Interview articles from July 2003

Interview archives from July 2003

Letters.(includes 7 letters on a variety of topics)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... GREEN DAY? Dear Interview, Although crime-caper flicks aren't typically my schtick, having just read the interview between clever lad Seth Green and Macaulay Culkin [June 2003], I may have to rethink my summer movie priorities--this...

Mike Erwin: he flexes his stuff as "hulk jr." -- remember, you don't want to make him angry. (Movie Spotlight).(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Best known as the boy in the coma from the WB hit TV series Everwood, Texan Mike Erwin seems ready to bust out with his role as the young Bruce Banner in Ang Lee's The Hulk, now in theaters. If only he could get over his fear of the red...

Ludivine Sagnier: in a season of blockbusters and sequels, swimming pool is the little movie with a lot of splash. Meet its cannonball. (This Month's Movie Surprise).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... GRAHAM FULLER: You were sensual in Francois Ozon's Water Drops on Burning Rocks [2000], tomboyish in his 8 Women, and now you're promiscuous and needy as Julie in his new thriller, Swimming Pool. LUDIVINE SAGNIER: Yeah, Julie's very...

Trent Ford: introducing Trent Ford, this summer's new Romeo. (Movie Heat).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... With an old Hollywood name (if not the actual lineage) and a face that's launched a thousand products, occasional model Trent Ford is poised to make a name for himself in the movies with this month's How to Deal. Playing Mandy Moore's teenage...

Kristanna Loken: buff enough to stop Arnold in his Terminator tracks. (Movie Buzz).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Playing the new cyborg model in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines where she's programmed to take down Arnold Schwarzenegger's and Nick Stahl's characters and oh, all of humanity with them, Kristanna Loken is a killing machine. It wasn't...

Why don't you wear your shorts as long or as itsy-bitsy as you want? (Fashion Report).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... While watching the seasonal rise and fall of hemlines has long been a sport of women's fashion, this season gents get to note their own hems as they perform a similar curtain dance. For this summer, designers have proffered shorts in radically...

Caushun: music's most homophobic genre is about to get an awakening. (Music Rule-Breaker).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Three years ago, Caushun was styling the celebrity tresses of Jennifer Lopez and Renee Zeliweger. But after a call to a New York City radio station during which he was dubbed the "Gay Rapper," sparking a series of outrageous on-air appearances,...

Goapele: the boom box is her soapbox. (Music Spotlight).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Goapele Mohlabane's musical roots are as complex as her ancestral ones-she is the daughter of a South African freedom fighter and a Jewish German-American mother. Her debut, Even Closer [Skyblaze/RED/Sony] is a mix of jazz, funk, and soul...

Elton John's tip sheet. (Music Opinion Page).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... INGRID SISCHY: Okay, Elton, it's summer and the stereo is on. What are you listening to? ELTON JOHN: The White Stripes record, Elephant [V2 Records]. It's one hell of an album. I haven't heard a better rock 'n' roll album since Nirvana's...

The sequels. (Previews).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... The numerals and use of colons in the titles say it all: sequel season is heating up. And moviegoers face some burning questions on the way to the megaplex. In Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (Columbia), will Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and...

Alex and Emma. (Preview).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Warner Bros.) Directed by Rob Reiner If Alex (Luke Wilson) doesn't finish his new novel fast enough to pay off his gambling debts, he'll be in big trouble. Luckily, Emma (Kate Hudson), his gorgeous stenographer, can do a lot more than...

The hulk. (Preview).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Universal) Directed by Ang Lee As Dr. Bruce Banner, Eric Bana plays straight man to his own green Mr. Hyde, leaving Jennifer Connelly to assume the role of girlfriend, to another schizoid character brought to the screen by an Aussie....

Pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl. (Preview).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Disney) Directed by Gore Verbinski Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) as sexy swashbucklers, a dazzling damsel in distress (Bend It Like Beckham's Keira Knightley), swordplay, treasure, spooky villains, and a tropical...

I capture the castle. (Review).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Samuel Goldwyn) Directed by Tim Fywell Two sisters (Rose Byrne and Romola Garai) living in a dilapidated castle vie for the attention of two wealthy American brothers (Henry Thomas and Marc Blucas) to save their eccentric family from...

