the Marilyn brand by moving away from cheap souvenirs and developing Marilyn-themed cosmetic lines, spas and salons, sportswear, swimwear, footwear, handbags and more. There are even plans for - wait for it - the inevitable Marilyn Monroe reality show, in which young women would compete to become a new Hollywood icon. But just what is the secret of Marilyn's enduring appeal? It depends on whom you ask - and that's fitting, really, because Marilyn, more than other iconic celebrities, was different things to different people. There was, most simply, Marilyn the actress - a Marilyn that often got lost in all the hype, despite her desperate aspirations to be taken seriously. Film historian Leonard Maltin laments that many people know Marilyn "as an image and an icon," but not as an actress. Monroe showed off her dramatic chops in "The Misfits," for example, and "Bus Stop." But she is probably best remembered for her delightful comic turns in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" as the gold-digging Lorelei Lee who sang "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in that classic pink gown; as the sensuous but ditzy Girl in "The Seven Year Itch"; and as sexy band singer Sugar Kane in "Some Like it Hot." "Marilyn just leaps off the screen," says Maltin. "She has a luminosity that transcends everything else." Still, an entire younger generation is enamored of her for something completely different, says Brandon Holley, editor in chief of Lucky magazine, which draws women in their 20s and 30s. "I think most women under 40 haven't seen her movies," Holley says. "For them, she's a style type - the ultimate hourglass figure. And a lot of women identify with that." Christopher Nickens agrees. Her key fashion legacy, he says, was to bring body-conscious clothes into everyday life, with elegance. Though she wasn't seen as a fashion icon during her lifetime, Nickens thinks Marilyn shared something with other style icons like Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn. "They didn't follow trends," he says. "It's about knowing yourself and what works for you, and having that confidence." Confidence isn't necessarily something one associates with Monroe, of course. In that Elton John song, "Candle in the Wind," she's a beautiful innocent victimized by a terrible Hollywood machine - people who "whispered into your brain" and "set you on the treadmill" and "made you change your name." That falls into a familiar victim narrative about Monroe, who was indeed victimized as a young girl, according to multiple biographers. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926, she spent much of her childhood in foster homes, and there are allegations she suffered sexual abuse. But a victim of Hollywood? Monroe's latest biographer, Lois Banner, begs to differ. She says Monroe the movie star "was a constructed image" - one the actress herself worked very hard to invent, from the dyed hair (Norma Jeane was a brunette), to the makeup, that breathy voice, and the famous "wiggle walk." And her dumb blonde screen image? Nothing like her, says Banner, a professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California. "She was extremely intelligent." But why has Marilyn's appeal only gotten stronger? "First of all, she died very young," says Banner, freezing her image for eternity. But another reason is the existence of thousands of photographs of Marilyn, bursting with life. "She's conceivably the most photographed person of the 20th century," says Banner. She also has some 53,000 Twitter followers. Salter's brand vision? "To seduce the world with products that capture the iconic personality, style, glamour and elegance of the legendary actress," according to the promotional materials.

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