People cover
Fawcett appears on the cover of People after her battle with breast cancer.
It was such a shock. Farrah has always been so healthy. She was crying. I was crying.
Techcrunch interview
Graham says his favorite startups don’t necessarily make the most money, but destroy monopolies. He says collaborative news sites have changed the media landscape, and he would like to see a startup take on the record industry, while the way to beat Google is to develop something that their programmers aren’t allowed to do at work, like a video service.
The easiest way to make something people want is to make something you want. What do you wish existed that doesn’t?
Seventeen Chile cover
Shakira appears on the cover of the October 2006 issue of Seventeen Chile magazine.
Seventeen Mexico cover
Shakira appears on the cover of the October 2006 issue of Seventeen Mexico magazine.
Vogue UK cover
Johansson appears on the cover of the October 2006 issue of Vogue UK magazine. The cover photo is shot by Demarchelie.
Blender cover
Knowles appears on the cover of the October 2006 issue of Blender magazine.
O Magazine interview
Streisand gives an interview to Winfrey for O Magazine about her childhood and teaching her mother how to smoke at age 10.
Very early. I was kind of a wild child, like an animal. I could never sit still at a table not that my family ever sat down and ate a meal together. I used to stand over the stove and eat out of a pot. There was no mealtime. I have no idea when my brother and sister ate, because I came in whenever I wanted. I also taught my mother how to smoke when I was 10.
O Magazine Interview
Streisand talks about her concert tour schedule:
I haven’t really performed much. In my entire career, I’ve played in a handful of cities in the United States and only three outside of America. Performers like Neil Diamond, U2, and Madonna tour every two years and sing in hundreds of cities all over the world. My friend Diana Krall told me she used to tour 300 out of 365 days a year. I’ve worked so little, which is why the idea of retirement is ridiculous.
Sees Pluto
The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) takes its first photos of Pluto from 4.2 billion km (2.6 billion miles) away. At this distance Pluto is just a faint point of light among the stars.
Finding Pluto in this dense star field really was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. LORRI passed this test with flying colors, because Pluto’s signal was clearly detected at 30 to 40 times the noise level in the images.
People cover
Irwin appears on the cover of People after he dies of a violent stingray attack.
He pulled the barb out. And the next minute he’s gone. That was it.
People cover
Simpson appears on the cover of People after she and John Mayer began to date. Mayer on being single:
Nobody really wants to be single. They always say if you don’t look, you’ll find it. Well, I have not been looking for a while and I haven’t found it. I’ll be willing to give up anything at any time in my life for the right thing.
Julianna Rose Mauriello interview
Danza talks with Mauriello, on The Tony Danza Show and talks about her show, Lazy Town.
The show is about motivating kids to be healthy and make good choices
Jupiter images
New Horizons probe takes its first pictures of Jupiter with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from 291 million km (181 million miles) away.
LORRI’s first Jupiter image is all we could have expected. We see belts, zones and large storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere. We see the Jovian moons Io and Europa, as well as the shadows they cast on Jupiter. It is most gratifying to detect these moons against the glare from Jupiter.
Arena cover
Knowles appears on the cover of the September 2006 issue of Arena magazine.
O Magazine interview
Fitch gives an interview to Winfrey for O Magazine about why she became a writer.
Yes. My father was an engineer he wasn’t literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world’s great readers. Every two weeks, he’d take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms. Have you read this? And this? And this? He taught me to always take out the maximum number of books I think it was 12 so in case there were books I didn’t like, I’d always have something else to read. If I became a reader and then a writer, I can say that it was because of his love of books and his sharing that love. When you’re a little kid, you are small, your life is small and you’re terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dog-sledder.
O Magazine Interview
Fitch speaks about her new novel, Paint It Black:
It’s about the aftermath of a suicide. I’ve struggled with depression, and so have others around me. It’s also about the moment when someone sees something in you that opens up a vision you might never have imagined for yourself. Does the vision disappear once that person is gone? Is that possibility yours or theirs?
Independent interview
The Independent interviews Highfield, in his new position as head of Future Media and Technology at the BBC. He says he plans to use the department’s £250m to £400m budget and and 1500 staff to put Britain at the forefront of internet-based technology by opening the BBC’s video archive of the BBC, some 1.2 million hours of film, for free.
I think we are about to go from the predominantly text-based, predominantly static world into the video-rich, dynamic, two-way engaging environment. That for me is when it starts to get really interesting. It’s more than putting a newspaper online it’s where you can really start to empower people and give them total control over their media consumption…What we [The British] have is an opportunity now in Web 2.0 to actually get ahead of the game, because we do have one of the most advanced creative industries, our television industry is world renowned…[The BBC] has one of the world’s largest archives, if not the largest archive. And yet, because we’ve got so few channels – routes to our audience – inevitably 99.9 per cent of that content stays on the shelves. We ought to liberate it and make it available, how, when and where our audience would like to consume it.
On the UK approach to education and technology:
The streaming of people in England into arts and science means that people who can explain technology are few and far between. It’s so rare in the creative industries to find creatives who are interested in technology, because a lot of them look down on it. It wouldn’t happen in America or Germany. It’s very rare as well to find technologists who have been taught how to sell their ideas. It’s one of the reasons why the entrepreneurial culture here hasn’t made many dotcom successes.
People cover
Bass appears on the cover of People to discuss his sexuality. Bass stated that he is gay and has kept it a secret for a long time. Friend Joey Fatone:
He took years to really think about how he was going to tell everyone. I back him up 100 percent. I’ve always accepted him as who he is. It’s about his own serenity at this point.
Seventeen Russia cover
Shakira appears on the cover of the August 2006 issue of Seventeen Russia magazine.
O Magazine Interview
Jackman talks about getting a role in the musical The Boy From Oz early in his acting career:
I’d been offered the part in Australia six years earlier. I decided not to take it because I’d done two other musicals, and I felt like I was getting typecast. That’s a tough road to get out of. Musical theater is looked down on by people in every other form of entertainment.