Interview articles from December 2002

Interview archives from December 2002

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... OH, THOSE GYLLENHAALS Dear Interview, Imagine my disappointment when reading the letters page in your current issue (October 2002-an amazing issue, by the way: Beck and Jack White, kudos; Jack Black made me pee my pants) and realizing...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2002... In the November 2002 issue, the cover and inside image of the Pussycat Dolls, as well as the Pete Yorn portraits, should have included the following credit: Hair: ADIR ABERGEL for Smashboxagency.com, using Kerastase, L'Oreal Paris.

Keith Richards: forty years on, here's a career that doesn't need botox. (Music--The Coolest).(Interview)
December 1, 2002... From his days as a teenager developing a religious devotion to American R&B and blues to his time as a drug-addled star, Keith Richards has not only continued to make great music, he's also developed a mythic persona that all rock guitarists...

Dot Allison: dark dot. (Music Tip).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Even though she's released two albums in the past decade--1993's Morning Dove White (with the band One Dove) and 1999's solo debut Afterglow--Dot Allison is still something of a secret treasure in the U.S. We Are Science (Mantra...

K.D. Lang: partners in Croon, Tony Bennett and K.D. Lang find new magic in good old Satchmo. Here, interview talks to the first lady of swoon. (Music Event).(Interview)
December 1, 2002... When k.d. lang joined Tony Bennett to sing "Moonglow" for his MW Unplugged performance in 1994, it sparked one of the most intriguing and fruitful friendships in music. After touring together in 2001, the two singers have now produced a...

Mount Sims: putting the sex in tech. (Music Buzz).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... To understand the motivations of the electro-clash scene--the musicians mixing art, politics, '80s nostalgia, electronica, and rock--look no further than the art-kitsch aesthetics of Ultra Sex (Emperor Norton), the recent debut from...

Rene Risque: the king of electronica talks to the prince of fake. (Music Scoop).(Interview)
December 1, 2002... While many stars prefer to play down their celebrity, seductive singer Rene Risque is hell-bent on turning it up--and not just a notch. The international superstar lives the suite life to excess: money, drugs, women, men. So ostentatious is his...

Joy Bryant: watch out, J. Lo--there's another girl from the Bronx making noise in Hollywood. (New Year, New Faces).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... "It's about survival, a triumph of the spirit, finding peace in your own life." Actress Joy Bryant, 26, is talking about the new film Antwone Fisher, the autobiographical story of a navy cadet who makes peace with his violent past with the help...

Rosamund Pike: 007's latest ingenue is Shakespeare's loss. (New Year, New Faces).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Somewhere along the Emma Thompson highway there was an Ursula Andress turnoff, and 23-year-old British actress Rosamund Pike decided to take it. She's stepped out of the realm of the Oxford University Playhouse and BBC projects to become the...

Miranda Otto: quietly slaying audiences for years, now she runs rings around evil furies in The Lord of the Rings. (This Month's Action Heroine).(Interview)
December 1, 2002... In this month's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and next year's The Return of the King, Miranda Otto gets to play the only fully realized woman J.R.R. Tolkien wrote into his epic triptych. As the Lady Eowyn--vainly enamored of Aragorn,...

Lou Taylor Pucci: in Personal Velocity, this year's sundance winner, he steals the show with barely a word. (New Year, New Faces).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Lou Taylor Pucci started acting because he was bribed. "When I was 10 my mom gave me 10 bucks to audition for a community theater production of Oliver!," recalls the 17-year-old, who plays a sallow, downtrodden hitchhiker in the Sundance Grand...

Taryn Manning: once the bad girl sidekick, this actress is heading for the front lines. (Movie Buzz).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... "I called my manager today and said, 'Dude, I want a lead role!"' explains Taryn Manning, 24. "I never really do that sort of thing, but sometimes you can't help it." Based on the actress' work thus far, it would seem to be only a matter...

Amy Adams: playing opposite some of the movies' biggest names, she's making one for herself. (Movie Buzz).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... When Amy Adams got the call from her agent saying that she'd heard from Steven Spielberg's office, the actress didn't quite believe it--even though she had already auditioned and been told the final casting decisions would be made that week....

Hour power: objects to make every minute count. (Interview's Style Eye).(Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours )
December 1, 2002... The timely final pages of Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours valorize "an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined." A haunting and eloquent story of...

Bright lights, bold fashion: color, color, color. (Style Eye).(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 1, 2002... From what we've seen at the fashion shows for next season, it's a good idea to have sunglasses this spring. Whether as a response to the overwhelming prevalence of black in this fall's fashion or designers' ongoing inspiration from pop...

A ring for every mood: welcome to a hand where butterflies, flowers (and of course rocks) live happily ever after. (Style Eye).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Whoever thinks one has to be engaged, married, or rich to wear rings nowadays has been missing the point for quite a while--some shining examples of which are the best of this season's rings, crafted with equal nods to precision, tradition and...

Spike Jonze; fasten your seatbelts: the director of Being John Malkovich is back with Adaptation. (View Man).(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Spike Jonze was an established music video director in 1993, when he and some friends started a company called Girl Skateboards. I was hired to film their team of skaters for promotional videos. My peers thought I'd hit pay dirt. "You're hooked...

