Interview articles from February 2005

Interview archives from February 2005

Smart like a Foxx.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I remember watching Jamie Foxx [November 2004] on In Living Color back in the '90s and thinking how great he was then, so it's a thrill to see him having success now in the movies. The guy clearly has a ton of talent, but...

A cult in the making.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I can't describe my delight at seeing an article on Jason Behr in your November issue. Featuring someone whose talent, intelligence, and craftsmanship puts him in a league of his own couldn't have been a better choice by...

A template for the future.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I've subscribed to your magazine for quite some time and truly enjoy the interviews and photographs. I especially liked the interview with Gael Garcia Bernal [November 2004]. I was very impressed with the questions Juliette...

Loyal to the end.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Dear Interview, As I write this letter, the outcome of the presidential election has long since been decided, yet the promise of what might have been continues to hover over me. Among the many reasons I cast my vote for John Kerry was the...

Welcome to the hive.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2005... Dear Interview, While reading the November 2004 issue I came across the interview with Billy Corgan. I enjoy poetry and good lyrics, and Billy has beautiful lyrics. He's completely inspirational. I must agree with his opinion that "lyrics...

Tressed to thrill: half milk and cookies, half forbidden fruit.(Look Of The Month)
February 1, 2005... The most evocative hair at the spring 2005 shows in Paris was spotted at Chanel, where Odile Gilbert and her team created bouffant half ponytails and- kittenish tousled coifs, both crowned with girly headbands adorned with bows and camellias....

Salvador Dali: for years reduced to his trademark melting clocks and elongated violins, the work of Salvador Dali is ready for a second look.(This Month's Must-See Shows)
February 1, 2005... Once we've discovered the art of Salvador Dali, we can never shut our eyes and dream in innocence again. The Spanish-born artist, who would have been 100 last year, circumvented the barrier separating inner and outer lives and brought the...

Be so ... Paul Fryer: who says there aren't any renaissance men left?(This Month's View Man)
February 1, 2005... 1 "As horsemen fashion horses while they ride, As climbers climb a peak because it is there, As life can be confirmed even in suicide: To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair." --From Autumn Sequel by Louis MacNeice...

Xan Cassavetes: the daughter of two independent-film mavericks raises the curtain on the cult cable channel that inspired a new generation of original directors.(This Month's Inter Woman)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 2 With parents like legendary director John Cassavetes and Oscar-nominated actress Gena Rowlands, director Xan Cassavetes is, quite literally, a child of Hollywood. The 39-year-old mother of two spent much of her early years on sets,...

Ryan Donowho: banging a bucket on the subway earned him more than a hat full of change.(February One To Watch)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 3 Moving to his own beat has certainly proven serendipitous for actor Ryan Donowho, who was toiling away as a bucket drummer on a New York City street when he was discovered by a casting agent looking for someone to fill out a pair of...

Arcade Fire: Montreal's music scene was already simmering. This band may just bring it to a boil.(Music Buzz)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 4-10 Win Butler, the lead singer of Arcade Fire, is driving his band through the Joshua Tree desert in California, a place that's been synonymous with spiritual, epic, larger-than-life rock 'n' roll ever since U2 memorably titled an album...

Jennifer Hall: from singing dirty a cappella in a hotel room to fronting music's next literary lounge act.(Music Spotlight)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 11 Some actors go to great lengths to live out their dreams of singing in a rock band; others, like Thistle L.L.C. singer Jennifer Hall, do it by accident. Shortly after moving to Manhattan, the 26-year-old Alabama native and drama-school...

Prosaics: they wanna be adored, and not just by the dark of heart.(Music News)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 12-14 Being in a rock band is complicated, especially in New York. The city is littered with hopefuls struggling with issues like how to cultivate an outsider's charisma and an insider's connections, whether to be sincere or ironic,...

Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA).(Sound Advice)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2005... KINGS OF LEON Aha Shake Heartbreak (RCA) Kings of Leon have come to a crossroads, and the four young boys from Tennessee feel compelled to answer the call of both wayward paths. There's the glamorous temptation of the North, home of the...

Death from Above 1979: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (Vice).(Sound Advice)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2005... DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (Vice) Take two Toronto hipsters, a bass, a drum kit, and a fistful of amphetamines, and you're under the influence of the sweaty, sexually fused noise-rock band Death From Above 1979....

Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Superwolf (Drag City).(Sound Advice)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2005... This collaboration between Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and guitarist Matt Sweeney centers around the sad travails of Superwolf, a mythical folk hero. Superwolf is a tireless romantic: On "Beast for Thee," he asks, "Why aren't...

