WWE return
Garcia returns to WWE after being away since October due to a car accident.
I actually had butterflies in my stomach driving up to the arena. After 11 years [in WWE], you’d think this would be old hat to me, but it all feels new again
Williams disses Beyonce voice
Williams disses Beyonce during an episode of Hot Topics by making fun of how Beyonce talks.
I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.
Tavis Smiley interview
Garcia discusses his latest project, A Dark Truth, an environmental thriller that he also co-executive produced, in this interview for PBS. On his character in the film:
Well, this character of Jack, Big Jack Begosian, he’s, as you find him in the beginning of the film, he’s a radio talk show host in Toronto, and the show is called “The Truth.” He’s basically trying to bring attention to situations around the world or in society that are untruthful and need to be busted on. But his past is one that’s very dark. He was involved in the CIA and he says, as he says in the movie, that he’s done things that are, to one of the callers, that he’s done things that are unforgiveable and unforgettable, and he’s trying to make amends, somehow make amends for that in his life.
Financial Times interview
Carter is interviewed by The Financial Times. He talks about the launch of LittleMonsters.com and how data from the many South American fans led to the expansion of a tour there.
Our bet is on the future of micronetworks. Facebook wasn’t wired to build a relationship between fans and artists. It’s more about communicating with family and friends and old girlfriends or your classmates; 51m likes doesn’t mean we’re going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets. [It’s a] misconception when people talk about a direct relationship between artists and their fans or brands and consumers through social media. The reality is that these platforms own the relationship. So as much as you can talk directly to a customer or a fan, you still have this intermediary . . . that controls the data. And at any given time, if they turn it off or they change an algorithm, like Facebook did with its newsfeed algorithm last year, it changes the way you’re able to communicate with that fan or customer
About his abilities as an artist:
I stay away from the arts . . . writing songs, being creative – those are downloads from god. You can’t do data analytics on art.
The importance of hiring outsiders:
My COO didn’t come from the music industry, my vice-president of creative was actually a schoolteacher. It was important we had people who came from an outside perspective, who didn’t come from selling CDs.
Jessica Biel interview
Biel guests on Conan to chat about her recent marriage to Justin Timberlake, and explains to O’Brien that he can no longer flirt with her. She also talks about her childhood as a tomboy, including being into sports and decapitating dolls.
Yeah, I had Barbies for a minute, but they didn’t really stick around very long. I ended up mutilating them, pulling their heads up, cutting up all of their hair, dying them with markers, and sticking them on the Christmas tree lights.
Jordin Sparks, Jason Derulo interview
Williams interviews Sparks and boy friend Jason Derulo for the first time ever as a couple.
No. It was not exactly love at first sight. We were actually, we were both called to do a show in the Bahamas last year and it was awesome cause we had meet each other before. But there was nothing, like we just saw each other in passing. And then he [Jason] invited me to the after party afterwards.
Tavis Smiley interview
Anderson discusses his career and new NBC sitcom, Guys with Kids, in this interview for PBS.
It’s good to be back in the sitcom world, because I had a little departure, because I did have something to prove on the dramatic side, just because people like yourself, who sit back home – we met years ago, didn’t see it.
1070 The Fan in Indianapolis interview
Williams discusses what he learned during North Carolina’s loss to Butler:
I don’t know that it’s the best thing, but it did open our eyes a little bit, because we really haven’t played … a very difficult schedule. My nine years that I’ve been here, our schedule’s been ranked in the top 25 most difficult schedules every year, I think, except one, and like five times in the top 10. … Butler, all of the sudden, is a good team, and they hit us right in the mouth, and they backed us up. And we never came back for about 28 minutes, and then all of a sudden, we did have a sense of urgency. … I liked our toughness at that point, but, man, we let them hit us right in the mouth to start with. … It showed us a lot of holes in our game.
Wrestling101.com interview
Palumbo speaks about leaving WWE in 2004:
Well that’s a very tricky question because I never really got a good answer. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes at the WWE, many things that we don’t know about. I was told the writers did not know how to use me, but when it comes down to it, if the agents/producers aren’t pushing you to the writers then they aren’t going to write for you, and at the time the producers just weren’t pushing for me, that’s just how it works, it’s a tough business and I am not one for politicking.
The Talks interview
Law gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses whether he ever reads interviews and whether he considers acting an art.
It’s certainly a craft. Is it an art? Yeah, in certain ways it is. It depends on the director, it depends on the project, and it depends on the medium. In theater it feels like more of an art form than perhaps on film – in general. But in some films you are required to approach it like an artist and in others you’re about as artistic as the guys who are there to light it or to do the catering.
