For now, guests are largely coming from the tech community, but in time, the plan is to allow anyone – authors, musicians, founders, athletes, actors, brands, or artists – to host their own AMA's and connect directly with their audience.
The Gone Girl actor branded fellow chat show host Bill Maher's comments on the religion "gross and racist" following a heated televised debate on Friday.
Jada Pinkett Smith has responded angrily to controversy surrounding an image of her 13-year-old daughter, Willow Smith, lying in bed with a 20-year-old actor, branding critics "covert paedophiles".
The ubiquitous comedian Janeane Garofalo complains that the media are deliberately focusing on antiwar actors to brand the entire antiwar movement as silly.
The Miracle-Gro overhaul is indicative of the efforts marketers must make to keep long-running campaigns original and relevant as consumers change, particularly ads that use endorsers or actors playing brand characters.
It's difficult to imagine one of Roache's contemporaries playing Father Greg with anything quite like this actor's brand of understatement.
A video of actor Russell Brand being interviewed by the BBC's Jeremy Paxman went viral last year precisely because of Brand's compelling arguments that we should not vote and that voting only legitimises a fundamentally illegitimate system.
Writing a response piece in the current edition of the magazine, the Peep Show actor criticised Brand for effectively "telling a lot of people that engagement with our democracy is a bad idea".
Zoe has made every insecure actress (and they are all insecure) feel that her fame/success/career depend on what clothes her stylist tells her to wear, and Shemarya has turned top actors into "brands" without, he says, compromising their artistic credibility.
It's also perfectly clear why other stars of her stature were less keen to dirty their hands with such unattractive characters: in the studio era actors were brand-name products, and audiences tended to identify them with the parts they played.
