Interview articles from August 2005

Interview archives from August 2005

Who's that girl?(LETTERS)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I have to confess that I'd seen both The Notebook and Mean Girls and failed to realize that the star of the former and the Lindsay Lohan sidekick in the latter were one and the same--until I picked up your July issue that...

Who said Timbuktu?(LETTERS)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... Dear Interview, Thank you for doing the Tokyo [June 2005] issue! I bought the magazine because I saw Utada on the cover, and little did I know that I'd find many of my other favorites inside (Yoshitomo Nara, Tadanobu Asano, Puffy Amiyumi,...

Uncle Sam wants who?(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... Dear Interview, Recent articles and reviews of Ron Howard's Cinderella Man starring Australian actor Russell Crowe fail to mention one very important fact: The film (which is the true story of North Bergen, N.J., boxer James J. Braddock)...

Hot color for cool operators: when the summer heats up, shouldn't your lipstick do the same?(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Hot corals, orangey reds, and shocking pinks are the hottest shades for lips and nails this summer. Traditionally the hot weather calls for a bronzed face and a natural lip, leaving strong colors in the shade. But at the shows for summer 2005,...

Michael Angarano: he may have missed his prom to film a death scene, but chances are that tux won't go to waste.(AUGUST ONE TO WATCH)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... One of the few times that Lars yon Trier showed up on the set of Dear Wendy, the controversial new film he wrote for director Thomas Vinterberg, he had come to see Michael Angarano die. "Lars is crazy," says the 17-year-old actor, who plays the...

Taryn Manning: when she got fired from her first movie, she turned to music, but in the summer's hippest hip-hop film, she's turning heads.(MOVIE SCENE-STEALER)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... During a pivotal scene in Taryn Manning's new movie, Hustle & Flow (directed by Craig Brewer) star Terrence Howard, as a Memphis pimp in the throes of a midlife crisis, delivers a line which may well apply directly to Manning herself: "It's not...

Justin Chatwin: he may not have been a whiz in chemistry class, but he sure knows how to get reactions.(MOVIE HEAT)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... In Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber, Justin Chatwin plays Billy, a menacing high-school bully who carries a hunting knife, kidnaps a fourth grader, and blackmails a classmate into stealing the drug stash of his friend who has just committed...

Alexis Dziena: an actress who takes her cues from Sharon Stone, Parker Posey, and Dr. Dre.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... At one time, the only roles Alexis Dziena could get were the sort of bright, pristine parts that are the stock and trade of Lifetime movies. "I always played the good girl," says the 21-year-old New York City native. But it would seem that...

Jordan Crane: the new poet of the grit 'n' graphic genre.(AUGUST EYE-POPPING BOOK)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... When graphic artist and publisher Jordan Crane makes lines of ink, dreams take flight. "1 wasn't planning to write a kids' story," he says of The Clouds Above (Fantagraphic Books), a journey in pictures in which a grade-schooler and his kitty...

Rosanna Arquette: with her new documentary exploring musicians' lives, actress and filmmaker Rosanna Arquette has fashioned a love song to one of her great passions--rock 'n' roll.(view WOMAN)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Rosanna Arquette has always had a passion for rock music--and musicians have loved her right back, so much so that '80s pop superstars Peter Gabriel and Toto even immortalized her in song not once, but twice. ("In Your Eyes" and "Rosanna,"...

Annie: a postmodern pop singer worth betting your bottom dollar on.(THIS MONTH'S ONE TO LISTEN OUT FOR)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... "My favorite animal is the cat," explains Scandinavian pop chanteuse Annie Lilia Berge Strand. "Cats can be faithful, but nobody tells them what to do." The same could be said of Annie. Born in Bergen, Norway, the 25-year-old singer began her...

Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas: exploring the relationship between a father and son who have more in common than a cleft chin.(BEHIND THE SCENES)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and in the case of Kirk and Michael Douglas, that maxim couldn't be more true. Actors, producers, and Academy Award-winners, both men cut their own distinctively successful paths through...

Josh Lucas: with his feet-on-the-ground attitude and quiet intensity, it's hard to imagine Josh Lucas couldn't succeed at anything he set his mind to--be it weathering a storm at sea or fashioning a satisfying acting career. Just don't ask him to sing.(Inter MAN)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Right now, Josh Lucas's career is a study in contrasts: He just wrapped the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (in which he played the ardent yet taken Gentleman Caller), and this month he's a sorely bounced-around...