Will not give himself up, offers $25,000 reward
In an phone call with NBC Dateline correspondent Morrison, McAfee offers a BZE$25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for Faull’s murder. He also claims he is at his home on the island, and not in hiding. Morrison says that McAfee continues to have no faith in the Belize Police Department, even when he is being offered to turn himself in with his attorney and television cameras. Morrison:
One of the claims he [McAfee] is making, and I challenged him on a good many of those claims, is that he does not have any intention of giving himself up, not now not ever. He is fixated on the notion that the police and the political establishment of the police are unbelievably corrupted and there is nothing he can do except stay in hiding.
Says he will be executed by police
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph McAfee explains why he refuses to turn himself in to Belize authorities:
I think I will be summarily executed. I know the prime minister laughs at this. He’s a clever and charismatic person. The constitution has been ridden away with. They can make up some excuse for removing me. This is the way it is in this country…My plan is a day-to-day plan, simply to avoid detection.
McAfee is in hiding with a woman and admitted that he has a disguise. He follows the latest news of the search for him sporadically.
I wish I had a TV, that would be very informative. I’m keeping tabs through friends. I have intermittent access to the internet, again through friends.
McAfee does not stay on the phone with The Telegraph for long because he fears that the call could be traced to his current location. He says he is innocent of Faull’s death, asserting that he was at his villa the night of the murder.
I was at home. I heard nothing. I knew nothing until the following day.
Tavis Smiley interview
Field discusses playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln in this interview for PBS. On wanting the role:
I think it’s my size and that I somehow have a roundness to my face that perhaps I could put the two people together, me and Mary. And then when you add that it was Steven’s project, that eventually Tony Kushner wrote the screenplay and Daniel Day-Lewis was Lincoln, how would I not want this project? Mary was such a complicated, under-examined, really maligned and unbelievable important female American character, and Steven had originally asked me, like in 2005, to be Mary, but he didn’t have the project, really. It was something he wanted to do.
Denies killing Faull. On run with young woman
McAfee tells AP in a telephone interview from an undisclosed location that he didn’t kill Faull, though he acknowledged he had differences with the dead man. Belize police have said they want to question his as a “person of interest” in the murder.
I barely knew him, I barely spoke ten words to him in the last three years. Certainly he was not my favorite person and I was not his. He was a heavy drinker and an annoyance. But the world is full of annoyances; if we killed all of our annoyances, there would be nobody left.
McAfee says he is in hiding, unarmed and accompanied only by a young woman, changing locations and telephones frequently to stay one step ahead of a Belize police unit he says wants to kill him.
Disguses self
McAfee tells Wired magazine in periodic phone updates he had dyed his hair, eyebrows, beard and mustache black.
I have modified my appearance in a radical fashion. I’ll probably look like a murderer, unfortunately.
Tavis Smiley interview
Knightley discusses current and upcoming projects, including Anna Karenina, in this interview for PBS. On being drawn to period pieces:
I think it’s the element of fantasy, actually. I find that really interesting. It’s a world that’s rules you don’t know, so the rules can be created, so the drama can always be created, and kind of almost freed within that. I quite like it as a kind of dramatic conceit. I find it an interesting way to draw myself in and to draw people in. I guess it’s something to do with that.
Will Ferrell interview
Seacrest interviews Ferrell during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his feelings on the Rob Pattinson & Kristen Stewart breakup.
Everyday is different, it’s a roller coaster of emotion. They’re talking and that’s good enough for me. That’s the best I can hope for right now. But I still hope they’ll get back together. My hope is that they wake up from this a couple years down the road and say, “Hey, let’s get the band back together.” So to speak and, “Let’s rekindle the magic. What we had was so special.” I don’t know, it’s tough to stay together in Hollywood.
Unlocking Alicia interview
Keys is interviewed by Complex.com:
My dream is to be that good someday and she’s still as focused as ever. I’m competitive with myself in the sense that I want to get better,” she says now. It’s not that I’m obsessively dissecting myself, but there’s a critique that happens. I am very driven. I’m not comparing myself to other people. I don’t wanna be like her or him. I want to be my best.
Wrestling101.com interview
Guerrero Jr. talks about being a part of the cruiserweight division in WCW:
People had never really seen that style of wrestling, that wasn’t just flying but was wrestling and brawling and just different stuff that I really attribute to bringing in Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero. They all came from Japan, they had been in Mexico, they had been in ECW, those three had been everywhere together and were used to wrestling all those different styles.
790 the Ticket in Miami interview
Krzyzewski gives his thoughts about why he hasn’t left Duke for another coaching job:
That and I really do love Duke and I love college basketball. I think if your family was spread out all over then somebody might be living in L.A. and somebody might be living in Denver and Dallas and Chicago. That is the criteria. How crazy is that? I would’ve been moving away from my daughters instead of my daughters moving away from us. That was part of the decision making process, there’s no doubt about that.