Interview articles from April 2006

Interview archives from April 2006

Comin' round the mountain.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Dear Interview, Like so many, as soon as Brokeback Mountain came out, I rushed to the theater, eager to see the groundbreaking love story that the media had been beating a drum about for months already. Happily, I discovered I was as...

For Pete's sake.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I have been a subscriber (and lover of Interview) since 1985, but the Pete Doherty cover [August 2005] is the only time I've been prompted to write... and even then it took me more than a few months to actually do it. I...

A reality PHD?(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Dear Interview, In your February issue, in the article "Small Talk" by Camille Paglia and in the editor's letter, you posit, then encourage, the idea of "overlapping realities." This notion, that we live in a world of ever-changing...

The decisive moment.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Dear Interview, The November issue of Interview was, in a word, great! The issue featured interviewers that I really admire: Gary Oldman, Charlize Theron, John Travolta, and Jennifer Aniston. As a photographer, I can only wish that I had...

Snapping back.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I've been getting your magazine for a while now, and the cover story on Sienna Miller [February 2006] is my favorite. Like most people, I enjoy learning about celebrities and seeing photos of them when they aren't made up....

Amelia Warner: she's already gone barb-for-barb (on the big screen) with Will Ferrell and down the aisle (in real life) with Colin Farrell--what she'll do next is anyone's guess.(THIS MONTH'S ONE TO WATCH)(Brief article)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... Amelia Warner says her mother, British television actress Annette Ekblom, wasn't thrilled with her daughter's decision to act, preferring that she pursue a career with more job security. But a quick glance at Warner's resume reveals that both...

Daniel Johnston: he may draw funny pictures of Captain America and sing happy-sounding songs about Casper the friendly ghost, but people are getting serious about the work of Daniel Johnston.(APRIL'S CULT ARTIST)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Back in the early 1990s, Daniel Johnston's music made him a bit of a folk hero. Diagnosed with manic depression in his twenties--a condition aggravated by LSD use--he was, for most of his adult life, a slightly off-kilter, almost childlike...

The poem that changed America: how Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" keeps inspiring hearts and minds.(LITERARY LANDMARK)
April 1, 2006... Most people's experience of poetry is so overwhelmingly connected to the lyrics of popular music (hip-hop, especially) that the idea of a poem galvanizing an entire generation without resorting to music or melody seems almost unbelievable now....

Sophie Auster: is this college freshman--with a head full of French poets and other indie inspirations--on the verge of something big?(THIS MONTH'S RENAISSANCE WOMAN)
April 1, 2006... At 18, Sophie Auster already multitasks nearly as much as her parents--the Brooklyn-based writer-filmmaker Paul Auster and the essayist-novelist Siri Hustvedt. Sophie's a full-time student studying literature at Sarah Lawrence, and a poet,...

Teddy Thompson: a son of folk-music royalty grabs the crown for himself.(MUSIC TIP)
April 1, 2006... Scions of well-known performers often have a chip on their shoulder when they edge into their parents' spotlight. Not Teddy Thompson. The product of acclaimed singer-songwriters Richard and Linda Thompson, he has no problems with his family...

The subways: out of the underground and off the rails.(MUSIC BUZZ)
April 1, 2006... The route taken by buzzy British pop-punk trio the Subways, from their initial fumblings in the basements of Northern England to posing for photographs with the cast of The O.C., can be mapped with a few essential stops. For singer and...

The Flaming Lips.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("At War with the Mystics")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.) For a group that's as unconventional as they come, the Flaming Lips evoke some truly canonical rock bands: the less surly parts of Pink Floyd, Sgt. Pepper's bizarro Beatles, and the Beach Boys, were...

Yeah yeah yeahs.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("Show Your Bones")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Show Your Bones (Interscope) The Brooklyn trio's second full-length isn't the concept album about singer Karen O's Chilean cat, as producer Squeak E. Clean (a.k.a. Sam Spiegel, younger sibling of Spike Jonze) claimed last year. Instead the...

