Esquire articles from July 2005

Esquire archives from July 2005

Lubiam's "su misura" (made-to-measure) clothing.(StYLE AGENDA: a special promotion for esquire readers)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2005... Lubiam, the 92 year old Italian luxury clothing manufacturer, has made available its renowned made-to-measure clothing in the United States. One of the largest made-to-measure manufacturers in Italy with over 30 possible measurements, this...

VTech's new digital 15871.(StYLE AGENDA: a special promotion for esquire readers)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2005... Experience the cutting edge of both style and function with VTech's new 5.8GHz digital i5871. Expand it with up to 7 accessory handsets, upload hi-res caller ID images, record custom ringtones and import MS Outlook or Palm phonebooks directly...

Get your Redken for men gift.(StYLE AGENDA: a special promotion for esquire readers)(Advertisement)
July 1, 2005... Phase out the gray with Redken For Men color camo, 10-minute comouflage color. Ask your stylist about color camo, and in just 10-minutes, take your gray undercover. It brings out the pepper in "salt and pepper" hair and leaves hair pumped with...

The sound and the fury.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... LOOKING ANYTHING BUT DESPERATE, Eva Longoria oozed domestic bliss on the cover of our May issue. Inside, our global survey gave the lowdown on the sexual preferences of women from around the world, Luke Dittrich traced the repercussions of an...

You dropped a bomb on me.(The Sound and the Fury)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... Dittrich's tale of the nuke that got away ("A Perfectly Understandable Mistake") elicited reaction--including a note from an estranged nephew--to bombardier Bruce Kulka's miscue. While reading your article, I immediately thought of Stanley...

Are we not men?(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... AN ODD COINCIDENCE occurred as we were closing this issue. On a Tuesday, the artwork we had assigned to accompany two of the stories in our feature well came in at nearly the same time. First, there were Martin Schoeller's photographs of...

Funny * joke from a beautiful woman.(MAN at His BEST)
July 1, 2005... Aas told by GABRIELLE UNION What has 75 balls and screws old Ladies? Bingo. ABOUT THE JOKESTER: Discovered white interning at a modeling agency during her senior year at UCLA, Union jumped at the opportunity to avoid the LSATs....

The seven most remarkable things in culture this month.(The Awards)
July 1, 2005... (1) Luckiest Cigar Kate Moss, from the book 4 Inches--portraits of 44 women in little more than high heels (to which the title refers). Proceeds benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (2) Saddest Song ...

If at first you kind of stink: then by all means, Hollywood, try, try those failed firm conceits again. But this time, get right.(Movies)(Movie Review)
July 1, 2005... AH, SUMMER, the season of repetition. A lazy season. For Hollywood, the menu consists largely of sequels, franchises, remakes, retreads, crossovers--any known commodity. The primary goal is to ensure that we're never required to respond with...

Q+A: Michael Chiktis.(Interview)
July 1, 2005... IT'S 2005, and even Oscar winners aren't above playing superheroes. Michael Chiklis, much lauded for his portrayal of roughneck detective Vic Mackey on cable's The Shield, gets into the hero act this month in Fantastic Four as Ben Grimm, a...

The rules.
July 1, 2005... RULE NO. 95: It is unwise to wager a match of Ping-Pong against any foe who refers to the game as "table tennis." RULE NO. 128: No better cow exists than the cow of a can of beer that has been cooled by the rushing waters of a numbing stream....

Elephant redux: how do you follow up one of the best rock records of the last decade? If you're the White Stripes, you make one that sounds very, very similar.(Music)(Get Behind Me Satan )(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2005... IS THAT ALL THERE IS? That's the question great albums leave behind. It's what I think every time I listen to the White Stripes' 2003 masterpiece Elephant. It never fails to leave me salivating for just two or three more songs. Two years later,...

This month's lesson: DualDisc.(MUSIC LESSONS)
July 1, 2005... RECENTLY, in an effort to provide more to consumers, albums by AC/DC, Springsteen, and Velvet Revolver were released on DualDisc, a double-sided CD featuring music on one side and bonus material on the other. Here, the author imagines himself...

Creating a monster: Canon unleashes a camera massive enough for the Hollywood ego.(The Digital Man)
July 1, 2005... I RECENTLY REPORTED on a batch of high-end digital cameras, taking photos of my favorite subject (after Sweetie the wife and Chloe the kid): martinis from the deck of my home in Telluride, Colorado. There was, however, one camera that I didn't...

Your problem: shaving. I'm awful at it. I detest it.(Maintenance)
July 1, 2005... Rodney's solution: The average guy will shave about 20,000 times in his lifetime. Triple that if you're Eugene Levy. If every shave leaves you feeling like you've just hacked at your face with a cheese grater, it's gonna be a long, painful...

The smell of success: match the aromatic celebrity to the signature fragrance.(Maintenance)
July 1, 2005... 1. Antonio Banderas 2. Anna Kournikova 3. The Olsen twins 4. Andre Agassi 5. Priscilla Presley 6. Herb Alpert 7. Debbie Gibson 8. Mikhail Baryshnikov 9. Cindy Adams 10. "Boston Rob" Mariano (Survivor) 11. Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. (Discovery...

