Interview articles from April 2004

Interview archives from April 2004

The cover controversy!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Your February issue featured one of my all-time favorite women: Brooke Shields. Though I love Jennifer Connelly as well, Brooke should have been on the cover. She is the top model of all time; and with one of the best faces...

The original technicolor diva.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Two things: First, it was so great to see Cyndi Lauper featured in your December/January issue. I think she is one of the most underrated talents around, and her new CD, At Last [Epic/Daylight], is proof of that. The...

Yellin' for Jelen.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I got really excited when I saw your article on Ben Jelen [February 2004], the inspiring up-and-coming pop artist who writes his own music and plays his own instruments. He is a talented and beautiful music maker worthy of...

Yes, but are Iggy Pop's stories printable?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I wanted to thank you for the wonderful comic-strip interviews in your February issue. My favorite so far has been Tatum O'Neal (so cute!), but I don't know if I've caught them all. By the way, I'd love to see someone from...

Standing by their man.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I've picked up copies of Interview twice in my life: The first was when Michael Jackson interviewed Neptunes wonder Pharrell Williams [August 2003], and the second was your February issue, when the King of Pop fielded...

Hope Atherton: to anyone who has ever complained that fantasy had disappeared from the art scene, here's your answer.(This Month's View Woman)(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2004... Had Diana Vreeland and the Blair Witch collaborated on curating a room in the Natural History Museum, the result might have been something like Hope Atherton's New York City studio. Inside the Chinatown walk-up, taxidermied animals, shrunken...

Imad Rahman: most people find headaches and heartaches with bad jobs. This writer found his plotlines.(This Month's Writer Breakout)(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2004... In his debut collection of short stories, I Dream of Microwaves (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux), Imad Rahman weaves a complex investigation of identity and self-invention through eight interconnected vignettes, binding them together by what he...

Short and sweet: reintroducing a do that does a lot with a little.(Look Of The Month)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... If straight-ironed long hair was the new perm and the Louise Brooks bob was the new long hair, then now is the time to bite the bullet and just chop it all off. The freshest hair direction from the spring/summer 2004 catwalks is the gamine crop...

Jamie Bell: after he broke millions of people's hearts with his unforgettable performance in Billy Elliot, he was taunted by classmates as a "ballerina boy." Now with three gritty upcoming films, he wants to be the Eminem of Northeast England.(Movie Mover And Shaker)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... PATRICK GILES: Master Bell, you will have turned into a "Mister"--that is, reached your 18th birthday--by the time this interview appears. Will that change things for you, like, "I'm an adult now"? JAMIE BELL: Oh, I'm not really an adult,...

Kerry Condon: this ball-of-fire actress is riding the Irish swell and headed for a breakthrough.(Movie Tip)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Irish actress Kerry Condon isn't one to cave under pressure. At 16, this former competitive swimmer decided to attend an open audition for a bit part in Alan Parker's adaptation of Angela's Ashes (1999). "Everyone said, 'Oh, thousands of...

Christian Taylor: meet the man behind the compelling, clever, and confusing cult movie of the month.(Movie Surprise)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... In the new film Showboy, a character called Christian Taylor moves from Los Angeles, where he was a writer for HBO's Six Feet Under, to Las Vegas to become a dancer. Sounds like Showgirls (1995), right? But then the end credits roll and reveal...

Lynn Collins: it's been her crush on the bard that's driven her to the boards.(Movie Heat)(Brief Article)(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2004... Reached in Luxembourg, where she's shooting The Merchant of Venice, Lynn Collins is frenetic. Her hotel telephone is on the fritz, she's exhausted, and she's late for dinner with Al Pacino. Born in Houston, the twentysomething actress spent...

The Ladykillers.(Preview)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PREVIEW: THE LADYKILLERS (Touchstone) Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen The postwar British Ealing comedies are so good and so unique they rarely get remade, but the ever-adventurous Coens have tapped one of the best. This tale of a gang of...

Taking Lives.(Preview)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PREVIEW: TAKING LIVES (Warner Bros.) Directed by D.J. Caruso Scribe Jon Bokenkamp has retooled Michael Pye's popular novel, changing, among other things, the sex of the lead character. Here, Angelina Jolie stars as an FBI profiler tracking...

Envy.(Preview)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PREVIEW: ENVY (Dreamworks) Directed by Barry Levinson If jealousy makes people act funny, consider the possibilities when those people are two great comedic actors. When scheming schlub Nick (Jack Black) strikes it rich with an aerosol...

Walking Tall.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PREVIEW: WALKING TALL (MGM) Directed by Kevin Bray What's cooking with the Rock? The erstwhile wrestling star (he Dwayne Johnson) plays a former military mensch who finds his woodsy hometown overrun by drugs and violence. Ass-kicking and...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Focus) Directed by Michel Gondry When Clementine (Kate Winslet, in a delightful performance) has her ex-boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) medically erased from her consciousness, he elects to...

