Esquire interview
Noujaim discusses making the film Control Room:
So with the Iraq war coming, part of my interest in making Control Room specifically came from the fact that I grew up in the Middle East, though my mother’s American and I went to college in the U. S. I was watching very different perceptions of what was happening, what would be good for this world, and whether the Iraq war was actually going to increase anti-American sentiment and terrorism among the moderates in the Middle East. I wanted to be in the center of it. But what was the center?
Patti La Belle Interview
Danza talks to La Belle on The Tony Danza Show about La Belle living with diabetes.
You can live with diabetes.
Pro Wrestling Radio interview
Edge gives his thoughts on playing a heel character in WWE:
Right now, I’m having so much fun. It is so much more fun to piss people off. [It’s so hard] to get people to like you. If you try too hard to get them to like you, they just go ‘too hard,’ and if you don’t try hard enough, they go, ‘what’s his deal?’ As a heel, you can just let it all out. You can be whiny, you can be bitter, disgruntled, whatever you want, and blame it on everybody else. (Laughs) It’s a lot of fun. In a way, I’m taking the year of frustrations and channeling it into the character.
O Magazine interview
Obama discusses writing his memoir, Dreams from My Father, in an interview for O Magazine.
I had the opportunity. When I was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, people were willing to give me money to write. That’s a huge luxury. I thought I had something interesting to say about how our cultures collide as the world shrinks. My family’s story captures some of the tensions and evolution and crosscurrents of race, both in this country and around the globe.
O Magazine interview
Walters talks about leaving the ABC news show 20/20 in an interview for O Magazine.
I’ve worked all my life, and I’ve never had time to go to a city or country where I haven’t been in the studio. I watched your special (Diane Sawyer devoted an hour of Primetime to Oprah’s work in South Africa) not just with tears but with yearning. I’ve been to China four times—but I’ve never really seen China.
The Howard Stern Radio Show interview
Danza talks to Stern about his relationship with his Who’s the Boss? co-star—Judith Light—off-screen. Stern asks Danza if he ever had sex with Light.
No … I’d be honest, I’d tell you. I didn’t … I saw her nude.
O Magazine interview
Keys speaks about why she left Columbia Records in an interview for O Magazine.
Once I saw that these people were completely disrespecting my musical creativity. I was devastated and crushed, like a blooming flower that’s trampled on. Nothing hurts more. I’m fortunate that my manager was confident. Some of our incredible legends will die with nothing. They were jerked.
O Magazine interview
Clinton gives his thoughts on his impeachment trial during his presidency in an interview with O Magazine.
The personal aspect: What was I thinking? No matter how mad or scared I was about what else was going on, why in the wide world did I do that? And how can I make it up to everybody involved, beginning with Hillary and Chelsea, my administration, and the American people? That was by far the most difficult thing. Fighting (Kenneth) Starr and the impeachment was easy.
Pro Wrestling Radio interview
Sammartino responds to critics of his in ring style:
Well ask people like Killer Kowalski, Don Leo Jonathan, Ken Patera, Gene Kiniski, Ivan Koloff. I mean anyone who has ever seen me with these people, know what kind of action we provided in the ring. For one guy to accuse me of being lazy…if there’s one reputation I had amongst my peers, which makes me feel very proud, was always the great shape I kept myself into, and the great shape I was performing in the ring. I don’t understand why this man would say these things. I just don’t get it.
Pro Wrestling Radio interview
Heenan reflects on his WWE Hall of Fame induction speech:
I didn’t have anything. When I was called at home by Jim Ross, I said sure. I was thinking of how I am going to open up, what I was going to say, who’s going to be there. I don’t want start out knocking this guy or I don’t want to put this guy over. I don’t really know what to do. I’m just going to go there and see what happens and I really didn’t have anything. So I was sitting there talking to Muraco and Tito. Then when they started the show and started introducing us, I didn’t know what I’m going to do. See, I never like to rehearse anything. Monsoon and I never rehearsed a thing. There was nothing written. I can’t say other people’s words and I can’t remember things people write. I just have to do it on my own. That’s the only way I’ve ever done interviews or anything, forty years in the business.
Eva Marie Saint interview
King talks to several actors including Saint about Brando.
You felt like he could read your soul.
O Magazine interview
Crystal talks about things not working out with Saturday Night Live early in his career in an interview with O Magazine.
I don’t blame anyone. It just got all blown out of proportion with the managers. They stood up for me, and Lorne stood up for his show. I understand that. The hard part was calling all the relatives and saying, “I’m not going to be on. They’re like, But we took naps so we could watch this at 11:30, Mr. Big Shot. What did you do, open your mouth?
Onlamp interview
Graham is interviewed for Onlamp.com about Painters And Hackers, and talks about the Arc programming dialect, how brevity makes code more beautiful, and whether he is inspired by humanists or mathematicians:
I think there is a middle path. It’s good for languages to be inspired by math, but they have to be inspired in the right way by it.
Anderson Cooper interview
Cooper interviews Branson for a segment on how disabilities can create success by developing different ways of processing information:
I was as a child dyslexic, not badly dyslexic but dyslexic had quite a lot of problems in school … The reason that I think people who are dyslexic seem to exceed quite well in life, having had hell at school, is that you do simplify things … Anything urgent I write on the back of the hand, so I keep everything pretty simple…Obviously someone who’s dyslexic you’ve got to try to get them as much help as they can from, you know, the people at the schools and other people who are specializing in dyslexia. But, you know, in the end I think, you know, the chances are that they may well excel in other areas.
O Magazine interview
Wonder speaks about getting the idea for his song I Wish in an interview with O Magazine.
When I first came up with I Wish, it was going to be about some kind of crazy philosophical stuff, but that didn’t work with the song. So after a Motown picnic, we came back to the studio, and we were all sitting around the piano. We started talking about the different experiences we had growing up, like when I got a whipping for playing doctor with a girl.
O Magazine interview
Armstrong talks about cycling at 15-years-old in an interview for O Magazine.
Anyone could come for the group rides, so my buddies and I were with local and even regional racers. There we were at age 15, duking it out with these guys. At that point, I thought, “Maybe I’m pretty good at this bike thing.” I started competing—just short races. A few years later, I began devoting all my time to the sport.
O Magazine interview
Bono talks about why is is nervous whenever he releases an album in an interview with O Magazine.
It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, Is this it? Are we still relevant?
O Magazine interview
Parker gives her thoughts on the last show of HBO’s Sex and the City in an interview with O Magazine.
What a hard decision it was to end the show! I kept asking myself, How’s the party faring? And how am I faring? Right now the party’s in full swing, and I hope the audience feels the same. But I don’t want to crawl across the finish line with bloodied hands. And as scary as it is to leave—and as lucrative as it would be to stay—sometimes you have to do what’s risky.
Pro Wrestling Radio interview
Hart talks about managing The Great Muta in WCW:
They approached me about a Kabuki-type wrestler, and I said, I do have a wrestler in mind, he’s not a Kabuki, but someone very similar. I looked at three, or four Japanese wrestlers and there was a young kid in Florida at the time, a mid-card level wrestler by the name of the White Ninja, I said Bring him in.” I spent four or five weeks with him in smaller towns in the Carolinas, I decided that he was someone that we could do something with. He was very talented, very hungry at the time, really wanted to break through.
O Magazine interview
Madonna speaks about kissing Spears on the MTV Video Music Awards in an interview with O Magazine.
When Britney went to kiss me, she just went for it. I tried to go with it so it wouldn’t be weird. I’m a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I’ve learned to roll with the punches. Also, you remember when Michael Jackson kissed Lisa Marie Presley on the MTV awards?