Interview articles from April 2008

Interview archives from April 2008

That color purple.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dear Interview, Wow, the cover of the March issue with Ellen Page is amazing! I can't stop staring at it. You found the perfect purple for the backdrop--light but not childish, bright but not bold. That purple is...

Kitsch counterpoint.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear Interview, So James M. Martin thinks that Taylor Kitsch is "doomed to failure" as an actor just because of his last name ["Letters," February]? Jon Hamm has an interesting last name, too, but that didn't stop him from winning this...

Confessions of a bloggerista.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear Interview, I'm an emerging bloggerista and each month Interview's interviews inspire me to think, and more importantly, to write. Whether it's the interview with Julie Christie [March 2008] or Nicole Kidman [November 2007], I always...

An art-world 4-1-1.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear Interview, I enjoyed Ingrid Sischy's interview with John Baldessari in the March issue, though there are a couple of things I wish she'd asked him. Baldessari has this unreal work of art called Two High Rises (With Disruptions), Two...

And the envelope, please.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear Interview, I was so happy with Interview's February cover of Amy Adams. The photo was absolutely brilliant and the dress gave her that all-American "sweet as apple pie" look! I'm terribly disturbed, though, that Amy wasn't nominated...

Melting the melting pot.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2008... Dear Interview, While I found Camille Paglia's February Q&A on immigration to be interesting, and the idea of a type of mass hysteria spot-on, I also noted a few glaring contradictions. The article ends with the words "when we come to...

Girl meets boy: hair's what rocked the runway.(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Part Robert Palmer sexpot and part foppish dandy, this perfectly molded crown is where gender lines meet. The beauty lies in just how high you're willing to take such a hairstyle. Start with a severe male-exec side...

Jock Soto: a new documentary examines the life of the dancer who could do anything, as he leaps into the future.(CURTAINS UP)(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Jock Soto retired from New York City Ballet in 2005 after 24 years there as a dancer (the last 20 as a principal), he started a catering company, Lucky Bassett Events, with his partner, Luis Fuentes. If Soto,...

Diane Von Furstenberg: here's the real rap on fashion's great adventurer.(APRIL PROFILE)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... INGRID SISCHY: Anybody who has read your book [Von Furstenberg's memoir, Diane: A Signature Life, published in 1998] knows that your life is influenced by the fact that your mother, Lily, spent time in a concentration camp during the Second...

Sean Faris: first he went to war--and then he went to boot camp.(MOVIE TIPS)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At 16, Sean Faris took a prep-school survey that identified his interest in the entertainment industry. He took the hint. Two years later, he made a solo move from Parma, Ohio, to Los Angeles. "For the first seven...

Juno Temple: Groucho. Zeppo. Harpo. Chico. Gummo. Juno?(MOVIE TIPS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Can an 18-year-old actress already be typecast? Juno Temple compares her character in The Other Boleyn Girl to her small but pivotal role in Atonement: "She's another bitchy and scheming snot--I'd rather not think...

Ruby Dee: one of moviedom's original trailblazers is still on fire.(view WOMAN)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To say that the grande dame of African-American actors, Ruby Dee, had a front-row seat at pivotal moments in 20th-century cultural history would be to ignore her role as an active participant in them. From the civil...

Bitsie Tulloch: how a series that began as a modest internet experiment became a phenomenon that's not so itsy.(TV TIPS)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A few years ago, while on jury duty in Los Angeles, actress Bitsie Tulloch took a seat next to writer-producer-director Marshall Herskovitz, the brains behind My So-Called Life as well as thirtysomething and Once and...

Tom Hooper: not your usual American history show.(TV TIPS)(Television program review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pity poor John Adams. Although he almost single-handedly drove the American colonies to independence, he gets much less glory than stately George Washington, romantic Thomas Jefferson, or even quippy Benjamin...

Adam Duritz: the singer who once squawked about Mr. Jones crows about his new album.(LOOK WHO'S TALKING)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KEN BURNS: The title of your new album is Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings. That's reminiscent to me of the old tension in jazz music between the liberation and sexuality of Saturday night dance halls and Sunday...

The women/ talking to 7 performers on freedom.(OPINION PAGE)
April 1, 2008... SALMA HAYEK: "Freedom to me is fearlessness in constant movement. The minute you don't move, you're stuck. The minute you stop someplace where you feel free, then you're contained and you're no longer free. You have to have a flow constantly."...

