How To Start A Startup talk
Graham gives a talk at the Harvard Computer School in which he says successful startups need to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.
If there is one message I’d like to get across about startups, that’s it. There is no magically difficult step that requires brilliance to solve.
It’s Like That performance
Carey performs It’s Like That at the BET Blueprint from the album The Emancipation of MiMi.
Constantine
LaBeouf co-stars in the fantasy-horror film, Constantine, a movie based on Vertigo Comic’s Hellblazer comic book. The film portrays John Constantine, a cynic with the ability to communicate with half-angels and half-demons in their true form, who hopes to win favor back into Heaven. LaBeouf plays Chas Kramer, the quirky sidekick to Constantine who hopes to learn a few tricks of the trade along the way. The young actor describes what it was like playing Reeves’ sidekick:
Keanu’s great to perform with just because he’s so giving. What was cool was yes, my character looks up to him and I look up to him because he’s an American icon, so I got to pull a lot of that out of reality and put it into the film. It was a lot of fun to work on. Very easy.
Rebellion performance
Arcade Fire performs Rebellion during The Late Show with David Letterman to promote their album Funeral.
Alexander
In this action adventure, directed by Oliver Stone, Jolie plays Olympias. The film takes a bold, honest look at Alexander’s life and his relationships with his mother, Olympias, his father Philip, his lifelong friend and battle commander Hephaistion, Roxane, his ambitious and beautiful wife, and his trusted general and confidant Ptolemy. Co-starring: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins and Rosario Dawson.
It was probably the hardest thing Ive ever done. The complexity of the character… Was I going over the top? Was I making it real? Everything about her from the way that she walked to the way that she spoke. Everything about her had to be correct.
The Aviator
DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes in this biopic directed by Martin Scorsese. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircrafts he designed and created. It also follows his descent into madness as his compulsiveness for cleanliness gives way to frequent outbursts and ticks. He turns away those closest to him, confining himself and emerging only when absolutely necessary. Co-starring Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale.
[Hughes was] the first American billionaire who had all the resources in the world but was somehow unable to find any sense of peace or happiness. It’s that great see-saw act in the movie that goes on. On one side, he’s having all the successes in the world. And on the other side the tiny microbes and germs are the things that are taking him downwards, because of his OCD and being a germaphobe.
Candy Man performance
Aguilera performs Candy Man during The Tonight Show With Jay Leno to promote her album
The Aviator
Beckinsale plays Ava Gardner in the biographical drama film about aviation magnate Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Gardner is just one of many love interests throughout Hughes’ colorful life. The film is directed by Martin Scorsese. On playing Ava Gardner:
With a living person you have to get it right, as opposed to creating something from scratch. So it was a bit of a lump in the throat…
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Streep plays Aunt Josephine in this family adventure directed by Brad Silberling. After they are orphaned, Klaus, Violet and Sunny are taken in by their cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, not knowing that he wants to steal their inheritance. Co-starring Jim Carrey and Jude Law.
Aunt Josephine is a great tremulous little bird of a person who was an adventurer in her youth until something spooked her. I just fell in love with this character who is terrified of absolutely everything, because at a certain level, so am I … so are we all.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Carrey plays Count Olaf in this family adventure directed by Brad Silberling. After they are orphaned, Klaus, Violet and Sunny are taken in by their cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, not knowing that he wants to steal their inheritance. Co-starring Jude Law and Meryl Streep.
Although I want to be entertaining, the bottom line is Olaf is not a nice person. He has to be that way. I said to the early on that I want them to laugh, but at the same time the danger has to be real or we have nothing. The movie is meaningless without real danger.
Flight of the Phoenix
Padalecki plays John Davis, a plane crash survivor in the film, Flight of the Phoenix. He and the rest of the survivors must race to rebuild the plane before their time runs out.
Ocean’s Twelve
Zeta-Jones plays Europol agent Isabel Lahiri in the crime drama Ocean’s Twelve. Three years after their big Las Vegas heist, the team is visited by Terry Benedict, the man whose money they stole. He wants his money back with interest. The team goes to work in Europe this time but their reputation precedes them. Lahiri will not allow any heists under her watch. Co-starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle and Julia Roberts.
There’s something very sexy about a heist movie. I don’t know what it is, all those ropes, all those gadgets.
Ocean’s Twelve
Pitt returns as Rusty Ryan in this sequel to the 2001 film Ocean’s Eleven. He reunites with Danny Ocean and Linus Caldwell to conduct another heist in Europe. They need to give back the money they stole from Terry Benedict lest they risk going to jail in the US. Joining the original cast members are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vincent Cassel, and Robbie Coltrane. On working with his co-stars:
I’d like to call it work but it was pretty much automatic for us. First of all, there’s a very low level of maturity amongst all the guys there so that helps. We bonded very quickly, then we got the beautiful women to make us look better but it’s pretty automatic.
Closer
Portman joins actor Jude Law once again in the 2004 drama Closer, along with Hollywood veterans Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. The film tells the story about two London couples and their participation in a dangerous game of love, lies and infidelity.
I just always choose things based on if it’s different from something I’ve done before. If it’s something challenging. If it’s something I think I might not be able to do.
The Libertine
Pike plays Elizabeth Barry in Laurence Dunmore and Stephen Jeffreys’ adaptation of Jeffreys’ play. The decadent Earl of Rochester takes Elizabeth, a struggling actress, as his mistress and later his wife.
My Boo performance
Keys and Usher perform My Boo at the American Music Awards for album Confessions.
Raise Your Voice
Duff stars in the feature film Raise Your Voice. Duff plays main character Terri Fletcher who overcomes emotional hardship to rediscover her confidence and love for singing. The film also features actors David Keith and Jason Ritter.
I think luckily whenever I had a dream my parents have been 100 percent supportive and I’ve never had to sneak around. I think that Terri was so naive when she got into that school. She’s such an open minded girl and I think it hit her hard when she gets to the school and see that people really are that evil. She doesn’t know how to handle it at first.
Friday Night Lights
Based on H.G. Bissingers best selling tale, Young plays Chris Commer, a football player for the Permian Panthers in a small town in Odessa, Texas. This drama is about a town’s obsession with their football team’s journey to fulfill their destiny and dreams during the 1988 season. Billy Bob Thornton plays Coach Gary Gaines. Co-starring Derek Luke and Lucas Black.
I had never played football before so they sent me the script and I was like, I don’t even know who I play. But that character is perfect for me in so many ways. He’s like third string and he comes in to play. You know, it’s my first movie so it’s kind of like getting the chance to do something great.
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Cavallari stars in the MTV reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. The series follows a group of classmates from Laguna Beach High School including co-star Lauren Conrad. Cavallari and Conrad are depicted as high school enemies and fight over a boy—Stephen Colletti—they both are interested in.
It really was presented to us like a documentary. Nobody thought it was going to blow up like it did … definitely a different way to grow up.
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Conrad stars in MTV reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. The series follows Conrad and a group of her friends and classmates of Laguna Beach High School for three seasons. Other than Conrad the show’s main characters include Stephen Colletti, Kristin Cavallari and Lo Bosworth.
It was just a big group of friends being themselves. I think it’s impossible to do that in this day and age of reality TV.