Interview articles from February 2003

Interview archives from February 2003

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2003... WILLKOMMEN, BIENVENUE, WELCOME Dear Interview, I wish to throw no shade on the bright spotlight shining on the Pussycat Dolls [November 2002], but I find the failure to mention any other burlesque troupes from across the U.S. in your...

Keith Haring: the musical. (This Month's Big Art Shebang).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... THOUGH THIS MAGICAL ARTIST'S LIFE WAS LIKE A PLAY THAT ENDED TOO SOON, IT HAD ENOUGH DRAMA, JOY, AND TRAGEDY TO MAKE IT A PERFECT STORY FOR OUR TIME. HERE INTERVIEW TALKS TO GEORGE C. WOLFE, DIRECTOR OF RADIANT BABY, THE NEW MUSICAL ON HARING'S...

Justin Timberlake: pop's biggest pinup said bye bye bye to the pack life, and hello to himself and respect. (This Month's Music Catcher).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Ever since unveiling his soloness at last year's MTV Video Music Awards, Justin Timberlake has been feeling the liberating rush of coming of age. He has shaken off the boy band shackles, weathered the public's thirst for details of his Britney...

The Like: like, they're young, connected, and, like, really really good. (Music Tip).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Not many bands juggle press with SATs. Or comprise the progeny of Pete Thomas, longtime drummer for Elvis Costello; producer Mitchell Froom; and A&R man Tony Berg. Or are the new L.A. buzz band, with an average age of 16.67 years. Then again,...

T.A.T.U.: Russia's new power couple. (Music Buzz).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... While most upstart pop stars clearly mark their private lives off-limits, the first video from Russian duo t.A.T.u featured the girls in a steamy kiss. Despite speculation that the pair--Lena Katina, 18, and Julia Volkova, 17--are an item, the...

Kathleen Edwards: meet the potty-mouth princess of Americana. (Music News).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Kathleen Edwards calls her company Potty Mouth Productions, and her songs are peppered with lyrics like "No one likes a girl who won't sober up," but the Ottawa native, daughter of a Canadian diplomat, is not your everyday under-the-overpass...

Creme Blush: this latest electro-sensation can actually play their own instruments. (Music Spotlight).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Creme Blush's first gig was at a Japanese grade school, where, afterward, the students rose to sing the pair--Nicole Pinto and Satski Ohtake--an anthem of their own. Now the duo play their bubbly electro-pop concoctions with lashings of synth...

Songs for stepping out, songs for staying in--and songs to take you far, far away. (Sound Advice).(recordings reviewed)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2003... FABOLOUS Street Dreams (Desert Storm/Elektra) On his beat-the-sophomore-slump new album, Fabolous proves himself the heir to his old-school forebear LL Cool J's throne--like LL, his favorite topics are fly cars, flyer girls, and the...

Cameron Douglas: a cleft chin and acting chops--must be another Douglas. (Movie News).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... "I've definitely been in trouble for lots of things, but I don't want to talk about that stuff," says Cameron Douglas, the latest member of the renowned Douglas acting clan to the family business. Like his father Michael and grandfather Kirk,...

Maya Stange: introducing the next actress in the down under hit parade. (Movie Tip).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Although Maya Stange laughs when asked if she's ever been involved in a threesome--for the record, she hasn't--the actress says the broader themes of her upcoming April film, the love triangle drama XX/XY, resonate with her own experiences....

Ryan Gosling: the Sundance kid and the two-time Oscar man. (Look Who's Talking).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... As a neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001) and a precocious serial killer in Murder by Numbers, Ryan Gosling made a name for himself by chilling his audiences to the bone. And with his next film, The United States of Leland (produced by and featuring...

Kathryn Hahn: the new funny girl who has insiders buzzing. (Movie Spotlight).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Kathryn Hahn's burgeoning career stands in contrast to the myth of the Struggling Actor. Even the 29-year-old admits to being spooked by her good fortune in a profession known for its hard knocks. "I'm afraid that I'm going to turn into a...

Spike Lee: the movie Maverick takes us on a new wild ride. Here he talks to John Turturro. (Director Profile).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... SPIKE LEE: John! JOHN TURTURRO: Spike! How are you doing? I really enjoyed 25th Hour. SL: Thank you. JT: So you shot that in 40 days, as I've heard? SL: Less than that. We stole a couple of days during preproduction to shoot...

George Clooney--who knew? This former TV smoothie, fast becoming everyone's favorite actor, may have just made this season's hippest movie. (Director Debut).(Interview)
February 1, 2003... INGRID SISCHY: George, you've just directed your first film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. It's a winner, to my mind. Had you wanted to direct for a long time? GEORGE CLOONEY: No, though I've always liked having something to do with the...

