Esquire articles from October 2004

Esquire archives from October 2004

Born.(Style agenda: a special promotion for Esquire readers; Born Footwear)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... Look your absolute best this Fall in sophisticated style and luxurious comfort from Born Footwear. This season's Collection is as exciting as ever, with looks that will take you from street to apres ski in elegant, handcrafted comfort. We use...

Gillette Sensor.(Style agenda: a special promotion for Esquire readers)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... Gillette[R] Sensor[R]3 incorporates several proprietary features to provide unsurpassed closeness and comfort from a disposable razor: three progressively aligned, independent spring mounted Sensor[R] blades, an advanced lubricating strip,...

Tourneau.(Style agenda: a special promotion for Esquire readers)(Tourneau)(Double Membership Rewards Points)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... Tourneau, the world's largest watch store, celebrates WatchFest 2004. Visit any Tourneau or Tourneau Watch Gear store during the entire month of October and enjoy Double Membership Rewards Points from American Express[R]. View the largest...

Pitti Immagine Uomo.(By invitation only: a special promotion for Esquire readers)(Pitti Immagine Uomo )(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... In June 2004, during Pitti Immagine Uomo, one of Europe's premiere fashion trade shows for clothing and accessories for the spring-summer collections. Esquire provided fashion clients with cameras and invited them them to snoot pictures of...

The National Father's Day Committee.(By invitation only: a special promotion for Esquire readers)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... The National Father's Day Committee is an entity of the Father's Day/Mother's Day Council and exists for the sole purpose of conferring Father of the Year Honors on contemporary lifestyle leaders. The Council is a not-for-profit, non commercial...

The sound and the fury.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... BEDECKED IN BLING, Donald Trump greeted readers from the cover of our fourth-annual What It Feels Like issue. Inside, Benjamin Alsup immersed himself in the world of spinners and, spoons to explore the surging sport of pro bass fishing ("A Fish...

The greater good?(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... The ethical issues underlying James McManus's story on stem-cell research polarized readers. Thank you for a comprehensive, heartbreaking, and desperately needed article. I wept in my husband's arms after reading it. I'm outraged by the...

Bored of the rings.(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Backing America's skeet shooters was a matter of patriotism--until Chuck Klosterman ridiculed Olympic supporters as blind nationalists in his August column. Rooting for the home team is not a matter of right and wrong. It's about...

House Esquire Los Angeles 2004.(Promotion)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... Esquire thanks the following participants. Esquire acknowledges those individuals and organizations whose creativity and expertise made The Esquire House Los Angeles the ultimate expression of the modern man's lifestyle. Architect ...

Esquire gives back.(Promotion)(Advertisement)
October 1, 2004... Esquire is proud to be hosting events on behalf of the following non-profit organizations. Their work, commitment and accomplishments positively affects or lives and our communities. Join us by reaching out and supporting these exceptional...

Esquire without words.(Editor's Letter)
October 1, 2004... WELL, NOT COMPLETELY. (There is a stunning and subversive piece of fiction along with our usual mix of illuminating and entertaining criticism and advice in the first 142 pages of the magazine.) But once you're ushered into the feature well by...

Funny * joke from a beautiful woman.(Man at His Best)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A guy walks into a bar with a priest, a minister, a rabbi, a Polish guy, and a duck. The bartender says, "What is this, a joke?" As told by JOELY RICHARDSON In contrast to her character on the dark FX drama Nip/Tuck, Joely Richardson...

The awards: the eight most remarkable things in culture this month.(The Man at His Best)
October 1, 2004... 1 Best Pose in a Paddy Wagon --From Weegee, a collection of the photographer's work 2 Highest Praise "Was he going to jump over a car? Was he going to jump over a motorcycle? You're talking about a guy who could jump over a...

Fantasy politics league.(Politics)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... ADMITTEDLY, POLITICIANS don't earn as much as athletes. And C-SPAN doesn't exactly pull in ESPN ratings. And public servants are usually wimpier than ballplayers (not counting Ted Kennedy). But have you noticed that politics is the new sports?...

The rules.(Politics)(political game)
October 1, 2004... Draft will be held after election. Players will draft: * 3 senators * 1 Cabinet member * 5 representatives * 1 Supreme Court justice [The playing season will last from January 1 to the following January 1. The player with...

Gadget of the month: the Martini Kit.(The Digital Man)
October 1, 2004... SOMEBODY HAD TO DO SOMETHING. Tinseltown has become a dreary place. It's lost its compass in many ways, including having fun and taking chances. After all, this is supposed to be the entertainment industry. Now, I'm not saying that imbibing...

