Interview articles from August 2004

Interview archives from August 2004

Mean girl? No. Mean talent? You bet!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I loved the interview you did with Lindsay Lohan (June 2004). Just you watch--that girl is going to be the biggest star in all of Hollywood. She has the looks, the talent, the personality, and the flair for doing showbiz...

He sings, he dances, he growls. What next?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Thanks a million for your May [2004] cover story on Hugh Jackman! David Furnish's interview revealed the smart, charming, funny, and humble man beneath the hunk exterior. Of course, the hunk part isn't too bad, either!...

Votes split on Franken.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I fully respect Al Franken's right to criticize President Bush ("Al Franken Wants You," June 2004), though Franken might garner some credibility if his attacks had a little more substance. Saying that Bush is "inarticulate"...

Freeze!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Thank you for the lovely pics of the equally lovely Rodrigo Santoro in your June issue. Santoro was the only bright spot in last winter's otherwise tedious Love Actually. I was so desperate to get out of the theater that as...

Sharon Stone: whether purring or growling, in life or onscreen, Sharon Stone, who appears this month in Catwoman, is one of a kind. Legendary actress Jeanne Moreau, who knows a thing or two about raising eyebrows herself, gets the scoop.(Women)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... In a culture punch-drunk on celebrity worship, where even reality TV stars have fan clubs, beauty alone does not a legend make. Or to paraphrase Sharon Stone, one can only sleep one's way to the middle. Since famously uncrossing her legs in...

Michael Phelps: they call him the Baltimore bullet, and he's aiming for Athens--not to mention the record books.(Olympics 2004)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... There are eerie similarities between Michael Phelps, the 19-year-old American Olympic swimming hopeful, and Mark Spitz, the winningest swimmer in any single Olympic games. They are the last two swimmers to capture the imagination of the...

The beach, bottled: this summer, surf's up ... at the drugstore.(Look Of The Month)(hair care products for the summer)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... When the Beach Boys sang "Wouldn't It Be Nice" back in 1966, they forgot to add one item to their wish list. Wouldn't it be nice to forgo the sunburn and the sand in one's sandwiches but keep that windblown, sun-kissed beach hair? This season,...

Laura Dern: the actress known for her kook, cool, and quirk looks to the future with a friend and fellow shape-shifter.(Movie Profile)(Laura Dern interview with Naomi Watts)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... All too often, women in Hollywood have to choose a persona and run with it--the Madonna, the whore, the Lucy, the Ethel--but in her two decades in film, Laura Dern has escaped public branding and remained a force as unpredictable as the...

Anthony Mackie: introducing the fiery new star of Spike Lee's latest lightning-rod drama.(Movie Buzz)(Anthony Mackie in 'She Hate Me")(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "If I become famous," says Anthony Mackie, "I'll remount Fences on Broadway and buy out the Wednesday matinees so kids can come see the play. And I'll buy them ice cream." As the star of Spike Lee's latest joint, She Hate Me, and a key player...

Sophia Myles: bless her, father, why does she grin? The Vicar's daughter-turned-saucy screen vixen is ready for her cult-ready close-up.(Movie Heat)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... Who could ever fill the iconic pink boots of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, the socialite/secret agent of the '60s puppet TV series Thunderbirds? In this month's live-action version of the British cult favorite, the daunting task falls to Sophia...

Thomas Jane: up until now he's been a man in the wings. With his role as a South African folk hero in this month's Stander, will all that change?(Movie Close-Up)(Thomas Jane interviewed by Billy Crystal)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... BILLY CRYSTAL: Tom, I'm James Lipton. Let me ask you something: You go to heaven, God's there, and he says what to you? THOMAS JANE: [laughs] He says, "You got the wrong door." BC: And you say, "Boy, it's hot in here." [laughs] So...

Chris Egan.(A&F Rising Stars)(Australian actor gets job on miniseries in the States)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "I was called things like 'hottie' and 'babe of the year' after I was cast in the nighttime soap Home and Away. The show is a huge hit in the U.K., and here I was, this fifteen-year-old surfer kid from Sydney, and all of a sudden I'm on the...

