Interview articles from August 2006

Interview archives from August 2006

No plan B.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I would like to thank Julian Schnabel for his advice to artists [Tracey Emin, June 2006]. There really is no time to have two lives if what you want is to be an artist. Finding your own voice as an artist takes a lifetime,...

That's why there's chocolate and vanilla.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... Dear Interview, As a rule, I do not write letters of complaint--however, when I received your June issue, I felt compelled to do so. I have been subscribing to your magazine since its beginning and have found no publication comparable in...

Shake, rattle, and roll.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... Dear Interview, Your interview with Chrissie Hynde [May 2006] rocked. I was glad that Steve Buscemi asked Hynde about her work with the animal rights group PETA. For better or worse, we live in a society that listens to what celebrities...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
August 1, 2006... When Tracey Emin referred to her most recent New York show in her conversation with Julian Schnabel (June 2006), it should have been indicated that the exhibition took place at the Lehmann Maupin gallery. Lehmann Maupin has represented Emin in...

The big easy: one stop shopping ... for the face?(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(cosmetics)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Maybe it's a response to our hectic lives, maybe women are simply sick of trying to fit their makeup needs into ever-shrinking evening bags, or maybe less really is more. One thing is certain, though: When it comes to makeup, these days it's...

John C. Reilly: talking unfixable flat tires, harrowingly hard turns, and unpredictable bumps in the road with the man who has given big-screen everymen a big-time boost. Will Ferrell gets the lowdown.(AUGUST DOUBLE WHAMMY)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... WILL FERRELL: It's just you and me on the phone right now. JOHN C. REILLY: Right. You, me, and the NSA. WF: This is going to be an in-depth interview. JCR: Parentheses, laughter. WF: Really. I'm going to take you through a...

Tales from the road as told by Sonic Youth.(REAL-LIFE STORY)(Brief article)(Cartoon)
August 1, 2006... It was 1987. Sonic Youth was in London, opening for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and rehearsing in a studio. We heard that Iggy Pop was also rehearsing down the hall in the same space, so we were totally excited. At one point, we had to rehearse...

The art of reality TV: would Van Gogh and Picasso make the cut? Polaroid self-portraits created especially for Interview.(ADVENTURES IN ATHROPOLOGY)
August 1, 2006... It may have taken a minute for the New York art world to catch up with the reality-TV phenomenon, 2but at least the result--Artstar, which is reaching its culmination after an early June launch on the Gallery HD channel--doesn't depend on the...

An evening with [heart].(PHOTO ALBUM)(charity events)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... With the number of charity events thrown in New York City, it's all too easy to become jaded about the proceedings, no matter how worthwhile the cause. But once in a while a party comes along that manages to feel both important and special....

A tall tale: foreign correspondent J.M. Ledgard takes a rarely written-about animal and makes it the center of his resonant debut novel.(AUGUST PAGE-TURNER)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... J.M. Ledgard got the idea for Giraffe, his precise, lyrical debut novel, while working as Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. "1 came across a snippet in a Czech newspaper in which a guy who'd defected to the West said...

Frank Lloyd Wright: the colorful, eventful life of influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has long been the subject of biographers. But a highly creative and sometimes scandalous component of that life called "the fellowship" has never been fully explored. A new book draws back the curtain.(ARCHITECTURE--BEHIND THE SCENES)
August 1, 2006... Most people know that Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax building, and the Guggenheim Museum, and many people have heard of his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, and its counterpart in Arizona. But the bizarre world...

Elephant dancing: the who, the what, the wow, and the why.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)
August 1, 2006... 1 JON LANGFORD "Lost in America," from Gold Brick (ROIR) This summer Bruce Springsteen will be getting thousands on their feet with "John Henry," cheering the tale of a man who in the years after the Civil War died proving he could hammer...

Emily Rios: with her religious background, she had to undergo quite a conversion to act in her new movie.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Quinceanera, which won the Grand Jury prize and the Audience award this year at Sundance, is the homegrown picture of Los Angeles that Hollywood could never quite make. The freshness of this coming-of-age story, set amid Latinos and gay yuppies...

Michael Pena: what happens when the most painful collective tragedy of our era is brought to the screen by a controversy-courting director? ... A conversation with Michael Pena, who appears in this month's World Trade Center, directed by Oliver Stone.(MOVIE LATEST)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... In a handful of pivotal scenes in last year's Oscar-winning Crash, Michael Pena broke past his many A-list co-stars, creating one of the film's most indelible impressions. It's a feat he seems poised to repeat this month in Oliver Stone's World...

