The New York Times Style cover
Tatum appears on the cover of a October 2014 issue of The New York Times Style magazine. He talks about his struggles with dyslexia and ADHD as a child.
I have never considered myself a very smart person.
Bloody Elbow interview
Ross talks to Bloody Elbow about UFC Fight Pass and the WWE Network services being the future of the industries.
They are going to be able to control their destiny – good, bad, or indifferent as far as the television product is concerned. I think what they have done is show a lot of other networks what can be accomplished by building your own digital network. I think we will see more various entities follow the WWE model. They may learn from the WWE’s mistakes, as with any business, and see where they fell or fumbled.
Digital Spy interview
Snow talks to Digital Spy about TNA returning to using a six sided wrestling ring.
The six-sided ring is not that controversial to me. I don’t know what the controversy is. It’s two more sides. I think it’s a great identifier for TNA. You’re flipping through the TV channels and you see it, it stands out. It looks different, catches your attention. It might captivate somebody to watch for a few moments, and who knows, we may have another audience member.
New York interview
In a wide-ranging and detailed interview with New York magazine, Andreessen talks about Silcon Valley culture, discrimination, his favorite TV shoe (Deadwood), and the ideal of meritocracy:
I believe the ideal is compromised by two things right now: One is educational skills development, and the other is access. This is the critique that I think is actually the most interesting, which is, yeah, the meritocracy works if you know the right people, if you have access to the networks. How do venture capitalists make investment decisions? Well, we get referrals based on people we already know. Well, what if you’re somebody who doesn’t already know anybody, right? What if you don’t know the recruiter at Facebook so you can’t get the job? What if you don’t know the venture capitalist so you can’t raise funding? We think access is broadening out the network so that everybody who could contribute can get access to the network. And that’s the one that we’re working on.
Health interview
Michaels discusses health at 40, leaving Biggest Loser, and sexuality in an interview with Health. Michaels says she is in the best shape of her life.
As I’ve gotten older, I’m like, ‘I refuse to accept aging as a descent into decrepitude. And the irony is that at 40, I’m in better shape than I’ve ever been. There’s a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn’t anticipate.
Daily News interview
Woodley discusses growing up and sex scenes in her upcoming movie White Bird in a Blizzard and talks about her recent appearance on a Paris equivalent of The Tonight Show to publicize the movie:
They showed a clip where my character is in the bathroom and I take my top off. It’s on public television and that’s the clip they showed. When they showed it I was expecting the audience to react, but they were like, ‘Whatever. It’s just boobs.’
‘Target-rich environment’
U.S. officials say the ISIS offensive on Kobani is concentrating the group’s manpower in a small area and presenting a target for air strikes. U.S. CentCom chief Army Gen. Lloyd Austin:
The enemy has made a decision to make Kobani his main effort…Now, my goal is to defeat and ultimately destroy ISIL. And if [the enemy] continues to present us with major targets … then clearly, we’ll service those targets, and we’ve done so very, very effectively here of late
White House Press secretary Josh Earnest says the administration sees the assault as an opportunity:
That has created a rather target-rich environment around Kobani for American and coalition air strikes that when they see clusters of fighters or they see depots of material or supplies that are critical to the success of those fighters, it’s easier to take them out.
Mix Philadelphia interview
Rollins talks to Mix Philadelphia about The Shield’s place in history among other legendary wrestling factions.
The Shield was only around for..what? Two years? And we did A LOT in 2 years. I think the fact that people even take those 2 years and put them up against the reputations of those other groups really says a lot about what we were able to accomplish in that short period of time…It’s definitely something, two years I’m very proud of and I’m happy to say we certainly left a scar on WWE.
Hollywood Reporter interview
Woodley shares her thoughts on losing ones virginity in an interview with Hollywood Reporter while promoting her new film White Bird in a Blizzard. Woodley talks about how she tries to make the moment real for the viewer.
