Interview articles from December 2007

Interview archives from December 2007

The Carey-ing on continues.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear interview, I just read a letter in the November issue from one of your readers, and I was shocked at her narrow-mindedness concerning Mariah Carey posing nude (if you can call that nude) on the cover of your best yet Interview. Nudity...

More magic, more mystery.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear interview, Maybe it was a coincidence that immediately after seeing Across the Universe I happened to purchase the October issue of Interview, featuring a profile of that film's director, Julie Taymor, as well as its adorable lead...

A tall glass of [H.sub.2]O.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear Interview, I like the extra-long legs in your magazine--a benefit of its being so big. Just for that, I'm going to subscribe again! THEODORE VERGES Johnson Creek, WI

That Texas two-step.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear interview, I just finished reading your November issue and wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed Lyle Lovett's interview with Josh Brolin. I've loved Lovett's music and have even enjoyed his acting, and now I'm a fan of his...

Putting in a good word.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear Interview, The October issue rocked, folks--my congratulations to you all! Please check out my pals the Bon Mots--they are turning some heads here in Chi-town and are truly one of the city's most unique and underrated bands. JOHN...

Blame Canada!(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear Interview, Who cares if Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh [November 2007] are in a bomb or a hit? Here are two actresses who go for the gold and not just the moola. From their interviews with Michael Cunningham, one can smell the...

The new young.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2007... Dear Interview, What a surprise to see an article about the spectacular Sharon Jones. I'm so glad that Interview is featuring her, as I have heard her music and am delighted by it. After I was introduced to her sound on a soul radio...

Taylor Kitsch: an actor who really knows how to take the ball and run with it.(BREAKOUT)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the critically acclaimed television football drama Friday Night Lights, Taylor Kitsch stars as Tim Riggins, the demon-plagued fullback of the Dillon Panthers, who's struggling with alcoholism, absent parents, and...

Tanna Frederick: how a fan letter to a legendary cult director led to a collaboration worth writing home about.(GIRL WITH A DREAM)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Independent filmmaking is hardly synonymous with job security, which makes Tanna Frederick's deal with director Henry Jaglom--the two worked together on Jaglom's recently released film, Hollywood Dreams--almost...

Francis Ford Coppola: the visionary director talks about what knocked him out of the game for nearly 10 years--and what pulled him back in.(LEGEND)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade, Youth Without Youth, stars Tim Roth as an old linguistics professor who is struck by lightning and begins to age in reverse, thus giving him a second chance at...

Strike up the glam: a look that will razzle-dazzle 'em.(LOOK)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Forever coursing through our veins is the desire to feel alive and uplifted, and John Galiiano's catwalk presentation for spring-summer 2008 was just the ticket. The models skipped, sashayed, and sauntered down the...

The new New Museum: chapter two begins for the museum that was born when a great and passionate curator was fired.(CURTAINS UP)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since its founding 30 years ago, New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art has come to be known for the scope and adventurousness of its programs. Now it also has the distinction of being the first museum in...

Jorge Pardo: how the Genre-bending artist is giving a whole new meaning to the term Open House.(ART TIP)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Few artists have managed to confuse the distinctions between fine art, design, architecture, and domestic commodity to the degree Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based Jorge Pardo has. Creating all manner of quotidian...

Diane Kruger: what's a former ballerina like her doing in a rough 'n' tumble blockbuster sequel like National Treasure: Book of Secrets? Trying to wrestle free from the beautiful-sidekick shackle.(LOOK WHO'S TALKING)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... Her film career is just over five years old, but German-born Diane Kruger has already established herself as a favorite of directors both in Europe and in America. She is best known for playing that embodiment of feminine beauty, Helen, in the...

Malcolm Goodwin: carrying a torch for the old-school alpha charmer.(MOVIE HEAT)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Malcolm Goodwin is having a busy day. He has just finished the shoot for the photographs for Interview shown here, during which he discovered the joy of hats. "So many different looks they put me in," he...