Editors.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("The Back Room")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Back Room (Fader/Kitchenware) Editors are a band that's not going to win any points for originality. On their debut album, this Birmingham, England, four-piece never met a Joy Division hook they didn't like enough to rip off;...

The Rakes.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("Capture/Release")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Capture/Release (Dim Mak/V2) This first album from U.K. buzz band the Rakes is like a crash course in Alt-Rock 101, circa now. Like a hipster Frankenstein, the Rakes stitch the Futureheads' proletarian skew with Bloc Party's dance-rock blend...

Fernando Saunders.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("I Will Break Your Fall")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... I Will Break Your Fall (Emergent/RED) Fernando Saunders has had one of the coolest careers as a sideman--playing fluid, scene-stealing bass lines with Lou Reed, Eric Clapton, Pat Benatar, Jeff Beck, and Marianne Faithfull among others--but...

Sonya Kitchell.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("Words Came Back to Me")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Words Came Back to Me (Velour/Hear Music) It's fairly easy to locate 16-year-old Sonya Kitchell's place in the family of contemporary singer-songwriters--this coffeehouse-jazz debut will most likely define her as Norah Jones's little...

Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler.(BIG NOISE, BAD BOYS, AND THE REAL McCOYS)("All the Roadrunning")(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... All the Roadrunning (Warner Bros./Nonesuch) This unlikely collaboration between Dire Straits front man Mark Knopfler and the silver-voiced angel of country, Emmylou Harris, maps out the highs and lows of an American love story, sung with...

Channing Tatum: so how did a rebellious jock who once spurned the drama club become the street-fighting surprise of Sundance?
April 1, 2006... One of the few discoveries at this year's Sundance Film Festival was a dark, chiseled one delivered in the form of Channing Tatum, who co-stars alongside Robert Downey Jr., Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, and Shia LaBeouf in the award-winning...

Jessica Lange.(VIEW WOMAN)(Interview)
April 1, 2006... She launched her career with a celebrated Flop, then proceeded to surprise the critics with some of her generation's most searing performances. Renowned costume designer Ann Roth Gets The Scoop From A Woman Who Has Never Shied from taking...

Anton Yelchin: introducing the pup of an actor who puts the bite into Alpha Dog, this season's movie with a cool cast and an unflinching gaze.(MOVIE BREAKOUT)(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... DIANE LANE: Anton, I've missed you! The last time I saw you was at the screening of our movie, Fierce People, which comes out this month. What grade are you in now? ANTON YELCHIN: Eleventh. They like to say this is the year that counts, as...

Ahmad Razvi: transforming the headache and heartache of being a real-life outsider into a big-screen debut that's got insiders raving.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Interview)(Brief article)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... In Iranian-American writer-director Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart, Ahmad Razvi plays a Pakistani pop star who has moved to the United States to be with the woman he loves. He's forced to work as a pushcart vendor--making ends meet by lugging a...

Yaya DaCosta: from losing a contest on the catwalk to finding her footing with the foxtrot, she's bringing the heat to ballroom dancing's latest big-screen twirl.(MOVIE SPOTLIGHT)(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... As she anxiously struggled to get through her very first scene on her very first day on the set of her very first movie, Take the Lead, Yaya DaCosta was taken aside by the film's ever-smoldering star, Antonio Banderas, who, in his native...

V for Vendetta.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... (Warner Bros.) Directed by James McTeigue Leave it to the whacked-out Wachowski Brothers--creators of the Matrix trilogy--to spark what has already been called a return to "movies as cultural sabotage," or the sort of filmmaking that...

Kinky Boots.(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... (Miramax) Directed by Julian Jarrold This quaint British film tells the story of a shoe-business scion (Joel Edgerton) who enlists the help of a transvestite cabaret singer (Chiewetel Ejiofor) to help him save his family's factory. To do...

