WGD Weekly interview
Roberts speaks to WGD Weekly about TNA and what he’d do if he purchased it.
I got all the thoughts, bro. There ain’t nobody better at that. I would make it simple, there would be good guys and there would be bad guys. There wouldn’t be no bullshit and there wouldn’t be twenty minute interviews. We would actually, ‘rassle…the world needs it, man.
Mike Epps interview
Hall interviews MEpps on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about success on how he auditioned for the film Friday and his struggles with the law before he began his career.
I started off on the bad foot you know. I feel like I am a success story, didn’t graduate from high school, grew up in a single mother home and might be one of the only comedians with four felony convictions but I don’t have them right now. I have a lot of successes.
Tavis Smiley interview
Bochco discusses his career and his upcoming series for TNT, Murder in the First, in this interview for PBS.
Well, cop shows are by definition melodramatic, they’re larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They’re provocative, assuming they grapple with – to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture. They really provoke thought and conversation and I think people have always liked the sort of certainty of good guys and bad guys. One of the things I always tried to do in the cop shows I did was to blur those lines and be a little more ambiguous, whether it was a cop show or a lawyer show.
Juicy J interview
Hall interviews Juicy J on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his background in Memphis, Tennessee, his interest in becoming a CEO as a child and his strong work ethic that he learned from his father.
We didn’t have a car to get where we had to go so we had to catch the bus a lot of different places. So I remember carrying groceries in the hot sun and I remember asking myself ‘how does my dad do this?’, you know what I’m saying? I was this little kid so I really didn’t want to do that, but I had to ’cause my dad was like, ‘Boy you gon’ carry them groceries, you gon’ get on this bus’. It just made me a better person today, you know to appreciate everything, you know nothing was handed down.
Blake Leeper interview
Hall interviews Leeper on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about his confidence in being the first disabled Olympic medalist, his favorite idol Bo Jackson and his discovery of the Blades. Jackson makes a surprise guest experience.
My father coached me so I had to be the best player on the team right. So playing sports has always been very huge in my life, I was able to show the community that regardless of my disability, regardless of where I come from of who I am respect me on the basketball court, respect me on the baseball field then they respect me in life.
Toni Braxton, Babyface interview
Hall interviews Braxton and Babyface on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about Babyface’s first meeting with Braxton, Braxton’s wardrobe malfunction on earlier show and Braxton’s return to working with Babyface after personal issues. They also talk about their album Love,Marriage and Divorce. Braxton:
I think that whether you’ve ever been in a relationship whether you’ve been married or not you can identify with having your heart broken and sometimes you hurt people. And we wanted the album to be about love. So not everything’s about divorce. Kenny’s favorite part is love and marriage.
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Jesse Jackson interview
Hall interviews Jackson on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about having John F. Kennedy as an immortal leader, student loan debts and how it affects future university students from enrolling.
If you have not paid your debt from last semester you cannot enter this semester. It’s putting a squeeze on these schools. Grambling’s budget’s been cut sixty percent and so they’re closing schools then building jails.
Elle Spain cover
Longoria appears on the cover of the December 2013 issue of Elle Spain. She tells the magazine how she stays in shape.
I do diet and exercise. Some people think you can do one or the other, but it really goes hand in hand.
The Talks interview
Ulrich gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses the money he made with Metallica and if he has always been interested in art.
I grew up in a household that was pretty rich culturally. In Copenhagen in the late ’60s there was a lot of music, a lot of art, a lot of cultural awareness of what was going on in the world. So I was really very interested in things like Warhol and I remember very early on my parents introduced me to artists like Marc Chagall and different things like that.
Interview
De Niro talks to Charlie Rose about what films give him the most satisfaction. his film festival Tribeca and his children’s interest in acting.
I was never interested in art really. That was his (my father’s) thing really since he was five. I wish I was more, even I tell my kids now you should be interested in art.
Steve Austin Show interview
Rhodes is a guest on the Steve Austin Show to discuss tips on making it as a professional wrestler and being in front of a huge crowd.
There are so many people who have not been where you have been. They’ve not been there with the roar of the crowd so loud and you have that look on your face where you know the place is going to go bonkers!
Sports Illustrated interview
Carter speaks to Sports Illustrated about budget cuts and Hulk Hogan in TNA.
I think Hulk has been worth it. He’s opened a lot of doors for us. When you’re about to lose a deal in an international territory and one phone call from Hulk Hogan makes a man who doesn’t even speak your language melt and you get your deal back, that carries a lot of weight. There’s not another guy out there who could do that.
Rosie Perez interview
Hall interviews Perez on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her autobiography, her struggles that she faced and her belief in being successful.
It really is about…my life was so unpredictable from the time I was born. I was put into the child welfare system and it took years for my aunt or my father to get me out.
Key and Peele interview
Hall interviews Key and Peele on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk their improvisation stand up act, how they met each other on MadTV and social media’s impact on their show.
We love standups we’re very inspired by them. We do a type of standup on our show but really what we do is we get out there and we play around and we kind of try and find things for like an hour and just cut the funniest little things we can find.
The Art of Wrestling interview
Austin is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss WWE, podcasting and making money early on in the business.
My whole existence running up and down the road, making 15-20 dollars a night. When they told me they were sending me back to Texas. I thought I got fired. They said, “No… we’re gonna turn you heel and put you against Chris (Champion).” I was guaranteed 100 dollars per night. I thought I was making superstar money.
Hill Harper interview
Hall interviews Harper on The Arsenio Hall show. They talk about his book and it’s impact on incarceration in America, his meeting with young prisoners and his love for African-Americans to succeed.
We gotta understand. We’re locking people up and forgetting about ’em. This are young men, young women predominantly from neighborhoods where the school system didn’t support them. It’s gonna be up to us to actually figure out a way to solve this problem and we have to do it, the government’s not gonna do it we have to do it.
Whoopi Goldberg interview
Hall interviews Goldberg on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about her meeting with Spielberg and her role in the The Color Purple. They also talk about a show that she pitched to called BleeT which deals with assimilation.
He understood that is was about. If we over assimilate people we want, we demand people be exactly as we want them to be and forget to let them be themselves and their culture and be part of ours. But it’s a blend!
Kenny Edmonds interview
Winfrey interviews Kenny Edmonds in depth about his process for creating music, music industry today, as well as his fiancé.
I knew Deion Mr. Prime Time, seemed like a nice guy. Well he became a classy guy because before I had met him, when he called me and said he didn’t want to meet my children until he sat down and had lunch or breakfast with me so he knew me before he met my children.
Eddie Murphy interview
Hall interviews Murphy on The Arsenio Hall Show. They talk about the tabloids, their friendship, their days on set when shooting Coming To America, drinking vodka and having a conversation with his dogs.
He had a fifth of Stoley’s vodka and the story ended horribly.
People cover
Washington appears on the cover of People to discuss how she overcame heartbreak to find job with a great job, marriage, and baby. On coping with sadness:
I used food as a way to cope. It was my best friend. I’d eat anything and everything, sometimes until I passed out. I had this personality that was driven toward perfectionism. I would tell people I was at the library but instead go to the gym and exercise for hours and hours … There was a lot of guilt and a lot of shame.