Interview articles from February 2006

Interview archives from February 2006

Reese's pieces.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Interview, Thanks for the excellent interview of Reese Witherspoon [December/January 2006] by Ingrid Sischy. The interview took us, the readers, into the private life of one of America's favorite sweethearts. Reese, who has enormous...

Priorities and prejudice.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I really enjoyed the November 2005 issue, especially the Mira Sorvino interview. I'm glad she's still in the business--she's a great actress. The issue of human trafficking is really something our leaders should be focused...

More Tokyo to and fro.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Interview, Since letter writer Renee Newbold singled me out recently [November 2005], saying she was "infuriated" by my letter that "bashed" your Tokyo issue [June 2005], please let me respond. In questioning my annoyance that you...

Backwater blues.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I was so moved by the beautiful portfolio on New Orleans you so lovingly assembled in your December/January issue. The various images went a long way to capturing what it is about the city that makes it so special, as did...

Burnin' this and that!(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Interview, It was a pleasure to read the interview with Catherine Keener in the November issue--she is one of my favorite screen actors. Though the interview focuses on Ms. Keener's recent film work, it's worth noting that she is not...

Corrections.(LETTERS)(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2006... In the introduction to the interview with Michelle Monaghan in the November 2005 issue, the sexual harassment case that inspired the film North Country was described as involving female coal miners--in fact, they were iron miners. In the...

Rosson Crow: though she seems all rainbows and sunshine, this new artist's work will make you shiver.(ART ONE-TO-WATCH)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Rosson Crow's shiny, glowing paintings look like they've been left to mingle with some radioactive materials for too long. Many depict luxurious period rooms oozing with thick applications of shiny paint and sprayed with various shades of neon...

The citizens band: take a football team of creative multitaskers, a handful of singers, a couple of acrobats, and one pregnant supermodel, throw in a dollop of performance art, a dose of politics, and some Serious tightrope walking, and you've got a troupe for the times.(CABARET--ALIVE AND KICKING)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... At this very moment the laurels of New York City's avant-garde nightlife rest firmly on the head of the Citizens Band. The 20-plus-member theater troupe carries an emotional and visual jolt. Presented in the style of Weimar Republic cabaret,...

A conversations between two queens of the night--Los Angeles's doyenne of the after-dark, and New York's go-to woman for the witching hour sets in.(THE BATHTUB GIN RUNNERS)
February 1, 2006... AMANDA SCHEER DEMME The nightlife business is a tough one, especially in media-centric places like Los Angeles and New York City, where the winds of change seem to blow through town on an almost weekly basis. Nevertheless, Amanda Scheer...

The National Theater of the United States of America: the new players in the long story of the theater of the absurd.(THEATER TROUPE)
February 1, 2006... To watch the National Theater of the United States of America is to take a trip down the rabbit hole--jarring time shifts, fluid identities, and Dadaist slapstick come together in performances that are part surrealist sideshow, part avant-garde...

Nervous Splendor 1: the secret life of one of fashion's biggest secret weapons.(THE AGE WE LIVE IN)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... INTERVIEW: Most people know you as someone in fashion--you've worked closely with John Galliano, and for the last several years you've been by Karl Lagerfeld's side. How would you describe your role with Chanel? AMANDA HARLECH: As Karl's...

Arctic Monkeys: there's nothing primitive about this quartet's sound--full of snap, crackle, and snark.(MUSIC GATE-CRASHERS)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... On the strength of their debut single, the scrappy, snarky anthem, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," British rock band Arctic Monkeys have found themselves with almost lightning speed on top of the pop charts in their homeland. A quartet...

Yummy Bingham: her name rhymes with "tummy," but her songs come straight from gut.(MUSIC WHOOPIE-MAKER)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Part prepubescent femme fatale, part bona fide gangsta, Yummy Bingham has a voice that conveys both sensual vulnerability and seasoned self-assurance. "People say I'm an old soul, and I take that as a compliment," says the 20-year-old singer....

Reality star: makeup that looks like it isn't.(LOOK OF THE MONTH--IN BEAUTY)
February 1, 2006... Every era has its defining aesthetic, from jazz-age flappers with their shingled hair and boyish physiques to Hollywood sirens with their painted faces and girdled curves. Now that the stars have been brought down to earth by the plethora of...

Gold rush: panning for a 24-karat spring.(LOOK OF THE MONTH--IN FASHION)
February 1, 2006... Gold, the hue of Bond villain Auric Goldfinger's obsession, is the coveted precious metal that man strives for, pans for, mines for, and now can go to Burberry, Dior Homme, and Louis Vuitton for. There was gold in so many of the spring...

