Letterman Interview
Williams interviews with Dave on the David Letterman show to promote William’s new movie Old Dogs but ended-up cracking jokes about Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska.
It’s wonderful, I went looking for her book and I found it in the fantasy aisle. With Sarah you get the feeling she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one. You look at her and wonder ‘Where did they find her, Project Running Mate?’
Elle Magazine interview
Baldwin gives interview to Elle about why turning 50 was much worse than turning 40.
Because 30, you’re not old, but you’re not incontrovertibly young anymore. In your twenties, you can write anything off. But once you turn 30, you gotta get serious about everything. So 30 was hard. Forty was not. Fifty, though. You gotta love a man who talks about age like a woman.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about her play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof having to be fine tuned to suit African American culture and economic social standards.
Debra has moved the play from the 50’s to the 80’s.
Cat On Hot Tin Roof interview
Rashad talks to Adrian Lester about the new revamped African American version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
We’re having a wonderful time.
Elle Magazine interview
Combs gives interview to Elle about if losing his father at the age of three.
A couple years ago, my psychologist came to the conclusion that this is one of the big problems I have as far as maturing in a relationship. After my father got killed, my mother said, “I’m never getting married again. I don’t want men around my children.” So I’ve never actually been able to witness a husband and wife’s love. Sometimes when I see it with my friends, I just find myself staring like a child, because I’ve never actually seen it before. It’s one of the sad parts of my life.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks about her role on The Cosby Show and people wanting her to be their mother because of her character.
My children may have a different take on that.
New Zealand Herald interview
In an interview for The New Zealand Herald, Lloyd talks about working in Tokyo, while his family stays in New Zealand. He spends a week each month with his family near Kerikeri. He also talks about losing almost losing his ‘fortune’ in the dot-com bust of 2000.
It was a pretty ugly time. Even my wife told me to go and get a proper job. That was probably my low point.
Maxim Interview
Karo talks about his book, I’m Having More Fun Than You, and the advice he gives to single men in their 30s:
I believe that the longer you’re single before getting married, the better off you’ll be when you do finally take the plunge. The fact is, being alone is an incredible opportunity to learn about yourself.
Vanessa Williams interview
Behar interviews Williams on The Joy Behar Show about her experiences with racism.
Growing up I’ve of course been called the N-word
O Magazine interview
Jay-Z gives an interview to Oprah for O Magazine about being abandoned by his father when he was 11.
[I felt] Anger. At the whole situation. Because when you’re growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you’ve let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again. So I remember just being really quiet and really cold. Never wanting to let myself get close to someone like that again. I carried that feeling throughout my life, until my father and I met up before he died.
Elle Magazine interview
Rock gives interview to Elle about what he learned most from the making of his film Good Hair.
I couldn’t believe how strong these relaxer chemicals were. And I’ve actually had them in my hair I remember the burning. It would be against the Geneva conventions if they used this stuff at Guantánamo.
O Magazine interview
Jay-Z gives his thoughts about why his first album, Reasonable Doubt played a pivotal part in boosting his hip-hop career:
Yes—and that first album, Reasonable Doubt, is my favorite, because all the emotions and experiences of 26 years came out in it. That was the record I had 26 years to make.
Steve Ballmer interview
Arrington interviews Ballmer in the TechCrunch office, with Bing, Windows 7, Azure, Mesh, and other products all hitting the market. Ballmer:
It’s good to have a year where you have a lot of things to get excited about
Elle Magazine interview
McHale gives interview to Elle about his rise to fame and career success in Community.
Well, I slept with the appropriate men. No, I took The Soup because of the pedigree of Greg Kinnear. He was able to launch out of this. I thought it would open up the correct doors. And it did. Thank God, because The Soup is basically me doing stand-up for 22 minutes a week. Casting directors started calling me in. Then [Community] came up. It was the best script I’d read in years. We shot it, and I prayed that we got picked up. I knew we had a pretty good shot because Chevy Chase is in it.
Elle Magazine interview
Carey gives interview to Elle about her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
Each song has its own mood; some flow seamlessly into each other, and that was the purpose, and others are very different. The album has a sense of humor you can hear me laughing out loud at certain points but it also has deep and introspective moments.
Nick Cannon interview
Cannon gives interview to Elle about how he knew Mariah Carry was the one
We had a meeting about the video shoot at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and I ordered french fries. I always say grace over my food coming from a family of ministers, it’s the way I was raised so I said, Can you excuse me for a minute? and bowed my head. She said, You ain’t gonna pray over my food, too! I do the same thing! A lot of people say they’re spiritual cause it seems like the right thing, but then she pulled an electronic Bible out of her purse. I never meet anyone in the business that’s on the same level as I am spiritually, so that was the first thing that opened my eyes to, Whoa, this could be something unique. We spent the next weekend together, but it felt more like a getaway than a video shoot. It was also her well, she doesn’t have birthdays; she has, like, anniversaries of her twelfth birthday, so we had that celebration, and all weekend we were like, You too! No way get outta here!
Esquire interview
Clinton gives his thoughts on why his proposed health care bill in 1994 didn’t get passed:
Basically, everybody who writes about this stuff today repeats the health-insurance lobby’s line from 1994. Like: The bill was long and complicated. The bill took out four hundred more pages of federal law than it put in. They say we forced a bill on Congress — untrue. I asked Congress to write the bill, and Chairman [Dan] Rostenkowski [of the House Ways and Means Committee] demanded that Hillary send him a bill — a complete bill. He said, “I won’t take it up if you don’t. We don’t know enough about it, the interest groups will eat us alive, we’ll modify your bill, but you’ve gotta send us a whole bill.” It was the demand of the most important committee in the House of Representatives.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks with Jenny Craig Inc. about her weight gain, weight loss, and being a spokesperson for Jenny Craig.
I walked up three flights of stairs and couldn’t breathe.
Esquire interview
Franklin gives his thoughts on the drug war in the United States:
The prison population is off the hook in this country, Franklin says. In 1993, at the height of apartheid in South Africa, the incarceration of black males was 870 per 100,000. In 2004 in the U.S., for every 100,000 people we are sending 4,919 black males to prison. And the majority of those are for nonviolent drug offenses. But we’d rather send people to prison than give them information and treatment.
99.9 The Fan in Raleigh interview
Paulus speaks about the football playbook at Syracuse:
No, they gave me the playbook and it’s the same one everyone else had and got. I just got it a few months later and it definitely is a complex playbook and the terminology, it’s a little bit different than high school obviously, it’s more sophisticated. But, when I was seeing this offense on film, when I came to visit Syracuse, and when I was making the decision, it was one where I felt it fits my strengths, and one where I was really excited to have the opportunity to be in.