Poppy Montgomery.(A&F Rising Stars)(actor from Without a Trace)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "My mother named each of her eight daughters after flowers she found in The Flower Fairy Book. Even at an early age, I knew that I all I wanted to do was act, so at eighteen I moved from my home in Australia to Los Angeles. When I got there, I...

Laura Love.(A&F Rising Stars)(Laura Love on her passion for ballet)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "My bedroom is filled with posters of Swan Lake and Beauty and the Beast. My shelves are stacked with ballet books, and my five pairs of point shoes hang on the wall. I love to dance, and I sometimes dream about what it would be like to be the...

Tyler Hoechlin. .(A&F Rising Stars)(Tyler Hoechlin on Tom Hanks, fellow actor in Road to Perdition)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "I'm an outgoing, personable kind of guy, so I'm not sure why they cast me as the lonely son of Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition. I heard they liked how I could use my eyes. Since I made that film a few years ago, I've changed from a 4'9"...

Rick & Drew Baker.(A&F Rising Stars)(snowboarders Drew Baker and twin Rick)( two time winners of International Snowboarding Federation titles)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "I want to thank my dad for bringing up me and my twin brother, Rick, on the extreme sports that some parents think are dangerous. Rick and I represented Australia two years in a row in winning International Snowboarding Federation titles....

Phillip Simmonds & Scott Oudsema.(A&F Rising Stars)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "We're the 'too cool for tennis' guys. The reason Scott and I get along so well together is because we're both so laid back. Instead of talking about tennis 24/7, we sometimes talk about other things--like the good-looking girls we see in the...

Dimitri Hamlin.(A&F Rising Stars)(Dimitri Hamlin on techno music)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "I was initiated into the world of techno music when I was sixteen. In the industrial wastelands outside my home in Rome, nomadic groups of techno music lovers set up their drum boxes and joined together in the tribal experiment of making...

Nikki Reed.(A&F Rising Stars)(teenage actor and co-writer of film Thirteen)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... "At thirteen, girls can be jealous, back-stabbing and insecure, and since I changed schools so often when I was young, I had a hard time finding girls I could really trust. Thirteen is a funny age where some girls develop faster than others,...

Trent Garrett.(A&F Rising Stars)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... "My scariest moment was being bitten by a shark two years ago in Haiti. I was out in the ocean getting ready to catch a wave when I felt something grab my arm. I looked down and saw this shark holding onto my left arm. I've always heard you...

Olivia Wilde.(A&F Rising Stars)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... "I was a handful growing up. Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. I fell in love with...

Matt Taylor.(A&F Rising Stars)(actor's nostalgia about old cars)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... "I like to bring new life to old cars. When I go to a farm and see an old car sitting in the weeds, with grass coming through its hood, I see a flashback of that car when it had showroom shine on it, and I almost feel like I can still hear the...

Lee Pace.(A&F Rising Stars)(Lee Pace's first movie role as a transsexual in Soldier's Girl)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... "Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in Soldier's Girl. Here I was, this 63" 190-pound lanky kid from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, not...

Blanchard Ryan: some actresses swim with Hollywood sharks to catch their big break. She got stuck with real ones in this summer's scariest indie.(Movie Splash)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Nipped by a barracuda on the first day of shooting Open Water, Blanchard Ryan saw the bite as a blessing in disguise. "I figured it made me disaster-proof for the rest of the filming," says the star of the new low-budget, special-effects-free...

Dallas Roberts: from computer geek to a movie hot streak.(Movie Spotlight)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... While most up-and-coming actors assume any number of hyphenates to pay their way to fame--model, waiter, and personal trainer, to name a (legal) few--Dallas Roberts took a path less predictable. "I was an all-purpose Macintosh herd," explains...

