LaLa Vazquez interview
Williams interviews LaLa Vazquez and questions her on her five year engagement to Denver Nuggets basketball player Carmelo Anthony.
I am getting married. I am finally getting married this summer and I waited till today to tell you guys that.
Esquire interview
Lively speaks about a love scene she had in the movie The Town:
I have a sex scene in this film, and that’s never comfortable, she says as the knife blade bangs the plate she’s using as a cutting board. You think, Oh, that’s going to be so awkward. But this scene isn’t supposed to be a steamy one — it’s sort of tragic, because this girl is so desperately trying to keep this man interested. It’s more intimate than most sex scenes. I’m pretty much crying in it.
YC Founders at Work: Posterous
Livingston interviews Tan and Agarwal, founders of Posterous. Asked about how close their original version was to the current version of the site.
It’s actually pretty close. Sergei and I have always been bloggers. The two of us since high school, have always had a personal website that has our thoughts and photos…We were using all these tools. I was using Blogger and Xanga, and we were really frustrated with the tools we were using.. And they were really text based. The idea was that blogging meant having to type out a whole lot of text. Nobody wants to type out text, nobody wants to read it — it’s really boring. We wanted to share photos. Now how do you put photos on the web? Now have to use Flickr, and now I want to share videos — I have to use YouTube. And there really wasn’t a solution to get rich media onto the web…And between all of that email was the unifying protocol that made a lot of sense…The initial prototype was: I want to send an email and I want it to appear on my blog. The first 20 lines of code written were to post from email.
YC Founders at Work: Reddit
Livingston interviews Ohanian about the early days of Reddit. Livingston asks about the “Chicken and egg” problem of building a community with no initial users:
This is one that I have no hesitation in saying, but it always stirs up a lot of controversy. Steve [Huffman] built a really simple system for admins, that is Steve and me, so that when we submitted a link also let us type in a user name. It let us easily and efficiently create lots of fake users. And we were able to browbeat a few of our friends to build up comments. But the rest of our friends and family could not be begged or bribed enough to do it really consistently. The only option we had to resort to was to fake it. But we didn’t have to do it for too long because Paul [Graham] did us a big favor by [profiling us] us in an early essay.
It was at some point about three or four weeks into it that neither Steve or I had to submit or vote on anything, and the site just worked…We could spend the day just lurking on Reddit, that is just using it like the vast majority of people do and not actually generate content. That was huge. That was when we realized, maybe we haven’t wasted this summer and we had a legitimate community.
YC Founders at Work: Dropbox
Livingston interviews Houston, founder of Dropbox. On finding cofounder, Arash Ferdowsi:
That was definitely one of the bigger struggles getting started– having this idea and not having a co-founder. And Paul [Graham] and everybody told me over and over again that this was a necessary condition of joining Y Combinator. I was networking around and letting people know about DropBox and seeing what they though and met Kyle Vogt, a founder of Justin.tv. Kyle had dropped out of school to join Justin.tv and it turned out that he and Arash were both undergrads at MIT, and both from Kansas. The same kind of cabin fever that I had being in Cambridge and watching all my friends move out to Silicon Valley I think Arash was feeling too. So, I put up the screencasts, three or four minute video, about Dropbox and Arash emailed me after that, because Kyle let him know I was looking for a co-founder. We met up at the coffee house at MIT and everything went from there.
YC Founders at Work: AirBnB
Livingston interviews Chesky and Gebbia from AirBnB:
We had a month of runway left, we had very little money in the bank, and had to figure out how to make the next rent check….There was a design conference coming to San Francisco. And here we were thinking we need to make money and we need to meet people. So we put the two together and decided why not make a little designer bed and breakfast for the design conference? We noticed all the hotels were sold out… and that was the lightbulb for us. We pulled out a coupe of Airbeds and we had the original idea: Airbed and Breakfast! We weren’t trying to start a business. We were trying to solve our own problem.
Seventeen South Africa cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Seventeen South Africa magazine.
Seventeen Malaysia cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Seventeen Malaysia magazine.
Seventeen cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Seventeen Singapore magazine.
Mizz cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Mizz magazine.
Jennifer Lopez interview
Red Book interviews Lopez about how her children have changed her as an artist.
You can’t help but be more thoughtful and more aware after you have kids. I think they’ve made me feel things in a deeper way and that’s enhanced my work. My job deals with feelings, emotions, and expressing them, so I think my kids have actually helped me be better at what I do. I feel more confident when I’m working than I ever did before because you have that deeper understanding of life, and that introspection really helps me be better as a writer, singer, actor, whatever. They’ve made me feel things in a deeper and more profound way than I ever did before.
Nylon cover
Duff appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Nylon magazine. She talks about how she felt joining the cast of Gossip Girl and being fake towards the public.
It seemed for a time there were people who hated each other – and I knew they hated each other – but they were in pictures together all the time, smiling and throwing their arms around each other. I was like, ‘You’re in the same business I am – how can you do that and feel okay? I so wouldn’t do that.’
Allure cover
Lopez appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Allure magazine. She talks paparazzi, her talent, her husbands smoking, and the pressure to look good in Hollywood.
Part of my business is being in shape and looking good. You can’t lie to yourself about it. But I’m not the monster I used to be in the exercise department.
V cover
Fanning appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of V magazine. She talks about her movie The Runaways and bonding with her co-star Kristen Stewart.
[The kiss] It’s passionate, they were just as close as two could get. [The drugs] It’s actually crushed B vitamins. Kristen and I were, like, our hair is gonna grow a lot from these.
Maxim cover
Munn appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Maxim magazine. She talks about whether she is dating someone and when she discovered she was a nerd.
I think it was eighth grade. I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I’d lived in six different places. I remember looking around that year and realizing that the one group that always takes you in is the geeks.
Glamour UK cover
Rihanna appears on the cover of the January 2010 issue of Glamour UK magazine. She talks about how she likes bad boys and what she looks for in a man.
My ideal man? Someone who is not afraid or intimidated by me.
TV Chick interview
Woodley talks with TV Chick about relaxing on set, her favorite TV shows, and the impact her Secret Life character has:
Feedback that we’ve got from parents who have come up to us and said like, “Wow, this shows opened such incredible avenues for me and my children to communicate.” I grew up in a very open household where if I had a question about anything, I could ask my parents, and they would answer me truthfully and not hold anything back. I think that really helped me as a child know exactly what everything was.
Crushable interview
Woodley is interviewed for Crushable about Secret Life and whether becoming famous has changed things:
I don’t put myself out there. I barely wear any makeup. I just feel like I’ve kind of taken on the responsibility of being a professional. It’s always awkward for me the whole fan situation, because I don’t know them and they don’t know me, so I want to engage in conversation, but then that’s always awkward too. It’s a very interesting dynamic, but other than that life has just been the same. I’ve stayed with the same friends and have the most amazing family ever, so I’ve been very lucky.
Elle Magazine interview
Morrison gives interview to Elle about his most embarrassing moment on set with a female co-star.
Besides constantly having to wipe the drool from my mouth? Not really. Last week, actually, I was in New York doing a workshop for a new musical with Jessica Biel, this beautiful Argentinean actor Mía Maestro, and Salma Hayek. I really like smart women, and [Hayek] is really brilliant. We went out to lunch a couple times. We had great conversations all week, and she, like, cried when she had to say goodbye to me. It was a great romance without having any real romance.
Alyssa Milano interview
Milano talks about her clothing line Touch, which designs clothes for her female fans and women in general.
It’s sort of a bond I think that I will always have with female sports fans.