Jurnee Smollett: how a survivor of the child-actor wringer wound up in the thick of the holiday season's great movie debate.(MOVIE NEWS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I fell asleep for two hours when my mom was giving birth to me--the doctors thought I was dead or something. My mom kept on yelling, 'This girl's a trip!'" says Jurnee Smollett, explaining the origins of her first...

Hayley Atwell: how a drama-school girl got stuck--gladly--in the middle of a Ewan McGregor-Colin Farrell sandwich.(MOVIE NEWS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Not every performer gets to make a feature-film debut with a leading role in a Woody Allen movie. Yet that is exactly how 25-year-old actress Hayley Atwell is being introduced to audiences as she appears with Ewan...

Shots in the dark: it's a wrap: one vote for the top 10 movie moments from the year that was.(MOVIE COLUMN)(Book review)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Victor Burgin's fascinating little book The Remembered Film ruminates on why stray moments from movies and other media fleetingly cross our minds as we go about our daily lives. I don't know if any of the following...

Dustin Hoffman: what does it say about the movies today when one of the edgiest actors of this decade was also one of the edgiest 40 years ago? A lot.(MOVIE PROFILE)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Forty years ago in December, Dustin Hoffman redefined what it meant to be a leading man. With his performance as postcollegiate wanderer Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967), Hoffman--who at that...

Vanessa Carlton's five steps to Nirvana.(HOW TO FIX THE MUSIC BUSINESS)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since the release of her debut, Be Not Nobody (2002), Vanessa Carlton has experienced all of the ups and downs of being a recording artist in the 21st century. Now with her third album, Heroes & Thieves (The...

The-Dream: a wake-up call for hip-hop's one-track-minded men.(MUSIC SCOOP)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even as a little kid, Terius Nash fantasized about a big future for himself. "Whatever the latest hit was, it was being played in our house," says Nash, whose stage name is The-Dream. "I had already decided I wanted...

Kevin Spacey: Mr. Inscrutability on playing bad, keeping secrets, and never making the same mistake twice.(CHAMELEON CORNER)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As artistic director of the Old Vic, one of British theater's most hallowed institutions, Kevin Spacey is proving himself a consummate idealist. As the actor who put a chillingly amoral spin on movie villainy, he's...

Elephant dancing: two traffic-stopping street bands.(ONES TO DISCOVER)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Walking out of a class at the New School in downtown Manhattan, I headed for the Astor Place subway. The class had been about old American music; the murder ballad "Pretty Polly," recorded by the Virginia mountain...

Lucy Walsh: a rocker's daughter gets her cues from Duran Duran & Mozart.(ONE TO LISTEN OUT FOR)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Don't listen to Lucy Walsh's debut album, Lost in the Lights, expecting the mellow California rock of her father, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh. Lucy Walsh spent her formative years absorbing the details of Cyndi Lauper...

Jess Weixler: her latest movie has bite--but not quite the kind you'd expect.(ONE TO WATCH)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many actors find it nerve-racking to watch themselves loom large on the big screen. But for 26-year-old Jess Weixler, watching her first lead role in the forthcoming film Teeth with an audience at the Sundance Film...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: how a one-time Saturday Night Live benchwarmer marshaled her forces and came out kicking and screaming.(COMEDY CONNECTION)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Julia Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy in 2006 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her current series, The New Adventures of Old Christine, she not only broke the Seinfeld Curse, she showed that her...

This holiday: it's in the bag.(WHAT'S POPPING IN SHOPPING)(Brief article)(Photograph)
December 1, 2007... From carryalls to tiny totes, never before has the bag been the focus of so much craving--little wonder, then, that this season the sack itself is often more alluring than its contents [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CHECKING THE LIST TWICE...

Jami Attenberg: an attention-claiming debut that's all about seizing the day.(WRITER SPOTLIGHT)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Jami Attenberg's debut novel, The Kept Man, due out in late December from Riverhead Books, a hot-ticket Brooklyn artist ends up in a coma after falling from a ladder in his studio. Six years later he is still...

