Esquire interview
Coudreaut talks about making a good hamburger:
One thing you could think about is cooking your burger from frozen rather than from raw. I make the patties ahead of time, wrap them individually, and keep them in my freezer, so when my kids come home I can make them a good burger. Another important thing is, always season the burger. Salt and pepper. I think that’s something that people just forget to do. And make sure that you’ve got good fresh bread — a good Kaiser roll, or a pretzel roll, something like that.
Carol Bartz interview
Arrington interviews Yahoo CEO Bartz at Disrupt. Bartz:
Listen, Yahoo’s a great company that is very, very strong in content for its users, uses amazing technology to serve up what, increasingly, we think is going to be the web of one…It’s a place where you can just get it together.
She says it has ‘32,000 different variations of the front page module every five minutes’ through content optimization based on what users click on, and people can check their email, social needs, and sports team all on the same page.
Told to ‘f-ck off’
Arrington and Bartz trade banter about expectations for Yahoo’s performance after she joined only recently. She says Apple took seven years to grow its market cap after Jobs rejoined. Arrington starts the exchange:
So how the f-ck are you?
He needles her about not reading TechCrunch. Bartz:
You are involved in a very tiny company, and it probably takes a long time to even convince yourself what to do….So f-ck off.
New York Times interview
Arrington talks about women in tech, holding parties in the early days of TechCrunch, and how Disrupt works like a March Madness bracket:
We’re going to start with 22 Disrupt companies in stage one of the tournament…Eventually, we’ll write a $50,000 check to the winners.
Why women aren’t attracted to the tech industry:
There’s a fascinating company, Zivity, it’s a venture-funded, adult photography community — yes, they put up pictures of naked women online — it was co-founded and is run by a woman, Cyan Banister. She wrote me in response to a post about women who are entrepreneurs, saying, basically, though these are not her exact words, women [stink] as entrepreneurs a lot of the time because they are nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature. She also said when men roll the dice and take risks, that society doesn’t punish them at all, and it’s in their nature to take stupid risks.
I didn’t respond to that. I didn’t want to jump into that debate. And I guess I still don’t.
WFNZ in Charlotte interview
Curry comments on what he expects his role to be on Duke’s basketball team:
He hasn’t really talked about the rotation, but I’m just gonna try and go in and get as much playing time, earn a starting spot, and stuff like that. I’m just gonna go in and do what I do. Be aggressive on the offensive end, put points on the board, and defensively put pressure on the ball like all his guards do.
Elle Magazine interview
Gyllenhaal gives interview to Elle about how he got Ann Hathaway to act in Love and Other Drugs.
I lured her to do the movie by telling her that [Brokeback] wasn’t our love story, this one should be. We’re going to learn the hard, dirty, rough parts of ourselves and share them at the same time.
Mowry interview
Williams interviews Tia and Tamera Mowry on marriage, life as twins and their careers.
When Tia got married I (Tamera) have to say it was kind of a bitter sweet experience. Because Tia and I were so close and were still close but I felt some what like I was, you know losing my best friend.
Elle Magazine interview
Brand gives interview to Elle about the cloak of love in his children’s book, My Booky Wook.
The Cloak of Love was in fact a rain jacket, but a rain jacket with such skillful marketing from my 16-year-old self that it became regarded as a kind of star gate to a world of wonder, as though beyond its lining was Narnia. Inveigled in that cape were probably two or three women a day and probably in total upward of 100. I sold it as a hell of a lot of fun, but really, it was just a piece of fabric.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano talks about her teen love life and how it wasn’t as exciting as most kids that age.
I didn’t go to a regular high school.
Seeks LeBron for Mavricks
In an exclusive interview with CNNMoney, Cuban says:
Come July 1st, yeah, of course, anybody would be interested in LeBron James, and if he leaves via free agency, then it’s going to be tough… if he decides to leave — there’s still a better chance he stays — then he’ll try to force a sign-and-trade, and that gives us a chance.
1070 The Fan in Indianapolis interview
Hayward talks about declaring for the 2010 NBA Draft:
I mean it was probably the most difficult decision that I have ever had to make. You are leaving all of these great people and great things at Butler, my family, my friends and so you are leaving them behind to go follow your dream to play basketball. It was a tough decision but one that I felt like I had to make.
Newsmax interview
Corcoran talks about women’s intuition in business, how being able to handle rejection is key to business, and being fabulous at failing:
Nobody likes being a loser and then you have to claw, figure out, and whip your way into a position of strength, the truth is if you’re great at being a loser, you’re going to be a winner in life…What women will do is take a leap of faith and listen to their intuition even when it doesn’t match up with logic, and that is powerful in business
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano talks about her problems with dating and socializing.
I was not a good dater.
‘Enormously in love’ with Ferguson
Hirsi Ali speaks about their relationship for the first time in upmarket Dutch women’s magazine Libelle.
Recently I have found new love – Niall Ferguson. He is a British historian and TV presenter. It is a complicated love affair. I am enormously in love with him. It is the best feeling in the world. I would love to become a mum soon. I have turned 40 and I hope it is still possible for me to have a baby. But he is involved in divorce proceedings and there are children involved. We are also both travelling a lot for our jobs. We have to put in a lot of effort to make sure we see each other. I am happier than ever. I feel so much better in my life after all the things I have gone through.
O Magazine interview
Hanh gives an interview to Oprah for O Magazine about the first time he saw saw a picture of the Buddha in a magazine.
I was 7, 8. He was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling. I was impressed. Around me, people were not like that, so I had the desire to be like him. And I nourished that desire until the age of 16, when I had the permission of my parents to go and ordain as a monk.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about the new film Just Wright and the various characters.
She likes Leslie because Leslie is straight up.
Interview
Venus sits down with Wendy and talks fashion, dating, height issues and her athletic clothing line. Venus:
I always design my own things.
WWE.com interview
Ryback talks to WWE.com about NXT and taking the competition seriously.
Every week I take the competitions extremely seriously. I don’t think all of the other NXT Rookies necessarily do. I think they are very important as far as getting extra exposure. You never know what you’re going to get out of them. Even though they don’t always deal with in-ring skills, I think it’s important to show the WWE Universe and the WWE Pros that you take this stuff seriously. And no matter what it is, I’m out there to win.
Esquire interview
Shook discusses his Los Angeles restaurant Animal:
I don’t know. Basically, first, the product there is amazing. We’re in Southern California. We have the best produce in the world. We buy a certain level of meat product. We use Diamond Ranch, a conglomerate of family-run farms, and a lot of the reason we buy from them is supply and demand. When you’re using twenty pounds of pig ears every other day, that’s a lot of pigs. You figure six ears per pound. That’s three pigs.
The Dan Patrick Show interview
Singler talks about returning to Duke for his senior season:
Well there were a few. The main ones were I just really liked it here. I felt like if I left that I would kind of miss out on my senior year. I think just coming back I will improve as a basketball player and just being around people that I like. I don’t feel like I want to leave. I don’t feel like I am being pushed out or anything and just the guys that we have back I think that we have a really good chance of repeating what we did this year.