Swimming pool. (Review).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Focus Features) Directed by Francois Ozon When a repressed English mystery writer (Charlotte Rampling) retreats to her publisher's house in the South of France to bury herself in her work, the arrival of the master's wild, young...

Dirty pretty things. (Review).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Miramax) Directed by Stephen Frears In melting-pot London, Nigerian refugee Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers a disturbing blackmarket operation in the hotel where he works as a clerk. With co-worker and fellow illegal immigrant Senay...

The legend of suriyothai. (Review).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Sony Classics) Directed by Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol This DeMille-scale epic celebrates a 16th-century Thai princess who sacrificed love and life for her country. The visually sumptuous film intercuts spectacular battles with scenes...

Northfork. (Review).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... (Paramount Classics). Directed by Michael Polish Pegged on the 1955 flooding of a Montana hamlet to make way for a dam (and "progress"), this trippy elegy for a bygone West makes use of chiseled performances from manly faves James...

Jewel. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... 0304 (Atlantic) With enough catchy choruses, electronic blips, and lush imagery to throw even her most popsavvy fans into sugar shock, Jewel's fourth album is a swaggering departure. The songs are big, brash, and riddled with hooks. She...

Memphis Bleek. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... M.A.D.E. (Roc-A-Fella) This reaching third effort from Roc-A-Fella lieutenant Bleek is a diverse menu of rock, bhangra, and smooth R&B. Jay-Z makes the requisite cameo, but Trick Daddy and Lil' Cease are unexpected confetti. And never mind...

Northern state. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Dying in Stereo (Startime) High culture and kitsch are woven into raps about hot-topic politics and low-impact athletics on this all-girl hip-hop trio's debut. Long Island MCs Hesta Prynn, Guinea Love, and DJ Sprout give shout-outs to...

The mars volta. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... De-loused in the Comatorium (GSL/Strummer/Universal) Two afroed former members of the seminal noise rock group At The Drive-In take the maverick bent of their old band to untold lengths on this concept album about a mental breakdown. With...

Cafe tacuba. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Cuatro Caminos (MCA) This follow-up to the Mexican rockers' Grammy-bagging 1999 Reves/Yosoy is an end-run for rock's stylistic borders. With Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann on board, the quartet explores even grittier terrain of funk,...

Audio bullys. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Ego War (Astralwerks) Infusing brash dance beats with snarling attitude, the West London duo of Simon Franks and Tom Dinsdale had barely eked out their debut when they founded their own genre. Already dubbed "hooligan house," the album...

Michelle branch. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Hotel Paper (Maverick/Warner Bros.) Considering that her debut album, 2001's The Spirit Room, was written five years ago, Branch's sophomore effort is long overdue. While she again explores the staple issues of love, identity, and...

Death in Vegas. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Scorpio Rising (Sanctuary) Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes throw the kitchen sink onto the mixing board on this follow-up to The Contino Sessions (1999), which features a collection of reggae, dub, folk, and hip-hop-influenced dance...

The Neptunes & Star Trak. (Sound Advice).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Presents... Clones (Star Trak/Arista) Ubiquitous producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo conceive of a world in which they produce absolutely everything in urban music (which they nearly do) with this star-studded compilation. Featuring a...

Molto polo: the shirt with a thousand lives gets yet another. (July Look of the Month).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The polo shirt is one of those magical sporty staples that has managed to create a surprisingly flexible pedigree for itself. Sure, it remains a country-club favorite (and has been for decades), but the polo shirt has also had a not-so-secret...

Aaron Brown: CNN anchor Aaron Brown is covering the nightly news his way, and for a growing number of viewers that's the best news they've had all day. (TV Newsbreaker).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... BRAD GOLDFARB: Legend has it that your first day on the job at CNN was September 11, 2001, and that the events of that day began to unfold as you were heading into work. AARON BROWN: Yeah, that's the myth. In fact, I'd gone on the payroll...

Shots in the dark: summer. time for fireworks and beach movies--which are no longer simply fun-in-the-sun romps. (Movie Column).(Movie Review)
July 1, 2003... Is nothing sacred? Lizzie McGuire is the new Gidget and the Annette Funicello--Frankie Avalon beach-party movies have evolved into reality-TV spawn like The Real Cancun. But if it has taken 47 years for American beach flicks to replicate the...