How to barbecue like a Brazilian.(Food & Drink)
July 1, 2005... So you are the barbecue king, the master of meats and flame, the lord of the grill? I, too, once believed these things about myself. And then I had homemade churrasco. I refer not to the first time I had what passes for Brazilian-style...

... And what to drink while you do.(Food & Drink)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... You may have noticed that the caipirinha--Brazil's potent cocktail of cachaca, muddled sugar, and lime juice--has supplanted the mojito. The sad news is if you've been drinking these things stateside, you've pretty much been sipping swill Blame...

The girl who loved sharks.(Susan Casey )(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Susan Casey is a man-eater. At least, she's training to be one. After living for three weeks aboard a dilapidated yacht in some of the most great-white-infested waters in the world for her new book, The Devil's Teeth (Henry Holt, $25), the...

The endorsement: the crosscut saw.(Summer)
July 1, 2005... From the moment I first double-fisted a man-sized crosscut--five feet of whippy, shark-toothed tempered steel--I hated chain saws in a way only Leatherface's human cutlets could appreciate. Chain saws have gotten so good that they suck: They're...

Quiz: time to quit your job?(Summer)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Sun and surf beckon. Is it time to bag the office life? Take this useful test and find out. 1. When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, you're... A. psyched to hop in the shower and start your day. (1) B. cursing. (2) C. crying....

The incredible Popeman: to honor Pope John Paul II, artist Rodolfo Leon Sanchez transformed his idol into a comic-book superhero. The work has received some criticism in Sanchez's native Colombia, but, he says, "the Catholic newspaper here loved it." An exclusive preview.(Faith)(Cartoon)
July 1, 2005... RODOLFO LEON SANCHEZ PRESENTA OUR ADVENTURE BEGINS... ... WITH A FRAGILE YET POWERFUL MAN, AN UNTIRING DEFENDER OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE. A MAN IN SEARCH OF ANSWER... LORD, HELP ME! ANSWERS FROM SOMEONE UNSEEN--A A...

Doggie evolution, war badges & seersucker socks.(Answer Fella)
July 1, 2005... ESQUIRE'S ANSWER FELLA believes that there are no stupid questions, just stupid people who don't ask questions, fearing they'll Look stupid. So ask Answer Fella anything. If he doesn't know the answer, he'll find out who does or who has a...

The dust up: with a fighter pilot in tow, six hundred acres of New Hampshire wilderness in front of him, and the world's best gearbox at his disposal, the author puts the 2005 Audi TT 3.2 to the ultimate test.(Cars)(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 1, 2005... TREES BLUR PAST THE PASSENGER WINDOW as the speedometer needle climbs past 50 and our silver Audi TT blasts into a clearing, gaining speed as we head for a shallow ditch Nat bisects the gravel road Just when I'm wondering whether the man behind...

Travel like you mean it: because landing the penthouse suite matters little if you haven't packed for the occasion. Here, ten ways to do just that.(THE ESQUIRE CATALOG)
July 1, 2005... SILENCE THE OUTSIDE WORLD The Bose noise-canceling headphones have become the antidote for wailing babies in the next row. The latest incarnation, the Quiet-Comfort 2, lets you block out your fellow passengers with improved audio...

Ten things you don't know about men.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... 1. How sexy you look unbathed at a campsite first thing in the morning is as important as how sexy you look in a tux. 2. Then again, looking good in a tux can turn nice girl into a porn star. 3. We enjoy eating a greasy cheeseburger as...

The restless man.(Real Adventures for REGULAR GUYS)
July 1, 2005... The towline snaps straight as Chris guns the pickup truck, yanking me into a run. "Big strides, pardner, keep running," he shouts over the radio. My paraglider resists at first, stretching my arms and shoulders back. The towline tightens, and...

Sex.
July 1, 2005... We hear a lot about culinary aphrodisiacs, but what about musical. ones? Does Al Green really deliver? Has anyone studied this? Al Green? When did everyone stop doing it to "Kashmir"? Somebody really should study these things, but all...

Jennifer Love Hewitt & Esquire magazine host 4TH Annual APLA Oscar[R] viewing party at The Abbey.(BY INVITATIONLY: a special promotion for readers)
July 1, 2005... On February 27th, 'The Envelope Please' was the party to be at for "Young Hollywood" as Stella Artois joined host Jennifer Love Hewitt and Esquire magazine as a presenting sponsor of the APLA/Oscar Viewing Party hosted at The Abbey Bar & Grill....

The sexiest woman alive: who is she? A mystery in six parts.
July 1, 2005... As we started to say last month, she is someone you know, a woman so unfathomably hot that it would be irresponsible to reveal her all at once. So for your safety, we are unveiling her one spectacular body part at a time over six months. ...

Drug of the month: piracetam.(The Overstimulated Girl)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... I was told that piracetam, the original "smart drug," was still worth trying. It promised to perk me up, sharpen my memory, and increase blood flow between mg brain's right and left hemispheres, a state of mind associated with those elusive...