Marianne Faithfull: Before the Poison (Anti-).(Sound Advice)
February 1, 2005... MARIANNE FAITHFULL Before the Poison (Anti-) In her whiskey-and-cigarettes rasp, Marianne Faithfull is back from hell and here to tell the tale. The survivor of the decade-long bender that was the '60s is strongest when she steers clear of...

The Chemical Brothers: Push the Button (Astralwerks).(Sound Advice)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2005... THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Push the Button (Astralwerks) On their fifth album, this iconic club-music duo returns full force to the influences it flexed so thumpingly on its 1995 debut, Exit Planet Dust: hip-hop and acid house. But what a...

Adam Green: Gemstones (Rough Trade).(Sound Advice)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... ADAM GREEN Gemstones (Rough Trade) Adam Green has made a career of his sharply absurdist wit, most famously on the title track of his 2003 Jessica EP ("Jessica Simpson/where has your love gone/It's not in your music"). But on this, his...

Downtown: Downtown (Coup de Grace).(Sound Advice)(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2005... DOWNTOWN Downtown (Coup de Grace) Disguising Beatlesque song-craft beneath the cover of trippy electronic prog-rock production, this Detroit duo is the antidote to a world poisoned with pop-music cliches. Hints of John Lennon, David Bowie,...

Virginia Madsen: the sideways star returns to a curious place she visited almost 20 years ago: the spotlight.(Movie Comeback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... 15 With almost 60 film and TV projects to her name, Virginia Madsen, who first broke onto the scene in 1984 with Dune and Electric Dreams, is once again basking in the spotlight, this time for her scene-stealing portrayal of Maya, the...

Jay Baruchel: he was led Zeppelin's most fervent fan in Almost Famous. Now he's attracting attention of his own.(Movie Tip)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... 16 Jay Baruchel is not a large man. Nor is he an intimidating man. But when the 22-year-old Montreal-bred actor was cast as a fledgling prize fighter opposite Morgan Freeman and Hilary Swank in Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, he...

Natassia Malthe: in her first big role she plays the kiss of death. Things can only go up from there.(Movie Scoop)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 17 Farrah Fawcett didn't just inspire Natassia Malthe to tease her hair and slip into a skintight outfit for her latest role. The Charlie's Angels star's performance in the 1984 TV movie The Burning Bed, in which the feathered blonde...

Sophie Okonedo: her breakthrough role has her taking on the weight of the world.(Movie Breakout)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 18 "I have always been drawn to stories about ordinary people to whom extraordinary things happen," says actress Sophie Okonedo. She could hardly have found a better example of such a story than the one told in her latest film, Hotel...

Preview: Constantine.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
February 1, 2005... Preview: Constantine (Warner Bros.) Directed by Francis Lawrence In this film adaptation of the fanboy-beloved comic book Hellblazer, Keanu Reeves finds himself in his own private hell, playing a chain-smoking, demon-decimating private...

Preview: Assault on Precinct 13.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2005... PREVIEW: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Rogue) Directed by Jean-Francois Richet This remake of John Carpenter's socially conscious and western-themed 1976 cult classic stars Ethan Hawke as Jake Roenick, a Detroit police officer holed up in a...

Preview: Hitch.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... PREVIEW: HITCH (Columbia) Directed by Andy Tennant In this romantic comedy, Will Smith plays Hitch, a lady-killing man-about-Manhattan who counsels hapless, decidedly unmetrosexual white guys in the ways of the fairer sex. Enter a fiery...

The Assassination of Richard Nixon.
February 1, 2005... REVIEW: THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON (ThinkFilm) Directed by Niels Mueller Evoking the disillusioned mood of mid-1970s movies like Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1973) and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), this film is based...

A Love Song for Bobby Long.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
February 1, 2005... REVIEW: A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG (Lions Gate) Directed by Shainee Gabel Steeped in the strange voodoo of New Orleans, this dark literary drama tracks a woman (Scarlett Johansson) who returns to reclaim her family home after her mother's...

Imaginary Heroes.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... REVIEW: IMAGINARY HEROES (Sony Pictures Classics) Directed by Dan Harris When older son Matt (Kip Pardue) commits suicide, the Travis family--already on the emotional fritz is thrown into complete disarray: Mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver)...

Born into Brothels.
February 1, 2005... REVIEW: BORN INTO BROTHELS (ThinkFilm) Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman In 1998, photographer Zana Briski traveled to Calcutta to investigate the lives of the sex workers in the city's red-light district and became transfixed by...

Nick Arvin: with Articles of War, a first-time novelist presents a portrait of war that couldn't come at a better time.(Book Tip)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... 19 At a time when many of his contemporaries are crafting self-referential memoirs, vengeful satires, and postmodern coming-of-age stories, 31-year-old writer Nick Arvin has chosen to follow the path of his literary predecessors for his...