Ami James: a new documentary series gets under the skin of tattoo art.(PARLOR TALK)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Sitting outside a restaurant in downtown Manhattan, Ami James barely has to wait one minute before nearby patrons begin inquiring about his arms, which are covered from neck to wrist in intricate tattoos. He refuses to oblige. "I won't talk...

Belting out a hit: rising like a smash to the top of the charts, the belt is moving up in the world.(STYLE BAROMETER)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Ever since low rise became high fashion, belts have been slung low, mirroring the waistband of their trouser counterparts. Now, for fall 2005, the belt heads north--cinching the waist or going even farther upwards to circumnavigate an Empire...

Tim Burton: as a schoolboy Tim Burton made a short film on master magician Harry Houdini. Now he's performing his own magic acts via the movies, conjuring tales that blur the line between dark and light, the fantastic and the commonplace.(MOVIE VISIONARY)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the latest film from one of those rare directors whose works are so completely their own that they're recognizable in a single glance or line of dialogue. If the story is rooted in the desires and fears...

That's why it's candy for Dylan Lauren, making dreams come true is part of her DNA.(HOW TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS)(Dylan's Candy Bar)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... INTERVIEW: So, Dylan, when did you first see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [1971]? DYLAN LAUREN: I believe it was on my fifth birthday. It was the most memorable birthday party I ever had. I must have been in kindergarten, and I...

The Island.(PREVIEW)(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... PREVIEW: THE ISLAND (DreamWorks) Directed by Michael Bay Director Michael Bay has blown up just about everything at this point: prisons (The Rock, 1996), million-dollar mansions (Bad Boys II, 2003)--even Pearl Harbor. But he's yet to blow...

The Dukes of Hazzard.(PREVIEW)(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... PREVIEW: THE DUKES OF HAZZARD: (Warner Bros) Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar America's best-loved housewife Jessica Simpson amply fills out her Daisy Dukes in this big-screen remake of the TV series, assisted by the gonzo talents of Seann...

The Chumscrubber.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... THE CHUMSCRUBBER (Newmarket) Directed by Aria Posin Arie Posin's surreal debut feature is a dark satire following the lives of four angst-ridden teens and their autopilot parents in the fictional suburban development of Hillside. After the...

The Devil's Rejects.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... THE DEVIL'S REJECTS (Lions Gate) Directed by Rob Zombie The Devil's Rejects revisits House of 1,000 Corpses' (2003) homicidal Firefly family, now running from the law on a body-counting death trip and backed by a soundtrack of wall-to-wall...

The Baxter.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... THE BAXTER (IFC) Directed by Michael Showalter Writer-director Showalter seems to identify with the guy in the romantic comedy who doesn't get the girl, dubbing this poor schlub the "Baxter." While the movie begins with the quintessential...

Tony Takitani.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... TONY TAKITANI (Strand) Directed by Jun Ichikawa Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani is a melancholy tale of love, loss, and haute couture: Buttoned-down technical illustrator Tony (Issey Ogata) becomes obsessed with...

Junebug.(Movie Review)
August 1, 2005... JUNEBUG (Sony Classics) Directed by Phil Morrison A British-born Chicago art dealer (Embeth Davidtz) travels with her new husband (Alessandro Nivola) to his rural North Carolina hometown with dual purposes of meeting his family and courting...

Shots in the dark: in Wong Kar Wai's 2046, it's payback time for the femme fatale.(MOVIE COLUMN)(Critical Essay)
August 1, 2005... "I think all men reflect back when they reach a certain age," says the actress Ziyi Zhang. "He will romanticize his past and miss his past... I think it is a kind of emotional shelter." Zhang, speaking in an interview included on the...

All the dish: why Greece is the word.(Food Column)(Onera; Snack Taverna; Periyali)(Restaurant Review)
August 1, 2005... Without the finesse of even the most basic French cooking or the crowd-pleasing breadth of Italian, the food of Greece has had to struggle with something of an image problem--one that's limited it in most people's minds to such offerings as...

Letter from the editor.(view)(Editorial)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2005... It's no secret that the music industry is upside down these days. Just take a look at the interview in this issue between Rosanna Arquette and Shelby Lynne (beginning on page 64). Rare is the house in which there are happy artists who feel...

Lil' Kim: it's a big moment for hip-hop's most diminutive powerhouse. Marc Jacobs, her favorite designer, unzips the lady they call "the queen bee".(Interview)
August 1, 2005... MARC JACOBS: Hello, my dear! How are you? LIL' KIM: Hi, I'm fine. I miss you! MJ: I miss you too! [Kim giggles] I'm back in Paris after traveling a bit. LK: How are my doggies? MJ: They're good--they're away in the country,...

