Steve Ballmer interview
Arrington interviews Ballmer in the TechCrunch office, with Bing, Windows 7, Azure, Mesh, and other products all hitting the market. Ballmer:
It’s good to have a year where you have a lot of things to get excited about
People cover
Paisley and his family appears on the cover of People to discuss their newest addition, their son Jasper.
Huck was three days early. Which is appropriate. He’s not a laid-back kid. He’s a go-getter. He’s ready to go when he gets up. A “very animated, fiery and dramatic” child.
Elle Magazine interview
McHale gives interview to Elle about his rise to fame and career success in Community.
Well, I slept with the appropriate men. No, I took The Soup because of the pedigree of Greg Kinnear. He was able to launch out of this. I thought it would open up the correct doors. And it did. Thank God, because The Soup is basically me doing stand-up for 22 minutes a week. Casting directors started calling me in. Then [Community] came up. It was the best script I’d read in years. We shot it, and I prayed that we got picked up. I knew we had a pretty good shot because Chevy Chase is in it.
Apologizes to Swift
West calls Swift and apologizes for interrupting her speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology. And I accepted that apology
Interrupts Swift during VMAs
During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West interrupts Swift’s speech. Swift, who wins the award for Best Female Video (You Belong With Me), is beginning her acceptance speech when West storms the stage and takes the microphone from her.
Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!
West is referring to Beyonce’s video for Single Ladies. Swift:
I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I’d just won the award, and then I was really excited because Kanye West was onstage. And then I wasn’t excited anymore after that.
Elle Magazine interview
Carey gives interview to Elle about her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
Each song has its own mood; some flow seamlessly into each other, and that was the purpose, and others are very different. The album has a sense of humor you can hear me laughing out loud at certain points but it also has deep and introspective moments.
Nick Cannon interview
Cannon gives interview to Elle about how he knew Mariah Carry was the one
We had a meeting about the video shoot at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and I ordered french fries. I always say grace over my food coming from a family of ministers, it’s the way I was raised so I said, Can you excuse me for a minute? and bowed my head. She said, You ain’t gonna pray over my food, too! I do the same thing! A lot of people say they’re spiritual cause it seems like the right thing, but then she pulled an electronic Bible out of her purse. I never meet anyone in the business that’s on the same level as I am spiritually, so that was the first thing that opened my eyes to, Whoa, this could be something unique. We spent the next weekend together, but it felt more like a getaway than a video shoot. It was also her well, she doesn’t have birthdays; she has, like, anniversaries of her twelfth birthday, so we had that celebration, and all weekend we were like, You too! No way get outta here!
Esquire interview
Clinton gives his thoughts on why his proposed health care bill in 1994 didn’t get passed:
Basically, everybody who writes about this stuff today repeats the health-insurance lobby’s line from 1994. Like: The bill was long and complicated. The bill took out four hundred more pages of federal law than it put in. They say we forced a bill on Congress — untrue. I asked Congress to write the bill, and Chairman [Dan] Rostenkowski [of the House Ways and Means Committee] demanded that Hillary send him a bill — a complete bill. He said, “I won’t take it up if you don’t. We don’t know enough about it, the interest groups will eat us alive, we’ll modify your bill, but you’ve gotta send us a whole bill.” It was the demand of the most important committee in the House of Representatives.
Obama ‘jeopardizing security’
Pataki says he is concerned that President Obama is jeopardizing U.S. security.
There is no question in my mind he is jeopardizing our security. You cannot turn terrorists loose, turn them back to where they came from, and not expect them to engage in that activity again. We’ve already seen the example of a number of Guantanamo detainees who were released and returned to the battlefield, fighting our troops, fighting others who are trying to uphold the rule of law and defend freedom. So that clearly places us in jeopardy.
Bliss cover
Swift appears on the cover of a September 2009 issue of Bliss magazine.
ES cover
Dornan appears on the cover of a September 2009 issue of ES magazine.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks with Jenny Craig Inc. about her weight gain, weight loss, and being a spokesperson for Jenny Craig.
I walked up three flights of stairs and couldn’t breathe.
Allure cover
Seyfried appears on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Allure magazine. She talks about her Hollywood competition, her SAT scores, and filming Mean Girls.
Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren’t nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
In Style cover
Lopez appears on the cover of the September 2009 issue of In Style magazine. She talks about fame, family, and turning forty.
Esquire interview
Franklin gives his thoughts on the drug war in the United States:
The prison population is off the hook in this country, Franklin says. In 1993, at the height of apartheid in South Africa, the incarceration of black males was 870 per 100,000. In 2004 in the U.S., for every 100,000 people we are sending 4,919 black males to prison. And the majority of those are for nonviolent drug offenses. But we’d rather send people to prison than give them information and treatment.
Seventeen cover
Gomez appears on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Seventeen magazine. She talks about her relationship with Taylor Lautner.
He is so sweet. Taylor has made me so happy. I did’nt know I could be that happy. You probably see it in the pictures! I’m smiling so big. He’s a great guy. But I am 100 percent single, and I’m going to keep it that way for a while.
Teen Vogue cover
Momsen appears on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. She talks about dating older guys, being in the music industry, and growing up in front of the camera.
I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two. I was never pushed into it, but I never really chose it either. That’s why music is so different for me. I’ve known since I was little that this is what I want to do.
Maxim cover
Jovovich appears on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Maxim magazine. She talks about bad vacations, working since she was 11, and about the film A Perfect Getaway.
I was so excited for the shoot, and it was funny, because your stylist was like, “It’s up to you how far you want to go. We have dresses and all that.” I was like, “Look, I do Vogue, OK? I’m not doing this to advertise a designer; I had a little girl recently, and I’m doing this to show my post-baby body.” Lingerie and a sheet were all I needed.
99.9 The Fan in Raleigh interview
Paulus speaks about the football playbook at Syracuse:
No, they gave me the playbook and it’s the same one everyone else had and got. I just got it a few months later and it definitely is a complex playbook and the terminology, it’s a little bit different than high school obviously, it’s more sophisticated. But, when I was seeing this offense on film, when I came to visit Syracuse, and when I was making the decision, it was one where I felt it fits my strengths, and one where I was really excited to have the opportunity to be in.
NYT: Fortune down to $4m
The New York Times reports McAfee’s fortune had plunged to $4 million from its $100 million peak, due largely to the real estate and stock market crashes that hit his investments. McAfee plans to auction off property in New Mexico to pay his bills.
I had no clue that there would be this tandem collapse.