Aquarius for all of us: this season, take the zodiac wheel for a whirl!(Style Flash)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Some astrologers would have you believe that if you are an Aquarian (like Anna Pavlova, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, and even Yoko Ono), then you should dress the part. The general consensus is that those born under the sign are...

The view from the top: as sure as a boomerang, the platform shoe returns this spring.(Trends Revised)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... The platform, the long-standing shoe of choice for glam rockers, geishas, and the vertically challenged alike, is the undisputed winner in this spring's fashionable footwear stakes. Introduced in the late 1400s as an overshoe to protect a...

Hope Davis: the always-true actress talks toppling expectations and taking the offbeat path with a fellow traveler.(Indie Heart-To-Heart)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 20 Some actresses make it a priority to look flawless in front of the camera. Hope Davis, it seems, has taken the opposite strategy, donning dowdy wigs and outsized glasses (American Splendor, 2003), taking on regional accents (About...

Elton's tip sheet.(The Critics Go At It--Music Opinion Page)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... INGRID SISCHY: It's our annual February special issue. So look into your crystal ball, Elton, and tell us what music is out there to give people heart. ELTON JOHN: Well, people are longing for albums with great songs that they can relate...

Shots in the dark: the reality of the rails may be all iron and steel, but when it comes to the movies, they're magic.(The Critics Go At It--Movie Column)
February 1, 2005... "The next train's gone," snaps the dotard ticket clerk (Moore Marriott) when his seedy new boss (Will Hay) turns up at the godforsaken Irish branch-line station he is to run, incompetently, in Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937). For all the sublime illogic...

Letter from the editor: February 2005.(view)
February 1, 2005... "Call down the hawk from the air," wrote William Butler Yeats early in the last century in one of his most vibrant poems, "The Hawk." Much has happened since he first published this piece in The Wild Swans at Coole, a collection of his work...

Topher Grace: what first began as a way to find the future Mrs. Grace now looks like the start of something big.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 21 As the earnest retro-everyman Eric Forman on the cult sitcom That '70s Show, Topher Grace has played the straight man amidst a dizzying flurry of short skirts, pot jokes, Ashton Kutchers, and Wilmer Valderramas. But in the movies, Grace...

Diana Ross: the woman who once sang "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" gets down to earth with the singer whose reputation keeps on climbing.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 22 ALICIA KEYS: So, they say we only need one person to believe in us in order to make it in this world. Others say it's the struggle of having no one believe in you and wanting to prove to them that you can make it that lights the fire...

Conor Oberst: the musical wunderkind from the plains of Nebraska is turning the land of blowing cornfields, big sky, and bleak winters into the epicenter of a rock 'n' roll ripple.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 23 It's fitting that Bruce Springsteen once recorded an album called Nebraska (1982), named after the home state of Conor Oberst. Like the New Jersey--born Boss before him, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter has emerged as a beacon in a...

The times of their lives: starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Andreas Wilson, and Wentworth Miller in pictures by Bruce Weber.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... 24 BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD BY DEBORAH TREISMAN SHE'S THE THIRD GENERATION IN A HOLLYWOOD DYNASTY, AND THE CHARISMA KEEPS COMING. BUT NO ONE CAN ACCUSE BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD OF WAITING AROUND FOR THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. INSTEAD, SHE'S BLAZING A...

Zaha Hadid: how do you answer critics who call you a diva? If you're architect Zaha Hadid, by creating buildings that cannot be ignored. Here, she speaks with fellow rafter raiser and every young architect's hero, Rem Koolhaas.
February 1, 2005... 27 The past few years have been big ones in the career of Zaha Hadid. Last March she was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, marking the first time a woman has been so honored. And in May 2003 her Rosenthal Center for...

Well-suited.
February 1, 2005... IN RECOGNITION OF THE BENEFITS OF SOMETIMES KEEPING THINGS BRIEF, INTERVIEW PRESENTS A VERY SPECIAL SPRING/SUMMER 2005 SWIMWEAR PREVIEW, AS MODELED BY THE MUCH-LOVED PLAYERS OF THE BEL AMI FILM PRODUCTION STUDIOS. 28-35 In this story:...

Manhattan in the moonlight.(Page 5)
February 1, 2005... Julian Schnabel and Bono in NYC for the Olatz store party, hosted by Interview. Ingrid Sischy. Sandra Brant, and Julian Schnabel. Drinks courtesy of Belvedere Vodka and GranGala Triple Orange Liqueur. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ian...