Bryce Dallas Howard: once forbidden to act professionally, a chip off the old Hollywood block finally takes to the screen. Here she is.(Movie Breakthrough)(Interview)
August 1, 2004... For the record: Bryce Dallas Howard--freshly minted film actress and red-haired daughter of director Ron--has enjoyed some success of late that has little, if nothing, to do with her dad's Rolodex. After studying acting at NYU and the Stella...

Shots in the dark: why the lure of the old-timers is still so strong.(Movie Column)
August 1, 2004... I was fascinated to learn that Gwyneth Paltrow had been cast as Marlene Dietrich in a film based on Maria Riva's memoir about her mother. Though the Dietrich mystique is inimitable, Paltrow is capable of capturing Dietrich's hauteur and erotic...

Preview: The Village.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... PREVIEW: THE VILLAGE (Touchstone) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan In a bucolic hamlet, a group of hobbity humans--Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Bryce Dallas Howard, and others--grow fearful as their mysterious,...

Preview: Collateral.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... PREVIEW: COLLATERAL (DreamWorks) Directed by Michael Mann The cineast's thriller director of choice tackles one of our time's great philosophical questions: What if Tom Cruise used his megawatt, on-screen charisma for evil instead of good?...

Preview: The Bourne Supremacy.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... PREVIEW: THE BOURNE SUPREMACY (Universal) Directed by Paul Greengrass Matt Damon is Bourne again--Jason Bourne, international superkiller, that is--and this time he's trailing a copycat assassin through enough world capitals to give Carmen...

Preview: Catwoman.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... PREVIEW: CATWOMAN (Warner Bros.) Directed by Pitof Giving Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, and Michelle Pfeiffer a run for their money, Halle Berry plays the moonlighting hellcat with a thing for leather and a special definition of "citizen's...

Garden State.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... REVIEW: GARDEN STATE (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Zach Braff The Sundance darling gets its day in theaters, and it doesn't disappoint. Debut writer-director Braff, of TV's Scrubs, plays an emotionally numb, quasi-famous actor whose...

Code 46.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... REVIEW: CODE 46 (United Artists) Directed by Michael Winterbottom In a not-too-distant future rife with human cloning, a private investigator (Tim Robbins) sleeps with a suspected criminal (Samantha Morton), only to discover she is a clone...

A Home at the End of the World.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... REVIEW: A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Warner Independent) Directed by Michael Mayer Adapted by man of The Hours Michael Cunningham from his novel of the same name, Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, and newcomer Dallas Roberts form an...

Touch of Pink.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... REVIEW: TOUCH OF PINK (Sony Classics) Directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid As if to remind audiences that Britain still wrestles with its colonial demons (what a novel idea!), this by-the-book comedy follows a contemporary London man trying to...

Intimate Strangers.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2004... REVIEW: INTIMATE STRANGERS (Paramount Classics) Directed by Patrice Leconte A distraught Parisian woman (Sandrine Bonnaire) mistakes a tax adviser for a psychiatrist and bares her soul instead of her salary. The hapless accountant lets the...

From the editor's desk August 2004: a conversation between Ingrid Sischy and Camille Paglia.(View)
August 1, 2004... INGRID SISCHY: It's our annual music issue, so I thought it would be good to talk about a subject you've been interested in for a long time: rock-star style. Take it away. CAMILLE PAGLIA: Well, from the moment rock 'n' roll was born in the...

Brody Dalle: the take-no-prisoners powerhouse talks inspiration and destinations with a soul mate.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... It seems like it's been forever since music has had a new queen of rock, a Joan Jett, a Chrissie Hynde, or a Courtney Love whose primal scream echoes through the culture. But Brody Dalle, front woman of the L.A. rock outfit the Distillers, is...

Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the heart and soul of hip-hop--and one of the most vital, visionary groups in music.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, and Adam "MCA" Yauch--wandered into the offices of the fledgling hip-hop label Def Jam Records to meet with its...

Sonic youth: rock's definitive art band gives the scoop on their latest projects and passions to one of art's most rocking players.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... With the recent release of their 19th studio album, Sonic Nurse, avant-garde alt-rock trailblazers Sonic Youth have put aside their ambient, fractious experiments of late, and rediscovered the more classic structures and soundscapes of their...