The indefensible position: the Brown Bunny is a decent flick.(The Digital Man)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... ROGER EBERT FIRED THE FIRST VOLLEY, proclaiming Vincent Gallo's minimalist road movie the worst film ever to compete at Cannes within seconds of its first press screening. By the end of the following day, the consensus had formed: Narcissistic....

Of blades, burritos, and blowtorches: excerpts from Chef's Secrets: Insider Techniques from Today's Culinary Masters, as told to Esquire's own Francine Maroukian.(Food & Drink)(Excerpt)
October 1, 2004... (1) How to Fold a Burrito By W. PARK KERR, owner, El Paso Chile Company, El Paso, Texas YOU DON'T JUST wrap ingredients in a tortilla and call it a burrito--you have to fold, tuck, and roll to get the right leakproof package so you don't...

Hot and hazy: he's got the talent. He' got the roles. Hell, he's even got the fame. So why is Jamie Foxx still such a blur?(Movies)
October 1, 2004... EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW it's coming, Tom Cruise's initial appearance in Collateral, the recent thriller by Michael Mann, still catches you off guard. Part of the surprise is the way Mann, who can apparently mold any actor, location, prop, or...

Q+A: Peter Falk.(Movies)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... SHAGGY, gravel-voiced Peter Falk--cockeyed from a childhood cancer--will always be synonymous with the sly slob detective Columbo. But let's not forget the guy's also an Oscar-nominated actor. This month, Criterion releases John Cassavetes:...

One sweet-sounding season: five new records that make life worth living.(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... IF THEY GAVE A GRAMMY for the year's ballsiest promotional pitch, this would win: "I promise you, you are lucky to be receiving the enclosed CD." Lucky is having my shitty Ford Contour start in the morning. Lucky is an ex-girlfriend who uses...

Captain Kirk gets serious.(Music)(William Shatner's new album)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... WILLIAM SHATNER has a terrific new album. No joke. Thirty-six gears after his spoken-word album, the good captain returns with Has Been, a set produced and cowritten by Ben Folds, featuring cameos from Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, and Henry...

Music lessons with John Mayer.(Music)(portable speakers)
October 1, 2004... THIS MONTH'S LESSON: i-Fi THE NEXT GENERATION of portable speakers looks sleek and sexy and sounds like garbage! There's a new phenomenon in digital audio. I call it i-Fi: portable listening devices lauded for small size and elegant...

The rules.(Music)(for gentlemen)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... RULE NO. 212: Every suburbanite under the age of 12 plays soccer; every suburbanite over the age of 16 ignores it. RULE NO. 348: While on a date, the words snatch, prick, and crack should be used only as verbs. RULE NO. 902: It's okay to wear...

The Hurried Man's Guide to Shakespeare.(Books)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... SURE, THERE'S BEEN enough Shakespeare biographies written to fill the old Globe Theatre. But not by eminent Harvard Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, who combines cultural history with a close reading of the bard's work to envision what...

Really short reviews.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... 1. Maximum City (Knopf, $28), by Suketu Mehta. A vivid dissection of the teeming city of Bombay, from bar dancers to Muslim gangs to Hollywood. 2. The Old Man and the Tee (St. Martin's, $25), by Turk Pipkin. With spiritual guidance from Willie...

The wanderer.(Books)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... IF YOU THINK just getting off the couch is an ordeal, consider what photographer Michael Clinton has accomplished: He has set foot in 100 countries on all seven continents. Beginning at the age of 12 with a trip to Ireland, Clinton chose most...

Big important book of the month.(Books)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... IN 1963, when Philip Roth had published one novel (not so good), a novella, and some short stories, he wrote "Writing About Jews," an essay defending his work against those Jews--not mere Jews: rabbis--who had accused him of pandering to...

Bring back the monogram: one man's stump speech to rehab what the '80s ruined.(Style)
October 1, 2004... THE MONOGRAM HAS GOTTEN a bad rap. One of the unfortunate residuals of the Alex P. Keaton era was the impulse of country-club types to sew their initials onto everything from their breast pockets to their boxer shorts. What started out as a...

If you never buy another: evening shoe.(Style)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... IN THE INTEREST of saving your pennies, we should probably advocate using the same office-safe pair of black cap-toe oxfords for evening black tie. Unfortunately, a shoe for all seasons doesn't really cut it anymore. The Extra 10 Percent...