Tim Roth: why this actor known for playing thugs and lowlifes may just owe it all to a band of school-yard bullies.(view MAN)(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] KEN LOACH: How did you get into acting? TIM ROTH: I think I always wanted to be an actor. I was around it very little, and I didn't really know how to make it happen. But as a joke I auditioned with a friend for...

The legacy continues: enter the next Warhol superstar.(A SPLASH OF FAME)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andy Warhol, Interview's founder and Pop Art pioneer, once said, "Of the five senses, smell has the closest thing to the full power of the past." And again he's right on the money. It's Warhol's past that New York...

All the dish: enter the new winter warmers.(FOOD COLUMN)(Restaurant review)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Winter in New York City these days is as likely to bring balmy springlike weather as the frigid stuff. But when the cold winds from Canada send their arctic blast across the region (and they will), it's time to grab...

Letter from the editor.(view)(Editorial)
December 1, 2007... The human spirit--how many times have we heard that phrase or read it? What exactly is it anyway? A metaphysical term? A religious byproduct? A poetic figure of speech? We probably all have our own takes. I've always thought of the human spirit...

Keira Knightley: it's been said that at the ripe old age of 3, Keira Knightley turned to her parents and demanded an agent. Three years later she got one. And that was just the beginning.(Interview)(Cover story)
December 1, 2007... Elizabeth Taylor wasn't yet 20 when she starred opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951). Her pell-mell rush to womanhood is Hollywood's most striking illustration of how arbitrary age can be. And now here's Keira Knightley to...

Paul Dano: stand back. Dramatic heavyweight in the making.(Interview)
December 1, 2007... Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, There Will Be Blood, tells the story of a turn-of-the-20th-century prospector .named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who finds oil on the ranch of a poor California family. As Eli Sunday, the manipulative...

Once upon a house.(Brief article)(Biography)
December 1, 2007... Once there was a magical Calabrian girl named Donatella, who was much loved and treated like a princess by her big brothers, Gianni and Santo. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] As kids, she and Gianni went on adventures together out in...

Julian Schnabel: a movie about a man who couldn't speak, directed by a man who has found access to all forms of expression.(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INGRID SISCHY: Painter. Sculptor. Furniture designer. Even, now, building designer--some might say that all those things would keep a guy busy. JULIAN SCHNABEL: I guess they have. IS: Were those things not...

Look out! Solving the case of 2008's most mysterious movie.(Interview SHOWCASE)(Movie review)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The basic concept for the new movie Cloverfield isn't novel: A monster runs amok in New York City. What makes the film different is the veil of mystery surrounding it. An under-the-radar production, it was shot very...

Alicia Keys: perfectionism drove Alicia Keys to put together one of pop's most conspicuously misstep-free young careers. Then life happened.(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LINDA PERRY: What was your inspiration for the new record, As I Am [J Records]? I know you talked about a trip to Egypt that you took as something of a moment of realization, ALICIA KEYS: A ton of things inspired...

The pink link.(Brief article)(Photograph)
December 1, 2007... WHEN ELSA SCHIAPARELLI INTRODUCED A PERFUME IN 1937, THE COLOR OF ITS BOX WAS SO UNUSUAL THAT SHE COULD FEEL SAFE CALLING THE PRODUCT "SHOCKING." FOR SPRING 2008, DESIGNERS MAY NOT USE PINK TO SHOCK, BUT THEY DO USE IT TO ATTRACT ATTENTION, AS...

Ralph Lauren: the preppy, the woman adventurer, the cowboy, the heiress with a farm in Africa--for 40 years Ralph Lauren has created multidimensional worlds from one-dimensional figures. Now he sets the record straight about himself.(Interview)
December 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INGRID SISCHY: So Rizzoli has just published a giant book celebrating your 40th anniversary as a designer, featuring first-person accounts by you about your life, work, and inspiration, as well as personal...

Around the world in a single page.(PAGE 5)(Photograph)
December 1, 2007... 1 Kate Bosworth and Karl Lagerfeld at the Village at SanLiTun in Beijing for a dinner and party following the Fendi fashion show on the Great Wall of China. 2 Helene Arnault and Bernard Arnault at the dinner following the Fendi show. 3 Fendi's...