Nathaniel Rich: introducing a debut novelist who knows how to keep a secret.(THE BRAINS AND THE BRAWN)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I've talked more about the book with you than I have with anybody for the past five years," confesses 28-year-old Nathaniel Rich during the course of our brief phone interview. The work in question is Rich's...

Sean Avery: a hockey gnat cut from a different cloth.(THE BRAINS AND THE BRAWN)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Sean Avery was traded from the NHL's bottom-of-the-barrel Los Angeles Kings to the New York Rangers last year, few people outside the world of hockey had heard of him. How things have changed. Today the...

To sir (Elton), with love: hello, color-slick road.(STYLE HOMAGE)(Elton John)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] What with all the driving caps and rounded specs turning up on runways for spring 2008, any fashion watcher could have been forgiven for asking: Was an incarnation of Elton John circa 1975 shoving the models out...

Goddess dressing: fashion takes a cue from the Grecian formula.(STYLE TREND)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The classical Roman poet Ovid praised the creative fertility of Minerva by calling her the "goddess of a thousand works." Minerva and her divine colleagues in the cosmos-especially Greek deities like Athena and...

Laura Ramsey.(Interview SHOWCASE)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... For all of the recycled jiggery-pokery of most horror movies, the best of them always seem to prey on our most realistic fears. So it is apt in this era of environmental hyperconsciousness that photographer Carter Smith would choose the jungle,...

Kylie Minogue: she's been called music's ultimate chameleon, playing with her look, her sound, and others' expectations. David furnish checks in with the pop star as she enters her latest chapter.(Inter WOMAN)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If anyone knows about the art of transformation, it's Kylie Minogue: Over the course of her nearly two decades in the entertainment industry, the 39-year-old Australian recording artist has gone from soap-opera siren...

Quincy Jones: the man they call "Q".(APRIL LEGEND)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Quincy Delight Jones Jr. has been making a daily demonstration of his middle name since he was born in Chicago on March 14, 1933. He did produce the best-selling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983),...

K.D. Lang: how a bout of writer's block gave birth to her biggest album yet.(MUSIC ICON)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... FEIST: I've never done an Interview interview before, so let me plunge right in. Your latest CD, Watershed [Nonesuch], is your first album of your own new material since Invincible Summer [2000]. Was the aftermath of 9/11 part of what caused...

Gavin DeGraw.(APRIL MUSIC PICKS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... It's not easy to sell a million records these days. But despite reaching platinum with his 2003 debut album, Chariot, pop-rock singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw has managed to remain a relatively quiet player in the overblown realm of pop-culture...

Paddy Casey.(APRIL MUSIC PICKS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... Nobody was more surprised than Paddy Casey when the endearingly scruffy, Dublin-bred singer-songwriter's 2003 album, Living, became a runaway bestseller in his homeland, at one point even outpacing a then-recent release from local heroes U2....

Katy Perry.(APRIL MUSIC PICKS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The daughter of two pastors, Katy Perry was forbidden to listen to secular music growing up and was limited to the gospel songs she heard at home and sang in church--that is, until she got her hands on an Incubus CD....

Adele.(APRIL MUSIC PICKS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Whenever she opens her mouth, Adele Adkins gets compared to Amy Winehouse--with some key caveats, not the least of which includes her plus-size frame. "I am probably a lot bigger than every celebrity in America," the...

Elephant dancing: bringing it all back home: two new memoirs explore the down and dirty of rock 'n' roll.(MUSIC COLUMN)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Vince White joined a legendary punk band in late 1983, seven years into the band's life; his Out of Control: The Last Days of the Clash (Moving Target) is about the end of a story. Suze Rotolo's A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich...

Tseng Kwong Chi: an artist who made "taking a holiday" his life's work.(SHOWTIME)(Biography)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like many over the course of art history, Tseng Kwong Chi was what they call a genre artist. But the genre he picked was unusually common and current: the tourist snap, Tseng, whose career neatly bridged the '80s...

Letter from the editor April 2008.(view)(Editorial)
April 1, 2008... Last fall I went to see a photography show, "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits" at New York's International Center of Photography, and it has stayed on my mind all these months since. It wasn't that the exhibition...