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... (Tartan) Directed by Cristi Puiu Lacerating, invigorating, and unlike anything you've ever seen, Romanian director Cristi Puiu's Dante-esque journey into the depths of his country's health-care system follows one single man (Ion...

Art School Confidential.(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Terry Zwigoff Terry Zwigoff continues his campaign to expose the cultural hypocrisy he sees seemingly everywhere in this cleverly constructed comedy that reunites the director with Ghost World cartoonist and...

Hard, Candy.
April 1, 2006... (Lions Gate) Directed by David Slade A nasty and effective little provocation from debut director David Slade, Hard Candy begins as an ominous blind-date flick involving a 14-year-old girl (Ellen Page) and a fashion photographer she meets...

Friends With Money.(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... (Sony Classics) Directed by Nicole Holofcener Nicole Holofcener's latest tracks a group of four female friends in Los Angeles; three have married into lives that afford a certain material comfort, while the fourth works as a housekeeper. This...

Ava Gardner: as legendary for her beauty as for her tempestuous romances, Ava Gardner was the ultimate screen siren of the 1950s. But as a new biography suggests, it was her courage to live life exactly as she wanted that really set her apart. Here, an exclusive sneak peek.(PRE VIEW)(Excerpt)
April 1, 2006... In 1951, by the time Ava Gardner became Mrs. Frank Sinatra, she had already been married to actor Mickey Rooney and, briefly, to bandleader Artie Shaw. She had been a star since appearing in the film noir The Killers in 1946 and was, without...

John Lee and Vernon Chatman: with a repertory of furry puppets, some twisted story lines, and a dose of over-the-top humor, the duo behind the adults-only cult show Wonder Showzen is causing a quake on cable television--and giving the censors a workout in the process. Two men who never met a taboo they didn't like, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, get the goods.(Comedy Corner)(Interview)
April 1, 2006... Don't be fooled by the laughing, smiling children and old-school felt-and-fur puppets. MTV2's hit variety show, Wonder Showzen, is not a nouveau reincarnation of Sesame Street, as is clearly stated in the pre-broadcast warning: "If you allow a...

Awesome; I shot that! What do you get when you put a bunch of obsolete video cameras in the hands of 50 raging beastie boys fans? A concert film like no other.(TURNING THE TABLES)(filmmaker Adam Yauch)(Interview)
April 1, 2006... DIMITRI EHRLICH: To make your new Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, you gave some Hi-8 cameras to kids in the audience and let them shoot the movie rather than use professional camera people. It was a very democratic...

Crystal Renn: waif not, want not.(THE MUSE)(fashion model)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Crystal Renn, the plus-size model who closed John Paul Gaultier's spring 2006 show and has graced the pages of American, Italian, and French editions of Vogue, spends her days working with photographers like Craig McDean, Nick Knight, and...

Going global: a new season brings a new reason to be yourself.(ALL THE WORLD'S A RUNWAY)(spring fashion)(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ah, spring is in the air. The birds are singing again and the buds are beginning to bloom but, most important for fashion types, the new wardrobe is finally broken into, heralding the return of skin. Flirty dresses and fitted shorts that...

Elephant dancing: April top ten.(MUSIC COLUMN)(Column)
April 1, 2006... 1 & 2 NEKO CASE Canadian Amp (Lady Pilot) and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti) With the New Pornographers, Case shoots cries of passion and glee into the air until she towers over the band like a waterspout. On her own albums, pitched...

Shots in the dark: film noir's long shadow.(MOVIE COLUMN)
April 1, 2006... It's been more than 60 years since film noir emerged as the Hollywood genre most redolent of America's psychic distress. An expression of specific social forces--World War II and its urban fallout--the movement was over by 1958, though its...

All the dish: rise of the red-sauce renegades.(FOOD COLUMN)(three New York City restaurants)(Restaurant review)
April 1, 2006... At a time when the costs and challenges of getting a restaurant off the ground have never been greater, who could blame a restaurateur for hedging the bet, funneling resources in the direction of the least consumer resistance? More and more...