One of the things I have been very keen on in doing those scenes is that they feel real because, I don’t know about you, but I do not personally think losing your virginity is a fun experience. It’s not glamorous — for some people, I think it is, but it wasn’t for a lot of people on this planet — so for me, it was a matter of, if we’re gonna do a scene that deals with that, it’s not gonna be, ‘Her back arches and she gasps in excitement.’ No, no, it’s gonna be messy and it’s gonna be real.
Office Hours 2014
Altman sits down with founders from Salary Fairy, which crowdsources salary information from LinkedIn, Pair Up, which connects retailers with unused food to buyers who will pay a discount, and two founders building an app that allows couples to split expenses more easily. Altman:
It’s really hard to try to do multiple things as a startup… You have to just focus on one tight little thing and then you can expand from there, but until you have users telling you, This is the best thing ever…you really can’t expand the service
Defends practice of slavery
ISIS defends its capture of thousands of slaves and forced marriages of Yazidi women. Dabiq magazine article:
Enslaving the families of the [infidels] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah. If one were to deny or mock [it], he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran.
Cellmate: Kassig is scared but hopeful
French journalist Henin, who shared a cell with Kassig, says he hasn’t given up hope despite ISIS’s threat to behead him:
If you have no hope whatsoever, you just can’t survive. It was surely very difficult for him to have seen us leaving. But still it means that something is going on and something positive so it helps … but then to see people taken off the cell to be killed must … be extremely hard.
Popsugar interview
Popsugar interviews Tatum about his wife’s involvement with his film Magic Mike XXL.
Yeah, she’s there (on set). She’s helping. She’s definitely in the process and in the mix. I can’t do anything without getting her approval, so she finds that good in a way. She has to give it sort of the stamp of approval.
Jenny Slate interview
Slate at Letterman discuss creating Marcel the Shell on Late Show with David Letterman
If you are a human with a nice beating heart you’ll probably like it.
Allure cover
Washington appears on the cover of Allure magazine’s November issue without makeup and gives her “confessions of a recovering perfectionist”. Washington tweets:
What an honor!
The Rack radio interview
Kane sits down with The Rack radio show to discuss acting and his favorite Hell in a Cell moment.
Well, my favorite would have to be, of course, my debut and ripping the door off and going in and giving a tombstone piledriver to The Undertaker and having Vince (McMahon) screaming ‘That’s gotta be Kane!’; that would far and away have to be my favorite moment.
Addresses comeback rumors
Austin addresses rumors that he will be making a comeback to WWE in the near future on his podcast, The Steve Austin Show.
No, man, I’m not looking to make a return. I don’t see that I have time in my schedule or the desire to climb back in the ring to start taking bumps again.
Anthony Anderson interview
Anderson returns as a guest on Conan to promote his television show, Blackish. He also talks about offering his crotch as a tee at a charity event, turning partially vegan, and his mother’s use of Vagisil for first-aid treatment.
She’s always been little left of center. Growing up in my house, you know, most people get sick, their mother gives them Robitussin, you know, aspirin. My — we got cuts and bruises, my mother would give us Vagisil.
Between the Ropes interview
Jericho talks to Between the Ropes about his most recent WWE run and feuds.
The Bray Wyatt cage match in Baltimore and then the Randy Orton – Night of Champions match in Nashville I thought were two…whatever a five star match is. Two really really really good matches that I would put on my list of all-time favorites. And that was good to know because as the years go by, I feel just as good as I ever did.
Press TV interview
Shim conducts what will be her final interview for Press TV. She says she has thought of approaching Turkish intelligence over the spying allegations
I am a bit worried, because…Turkey has been labeled by Reporters Without Borders as the largest prison for journalists
She says she has broken the story of ISIS fighters being smuggled over the border in trucks used for international NGOs:
We were some of the first people on the ground, if not the first people, to get that story of…militants going in through the Turkish border…I’ve got images of them in World Food Organization trucks. It was very apparent that they were militants by their beards, by the clothes they wore