A family affair, love in the air, and a drama with real-life flair. (Movies: Reviews, Previews, Our Views).(Movie Review)
February 1, 2003... PREVIEW: SHANGHAI KNIGHTS (Touchstone) Directed by David Dobkin Frontier odd couple Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson hit Victorian London to unravel an international conspiracy. One thing's certain: This duo (reunited after 2000's...

Misfits: when one person's too-tight is another's just right. (Fashion Report).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Who's to say exactly what constitutes a perfect fit? When perfectly normal women are wearing perfect children's sweaters... when the perfect jeans are often three or four sizes too big for the waist they were intended for... when the perfect...

Caulfield's kit: the ultimate "book" bag has just been imagined. (The Fashion Edition).
February 1, 2003... This Valentine's Day, forget about wearing your heart on your sleeve and consider wearing your book on your bag instead. The prototype from Jack Spade pictured above--conceived especially for this issue--not only solves the problem of having to...

Days between stations: red, white, and blues--the sound of freedom in America. (Music Column).(Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America compact disc set)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2003... It didn't start with the terrorist attacks of 2001. People think of freedom and music together for the same reason we think of freedom and water: movement. Music carries a sense of freedom. But music about freedom is a different story. It's...

Shots in the dark: the dream-big, fail-big visionaries who live large in moviegoers' minds. (Movie Column).(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2003... It's testimony to Hollywood's industrial efficiency that few filmmakers have been allowed to run amok with studio wealth in the pursuit of pure cinema. The careers of rebel geniuses Erich von Stroheim and Orson Welles were destroyed when they...

All the dish: one-of-a-kind restaurants in a one-of-a-kind town. (Food Column).(Restaurant Review)
February 1, 2003... In the spirit of this special issue I went in search of the sorts of authentic, one-of-a-kind places Holden Caulfield himself might feel at home in--the type of restaurants that can be counted on for a good crowd, a relaxed setting, and cooking...

View: from the editor's desk February.
February 1, 2003... A CONVERSATION BETWEEEN INGRID SISCHY AND CAMILLE PAGLIA INGRID SISCHY: So, Camille, you're the one who's going to weigh in with me on the theme of this special issue. We do a special every February, and this year we're looking at the most...

Kieran Culkin.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Though Holden Caulfield thought the movies were full of phonies, chances are he'd have liked Kieran Culkin. Like Salinger's antihero, Culkin was raised in New York City, was educated in elite private schools, has a beloved older brother, and is...

Tiffany Limos.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Ingenues don't come much more rebellious, exotic, or ambitious than Tiffany Limos. It's no wonder she's become the muse of vintage "Catcher" Larry Clark, who put her at the center of his latest cinematic challenge, Ken Park. Limos's ambiguous...

Brad Renfro.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... When asked what he was rebelling against, Marion Brando's outlaw biker in The Wild One (1954) famously responded, "Whaddaya got?" Brad Renfro has taken this attitude so much to heart that, whether he's attempting to steal a yacht or playing a...

Sarah Polley.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Sarah Polley is the movies' rebel with a cause. This Canadian spitfire's got political bones to pick, voices burning to be heard, and a talent that needs to be seen. From her stunning turn in The Sweet Hereafter (1997) to her wild ride in Go...

James Franco.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... James Dean left big shoes to fill. But to actually put them on, stomp around, and make them your own is something else indeed--something that James Franco embraced when he took on the title role in 2001's critically applauded cable TV biopic...

Alison Lohman.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Perhaps the biggest breakout story of 2002 belongs to Alison Lohman. Coming seemingly out of nowhere (actually, it was a string of B movies and a short-lived TV show, Pasadena), the 23-year-old floored moviegoers with her spunk and spark in...

Diego Luna.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Unforgettable as the poor little rich boy at the heart of 2002's smash Y Tu Mama Tambien, Diego Luna made his jarring onscreen loss of innocence alternately comic, tragic, and erotic--often all at once. That attention-grabbing turn turned Luna...

Maggie Gyllenhaal.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... When I finished the first draft of my play Homebody/Kabul I needed a young American actress with a good British accent in her back pocket to play one of the lead roles, so I asked various friends if they had any suggestions. Several people had...

Jake Gyllenhaal.(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Onscreen he wears angst and desperation like a badge of honor. Raging in the existential cult drama Donnie Darko (2001), crossing the fine line between passion and obsession in last summer's The Good Girl (in which his character, one Holden...