Interview articles from February 2004

Interview archives from February 2004

Satisfaction inside and out.(Letters; Hayden Christensen)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Thank you so much for putting Hayden Christensen on the cover of your November 2003 issue. This was your best cover ever, and I loved all the pictures! P.S. I also liked the article and pictures of Lisa Kudrow in the same...

Tailor-made.(Letters; Andre Leon Talley)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I did not think I would be interested in reading about "the fashion maven" as seen by "the fashion guru," but Miuccia Prada's interview with Andre Leon Talley [November 2003] was far and away the best piece in the entire...

One more seat for the rest of us.(Letters; Nicile Kidman)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Thank you for David Furnish's superb interview with the mesmerizing Nicole Kidman [October 2003]. I was truly astonished that she doesn't see her own movies. I was struck, too, with a feeling of sadness that this woman--one...

Cozy with Posey.(Letters; Parker Posey)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I can only assess from Parker Posey's interview with beau Ryan Adams [December/January 2004] that his bratty period is over. Granted, I don't mind a little arrogance in the name of rock 'n' roll, but it was starting to...

Throwing down the gauntlet.(Letters; Leonardo Sbaraglia)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I first read an article from your magazine online--an interview by Drew Barrymore with a very young post-Woody-Allen-flick Edward Norton [April 1996]--but it was the April 2003 issue that popped my Interview cherry. Right...

Walk on the beach.(My First Audition)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... MY FIRST AUDITION WASN'T AN AUDITION. IT WAS A... IT WAS 1972 OR '73. PETER BOGDANOVICH DECIDED TO TAKE ME FOR A WALK TO SEE IF I SHOULD BE IN PAPER MOON. WE WERE AT MY DAD'S PLACE IN MALIBU--HE HAD JUST COME OFF LOVE STORY. YOU'RE...

Holy Moly! True story.(My First Audition)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... I WAS 15, SITTING ON MY STOOP IN ALPHABET CITY. THERE WAS A COMMERCIAL SHOOTING ON MY BLOCK, AND I WAS CHECKING OUT THE GRIP... THIS GUY WORKING ON THE CREW. HE WAS SO CUTE! THEN I STARTED TALKING TO SOME OTHER GUY... HE LOOKED LIKE...

Katy Rose: after a childhood on the road with the grateful dead, how could this singer's music not be a trip?(Music Breakout)(Interview)
February 1, 2004... While she was touring with Liz Phair, you'd think 17-year-old singer-songwriter Katy Rose would've latched on to the indie-rock veteran like a little sister looking for guidance. But Rose is no stranger to backstage bacchanalia: She grew up on...

Amy Miles: a genre-bending singer-songwriter who has taken the road less traveled.(Music Tip)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Okay, so she's a solo chick who plays the guitar--just don't call Amy Miles a folk singer. In fact, the 30-year-old Arkansas native's oeuvre is much closer to the scruffy rock songs that Kim Deal of the Breeders writes than to earnest...

Ben Jelen: an emotional singer for screaming romantics.(Music Spotlight)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... At a recent party thrown by the head of his label, Maverick Records chief Guy Oseary, Ben Jelen (pronounced "YELL-in") found himself surrounded by some of the world's most famous entertainers. "There's Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman, and Pamela...

Elton John's tip sheet.(Music Opinion Page)
February 1, 2004... INGRID SISCHY: So, Elton, in one way people seem more interested in music right now than they have been in years. Yet, at the same time, there has been all this talk about the collapsing industry, which has been hurt by downloading and poor...

The Coral Magic and Medicine.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Columbia) Having yielded no fewer than three Top 10 singles since its release in the U.K. last summer, the Coral's second album is an inscrutable wonder. The Liverpudlian sextet are shameless dabblers, slipping into 1960s folk, gothic...

Kylie Minogue Body Language.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Capitol) Kylie goes electro! Following the success of the Fischerspooner remix of "Come Into My World," off 2002's Fever, that's no surprise. As such, "Red Blooded Woman" references Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)"...

Probot Probot.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Southern Lord) Foo Fighter Dave Grohl ditches the melodic pop-rock of his day job for unbridled metal mayhem on this headbanging 12-song collection. Grohl wrote and performed nearly all the music and recruited some of his favorite...

Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Epic) "We do the same thing every night/I swear I've heard you sing this song before," laments front man Brandon Boyd on "Beware! Criminal." Unfortunately, Boyd is speaking the truth. Their album loaded down with angsty hand-wringing...

Chromeo She's in Control.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Vice) Remember the dry look? Etectrofunk fetishists Dave 1 and P-Thugg certainly do, This debut from the Montreal duo is so totally 1980s, it should come complete with a dance floor and smoke machine. The thick bass lines and...

Mindy Smith One Moment More.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... (Vanguard) On the recent Dolly Parton tribute album, Just Because I'm a Woman (Sugar Hill), Mindy Smith hauntingly reimagined Parton's classic "Jolene" with such quiet desperation, it was a stop-in-your-tracks standout. Like Parton, Smith...