Be mine, valentine: fashion's got a whole lotta love.(FOR YOUR SNUGGLED PUP)
February 1, 2006... Longer lasting than flowers and less fattening than chocolates, dressing as your own Valentine is a sure way to show your love this February 14th. Wear your heart on your sleeve--or your wrist or your foot--with one of many literally lovely...

Lindsey Jacobellis: she's lightning fast, luckier than a four-leaf clover, and wears more scarves than Stevie Nicks--meet the winter olympics' new gold dust woman.(SPORTS DAREDEVIL)
February 1, 2006... When they start giving out gold at the Torino Winter Olympics this month, chances are you'll hear snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis's name booming over the PA system. Nicknamed "Lucky Lindsey," the 20-year-old Jacobellis won her third...

Two keen writer's debuts have got the buzz.(THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS)
February 1, 2006... ANA MARIE COX "People in this town have an insatiable appetite for being written about," says Ana Marie Cox, the 33-year-old editor of the saucy and irreverent Washington, D.C., gossip blog Wonkette. Call it Plamegate or...

Mary Elizabeth Winstead: as a nonbeliever in Mormon country, she was always on the outside. Now she's making a home on the fringes.(MOVIE CRUSH)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... There's a theory about actors that much of what drives them comes from experiencing life as outsiders. If that's true, then 21-year-old actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead got an early start at the age of 5, when her father relocated the family...

Natalie Dormer: the slice 'em, dice 'em scene-stealer who puts the edge in the screen's most talked-about corset flick.(MOVIE LIVEWIRE)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... Natalie Dormer's first big film role involves two of her favorite things: history and playing with long, shiny blades. The 23-year-old Londoner stars alongside Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller in Lasse Hallstrom's new 17th-century period comedy,...

Preview: The Pink Panther.
February 1, 2006... (MGM) Directed by Shawn Levy This reprise of Blake Edwards's old Pink Panther franchise finds Steve Martin stepping into Peter Sellers's considerable shoes as the bumbling French police inspector Jacques Clouseau. The plot revolves around...

Bubble.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2006... BUBBLE (Magnolia) Directed by Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh follows up the star-studded fashion show of Ocean's Twelve (2004) with this indie oddity, which traces the day-to-day banality of small-town life--or at least Soderbergh's...

Why We Fight.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2006... WHY WE FIGHT (Sony Classics) Directed by Eugene Jarecki Using Dwight Eisenhower's farewell speech as a springboard, director Eugene Jarecki's powerful essay film breathlessly rockets back and forth through 40-odd years of...

Manderlay.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2006... MANDERLAY (IFC) Directed by Lars von Trier A semi-sequel to Danish filmmaker-cure-rib-poker Lars von Trier's infuriating and brilliant 2003 film, Dogville, Manderlay is a trite, ludicrous political screed about democracy that blindly...

Shots in the dark: how two new westerns are leading the cowboy into new horizons.(MOVIE COLUMN)
February 1, 2006... Two movies currently in theaters dignify tender feelings between men--and carry us deep into the heart of loss. In Brokeback Mountain, the love shared by Wyoming cowboys Ennis (Heath Ledger) and Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) is sexual, romantic, and...

All the dish: of all the speakeasies in all the towns in all the world, we had to walk into these.(FOOD COLUMN)
February 1, 2006... Maybe it's a reaction to the anxiety-inducing times we're living in, or maybe it's the result of a collective nostalgia for the excitement associated with operating in the shadows, but in the last few years an increasing number of bars and...

Cat Power.(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... CAT POWER The Greatest (Matador) Recorded at Memphis, Tennessee's famed Ardent Studios, this latest offering from singer-songwriter Chan Marshall is a Southern soul concoction that goes down smooth, like a small-batch bourbon. Marshall's...

The Strokes.(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... THE STROKES First Impressions of Earth (RCA) It seems success has been no friend to Julian Casablancas. On this, the Strokes's third album, he's come up with some of his most morose lyrics yet, leaving behind the wry cynicism of the past...

Test Icicles.(For Screening Purposes Only )(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... TEST ICICLES For Screening Purposes Only (Domino) Excuse the pun, but most bands wouldn't have the balls to take on a moniker like Test Icicles. This London trio, though, has the cojones to back it up. Their debut delves into the world of...

SIA.(Colour the Small One )(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... SIA Colour the Small One (Astralwerks) Before her song "Breathe Me" served as the theme music for the closing minutes of Six Feet Under's final episode, Sia was one of those massive talents percolating in obscurity. But her star has never...

Elbow.(Leaders of the Free World)(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... Leaders of the Free World (V2) British rock band Elbow sometimes get pegged as followers rather than leaders: Critics have called them "Radiohead lite," and indeed, the title of their third long-player has a familiar Hail to the...