The guru: sound sartorial advice from Bill Hancock, style expert.(Style)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... * I'm a young political speechwriter, and I want to look good when working the room with my candidate. Is it okay to dress better than him? Outdressing the boss? You have hit on a question that besets every aspiring young man in business,...

Vigilantism, the Stanley Cup, wedding toasts & animal glue.(Answer Fella)
October 1, 2004... 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 right 9 stuff: in a world with endless things to buy, Esquire steps in as your personal filtering service.(The Esquire Catalog)
October 1, 2004... 1 A FOUNDATION PEN Handwriting can't be replicated in pixels. So consider for your desktop the precision lines of a well-made fountain pen, like these special editions by (from left) Omas, Cartier, and Montblanc. A handwritten letter is worth a...

The awe-inspiring majesty of science: if tampering with the DNA of unborn children in an attempt to grant them unfathomable superpowers is wrong, I don't wanna be right.(Chuck Klosterman's America)(Column)
October 1, 2004... I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU, the loyal Esquire reader, happen to stand on the issue of stem-cell research. It's a complex, multifaceted debate, and there are two distinct camps: progressive intellectuals (who tend to favor stem-cell research) and...

Vicodins for breakfast: NFL players rarely talk about pain in public, and they never talk about the stash of Vikes, the horse-sized injections, and the late-game shakes that follow. Except for one player, who would rather that you didn't know his name. This is what it's like for him--a regular player with a typical story--right now.(The Game)(National Football League)
October 1, 2004... IT BEGINS WITH THAT FIRST Sunday of camp, with him lifting up off the couch or out of the boat, saying goodbye to the wife, and walking--without a limp for the last time till spring--into six weeks of two-a-days. It might as well be prison. ...

Joystick jihad.(The Game)(anti-terrorism video games)(Product/Service Evaluation)
October 1, 2004... >> Video-game executives know it as well as their Hollywood brethren: Casting our enemy as the villain can be as lucrative as a Halliburton contract in an oil-rich war zone (and a hell of a lot more fun). Here, a declassified report on the new...

Drug of the month: alpha-lipoic acid.(Getting Better)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Surprising but true: Endurance athletes--long-distance cyclists, iron-man-level triathletes, marathoners--don't always look so hot when you see them up close. I once met one of the world's most invincible female triathletes, and she looked...

Rip, mix, burn calories.(Getting Better)(exercise music)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... DOES YOUR GYM sound like A Night at the Roxbury? Plug gout ears with this, our very first workout mix o' the month. Tracks available wherever music is downloaded. 1. WEST INDIAN GIRL, "HOLLYWOOD" Blissed-out vocals laid over a skittering...

Ask Dr. Oz: free advice from a medical professional!(Getting Better)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... I've heard doctors have become quicker to prescribe cholesterol drugs. How will I know when it's Lipitor time for me? The NIH recently adjusted its guidelines, Lowering the cholesterol levels at which at-risk people need treatment. It was a...

This is the man who'll lead the revolution? Don't let his Wonder bread appearance fool you. The new president of NBC Entertainment is a sicko at heart. And that may be exactly what network television needs right now.(TV)(Kevin Reilly)
October 1, 2004... TAKE A GLANCE AT KEVIN REILLY, with his sparkling white teeth, fussy gym-rat body, Les Moonves helmet of hair, and handsomely tailored jacket, and one thought comes to mind: If you ever had to cast a show about the television business and Jay...

Q+A: Dominic West.(TV)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... If you were dragged to the movies Mona Lisa Smile or 28 Days, that's likely where you first encountered the pretty British mug of actor Dominic West. But West has broken out of the chick-flick genre, getting tough as an alcoholic Baltimore cop...

Do other animals have oral sex? How did we get started on it?(Questions answered.)(Column)
October 1, 2004... No one wants to imagine cocker spaniels or Osmonds having sex for reasons other than procreation, but nonhuman animals are not always as puritanical as people would Like to think. "For a lot of animals, particularly social mammals Like...

Morty the cop: the NYPD could leave counterterrorism to the feds ... but it tried that. So New York has quietly extended its security perimeter a bit. Including a Manhattan homicide detective in Israel.(Terror)(New York Police Department)(Mordecai Dzikansky)
October 1, 2004... IT'S A SUN-DAPPLED SATURDAY, and Morty is readying his kids for a frolic in the local park when his cell phone and beeper start dancing on his belt. Without looking, he knows that this is not good. He pats his son on the head, feels the warmth...

