Glamour UK cover
Findlay appears on the cover of the November 2012 issue of Glamour UK magazine. She talks about drinking, dancing, and secretly being a geek.
Glamour cover
Swift appears on the cover of the November 2012 issue of Glamour magazine. She talks about her career, friends, her love life, and her song Dear John.
I think that song really hit home with a lot of girls who had been through toxic relationships and had found their way to the other side of it. I’ve never looked out while singing a song during a concert to see so many girls crying.
Inc. interview
Branson tells Leigh Buchanan and Andrew McLean for Inc. that it’s possible to succeed in a first venture:
Everyone who creates something is doing something audacious because the most difficult time is when you’re starting from scratch with no financial backing, just an idea, and you’re trying to get your very first venture off the ground … true audaciousness comes from those people who just have the pluck and the courage to say screw it, let’s do it, I see a gap in the market, I may fall flat on my face and it may cost me everything
The Talks interview
Delpy gives an interview to The Talks. She discusses the kind of movies she hates and scaring off boyfriends.
I think that men maybe feel like they lose their purpose. It is an interesting change in history. It is the first time that women are working, taking care of kids, doing kind of everything. And men should be around, obviously. I think it is really the best thing to have a family and stuff like this. But I think it maybe makes them feel not as needed as they used to be needed in the past and I think it makes some men, not all men, insecure in a certain way. But I am not saying that every man is scared of independent women, just some are.
Nicki Minaj interview
Seacrest interviews Minaj during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks her what her Holloween costume will be.
I think going to probably go as Miley Cyrus. Because she is going as me and I just saw her picture on Twitter. I could do the short blonde buzz-cut like Miley. Check out the pic of Miley in costume below.
Forbes interview
Branson tells Forbes that many presentations are ineffective:
Too many people are hiding in dark rooms flipping through too many words on big screens. There’s a reason why I avoid boardrooms. I’d rather spend time with people ‘in the field,’ where eye contact, genuine conviction and trustworthiness are in full evidence.
Ideas should be concise:
From the beginning, Virgin used clear, ordinary language. If I could quickly understand a campaign concept, it was good to go. If something can’t be explained off the back of an envelope, it’s rubbish.
Wrestling101.com interview
Batista discusses his top accomplishments in WWE:
My biggest highlights were winning tag team gold with Ric Flair on two occasions, then of course winning my first World Championship in 2005 at WrestleMania 21 against Triple H is up there. Another WrestleMania match, even though I lost, was against The Undertaker in 2007 and that was probably the biggest match of my career.
Billboard cover
Swift appears on the cover of a October 2012 issue of Billboard magazine. She talks about collaborating with her music team for her album.
Wired 2012 talk
At Wired 2012, Carter says that despite Little Monsters allowing Gaga to connect with her fans in an unprecedented way, the music industry doen’t care:
They’re not using the data. I can sit down with the guy from Spotify, and he shows me this spike on Fridays as people listen to Gaga before going to the clubs. When I go to South Africa I know to include this song in this set, because I know that’s a fan favourite, and also to take this song out. We’ve never had a direct relationship with an audience. When someone buys a CD we used to count them as a fan, but we never knew if they hated the CD and threw it out the window.
He says that Gaga used social media early because her music would not get played on the radio:
She didn’t look like a typical pop star, and the music was more four to the floor dance music, so radio wouldn’t play it. She’s at 30-something-million Twitter followers now because she had a headstart over everybody. The types of messages she sends are very authentic, so when she sends messages her fans engage. We started buying fan artworks, and including that in our actual merch line in the tour, because we found fans like art from other fans. They know what they want more than we know what they want.
However the media doesn’t define the message:
It’s like a download from God. We were in a meeting with Google, with Gaga and Larry Page, and Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’ She replied, ‘Did Picasso ever a/b test painting?
Taylor Swift interview
Seacrest interviews Swift during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her belief in soulmates.
There are times when I think there’s just one person for everyone and then there are times where I think that you have to have a few great loves. I’ve had a few great like muses. So, I don’t know if that’s the same as great loves or if that’s just a different category all together.
WWE.com interview
Guerrero speaks to WWE.com about replacing AJ Lee as Monday Night Raw’s general manager.