OutKast: they've gone from hip-hop fringe dwellers to mavens of the mainstream. But how far can OutKast's journey to the center of pop music go?(Sketchbook By Risko)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... Their Grammy-winning, multiplatinum, double-concept album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista), did for hip-hop what the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) did for rock 'n' roll, opening up the limping genre of bling to a...

Joss Stone: she has a diva-sized voice tucked in a Britney body--better stand back.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... ELTON JOHN: I remember you once said to me that you couldn't wait to leave school. JOSS STONE: Oh, God, yeah. I hated school. EJ: I did too. I couldn't wait to get out. I already knew what I wanted to do, and obviously you did too. ...

Polyphonic spreeeeeee: this orchestral cult band is a happening for the new century.(Polyphonic Spree)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... They may look like Branch Davidian cult members, 20-some-odd blissed-out Texans swathed in robes, ready to ascend toward the heavens without so much as a furrowed brow. But the joyful noise of the Polyphonic Spree has less to do with going to a...

Kanye West: in just a few short years, he has emerged as one of music's premiere behind-the-scenes hitmakers. But it took a near-fatal car crash--and one of the year's most inventive songs--for him to take center stage.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... Some careers begin with a big bang, but in the case of Kanye West, it was a car crash. Born in Atlanta and bred in Chicago, West first burst onto the scene as a producer, cooking up hits for the likes of Jay-Z and Beyonce ("03 Bonnie & Clyde"),...

Diana Krall: carrying the torch for crooners of yore, jazz's beguiling leading lady looks inside and ahead.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... With her smooth, smoky renditions of jazz standards by the likes of Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin, Diana Krall has for years been the unheralded voice of a generation--albeit one that came of age before she was even born. But with her latest...

Jada Pinkett Smith: from bold ingenue to Hollywood wife to Britney's funky opening act, what drove this unstoppable dreamer to take up music? Here she breaks it down for a fellow risk taker.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... With 18 movies, three kids, and one husband to her already bold-faced name, what drove Jada Pinkett Smith to song? As the vocalist and lyricist for her funk-rock band Wicked Wisdom, which recently released its debut album, My Story, and opened...

Scissor Sister! The cut-and-paste band that's tearing up the charts, one continent at a time.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... The first tip that something might be askew about the Scissor Sisters is that they are not really sisters but rather a co-ed fivesome with a yin for all things synthetic; a yang for David Bowie, George Michael, and Elton John; and a strident...

Full gallop.(song titles)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2004... FOR DECADES, HORSES HAVE INSPIRED SOME OF ROCK MUSIC'S MOST UNRESTRAINED ANTHEMS. NOW THE FASHION WORLD IS HEARING THE CALL OF THE WILD A Horse With No Name BY AMERICA Horses BY TORI AMOS Rocking Horse BY BAD ENGLISH Dig a...

Nellie McKay: her new album may be called Get Away From Me, but Nellie McKay's unique blend of Doris Day Zing and Eminem irreverence is having the opposite effect.(Interview)
August 1, 2004... As pop music struggles to find its way between Norah Jones's smoky croons and Britney's feral gyrations, 19-year-old Nellie McKay has blazed her own trail, melding jazz, rock, rap, and cabaret into her critically acclaimed, genre-defying debut...

Cannes diary: the cult novelist snaps a different side of the film festival.(Scrapbook)
August 1, 2004... The film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, based on my second book, was showcased at the Directors Fortnight in Cannes. I went with my family: Astor, Speedie, and son Thor. This will not be a reality series. Camera: CANON DIGITAL...

Sunset ... Get set ... Go!(Page 5)(Illustration)
August 1, 2004... Lucie Richards, Deborah Harry, and Kate Moss at NYC's Maritime Hotel for the party for Mick Rock's photo book Picture This: Debbie Harry and Blondie. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alexandra Richards and Theodora Richards with Mick Rock at the...