Rolan Bolan: a boldfaced heritage + a bolder musical approach = a talent not to miss. (One to Watch).(Brief Article)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... Growing up the scion of rock stars could make for a childhood sprinkled with glitter dust. However, Rolan Bolan--son of T. Rex glam-rock icon Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones, the Motown songstress who wrote "Tainted Love"--found the situation to be...

Eccentric charm, ass-shakin' attitude, and a message in a bottle from a beloved beatle. (Sound Advice).(Missly Elliott, George Harrison, Roni Size, The Roots, Badly Drawn Boy, The Pretenders, Bjork)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2002... MISSY ELLIOTT Under Construction (Elektra) Listen to the lyrics underneath the slinky beats on Missy's fourth album and you'll learn that she misses hip-hop's old-school days, when it was a community, not a war zone. She also misses...

Song and dance, war and strife, art and life. (Movies: Reviews, Previews, Our Views).(new, soon-to-be-released films)
December 1, 2002... PREVIEW: GANGS OF NEW YORK (Miramax) Directed by Martin Scorsese In this long-awaited epic about immigrant strife in Civil War-era Gotham, Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) is out to get Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis) for...

Shots in the dark: loss and redemption-at a theater near you. (Movie Column).(themes in Ararat, The Hours)
December 1, 2002... Atom Egoyan's Ararat opens on a shot of a photograph of a boy and his mother taken in Van, in eastern Turkey, in 1912, three years before the Turkish genocide of Christian Armenians. The mother died in 1919, despairing that she had been...

Twisted: it's a wrap for beauty. (Look of the Month).
December 1, 2002... This season beauty turns 180 degrees and back again . . . and back again. What were once simple knots, tidy buns, and classic wraps, like the French twist pictured here, are twisted, retwisted, and amplified to exaggerated proportions. What...

Letter from the editor Dec/Jan 2003.
December 1, 2002... Brittany Murphy--who is on our cover for the December/January issue and opposite Mr. Controversy himself, Eminem, in this season's pop phenomenon, 8 Mile--has been building her own reputation for being a major talent, a bit of a wild one, and...

Brittany Murphy.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... PART JANIS JOPLIN, PART CLARA BOW, THE MOVIES' NEWEST REASON TO GET EXCITED MAY JUST BE THE GUTSIEST YOUNG ACTRESS AROUND. HERE SHE GOES MIND TO MIND WITH KINDRED SPIRIT DREW BARRYMORE Through much of the late 1990s, Brittany Murphy was...

Gangs of New York.(Martin Scorsese)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... AM EXCLUSIVE PORTFOLIO & INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN SCORSESE ON ONE OF THIS SEASON'S MOST INK-STAINED MOVIES INGRID SISCHY: What attracted you to the story told in your new film. Gangs of New York? MARTIN SCORSESE: At around the age of...

How low can you go?(low-rise pants)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Low-level pants on '60s swingers were called "hipsters." Alexander McQueen reinvented them in the '90s as the basement-level "bumsters." This fall Levi's remade them as "low-rise jeans," and in Paris, Jean Paul Gaultier sent out...

Meryl Streep: facing the myths with the world's number one actor's actor.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... The fact that Meryl Streep has been as consistently good at her work as she has seems to have made it easy for people to take her for granted. Over the years, her facility with accents and dialects has been minimized as technique over soul, and...

Now! Two hot New York city bands tear the roof off the rules.(Spalding Rockwell, Hungry Wives)(Interview)
December 1, 2002... SPALDING ROCKWELL Nicole Lombardi, 23 (vocals, keyboards, bass, co-producer). M.L. Platinum, 22 (vocals, keyboards, guitar, co-producer, engineer). WHERE TO HEAR: Badd Inc. Luxury Excess Extravagance, 2002's definitive electroclash...

Jason Patric: in what might be the year's greatest surprise, this reluctant leading man has his comeback.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... In today's Hollywood culture, where many actors' sensitivity and Q ratings are their stock-in-trade, it's tough to find the strong, silent type who can carry the emotional weight of a film without exploiting the audience's sympathy. Enter Jason...

Viktor & Rolf.
December 1, 2002... Viktor & Rolf's fashion shows and collections are never boring. They're always driven by an idea, which the duo runs with like nobody's business. For instance: For their spring-summer 2003 collection presented in Paris this past fall they had...

Jon Bon Jovi: edging toward legendary, he still won't let go of his everyman soul.
December 1, 2002... From 1986's multiplatinum watershed Slippery When Wet to this fall's upward-looking Bounce (Island), Jon Bon Jovi and his eponymous supergroup have been making spirits soar, hearts melt, and arenas shake for almost two decades. Along the way,...

Catherine Martin.(Interview)
December 1, 2002... AS BAZ LUHRMANN UNVEILS HIS LATEST LABOR OF LOVE, A REVOLUTIONARY STAGE PRODUCTION OF LA BOHEME, DONNA KARAN TALKS TO HIS NOT-SO-SECRET WEAPON, HIS PARTNER IN LIFE AND IN CRIME, CATHERINE MARTIN. DONNA KARAN: Hello, Catherine! ...

On the town and getting down. (Page 5).
December 1, 2002... On September 4, Interview hosted a party ad Diane von Furstenberg's West Village studio celebrating our September special section "GET DOWN: 32 REASONS WHY WE LOVE DOWNTOWN." The section primarily featured downtown's must-visit shops as well as...