Ten things you don't know about women.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... 1. If you want to date an Asian sister, do not do the following: a) Tell me about your trip to Asia and how you taught English there. b) Tell me how much you just looove Chinese food. c) Practice your Japanese on me. I'm Korean....

What the thunder said: this kind of sexual obsession can't be good for anyone.(Fiction)(Short Story)
October 1, 2004... 1. Mr. Squirrel A LAVENDER-PINK SUNSET OVER THE LITTLE PARK on Peckham Rye Common, so warm and fragrant it might still be summer. Down by the artificial lake kids are throwing stones at Canadian geese, aiming with a canny dexterity at the...

Bundchen!(The Photo Issue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... "I cna be whatever you want me to be," Ms. Bundchen was saying. "If you want me to be the sexy girl, I can do that. If you want me to be the weird girl, I can do that. And if you want me to be the classically beautiful girl, I can do that,...

America untitled, 2004: seven visionary photographers on what's defining us now.(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... Tina Barney (FOURTH OF JULY, NEW ENGLAND, 2004) I have been photographing the Fourth of July rituals in this New England town since I first moved here in 1966. I'm quite sure that I continue to photograph this very same event over and over...

Arny Freytag: Playboy photographer, 54, Los Angeles.(What I've Learned)(Interview)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... I've lost count. More than a hundred centerfolds. It's not about the nude girl anymore. It was when I was twenty-five. But hopefully I've evolved beyond that. I mean, you don't want to be fifty-four years old and looking up girls' skirts, do...

Hideously invasive photographs of famous people: we gave cameras to five celebrities and assigned them to shoot themselves--and the things that make them happy, horny, angry, amused ...(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... AVRIL LAVIGNE SINGER-SONGWRITER (WE PROVIDED EACH OF THE PARTICIPANTS WITH IDENTICAL HP DIGITAL CAMERAS.) My self-portrait. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Something that makes me laugh. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Something I'd...

The Esquire photos of Diane Arbus.(The Photo Issue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... From 1960 to 1971, Diane Arbus shot some of the most memorable magazine photographs of her time Norman Mailer once said--after Diane Arbus photographed him--that "giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands...

How to: take a self-portrait.(The Photo Issue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... STEP 1: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SHOOTING. Instead of using a mirror, you can hang a reflective filter over the lens so that you can stare directly at it and also see yourself, capturing your most interesting moment. STEP 2: ADAPT WHAT YOU'VE...

The 7 people who will elect the president: we've heard a lot about the swing vote. So we went out and found it.(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... At this point, who's undecided? Of the approximately 160 million registered voters in America... probably less than six million who are likely to vote. And maybe less than 2.5 million who actually live in the seventeen or so closely contested...

How to: photograph your dog.(The Photo Issue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... STEP 1: PICK THE RIGHT SUBJECT. Some dogs are difficult to photograph if they're black. You have to overexpose a lot to get anything. If you're shooting in a studio, you have to light your dog properly. But ideally your dog is not too dark or...

Excerpts from the John Waters project: director John Waters has photographed everyone who has come to his house. Ever.(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... * HITCHHIKER This was a guy met as I was riding my bicycle in Provincetown. He's a true hobo, riding on trains, squatting in buildings. I love to hitchhike myself. It's my midlife crisis. People will pick me up and see who it is and just start...

Me, myself, and I: wherein Esquire outfits nine top photographers in fall's easiest casual clothes and asks them to turn their cameras on themselves.(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... Chris Buck THE LOCATION: His New York City apartment. THE SHOT: "I wanted to make sure the clothes look good, since it's a fashion-related photograph, but I didn't want to take myself too seriously. With the help of a really great...

How to: photograph her nude.(The Photo Issue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... STEP 1: KNOW WHAT YOU LIKE. When it comes to erotica, it's all about your obsessions. Take a picture that you think will turn you on. For instance, if you're a leg man, have the woman cross her legs with one leg sweeping over the other. A...

Serious people making funny faces: at the Four Seasons in New York and the Palm in Washington, for just a moment anyway, they didn't take themselves quite so seriously.(The Photo Issue)
October 1, 2004... Greta Van Susteren, attorney; host, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent, CBS News; anchor, Face the Nation; author, Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the...

Photos we couldn't quite get ahold of.(This Way Out)
October 1, 2004... Marlon Brando's cremation, as seen from space. John Kerry's, John Edwards's before pictures from the Hair Club for Men. Beatles' reunion, summer '04. The White House private screening of "Fahrenheit 9/11." Al Gore's porn...