Madonna: the one and only, on her life unchained.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... MADONNA: Hi, Ingrid. INGRID SISCHY: Hello, Madonna. It's our seven-year anniversary. The last interview we did together for this magazine was in March 2001, of all things. We've spoken since, but our last on-the-record conversation for...

Malawi moment.(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHNIE SHAND KYDD On February 6 Madonna and Gucci hosted "A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and Unicef" at the United Nations. The evening featured performances by such artists as Rihanna and Alicia Keys; speeches by...

Heath Ledger: his sudden death in January made headlines, but the people closest to the actor have remained quiet. Here, they open up for the first time about the man they knew, loved, and lost.
April 1, 2008... STEVE ALEXANDER: (Ledger's agent at CAA) When Heath first came into my office, he was 17 years old. He had all the characteristics of a man, and yet he was a boy. But you could just feel that there was something important going on right away....

Emma Roberts: in a business that loves a legacy, here's the latest Hollywood newcomer to pick up the family mantle.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Seventeen-year-old Emma Roberts is establishing such a wide-ranging reputation in movies that mentions of her family (aunt Julia, father Eric) may soon become a little less prevalent. In August, Emma stars as a rebellious Malibu girl shipped...

All the world's a stage: every time we leave the house, we face the public. This season, designers acknowledge the theater of each of our lives.(Brief article)(Photograph)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This page: Tuxedo, shirt, vest, and top hat by TOM FORD. Right: Zoe Kazan wears a suit from EARLY HALLOWEEN. Shoes by CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN. Tights by WOLFORD. Opposite: Swimsuit by GUCCI. Shoes by CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN....

Bravo! Take a bow!
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Right: Jacket by BURBERRY PRORSUM. Pants by DOLCE & GABBANA. Opposite: Shirt, tie, vest, jacket, and shorts by RALPH LAUREN COLLECTION. Tights by WOLFORD.

Michael stipe: as a kid, the R.E.M. singer imagined a future that looked like something out of Flash Gordon, not endless wars, oceans of fear, and environmental catastrophe. Now, with a new album, he looks backward--and forward.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JANE PRATT: Okay. So we're sitting here in your apartment in Manhattan, and we're going to talk about, among other things, your new record, Accelerate [Warner Bros.]. But before we do that, I want to say that I'm...

Kimberly Peirce: what did this director do when her baby brother signed up for military duty in Iraq? She made a movie.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... Kimberly Peirce's previous feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999), put Hilary Swank on the map and got people focusing on transgender issues in a new way. Peirce's latest movie, Stop-Loss, also has people talking. It's about a semifictional...

Q-tip: it took nearly a decade for one of urban music's most renowned adventurers to put the finishing touches on his latest magnum opus, The Renaissance--an album with a history as fraught and complex as that of hip-hop itself. But is there room for a progressive, anti-gangsta, jazz aficionado in a world still obsessed with money, maybachs, and mayhem? Leonardo DiCaprio gets the rap.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... LEONARDO DICAPRIO: So, my first question is: Where the hell have you been for the past--what has it been, almost 10 years now? Q-TIP: [laughs] I've been on a mission to pipe some music out in this fucked-up industry, bro. LD: Is that...

How haute it is: from the brush of artist Keith Mayerson, four haute couture presentations for summer '08.(Interview SKETCHBOOK)
April 1, 2008... "ORCHIDS" VERSACE ALELIER "PRINCESS BRIDE" CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE "GIORGIO ARMANI AND SOPHIA LOREN" ARMANI PRIVE "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN" DIOR HAUTE COUTURE [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]

Henry Cavill.(Interview PREDICTION)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY McCARTNEY [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Those impossibly handsome British actors, with their classical pedigree, rakish charisma, and mischievous smirks, are certainly a breed apart. And the fact that 24-year-old Henry...

Brooke Shields: a conversation with Tommy Tune and a portfolio of photographs.(Interview)
April 1, 2008... At the ripe old age of 12, Brooke Shields found herself at the center of a media frenzy with Louis Malle's taboo-busting Pretty Baby (1978). Then came that famous jeans ad. By the age of 15, Shields had done more for the freedom of expression...

Nights for sights and sounds.(PAGE 5)(Brief article)
April 1, 2008... 1 Christina Aguilera at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's opening celebration of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). 2 Lisa Hoffman and Dustin Hoffman at the BCAM opening. 3 Sarah Watson and James Franco at the BCAM opening. 4...