Rhett Miller.(The Believer )(Sound Recording Review)
February 1, 2006... Rhett Miller The Believer (Verve Forecast) Call him a hopeless romantic, but Old 97's front man Rhett Miller's second solo album starts out with him begging "Make up your mind, valentine" and ends with the dewy-eyed,...

Small talk: Camille Paglia on the new age of "Nervous Splendor".(CULTURE KLATSCH)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... INGRID SISCHY: I thought it would be great if our column touched on a subject weaving in and out of this special issue. Our working title for it is "A Nervous Splendor," after the book of that name by Frederic Morton about turn-of the-century...

Letter from the editor February 2006.(view)(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... With interviews, I often put a lot of stock in the last question. If it's the right one it can elicit a kind of uber truth from the subject. Camille Paglia, who, as most of you know, contributes a regular column to the magazine in the form of a...

James Franco: he's a brooding character actor locked in an old-time matinee idol's body. A fellow chameleon gets inside the mystery.(The Real McCoy)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... WILLEM DAFOE: Are you in the middle of working right now? JAMES FRANCO: I'm finishing another film I directed called Good Time Max. We completed the main shoot over the summer and have been doing some pickups, which we finished yesterday....

The five pointers: "so while you're imitatin' Al Capone": no style crimes here--only bang-up sure-shot fashion and smokin' flair.
February 1, 2006... This page: Pants with suspenders by by THOMAS PINK. Opposite page: Shirt DKNY. Hat by J.J. HAT CENTER. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Clothes by ETRO. Necklace by VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this spread (from left):...

Sienna Miller: with lightning speed, she's become one of the most talked about, lusted after, envied, and copied women in the world. Now she's got one casanova hitting theaters, another real-life one at home, and even bigger plans on the horizon. So what's her secret? The answer may be that Sienna Miller was made for these times.(The Cat's Meow)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... [Sienna Miller's house in London, late afternoon. I arrive an hour late; traffic was jammed all the way. Sienna's mum opens the door--she's beautiful, a little like Gena Rowlands. Jude Law is playing football in the garden.] SAM...

The jazzy cat Anthony Hamilton: like the barbershop in which he once worked, the music of singer Anthony Hamilton is full of smooth-talking characters and juke joint--read style.(Interview)
February 1, 2006... For more than a decade, Anthony Hamilton was one of soul music's best-kept secrets: a crooner in the mold of Bobby Womack who could inhabit a song as if he were slipping on a perfectly tailored pair of vintage pants, letting loose in all the...

We'll always have Paris: Interview asks Ms. Hilton for her tips on how to be the bee's knees at a party.(The Flapper)
February 1, 2006... HOW TO BE FASHION Fabulous I pick cute outfits for whatever mood I'm in, and you should dress for a party the same way. If it's a theme party, dress like the theme. For example, I was at a party for the new Xbox and I wore this outfit that...

C'est sheik: with fashion now you won't need to say a thing. Go for the dashing duds, speak with your eyes, and as with Rudolph Valentino, the great silent film star, they'll be swooning before you know it.(The Valentino)
February 1, 2006... Model: BRAD KROENIG. Hair: TERRY MILLET. Makeup: JAMES KALIARDOS/Art and Commerce. Retouching: LUDOVIC DHARDIVILLE. Photo assistants: XAVIER ARIAS, FREDERIC DAVID, OLIVER SAILLANT, and BERNWARD SOLLICH. Special thanks: KATHERINE MARRE and ERIC...

Dita Von Teese: with the wink of kitsch, the tease of sex, a 4-foot martini glass, and ambition to spare, she has become the 21st-century ambassador of burlesque--and an oh-so fashionable Mrs. Marilyn Manson to boot.(The Moll)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... If anyone thought that Dita Von Teese was just a passing character upon the pop culture stage, they'd be advised to take a closer look. With celebrated and attention-grabbing acts, a new book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese (Regan Books),...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: he's always had the smoldering good looks and swells of tempestuous talent to make hearts melt. So how come it took the movie's Kibbitzing King of neuroses to unlock it all?(THE HOTSY-TOTSY)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... Here's an insolent Renaissance prince for cocktail-hour chitchat in English country-house drawing rooms. In Woody Allen's Match Point, Jonathan Rhys Meyers gives his most gripping performance yet as Chris Wilton, a failed tennis pro who seizes...

All the world's a stage.(PAGE 5)
February 1, 2006... Jennifer Jason Leigh and Noah Baumbach at NYC restaurant Sascha for the party following the opening night of the New Group's production of Abigail's Party, hosted by Dunhill Fresh and Interview. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wallace Shawn at...