Some news about your penis.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Call it rocket fuel. The pump of promise. The little spray that could. Because after years of whispers and rumors, a fast-acting nasal spray for erectile dysfunction is almost here. Currently headed into its third clinical trial, Palatin...

The Science of speed.(The Better Man)
July 1, 2005... TRAINING TO RUN FASTER goes Like this= Keep pushing your body harder, but don't break it. Simple, except that you're always either leaving something on the table or crapping out. Now there's a new generation of runners' watches designed to help...

10 men.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Every man is somewhere in the following pages. Although most of those we spotlight are public men, not all of them are great, a few are unextraordinary, and a slew of them are named Mike. But each of them is helping to define our country at the...

Old man in a hurry: the inside story of how Donald H. Rumsfeld transformed the Pentagon, in which we learn about wire-brushing, deep diving, and a secret society called the Slurg.(10 Men: Donald Rumsfeld)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... The secretary of defense's suite of offices in the Pentagon is on the third deck, outermost, or E-ring of the five-sided building, in the wedge between corridors eight and nine. It's one of the older wedges, on the far side of where the new...

The Bob Woodward of the red carpet: you think it's easy being a Bush in Hollywood?(10 Men: Billy Bush)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... ONE CAN'T HELP ONE'S NAME. [paragraph] This guy calls himself what others have been calling him all his life. It is a boy's name, the kind of name given in the fifties, when everyone had a neighbor or a best friend or a Little League teammate...

Shaquille O'neal: big man, 33, Miami.(What I've Learned)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... --If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso. --As Aristotle said, "Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit." --The other day, two of my children were fighting. I made them hold hands, and I tied them together with a...

The gospel of Gitmo: Chaplain Kent Svendsen and the prayerful pursuit of the "theology of immoral necessities" at Camp Delta. What would Jesus think? Don't ask.(10 Men: Kent Svendsen)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Kent Svendsen arrived in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on May 11, 2004, as chaplain for the military-police battalion that was deployed at the same time. He left ten months later, in late March 2005. In that time, no one--that is, none of the...

My life as a dog: the autobiography of Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy creator (in two parts).(10 Men: Seth MacFarlane)
July 1, 2005... PART 1 The First 30 Years October 1973 I am born in Kent, Connecticut. My original birth certificate is shortly thereafter used as rolling paper by my parents. 1976 As soon as I'm able to hold a crayon without feeling compelled to eat...

The funniest guy in the room: what do you call a former fireman from Jersey with a surprisingly quirky wit and no college degree? Anchorman.(10 Men: Brian Williams)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Let me set the scene for you. We're at dinner at the Holidome--the Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri. If you don't mind the whiff of chlorine from the pool during your meal, it's a lot like being in the islands. It's 1982, I'm twenty-three, and...

Billy Bob Thornton: actor, writer, musician, 49, Los Angeles.(What I've Learned)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... It's not that I don't like being interviewed. I don't mind it at all. It's just that my answers aren't what people want to hear. I was this poor kid from Arkansas who loved music and baseball. I'm raised in a household with a hotheaded...

Mike Sager: ever meet a stranger who shares your name? Ever meet ten of them?(10 Men: Mike Sager)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Somewhere east of Lost River, along a narrow ribbon of slippery asphalt that dipped and climbed and meandered like a goat trail through the George Washington National Forest, I pulled my rented TrailBlazer to a stop before a line of...

Howard Stern, American: one man's independence, our declaration.(10 Men: Howard Stern)
July 1, 2005... When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one broadcaster to dissolve his bonds with commercial FM radio and go to the wilds of pay satellite radio, it is required that the causes that impel him to such a separation be...

Crazy things seen normal ... normal things seem crazy: Val Kilmer is an L.A. kid who now owns bison. He's a Christian Scientist and a collector of reference books. He's Cindy Crawford ex and Bob Dylan's pal. He has portrayed Jim Morrison, Willem de Kooning, John Holmes, and Batman. Is he the most advanced actor of our time?(10 Men: Val Kilmer)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... I JUST LIKE LOOKING AT THEM," Val Kilmer tells me as we stare at his two bison. "I liked looking at them when I was a kid, and I like looking at them now." The buffalo are behind a fence, twenty-five feet away. A fifteen-hundred-pound bull...

If they build it ... Shaping everything from skyscrapers to public parks, a new breed of architects is using artistry and imagination to reinvent our landscape. Here, seven of those innovative men put pen to air* to sketch designs that may soon change your world.(Esquire Style)
July 1, 2005... Martin Finio Pictured: Ellis residence, Sullivan County, New York SINCE FORMING THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM OF CHRISTOFF: FINIO WITH PARTNER (AND WIFE) TARYN CHRtSTOFF FIVE YEARS AGO, MARTIN FIZIO HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST PROMISING...

What to expect: your baby's first 75 years: now that you've survived your boy's infant and toddler years, it's time to prepare for the exciting developments just around the corner.(THIS WAY OUT)
July 1, 2005... >>YOUR BABY AT 20 His brain: Your baby's brain is growing at a rapid rate. He might even try to read books with very simple concepts, like The Fountainhead or anything by Carlos Castaneda. Sleeping: Your baby will probably move from...