The Walkmen Bows and Arrows (Record Collection).(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2004... A carnivalesque mix of driving rhythms, combustible melodies, and chiming guitar whirls, this tweedy New York City quintet's sophomore full-length not only lacks the detached air of so much hipster rock, but it does so with extreme prejudice....

Book smart: for spring, look no further than your local library for fashion inspiration.(Look Of The Month)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The old saying that boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses gets turned on its head for spring, as the sensible librarian is suddenly held up by designers as the new fashion ideal. Perhaps as a reaction to the Identi-kit pop-strumpet...

Diane Arbus: a new exhibition of her photography--much of it never before seen--is bringing new heat to the Diane Arbus debate.(Curtains Up; "Family Albums")(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Soon after photographer Diane Arbus's suicide in 1971, critics began to hail her for the empathy revealed in her portraiture--a line of thinking that would be questioned a decade later. Now the heat, and a fresh round of re-revisionism, is...

Kevin Hart: he quit selling sneakers to work on his stand-up. Now this comic is up and running.(Comedy Corner)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... If you spliced Chris Tucker and Tracy Morgan and trimmed a few inches off the result, you'd have Kevin Hart. A former sneaker salesman, the 5-foot-4-inch squeaky-mouthed comic "turned pro" after winning five consecutive amateur contests in his...

Natalie Wood: she was the tiny star of Miracle on 34th Street and the all-grown-up one in Splendor in the Grass, yet Natalie Wood's trajectory from child actor to leading lady was anything but assured. A new book tells the tale.(Legend--Behind The Scenes; Natalie Wood : a Life)(Excerpt)
February 1, 2004... Natalie Wood, who drowned in 1981 when she was only 43, is the subject of a new biography, Natalie Wood: A Life (Knopf), by her friend and colleague Gavin Lambert. An icon of the last decade of classic moviemaking (the mid-'50s to mid-'60s),...

Steve Sandvoss: most actors want to be on people's minds. He wants to change them.(Movie Spotlight)
February 1, 2004... As the gay Mormon at the center of this month's Latter Days, newcomer Steve Sandvoss braves some of acting's most daring feats--teary confessions, a nervous breakdown, and a nude scene--and comes out with his career prospects alive and abuzz....

Sara Foster: she used to report on the movies. Now she's starring in one.(Movie Heat)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... "When I was 5 years old, I used to make my nanny interview me," says Sara Foster. "'Go ahead. Ask me anything,' I'd tell her," recalls the 22-year-old, who makes her feature debut opposite Owen Wilson in The Big Bounce. For Foster, who...

Chris Evans: graduating from high school movies at a theater near you.(Movie Tip)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Believe it or not, being blessed with great sideburns and a broody stare won't get you a free ride in Hollywood. The trick, in fact, is to give the kids something to gush over while offering the grownups a little substance. Johnny Depp grasped...

50 First Dates.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... (Columbia) Directed by Peter Segal Sleep-around veterinarian Henry Roth (Adam Sandier) goes monogamous after he meets a spacy sweetie named Lucy (Drew Barrymore). The problem is, Lucy suffers from short-term memory loss and can't recall the...

Mindhunters.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... (Dimension) Directed by Renny Harlin This serial-killer thriller features an all-star testosterone-heavy cast (Val Kilmer, Christian Slater, LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Eion Bailey) as FBI profilers stranded on an island with a murderer...

The Butterfly Effect.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2004... (New Line) Directed by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress Memory-impaired college co-ed Evan Treborn (flavor-of-the-moment Ashton Kutcher, who also produces) finds that his childhood journals can take him back to the past. Literally. But...

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... (Dreamworks) Directed by Robed Luketic For his anticipated follow-up to Legally Blonde (2001), the director channels the spirit of John Hughes's 1980s romantic comedies, in which two very different guys vie for the affection of a pretty...

Osama.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2004... (UA) Directed by Siddiq Barmak In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, where women couldn't do much of anything, least of all work, a young girl tries to pass as a boy to provide for her widowed mother. (She goes by "Osama," a name as common in the...

Touching the Void.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2004... (IFC) Directed by Kevin Macdonald This documentary follows two adrenaline junkies and their doomed romance with an Andean peak, mixing narration by the actual climbers with stirring reenactments by dramatic actors. The plot is shopworn, but...

Interview's annual mini-Oscars for the 10 best mini-roles of 2003.(Reviews, Previews, Our Views)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Our 12th annual list will go down as the Under-Siege Two-Minute Oscars, created before the screener ban was lifted. But the battle's hijinks turned outgoing MPAA head Jack Valenti's final act, with its stops and starts, into something...

All the dish: beyond fried chicken and biscuits--the Big Apple discovers true South.(Food Column; Ida Mae Kitchen-n-Lounge; Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar; Natchez)(Restaurant Review)
February 1, 2004... As questionable a history as the phrase "the South will rise again" may have, these words have come to take on new meaning in recent months. To wit, our current love affair with Southern music, from Robert Johnson's Delta blues to Kings of...