Pete Doherty: sex (check), trouble (check), rock 'n' roll (hell, yeah!).(Interview)
August 1, 2005... People like Pete Doherty are the reason why generation gaps exist. Having emerged three years ago as the front man for the London-based rock band the Libertines, which he led with his friend Carl Barat, Doherty quickly became the most visible...

John Legend: he may sing about ordinary people, but John Legend's journey from piano-playing prodigy to platinum soul crooner has been filled with one big surprised after another. John Stone gets the scoop on the man who is dazzling the music world with his magic fingers.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Music has been in John Legend's bloodstream from the beginning. Raised John Stephens by a musical family in Springfield, Ohio, John was at the piano from an early age, accentuating his classical training with the gospel tunes his grandmother...

A portfolio with photographs B[love]K.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Interview's editor in chief and one of pop's friskiest couples have a phone date to talk about the images that follow, and on cue at the appointed time the telephone rings. INGRID SISCHY: Hello, Britney. BRITNEY SPEARS: Hi! IS:...

Teairra Mari: with a host of big boosters like Jay-Z behind her, hip-hop's independent-spirited new lady-in-waiting is ready to fly.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Detroit is known for a lot of things: the auto industry, unsightly architecture, and, of course, music, having spawned everything from Motown to house music, Kid Rock, Madonna, and Eminem. And with her big voice, seemingly boundless ambition,...

Joni Mitchell: "we are stardust, we are golden," Joni Mitchell sang an age ago in "Woodstock," paving the way for a generation of artists to open their imaginations to the gleaming potential of pop and to making music that matters. Here, Mitchell and Camille Paglia discuss how striving for those ideals, in these new, uncertain times, has never seemed more crucial.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... In her new best-selling book, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems (Pantheon), Interview's contributing editor Camille Paglia offers a meditation on Joni Mitchell's classic song "Woodstock." Here she...

Interview introduces the best of the new: the music that music's hottest new acts can't stop listening to.
August 1, 2005... Hair: DIEGO AMERICO/De Facto. Makeup: HECTOR SIMANCAS/Art Department. Special thanks: DAYLIGHT STUDIOS. This page: Clothes by ORIGINAL PENGUIN. Shoes by CESARE PACIOTTI. Headphones by SONY. Opposite: Dress by MOSCHINO. Bra by DEBORAH MARQUIT....

Last days: it's been more than a decade since Kurt Cobain ended his own life with a shotgun blast. Now, with a new film inspired by the risky rocker's waning days, director Gus Van Sant delves headlong into a cultural obsession that refuses to die.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... More than a decade after his death, Kurt Cobain continues to sit front and center in the arena of popular culture, being the subject of books, gossip, and now inspiration for Last Days, the new film from Gus Van Sant. Here, the director speaks...

Missy Higgins: a pure new voice rises out of the outback.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Missy Higgins's first brush with fame in her native Australia occurred in high school when she won a demo-tape contest run by the country's national radio station, Triple J. Her song "All for Believing" was quickly added to the channel's...

Willie Nelson: Outlaw. Legend. Countryman. Rastafarian? It's been a long and tempestuous road for music's braided troubadour, and with a big-time movie, an old-time tour, and a good-time reggae record all on the go, he's still the wildest ace in the deck.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... STEPHEN MOOALLEM: So, this reggae record you've done, Countryman [Lost Highway], has been nearly a decade in the making. WILLIE NELSON: Yeah. It started around 10 years ago when Don Was and I went to Jamaica to see Chris Blackwell, who was...

Kelly Osbourne: with a new album that's defying those who think she's just riding on the coattails of her bat-biting daddy, the heiress to the throne of darkness struggles to find the light. Here, Kelly Osbourne talks to Rufus Wainwright, who knows a thing or two about the weight of the musical torch.(Interview)
August 1, 2005... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: So, you're in sunny Santa Barbara? KELLY OSBOURNE: It's not so sunny, trust me. RW: Are you excited about your new album, Sleeping in the Nothing [Sanctuary]? KO: I am. It's bittersweet because I was kind of...

Blinging in the rain.(PAGE 5)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
August 1, 2005... Nigo and Pharrel Williams at the Louis Vuitton store in NYC's Soho for a party in their honor, hosted by Louis Vuitton and Interview. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Spike Lee outside the Nigo and Pharrell Williams party. [ILLUSTRATION...