Days between stations: as far from the trends as one can get, these acts make the ultimate connection. (Music Column).(Sound Recording Review)
July 1, 2003... Over the past months I found myself returning to the slow, hazy tunes on a pre-release copy of Nina Nastasia's Run to Ruin (Touch and Go). I'd get lost in its oddness: the way it felt as if it came less from anywhere in Nastasia's Hollywood...

Where's mae west when we need her? camille paglia on why we must restore the "H" factor-the humor and the humanness. (Culture Opinion Page).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... INGRID SISCHY: I wanted to start our conversation this month by referencing a show that's already off the air, thank goodness--ABC's Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People, in which contestants were analyzed, deconstructed, and...

All the dish: the darwinian theory of dining--survival of the fittest. (Food Column).(Restaurant Review)
July 1, 2003... In a town like New York, where it can sometimes seem as though new restaurants come and go faster than your waiter can recite the day's specials, it's easy to forget that dotted across the city's ever-changing landscape are a handful of...

Letter from the editor July 2003. (View).(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... Toward the end of musician Liz Phair's interview in this month's issue (beginning on page 62), the famously outspoken performer-whose much anticipated new album was just released-compares the music world as it appears to her now with the way it...

Gael Garcia Bernal: so far the films he has starred in have gotten the church up in arms, the censors all worked up-and a whole lot of people saying hallelujah!(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Two years ago I was in Madrid at the Palace Hotel with Javier Bardem and he asked me if I wanted to visit the set where a friend of his, a young actor named Gael Garcia Bernal, was filming Sin Noticias de Dios [opening next month]. I had seen...

Elizabeth banks: if her newest film, this summer's seabiscuit, lives up to its potential, the movie's pint-sized thoroughbred might not be the only one who ends up in the winner's circle.(Interview)
July 1, 2003... A moment or two can be enough to start some actors' careers. Marilyn Monroe in the Marx Brothers' Love Happy (1949) and Sharon Stone in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) floated briefly across the screen. But in those moments viewers...

Andy Roddick: the two stadium-packin' headliners--one a legendary tunesmith, the other, tennis's next legend in the making--talk work and play.(Elton John interviews tennis player)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... ELTON JOHN: Andy? ANDY RODDICK: How are you? EJ: I'm good. I'm happy to be interviewing you. You know, I identify with tennis players because they live the kind of existence I did--out of a suitcase, hardly ever going home. How do you...

Liz Phair.(interview with rock musician by Ben Lee)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... A DECADE AFTER THE RELEASE OF HER SEMINAL ALBUM, EXILE IN GUYVILLE, LIZ PHAIR HAS ACHIEVED EVERY POSSIBLE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS--PERSONAL, CRITICAL, MUSICAL--SAVE ONE: COMMERICAL. AND NOW THAT SHE'S OVERCOME HER CAREER-IMPAIRING STAGE FRIGHT,...

The guy of summer.(summer fashion for John Haritan)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... JOHN HARITAN, A DEFENSIVE BACK FOR FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY'S FOOTBALL TEAM, DEMONSTRATES A SIMPLE APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF AIR-CONDITIONING...THROUGH FASHION. HERE, MR. HARITAN WEARS SOME OF THIS SEASON'S COOLEST SWIMSUITS, BRIEFS,...

Ellen Degeneres.(comedian interview with Alanis Morissette)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... TOTALLY OVER THE LOOPY GIRLFRIEND SAGA, AND ABOUT TO TICKLE RIBS AGAIN WITH A BUNCH OF VARIED NEW PROJECTS, HERE THE COMEDIAN OPENS UP ABOUT THE FUNNY AND UNFUNNY STUFF--AND DECLARES WAR ON FRENCH MAINCURES. ALANIS MORISSETTE: Hi! How are...

Shining beacon: thinking big. thinking out of the box. thinking art. interview talks to the director of a brave new museum.(interview with Michael Govan, director of Dia museum)(Interview)
July 1, 2003... INGRID SISCEY: Congratulations on the new Dia museum in Beacon, New York. The amount of media attention on it has been phenomenal--which is terrific for the art, much of which is still very unknown, no matter how great it is. I found myself...

P-art-ay! (Page 5).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... On April 10, Louis Vuitton Creative Director Marc Jacobs, along with Interview's Sandra Brant and Ingrid Sischy, hosted an opening at NYC's Marianne Boesky Gallery for artist Takashi Murakami. It was one of those electric NYC evenings, an...