Shots in the dark: for some child actors, the dream doesn't last forever.(Movie Column)
February 1, 2004... The first grown-up film I ever saw was Shane, shown many years after its 1953 release, at the long-since-demolished art-deco Ritz cinema in the south-coast English town where I was raised. I've seen George Stevens's epochal Western many times...

From the editor's desk: February 2004: a conversation between Ingrid Sischy and Camille Paglia.(View)(Interview)
February 1, 2004... INGRID SISCHY: Our special theme for February this year is superstars who actually started out as child stars. There seem to be a lot of them right now. Is it more than coincidence? CAMILLE PAGLIA: Our child stars descend from the...

Christina Ricci: at age 8, she arrived to an audition with a black eye and freaked the casting director out. Fifteen years later, she's still keeping the surprises coming.(Interview)
February 1, 2004... BRAD GOLDFARB: Since this is a special issue about people who started out as child stars, let's go back to your beginnings as an actor. I know your first movie role was in Mermaids [1990], when you were just 9 years old, but let's go back even...

Muhammad Ali: weighing in at 75 pounds, it's an ambitious heavyweight book fit for the greatest of all time. Here, Interview presents an excerpt about Ali's introduction to the ring.(Muhammad Ali, GOAT )(Excerpt)
February 1, 2004... How do you celebrate a larger-than-life icon? Think big for starters, which is exactly what Taschen has done with its extraordinary new book about Muhammad Ali, GOAT (Greatest of All Time), which measures 20 inches by 20 inches and is available...

Brooke Shields: from Pretty Baby button-pusher to Calvin Klein tease, she grew up in the spotlight, embodying the '80s look. Here, she compares notes with another Hollywood whiz kid.(Interview)
February 1, 2004... BROOKE SHIELDS: Good morning. DIANE LANE: Hi, honey! How the heck are ya? BS: Oh, good. I was better when I saw you last, when we were in yoga class together. I wish we were there right now. DL: So pink-faced. BS: Exactly, but...

Michael Jackson: decades before all of the charges and countercharges, he was a pint-size singer with a big dream.(Interview)
February 1, 2004... "Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it--don't cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a...

Macaulay Culkin: an actor at 4, a multimillionaire at 12, a has-been at 15, and a surprise comeback at 23. Now that's a career!(Interview)
February 1, 2004... It might be easier to conquer Mount Everest than Hollywood, so how did Macaulay Culkin, 10 years young and 4 feet low, pull it off? Two words: Home Alone. The 1990 blockbuster sent Culkin's star soaring to heights untouched by a child actor...

Pop's petri dish: inside the child-star factory.(Gallery; Micket Mouse Club)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Disney's long-running Mickey Mouse Club has proven to be a breeding ground for talented tykes and future superstars. Back in the '50s, when the show was a sweater-laden ode to old-fashioned entertainment, dark-eyed Annette Funicello was the...

Liza Minnelli: be "strange and extraordinary," her father once told her. She listened.(Interview)
February 1, 2004... INGRID SISCHY: How early in your life were you aware of what you had been born into? It's impossible to imagine a childhood more inspiring and more loaded than the one you had--the daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. ...

Kiefer Sutherland: he's been around Hollywood for more than 20 years, but these days, this bold talent has them counting the minutes.(Interview)
February 1, 2004... JOEL SCHUMACHER: Kiefer? KIEFER SUTHERLAND: Joel! Thanks for saying yes to Interview's request that you talk to me. JS: Oh, shut up. This is fun for me. Are you shooting 24 now? KS: Yeah. We're at about episode 14. JS: Wow....

Jennifer Connelly: at age 14 she played a sleepwalker who could communicate with insects. Nearly twenty years later, this Oscar-winning actress is creating a different kind of buzz.(Interview)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... Many associate Jennifer Connelly with recent film performances that brought her wide acclaim and awards--Waking the Dead, Requiem for a Dream (both 2000), and especially A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting...

... Once upon a time in fashion.
February 1, 2004... SEEING THE SCOPE OF IMAGINATION WOVEN THROUGH THE SPRING/SUMMER COLLECTIONS WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYONE REALIZE THAT THE SPELL OF FASHION CAN BE AS POTENT AS THE GREAT TALES AND LEGENDS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS THAT FIRST TAUGHT US TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC...

Hilary Duff: teen angst is, like, so yesterday, now that this singer, actress, and total alpha girl is all the rage. Totally!(Interview)
February 1, 2004... While some 16-year-olds count basketball, yearbook committee, and debate club among their extracurriculars, Hilary Duff has other activities on her plate. Until recently there was the whole TV thing--she debuted on the Disney Channel's Lizzie...

Bright lights, bright nights.(Page 5; Lou Reed party)
February 1, 2004... Chloe Sevigny and Hayden Christensen at the NYC restaurant Hue for a party following the screening of Shattered Glass. hosted by GUESS? Lions Gaye Films. and Interview. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Leilani Augustine of GUESS? (left) with...