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'We Are Not
Your Enemy,'
Prez Tells
Muslims

Jan 27, 2009 3:24 AM CST

'We Are Not Your Enemy,' Prez Tells Muslims

President pledges on Arab TV to rebuild ties to Muslim world

(Newser) - Barack Obama reassured the Muslim world that "Americans are not your enemy" in his first formal TV interview as president, presented on an English-language Arabic news channel. The president pledged that he would "get engaged right away" on Middle Eastern issues and repeated his campaign promise to travel...

Didn't Like
Valkyrie?
No Face Time
With Cruise

Jan 19, 2009 11:08 AM CST

Didn't Like Valkyrie? No Face Time With Cruise

Star has strict requirements for reporters on movie promotion circuit

(Newser) - Want to interview Tom Cruise? Then you’d better have seen—and liked—his latest movie, Valkyrie, Gawker reports in summarizing a Q&A session with Italian publication LeiWeb (with an assist from Google translation). If you didn't like the movie, “there is no reason to meet Tom,”...

Courtney Love Knocks Jews
... in Jewish Magazine

Jan 16, 2009 3:03 PM CST

Courtney Love Knocks Jews ... in Jewish Magazine

Singer utters a few colorful words on girl bands, actors and parenting, too

(Newser) - Courtney Love says she’s sober, but her recent anti-Semitic remarks in a Jewish magazine might give some observers pause, the New York Post reports. “Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt’s child, or to me, it’s going...

Obama Vows Social Security, Medicare Reform

Interview

Jan 16, 2009 8:05 AM CST

Obama Vows Social Security, Medicare Reform

Will hold summit to hash out ways to rein in spending

(Newser) - Barack Obama promised major overhauls for the country’s ever-growing entitlement programs yesterday in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post. We have “kicked this can down the road,” Obama said. “We are now at the end of the road.” Obama will hold a “fiscal...

Paterson Interviews Cuomo; Kennedy Not Out

UPDATED

Jan 14, 2009 11:56 AM CST

Paterson Interviews Cuomo; Kennedy Not Out

And she didn't 'eliminate herself,' says Paterson, who avoids naming frontrunner

(Newser) - New York AG Andrew Cuomo, who couldn't be less interested in Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, nonetheless met with Gov. David Paterson about it last month, reports the New York Daily News. A Cuomo rep refused to comment, other than to call the information "factually inaccurate," and Paterson's...

Kennedy,
NY Guv Huddle On Senate Post

Jan 11, 2009 7:38 AM CST

Kennedy, NY Guv Huddle On Senate Post

Meeting critical after Caroline's 'uneven public audition'

(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy met formally with New York’s governor yesterday for the first time to discuss her quest for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, the New York Times reports. Some 10 people have set their sights on the seat. Several have or will speak with Gov. David Paterson, but Kennedy’...

Swayze: 'I'm Going
Through Hell'

Jan 6, 2009 2:29 PM CST

Swayze: 'I'm Going Through Hell'

(Newser) - "Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm all that stuff," Patrick Swayze tells Barbara Walters in a candid interview that airs tomorrow, the first since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. "I'm going through hell, and I've only just seen the beginning of it." Swayze was determined...

Face of
Abu Ghraib
Isn't Sorry

Interview

Jan 3, 2009 1:59 PM CST

Face of Abu Ghraib Isn't Sorry

Lynndie England struggles to find words

(Newser) - Lynndie England was probably not the ringleader at Abu Ghraib—she says prisoners were being degraded before she even arrived—but she will forever be the face most linked with the abuse. England is out of prison now, but she doesn’t feel sorry, she says. She feels persecuted. “...

Kennedy Won't Run Unless
Appointed

Dec 27, 2008 9:44 AM CST

Kennedy Won't Run Unless Appointed

Caroline says she'd support incumbent in 2010

(Newser) - If Caroline Kennedy isn't appointed to Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat, she won’t run for it in 2 years, Kennedy told NY1 last night. If Gov. David Paterson "doesn’t select me, I would support the person that he does select,” she said. She also...

Palin Wishes She'd Talked
to the Media More

Dec 23, 2008 1:39 PM CST

Palin Wishes She'd Talked to the Media More

Governor wishes she'd spoken to reporters more

(Newser) - Sarah Palin wishes she’d interacted with the media more while campaigning with John McCain, the Alaska governor told Human Events. Palin identified her “biggest mistake” in the ’08 campaign as not taking a more active role in communicating with voters through the media. “I was not...

Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up

Dec 15, 2008 11:40 AM CST

Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up

Calmer interview follows 2004 Today showdown

(Newser) - Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer met on Today for the first time since an infamously tense 2005 interview, and this time, things were more relaxed, People reports. The pair chatted about their previous meeting. "I came across as arrogant," Cruise said, adding, "that's not the person I...

Cruise's Craziest Moments

OPINION

Dec 11, 2008 3:10 PM CST

Cruise's Craziest Moments

From blow-ups over Scientology to couch acrobatics on Oprah , Tom's had his share

(Newser) - Three years after Tom Cruise and Today's Matt Lauer went a few rounds over Scientology, drugs, and Brooke Shields' postpartum depression, the pair is set for a rematch Monday—which spurred the Los Angeles Times to list Tom's top 5 head-smacking interviews:

Oprah, May 2005: Cruise dances around proclaiming love

...

Colleges Seek Kids' Opinions on Grapefruit, Perfect Crime

Dec 9, 2008 12:34 PM CST

Colleges Seek Kids' Opinions on Grapefruit, Perfect Crime

Quirky questions catch students off-guard

(Newser) - Bored with prospective students regurgitating textbook knowledge, Cambridge and Oxford have revamped their interview questions to include the abstract (Would you rather be a novel or a poem?), the existential (What does it mean to be happy?), and the downright crazy (How would you poison someone and get away with...

Frost/Nixon Even Better on Film

movie review

Dec 5, 2008 3:58 PM CST

Frost/Nixon Even Better on Film

Solid interview, good play, better movie

(Newser) - Frost/Nixon is “less a political movie than a boxing film without the gloves,” writes Kirk Honeycutt in the Hollywood Reporter, and it’s knocking out critics. The film is based on a much-honored play, and “the surprising news is that Frost/Nixon works even better on screen,”...

Post-Russert, NBC Should Remake Meet the Press

OPINION

Dec 1, 2008 6:20 PM CST

Post-Russert, NBC Should Remake Meet the Press

NBC seems set on finding a Russert clone, but that's a mistake: Brown

(Newser) - Paralyzed by the perceived necessity of finding a Tim Russert doppelganger, NBC has already taken too long to choose a new host for Meet the Press, writes Tina Brown for the Daily Beast. “Russert defined an era,” Brown writes, "but that era is over.” Tom Brokaw...

No 'Girly Dog'
for Obama

Nov 26, 2008 1:45 PM CST

No 'Girly Dog' for Obama

Despite Walters' entreaties, president-elect wants 'big rambunctious' canine

(Newser) - Barack Obama doesn't want a “girly dog” that just “sits in your lap and things,” he tells Barbara Walters in an interview set to air tonight, dismissing her unabashed lobbying for a White House pup similar to her sweet Havanese, Cha Cha Cha. “We're going to...

Obama : Execs 'Tone Deaf'
to Economic Dirge

Nov 26, 2008 2:42 AM CST

Obama : Execs 'Tone Deaf' to Economic Dirge

President-elect urges Wall St. bosses to step up, forgo bonuses

(Newser) - Auto executives taking private jets to bailout talks is a symptom of a much larger problem, President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview today on ABC's Good Morning America. The "tone deaf" move revealed that industry leaders—and highly paid CEOs in general—are out of touch with the...

... But We're the Good Guys, Says One Pirate

Interview

Nov 22, 2008 12:45 PM CST

... But We're the Good Guys, Says One Pirate

'We consider ourselves heroes,' captain says

(Newser) - “We don’t see hijacking as a criminal act,” says Asad “Booyah” Abdulahi, “but as a road tax because we have no central government to control our sea.” Unable to afford college, and unable to get another job thanks to the government’s collapse, Abdulahi...

Why
Terry
Gross
Is Great

opinion

Nov 20, 2008 4:10 PM CST

Why Terry Gross Is Great

NPR host's interview of Bill Ayers is absolutely textbook

(Newser) - Terry Gross is one of the best interviewers in the business, and her recent session with Bill Ayers proves why, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic. The host of NPR’s Fresh Air avoids common modern pitfalls: She’s neither attack dog nor lapdog, and doesn’t try to prove...

Unrepentant Ayers: I Was 'Demonized'

Nov 14, 2008 8:56 AM CST

Unrepentant Ayers: I Was 'Demonized'

Campaign piñata says of his radical past: We didn't do enough

(Newser) - William Ayers broke his silence this morning on Good Morning America, and he was anything but repentant. The former ‘60s radical called the attacks on him “a profoundly dishonest narrative” designed to “demonize” him, ABC reports. But he didn’t apologize for controversial deeds by him or...