Jersey Girl.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: JERSEY GIRL (Miramax) Directed by Kevin Smith You'll laugh, you'll cry--and you'll occasionally cringe. Careening from comedy to tragedy, this film about a widowed PR flack (Ben Affleck) raising a young daughter (Raquel Castro) with...

Intermission.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: INTERMISSION (IFC Films) Directed by John Crowley Colin Farrell plays a lovable psychotic thief and Cillian Murphy is a neurotic filmmaker in this black-as-stout Irish screwballer. There are rabid cops, rock-throwing brats on bikes,...

Never Die Alone.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: NEVER DIE ALONE (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Ernest Dickerson Dickerson's drama about four Los Angelinos trapped in the underworld plays like a hip-hop haiku. The action pie's atypically ruminative pace allows the actors--DMX...

Mayor of the Sunset Strip.(Movie Review)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP (First Look) Directed by George Hickenlooper One man's infatuation with celebrity is transformed into a morality tale in this documentary about L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, a presence on the...

La Vie Promise.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
April 1, 2004... REVIEW: LA VIE PROMISE (Empire) Directed by Olivier Dahan Isabelle Huppert dazzles as a prostitute who, on the lam from her past, journeys with her precocious teenage daughter in search of their future. Like taking deep breaths between...

Tyler Hilton: this Hilton doesn't provide room service--just folk-pop ballads about rocky relationships.(Music Spotlight)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... Roots-rocker Tyler Hilton isn't one of those Hiltons--no relation to Paris, Nicky, or any of the hotel-chain people. Instead, this 20-year-old singer-songwriter has a background in breezy, radio-ready melodies. "Whenever anyone in my family...

Mindy Smith: with country music caught in a plethora of platitudes, this back-to-basics singer is coming to the emotional rescue.(Music Heat)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... She may not have big hair, speak with a Southern drawl, or employ an array of bells and whistles, but these days Mindy Smith is shining brighter than just about any rhinestone in Nashville. Having migrated to the country-music capital six years...

Franz Ferdinand: named after the Austrian archduke whose assassination triggered World War I, these Scottish hell-raisers are causing another kind of international incident.(Music Buzz)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... Franz Ferdinand are no strangers to crime and punishment. The Scottish rock quartet's self-titled debut was written entirely in a disused 19th-century penitentiary in a rusty section of Glasgow, which the band took over and sought to remake as...

Blanche: a gothic garage band's eerie atmospheres and uplifting elegies.(Music Breakout)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... They have the air of a Depression-era Southern family that's suffered a loss, torn apart by grief and bound in quiet dignity. But for the Detroit quintet Blanche, the sadness on the surface of their debut, If We Can't Trust the Doctors......

A genre-busting hit maker, a legendary risk taker, and a quirky heartbreaker.(Sound Advice)
April 1, 2004... BEN KWELLER On My Way (ATO Records/RCA) This flop-haired rock geek's second full-length is a collection of contagiously harmonious rock confections. Tweaked with a slacker's optimism, Kweller balances adolescent impulse with an ear for the...

Bright idea: why don't you look as colorful as you are?(Fashion Flash)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Previously the territory of terrifyingly permatanned game-show hosts with blow-dried hair, the brightly colored blazer was reincarnated on the catwalks this season from YSL Rive Gauche to Ralph Lauren, D&G, and Hermes. The most modern way...

Fresh from the fashion lab: "I'm looking through you," the Beatles sang. Fashion this season makes these words come true.(Fashion Future)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Fashion took its love of innovation and intrigue a step further this season, as two clever inventions jumped from the laboratory to the runway. Dior's "transparent lambskin" trench jacket offers a chance to layer without concealing, while...

Sliding into summer: a fashion low is one of this season's highs.(Fashion Footnote)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... There's always been a lot of style mileage in the idea of "luxing up" simple things. Just look for proof on almost any episode of MTV's Cribs, in which rhinestoning or monogramming everything from bare skin to bare walls has taken on plague...

Mad dogs and Englishmen: Englishmen can't always bring off wearing shorts. That doesn't mean you can't.(Fashion Revival)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Typically the garment of choice for tourists, mall walkers, and anyone kicking back, shorts are getting a new lease on life this season. The new way to wear them, according to some of the spring/ summer looks at Burberry and Louis Vuitton, is...

Freddy Adu: too young to vote. Too young to drive. Too good to ignore. Meet the future of American soccer.(Sports Sensation)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... In many ways, Freddy Adu isn't much different from the average American 14-year-old. He likes to play sports and hang out with his friends, his favorite movie is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and his parents ground...

