ABC interview
Jackson is interviewed by ABC about his life and his 50th birthday.
I am still looking forward to doing a lot of great things, so that’s hard. I think the best is yet to come, in my true humble opinion.
Esquire interview
Roth talks about his role as Sergeant Donny Donowitz in the movie Inglourious Basterds:
The Basterds kind of keep him in reserve, so that when they’re interrogating the Germans, they’re like, You’d better tell us where so-and-so is hiding, or we’re bringing out the Bear Jew. The idea’s that when you hear the Bear Jew, you think it’s going to be some 300-pound, huge 6-foot-7 muscle guy, and Quentin said he wants people to go, ‘That’s the Bear Jew? Eli?
Esquire interview
Novak discusses his role in the movie Inglorious Basterds:
Private First Class Smithson Utivitch. He probably came from a family that was trying to assimilate into the Waspy mainstream by naming their kid Smithson, and the war was his chance to reclaim being Jewish. I don’t know if you’ll see that onscreen, but that’s where I’m coming from when I’m paying really close attention to Brad Pitt.
Esquire interview
Burhard gives his thoughts about the set of the movie Inglorious Basterds:
We were always staying in character. Eli Roth, who plays our sergeant, had instructions to stay on top of us. The shoot was on such a tight schedule, and it was just about staying really concentrated and in character. We were Basterds 24/7. That was our life.
Esquire interview
Doom talks about his role in the movie Inglorious Basterds:
Private First Class Omar Ulmer. I didn’t know I was going to be in the movie until two weeks before we started filming. I’ve known Quentin for a long time, and he called me and was like, I want you to come to Berlin and be a Basterd. I was like, All right. I’ve been preparing for this role my whole life.
Esquire interview
Levine talks about his role as Private First Class Hirschberg in the movie Basterds:
Before we started shooting, it was important to Quentin that all of us come up with credible backstories for our characters. I decided that Hirschberg came from a smaller family in Connecticut, and his family owned the second-largest deli in Hartford.
Esquire interview
Rust discusses his role as Private First Class Andy Kagan in the movie Inglorious Basterds:
He’s a farm boy from Illinois, hungry for some action, but he wasn’t in the original script. By the time we met and hit it off, Quentin had already filled the other roles, so he created the part for me.
Gordon Pinsent interview
Pinsent talks to Crouse about the rumor of Pinsent encouraging Brando to put cotton in his mouth for The Godfather.
More cotton, more cotton. We can still hear you.
KTAR in Phoenix interview
Colangelo talks about changes with USA Basketball:
Back in ’04, with the terrible loss in Athens and the lack of real interest on a part of many players to represent their country, we needed to change the culture. And, when you take over a program, usually you start at the bottom and you build up with a solid foundation, I started at the top as managing director of the men’s team… Everyone wants to play now, I think they got it. The pipeline is in place, we have to keep it flowing and that’s the excitement for me.
Elle Magazine interview
Tatum gives interview to Elle about his acting style.
I’m just starting to wrap my head around how to become a real character. I used to think you always had to be doing something, literally moving, to stay interesting. I’m working on stillness.
Vanessa Williams interview
Wendy Williams talks to Vanessa Williams about her catalog purchases.
I have about 17-20 geese on my front lawn
Elle Magazine interview
Michaels gives interview to Elle about when he realized he was a sexual being.
Vividly. I was digging through my father’s drawer, when I found a thicker magazine than usual: the Women of the Office edition of Playboy you know, that whole hot, sexy miniskirt but she’s got the glasses on thing. I assumed this was what every girl who worked in an office looked like and did. I thought, No wonder my dad likes going to work.
Revenue Bootcamp interview
Graham and Sequoia Capital’s Moritz are interviewed by Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures about how founders need to have a passion to succeed. At one point in the chat, asked what the next big wave of inventions will be, Graham says it’s hard to define, but a good way to tell where innovations will come is to look at the products people in the tech industry are using:
Look at the ones hackers themselves use….we [Y Combinator] have a ton of companies building stuff for the iPhone now because all of them use iPhones, not one is building stuff for Blackberries
Reveals why she had Jackson’s children
In an interview with ABC News, Rowe reveals for the first time why she had Jackson’s children.
I believe there are people who should be parents, and he’s one of them. And he is such a fabulous man, and such a good friend, and he’s always been there for me, always, from the day I met him,
Taylor Swift interview
Marie Claire interviews Swift about how personal her song writing is to her and her writing style.
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. When I sit down and write a song the only person that I’m thinking about in that room is the person that I’m writing the song about and what I want them to know and what I wish I could tell them to their face, but I’m going to say it in a song instead. So, for me, music is really more about a diary and a confession. I love it. I love getting to say things to people that I wouldn’t say to them if I was standing face to face with them. Music is a way of verbalizing those things that I feel that I can’t say.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano gives an interview on the CW PodSquad and talks about working with Schwarzenegger in the 1985 film Commando.
He was very nice and he used to help me with my algebra homework.
Clarifies Gillmor Gang interview
Arrington explains that he asked Laporte whether the Palm Pre was paid for or free, as Palm had promised TechCrunch and at least one other blogger test units, but hadn’t delivered. He says he was trying to compare the reviews from people who got test units from those who bought the device.
I apologize to you, Leo. I didn’t mean to imply that you were being unethical. I just think that, given the story that’s brewing about favoritism at Palm, it was important to disclose whether you paid for that Pre, and/or got it in advance.
Laporte responds:
Thanks for the post, Mike. Apology accepted. Now that I know what was going on in your mind, I apologize to you.
There seems to be something about the Gillmor Gang that just engenders over the top passion. I’m embarrassed by my overreaction. Peace.
Gillmor Gang interview
Arrington implies on the show that Laporte may have given the Palm Pre a good review as he was one of the few to get a test unit. Laporte:
That’s B.S. and I’m really pissed off that you would imply that this ‘free’ Pre that I’m going to send back in seven days would in any way predispose me [to give it a good review because it’s free] … Screw you. Mike, you are such a troll. Screw you, asshole. I’m not kidding. That’s bullshit. I’m infuriated that you would somehow imply that because I have a review unit that would somehow influence me. Screw you. Fuck you, I’m throwing you all off.
710 ESPN Radio in Seattle interview
Elway discusses his the pressure high school athletes go through in today’s media in comparison to his days in high school:
It wasn’t nearly what the kids are going through these days. I went to high school down in Los Angeles so obviously we got a little bit of press down there but I don’t remember anybody that I played against in high school being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and we played some pretty good baseball down there.
Mixergy interview
Ohanian talks about how Y Combinator helped shape the idea for Reddit in the early stages:
We approached Y Combinator … with an idea that would transform the way you order food, specifically using a cell phone to do so. They didn’t really like the idea. They liked us, but they hated the idea.
They still didn’t have a firm idea, but sat down with Graham and talked about a site that would filter the most interesting web content.
…it was in that conversation with Paul where we developed this idea for creating a way to find out what’s new online.
The idea morphed into the final product:
All the actual mechanics of how that would work, basically happened in the next few weeks, while Steve [Huffman] and I were in a crap apartment, in Bedford, Massachusetts, playing a lot of Warcraft.