View: Letter from the editor April 2006.(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... "There's music that kind of makes your heart dance," says Devendra Banhart to Lindsay Lohan, in the story on page 124 of this issue. It's a physical response that also gets to the core of what we were after with the magazine that's in your...

Gretchen Mol.(Interview)
April 1, 2006... DISCOVERED WHILE WORKING AS A HAT-CHECK GIRL AND THRUST INTO THE LIMELIGHT WHEN HER FIRST BIG MOVIE HIT THE THEATERS, HER STAR TOOK OFF BEFORE CHANGE TO--A FACT THAT THE ACTRESS HERSELF KNEW BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE. BUT GRETCHEN MOL IS DONE...

Devendra Banhart: think all the bohemian spirit. Experimental joie de vivre, and wild individualism has been bled out of music. Think again. Lindsay Lohan gets inside the eccentric, ecstatic, and irrepressible mind of one of music's true romantics.(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... LINDSAY LOHAN: Okay, let's begin. DEVENDRA BANHART: So my big, exciting thing for this interview is I made a mix for you, a really long one. And this is my part of the interview: You have to get back to me about what songs you liked. ...

Q'Orianka Kilcher: if ever there was an embodiment of the 21st-century melting pot, here she is.(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... [phone rings] HOTEL OPERATOR: Regent Berlin, Guten Abend. BRAD GOLDFARB: Hello, can you connect me to Q'orianka Kilcher's room, please? HO: Yes, of course. One moment. [phone rings] Q'ORIANKA KILCHER: Hello? BG: Hi,...

Dream come true.(fashion model Jeff Tomsik)(Brief article)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... "I always dreamed of being a model," says 19-year-old Ohioan Jeff Tomsik. "But it wasn't until my dad heard an open call for models on the radio that everything got started. I'm lucky, because my parents have been really encouraging. I can't...

Emilie de Ravin: how a string of bad-luck bombs--and one supernatural hit television series, Lost, which has become a cultural phenomenon--are paying off big-time.(Interview)(Biography)
April 1, 2006... On the hit show Lost, Emilie de Ravin plays Claire: a new mother, an intermittent amnesiac, and one of the show's most enigmatic denizens. And if de Ravin's alter ego has a fraction of the actress's own determination, she'll easily continue to...

Matthew Goode: a serried of romantic comedies had people pegging him as the next Hugh Grant, then came the brilliant turn as a spoiled Brit in Woody Allen's match point, solidifying his sex-symbol status. As he pumps up in preparation to play a nasty ex-con, Miss Scarlett grills him about life, love--and spotted Dick.(Interview)
April 1, 2006... SCARLETT JOHANSSON: I'm an old pro at interviews, darling, so I'm letting you know right now that everything you say can be used against you from now on. MATTHEW GOODE: [laughs] Okay. I'll keep all the butt jokes out. How are you, honey?...

House of flowers.
April 1, 2006... Inspired by truman capotes colorful story in neighboring houses of ill repute compete for turf. Daisies or daffodils? Lilacs or tulips? roses or peonies? floral rivalries are in full bloom this season Dress by DIOR JOHN GALLIANO. Hat by...

Rob Lowe: so what's the perfect challenge for an actor who's canny, handsome, and looks good in a kimono? Playing a Hollywood agent, of course!(Interview)
April 1, 2006... Thank You for Smoking, Jason Reitman's adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel about a tobacco-industry lobbyist, is just hitting theaters. In the movie, a scene-stealing Rob Lowe plays a Hollywood insider. We asked Buckley to talk...

Painting the town.(PAGE 5)
April 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Kate Hudson celebrating the NYC 5th Avenue Versace botique's new look. Alice Kim and Nicolas Cage at the,party for the 5th Avenue Versace boutique. Amy Sacco and Trudie Styler at a dinner after the...