Keisha Castle-Hughes: the teenage acting prodigy tells designer Donna Karan what it's like to have your life change overnight and ride a fake whale.(This Month's Phone Call)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... DONNA KARAN: Keisha, I wanted to do this interview because I loved Whale Rider. KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES: Oh, thank you. DK: How old are you? KCH: I'm 14. DK: I have a granddaughter who's 17. So make believe you're talking to...

All the dish: Manhattan is boomtown for foodies.(Food Column)(Restaurant Review)
April 1, 2004... New York City has long been a town that has fed off the energy of the new, and no aspect of life here better reflects that than the speed with which new restaurants have come onto the scene. Still, in those dark months following the events of...

Shots in the dark: poets and romantics may shudder at the idea, but is it possible that love is equal parts head and heart? A new film explores that very question.(Movie Column)(Movie Review)
April 1, 2004... Love is a serpent swallowing its own tail in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the sublimely bittersweet, surreally Freudian second collaboration between screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Michel Gondry, following 2001's Human...

Letter from the editor.(view)(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... In "Clothing On, Lips Buttoned," a spot-on article in the February 9 edition of The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley summed up the recent Grammy Awards by saying that they "perfectly captured the new spirit of meekness." How right she is....

Courtney love: she definitely wouldn't have apologized at the Grammys.(Interview)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... INGRID SISCHY: Hey, Courtney. COURTNEY LOVE: Hi, Ingrid. IS: So, first things first: Congratulations on America's Sweetheart, the new record. CL: Thank you. IS: Lots of people think it's really good, myself included. CL:...

Maria Bello: after more than a decade of not being the one, suddenly she's well on her way.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... Having forcibly shed her public perception as "that actress from ER" with her performance in The Cooler (for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Maria Bello is, 15 years into her professional...

Derek Luke: sometimes just getting onto the movie lot can be the beginning of a whole new chapter.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... Raised in one of New Jersey's toughest neighborhoods, Derek Luke's first acting gig was putting on a game face on his walk to school. Years later the struggling actor caught his big break in Denzel Washington's Antwone Fisher (2002). Paying his...

Lauren Bacall: with that voice, that look, and above all that spirit, it's no wonder this legendary actress is so expert at making waves--and riding them. And as her performances in two daring, cult-ready new movies prove, she's not about to rest on her laurels.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... When the facts surrounding a life are as well known as Lauren Bacall's, it's often easy to take them for granted. For starters, there are the fairytale circumstances surrounding the launch of her career (she was discovered twice, first as a...

Emile Hirsch: emboldened by Brando and fostered by Foster, this young actor is a heavyweight in the making.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... With his stirring movie debut in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) opposite Jodie Foster, Kieran Culkin, and Vincent D'Onofrio (his interviewer here), Emile Hirsch, with his soft eyes and hard-to-forget talent, established himself in...

Short story.(cropped jackets in fashion)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE JENKINS STYLING BY JOANNA JACOVINI ALL QUOTES BY DOROTHY PARKER AS DOROTHY PARKER WELL KNEW, THERE IS OFTEN GENIUS IN KEEPING THINGS SHORT. THIS SEASON DESIGNERS DID JUST THAT BY OFFERING WITTY CROPPED JACKETS. WHILE...

Vegas! A portfolio by Albert Watson.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... More than three decades ago, revolutionary architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi pointed out in Learning From Las Vegas that the city had much to teach us all. At the time, their observation was practically aesthetic heresy; these...

Tina Fey: first she broke the hold male writers had over Saturday Night Live. It was only a matter of time before she loosened the grip that TV had on her.(Interview)
April 1, 2004... Tina Fey is no stranger to TV viewers who love to laugh. In front of the cameras, she co-anchors Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment with Jimmy Fallon. Behind them, she is SNL's co-head writer--the first woman to hold the position in...

Rufus Wainwright: while other singers play it safe, this one is not afraid to speak--or sing--his mind. Here, Elton John gets under the skin of one of the music world's unique talents.(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2004... I wanted to Interview Rufus Wainwright because in my opinion his new album, Want One, is an incredible piece of work. As a musician and a songwriter, I find every facet of it--the way the songs are written, the chord sequences, the melodic...

Wish you were here!(Prada fashion)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... THERE WAS A TIME NOT SO LONG AGO WHEN GETTING THERE WAS HALF THE FUN OF HOLIDAYING. TRAVEL WAS GLAMOROUS, AS WAS DRESSING FOR IT. THIS SEASON MIUCCIA PRADA'S CLOTHES BROUGHT BACK THE SIMPLE PLEASURE OF LEAVING ONE'S OWN BACKYARD FOR THE BEAUTY...

Here's looking at you.(Page 5)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Liv Tyler at New York City restaurant Noche for the 69th annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sofia Coppola at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...