Naomie Harris: to this child of a single mom in North London, battling zombies and preaching voodoo to Johnny Depp comes naturally.(MOVIE ONE TO WATCH)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... What's a nice, beautiful girl like Naomie Harris doing in the back of an unmarked police car? In this case, research. While preparing for her role as an undercover cop in this summer's highly anticipated Miami Vice, Harris found herself taking...

Justin Long: here's a real-life college dropout who got to start his own university onscreen.(MOVIE TIP)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Justin Long's work draws in diverse audiences. Frat boys know him for the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), Midwesterners for the TV show Ed, and urban types for the low-budget horror flick Jeepers Creepers (2001). That last one,...

Robin Williams: the famously hyperkinetic comic talks to an old friend about modern life, including car alarms and why one should never shy away from a dead fish.(MOVIE PROFILE)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... In Patrick Stettner's The Night Listener, the celebrated comedian plays a late-night radio host who develops intense relationships with a woman (Toni Collette) and her adoptive son (Rory Culkin), a 14-year-old who claims to have had a...

Miami Vice.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... PREVIEW: MIAMI VICE (Universal) Directed by Michael Mann If you're hoping for the camped-out treatment of Charlie's Angels (2000), stick with those Bacardi-and-cola ads. Mann takes himself too seriously to ever parody his own work and is...

Snakes on a Plane.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... Preview: SNAKES ON A PLANE (New Line) Directed by David R. Ellis The most buzzed-about movie of the summer, though not necessarily in a good way. Samuel L. Jackson plays a federal agent transporting a witness, when the most...

Idlewild.(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... Review: IDLEWILD (HBO/Universal) Directed by Bryan Barber OutKast's Andre "3000" Benjamin and Atwan "Big Boi" Patton star in this musical set in prohibition-era Georgia about two childhood friends--Percival (Benjamin), the soft-spoken son...

Half Nelson.(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... Review: HALF NELSON (ThinkFilm) Directed by Ryan Fleck An expansion of director Ryan Fleck's own award-winning Sundance short, Gowanus, Brooklyn (2003), Half Nelson chronicles the relationship that develops between a charismatic...

Brothers of the Head.(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... Review: BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (IFC) Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe Something of a ready-made cult item, Brothers of the Head is a disorienting faux documentary about Tom and Barry Howe, a pair of conjoined twins who in the mid-'70s...

Time to Leave.(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... Review: TIME TO LEAVE (Strand) Directed by Francois Ozon Francois Ozon has, in one short decade, moved from being French cinema's enfant terrible, with a host of forthrightly prurient shockeroos (1998's Sitcom, 1999's Criminal Lovers), to...

The wait is over: when ideas become reality.(DREAMS COME TRUE)(American women's social lives)
August 1, 2006... The Jazz Age was a remarkable era for American women. Increasingly they bobbed their hair, smoked and applied makeup in public, danced the Charleston, not to mention voted. These social breakthroughs were mirrored in jewelry design, which...

Groove is in the arch: sometimes all you need is a little bit of space.(STAND-UP STYLE)(shoe style)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... A great shoe can stir a lot of attention. Designers dream, consumers covet, and fellow citizens take notice when that perfect pair of shoes passes them on the street. For fall, there's a whole new slant, as some of fashion's most forward...

Adam Lippes: he watched from the sidelines as others took their bows--but now this designer rules his own roost.(FASHION NEWS)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Adam Lippes is the creative and entrepreneurial force behind Adam + Eve, one of the hottest new labels in American fashion. Launched in 2004 with a sleek upscale underwear and T-shirt line for men and women, the company is now producing a full...

Shots in the dark: in a season of big guns, big blasts, and big productions, the biggest bang comes from those whose oomph is often underestimated.(MOVIE COLUMN)
August 1, 2006... Despite the accepted wisdom, aging can free women to be more emotionally and sexually vital than they were in their youth. Some of today's greatest actresses have recognized this. It doesn't mean anguish necessarily evaporates. Her eyes...

Letter from the editor August 2006.(view)(Editorial)
August 1, 2006... "We're a bunch of weirdos," Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters tells Elton John in their interview (page 108)--just one of many terrific conversations that we bring to you with great pleasure in this month's music spectacular. It's been a ball...