I’m so glad that the Board of Directors has gotten to see me for the person that I am. I do have experience and I do have the expertise that AJ doesn’t because she’s very young and immature. I’m glad they put a real woman in this position.
Reuters final warning
Keys receives a final written warning from Reuters about using a parody account to mock Larry Page, while employed at the company.
Although you eventually revealed yourself as the owner of the account, this series of actions displayed a serious lack of judgement and professionalism that is unbecoming of a Reuters journalist…Reuters journalists are never to misrepresent themselves. The creation of a fake account that did not identify you as the author clearly violates our Social Media Policy. The parody account, which disparages a public figure, also undermines our goal to provide an unbiased and reliable news service to our clients…Furthermore, the fake account embarrassed our News reporting team, and has possibly damaged our relationship with a company that we have covered aggressively.
Esquire interview
Warren gives her thoughts on the Obama financial bailouts:
You know, without restrictions, no. So I’m going to put it this way: It was clear something had to be done. The part that I was just beside myself over was the lack of accountability. I mean accountability in every meaning of that word: how the money would be given out, whether or not the banks would be accountable for it. Go back and look at that first report, because that’s what that first report is about. I could not believe that, that the treasurer of the United States government was shoveling money out the door to the nine largest financial institutions on a no-questions-asked basis…. And in some ways it was worse than that, because it not only had no restrictions to speak of, it had no restrictions in the statute — it was a bait-and-switch.
Justin Bieber interview
Winfrey interviews Justin Bieber in a tell all interview covering Bieber’s rise to fame and career.
My fans, I’m able to really connect with them through the internet and have that Twitter and Facebook and YouTube you know how I can upload videos and have them come and read their comments and reply to their comments. It’s like a whole different world.
WWE.com interview
Big Show talks to WWE.com about WCW’s Halloween Havoc and his memories of the event.
Both WCW and WWE performed in front of huge crowds, and at Halloween Havoc I was thrown right into the fire. For WCW, Havoc was definitely on par with SummerSlam, but even it couldn’t match the energies of WWE’s biggest events like SummerSlam and WrestleMania.
WWE.com interview
Booker T speaks to WWE.com about WCW’s Halloween Havoc and his own memories of the event.
When I was just a small fry, I looked at Havoc as an opportunity to be a fly on the wall, watch everything that transpired on such a big stage and see what made Superstars. It was like on the job training.
WWE.com interview
DDP speaks to WWE.com about WCW’s annual Halloween Havoc event and his memories of it.
It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam. We held the last five Havocs in Las Vegas and the fans were electric. There were celebrities visiting us backstage. It was the closest we got to the feeling of today’s SummerSlam without being at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Tavis Smiley interview
King discusses her career, her new CD, The Legendary Demos, and her new memoir, A Natural Woman, in this interview for PBS. On her collaboration with James Taylor:
I think friend. I think a special connection musically that I’ve not experienced with a lot of people in the same way. And, again, I describe this in the book in such a lovely, wonderful way. I put myself back in the moment of playing with him for the first time. It’s the same whenever we come together again after years we don’t see each other, we don’t play, we might not speak, but here we are, hello, and that’s what happened in the Troubadour tour.
Tavis Smiley interview
Lewis discusses his career, including the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and the Showtime drama, Homeland, in this interview for PBS. On politics:
Yes, as much as I live in a democracy and I take an interest and want the right people leading the country. But you reach a certain level in what you do. You get lobbied quite a lot by whichever party is in power. You get invited to little dinner and things like that, and you have to be careful. I’ve been careful, at least, not to nail my colors to the mast too much.
Charming Man interview
The band are interviewed by Charming Man, a Manchester music blog. On their influences:
There are tons of bands that have influenced us but Radiohead, The Killers and Interpol probably the most prominent. We started out as a guitar band really, but were always interested in adding things like synths and strings. At the time my Mrs was in a band called Earl and they had been working with a David Luke from a band called My Computer who was a wizard with electro stuff. I picked his brains about what software to get and after a few months we had a new sound and some new tunes…I would say we have the same darkness in a lot of our tracks as Joy Division and my lyrics quite often share the same world weary view as those of Ian Curtis. New Order obviously pioneered and popularised synth and electro music and had more of a pop sensibility. They made music that will be played and fill dance floors for many years to come. We aim to achieve the same thing.