On their way up.(dialogue with musicians)(Interview)(Cover story)
August 1, 2006... THERE WAS A TIME NOT SO LONG AGO WHEN POP MUSIC APPEARED TO BE THE LAST REFUGE OF THE SAFE AND PREDICTABLE. NOT SO ANYMORE. TODAY IT'S A VIBRANT MELTING POT OF RACES. GENDERS, POLITICS, NATIONALITIES, GENRES, IDEAS, EXPERIMENTS, AMBITIONS,...

The flaming lips: how anxious times, endless wars, and his own waning optimism drove the front man for rock's trippiest band of merry pranksters to question the importance of music--and, ion their latest album, to rediscover its possibilities.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... DAVE EGGERS: How're you doin'? WAYNE COYNE: Good. Where are you at? DE: I'm in my garage, where I work. I have a little garage. It's a sad place. WC: In San Francisco? DE: Yeah. WC: I never think of San Francisco as a...

Nelly Furtado: with a new album that's full of eclectic, electric surprises, the woman who many had earmarked for one-hit wonderdom finds herself revisiting a place where few ever expected her to return: the pop charts.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... After two successful albums (Whoa, Nelly!, 2000; and Folklore, 2003), a pair of Top 10 singles ("I'm Like a Bird," and "Turn Off the Light"), and a Grammy award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (for "I'm Like a Bird"), it must have been...

Keith Urban: he traveled halfway around the world from his homeland of Australia to follow in the footsteps of country music's hard luck--singing legends. Now he's on his way to becoming one of them himself.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... JOHN MELLENCAMP: Hey, Keith. How you doing? It's John Mellencamp. KEITH URBAN: John! JM: Where are you? KU: In Sydney. I'm looking at Harbour Bridge right now. It's beautiful. JM: Were you brought up in Sydney? KU: No....

Gnarls Barkley: one of them likes to wear a mouse suit. The other pioneered hip-hop's dirtiest genre. Together, they are the rhyming, riddling men behind music's most enigmatic new act--and the psychedelic, surprise hit of the summer.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... "To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love," writes Gnarls Barkley in their official biography in what purports to be a letter to the late rock critic Lester Bangs. Understanding Gnarls Barkley,...

Rock this way: at the fall 2006 catwalk shows, designers showed looks that so viscerally evoked the spirit of rock icons that they ignited the soundtracks in our heads.(Photograph)
August 1, 2006... We saw: JUST CAVALLI We heard: PRINCE Opposite: Clothes by JUST CAVALLI. Earring by PATRICIA FIELD. Fragrance: ROBERTO CAVALLI SERPENTINE. Models: OMAHYRA MOTA GARCIA/New York Models as Prince, LANA MAJSTOROVIC/Next Models as Adam Ant,...

James Blunt: when your signature hit was a song that captivated the whole world, how do you come up with an encore?(Interview)
August 1, 2006... More than a year ago, British singer-songwriter James Blunt's now ubiquitous single "You're Beautiful" was climbing the charts, with his debut album, Back to Bedlam, carried along in the wake. Now he's a bona fide international superstar, his...

Joan Jett: artist in the music industry are being increasingly forced to ponder what it means to be independent. Here's the white-lightning definition.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Joan Jett's new album, Sinner (Blackheart), has the muscle of industrial punk plus the elemental sweetness of '60s girl groups. It's also something completely itself, like a cat coming into the room with its tail up, not because it wants to be...

Corinne Bailey Rae: this singer-song writer thought her voice wasn't big enough to be heard--but she found a way to get the world to listen.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... She grew up in Leeds, in the Yorkshire district of northern England, but the sensibility of 27-year-old singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae seems to have roots all over the map. Her self-titled debut CD was released earlier this year in...

The Raconteurs: why would four musicians interrupt hugely successful and mostly separate careers to join up, get a record, and hit the road?(dialogue with musicians)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... In the band that made him famous, the White Stripes, Jack White plays startling electric guitar and sings accompanied only by simple drums. Now, to form the Raconteurs, he has joined Brendan Benson, a cult singer-songwriting hero, whose clever...

Comings and goings.(PAGE 5)(Brief article)(Photograph)
August 1, 2006... 1 One of the guests at the House of Campari party. 2 Campari's Lynn Lackey and the New Museum of Contemporary Art's Christy MacLear at the closing reception of House of Campari. 3 James Franco at the New York premiere of Robert Altman's A...