Interview articles from June 2006

Interview archives from June 2006

The notorious Gretchen Mol.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I wasn't really paying attention to who was on Hollywood's hot list a decade ago, so when the April issue of Interview with the beautiful Gretchen Mol on the cover arrived in my mailbox, I didn't view it from the...

The other side of the mountain.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I was so thrilled to see Michelle Williams on the March cover of Interview. The article by Graham Fuller and photographs by Max Vadukul are brilliant! There's just something special about Michelle Williams's acting sense. I...

A reader's tip.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I am a new subscriber to your magazine. I love your format and find it very refreshing. Since you seem to be cutting-edge on everything, and everything Indian seems to be in at the moment, I thought I'd request that you...

The mystery in the mix.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... Dear Interview, Discerning pop fans want to know what the heck was on that mix CD that Devendra Banhart made for Lindsay Lohan [April 2006]! I couldn't believe the interview concluded without it, when Devendra so obviously wanted Lindsay...

Thought for the day.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I'm a newbie to Interview magazine and wanted to share a thought: Does it get any better than listening to the soundtrack of the film Tango [1998] and perusing Interview with an early morning cup of the hot 'n' black? RS.:...

Hair today, gone tomorrow: the 'do for summer is short, sharp, and shocked.(hair styling trends)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Although chopping off all your hair isn't exactly a new idea, this season lopped locks are being refreshingly refashioned--more punk than pixie--at the hands of the world's top stylists. According to hair guru Ted Gibson, this time around the...

Che'Nelle: experimental pop songs that are bound for heavy rotation--and unbound by genres.
June 1, 2006... Part urbane songstress and part urban rapper, Che'Nelle is a natural-born genre buster. Growing up in the tiny village of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, where her family lived until they relocated to Perth, Australia, when she was just 10...

Mystery jets: spaced-out guitar solos, sing-along anthems, and one head-banging dad.(musical groups lead singer Blaine Harrison speaks about the beginning)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Eel Pie is a little-known British island in the River Thames that is steeped in musical history. In the early 1960s acts like the Who, the Yardbirds, and the Rolling Stones flocked to the Eel Pie Hotel to perform. "But all that disappeared in...

Eva Hesse: two summer exhibits showcase the lasting legacy of a shooting star of modernity.(ART LEGEND)
June 1, 2006... The timing of two shows on the work of artist Eva Hesse--one featuring sculpture, diaries, and background material at the Jewish Museum, the second focusing on works on paper at the Drawing Center--couldn't be better. It's hard to imagine...

Hugh Jackman: the world's gnarliest superhero and his X-Men director get down and dirty about scents, handmade shoes, and Sunday-morning pancakes.(TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... BRETT RATNER: On film you're a superhero, but in real life you're a family man. What's a typical weekend when you're not working? HUGH JACKMAN: I always make pancakes on Sunday morning. I make crepes. French. BR: So you're a cook? ...

Abbie Cornish: how an acting career that began with a wrong turn is about to take a star turn.(Interview PREDICTION)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Remember the name: Abbie Cornish. Her face, her ability to convey intensity onscreen through reticence, her unsettling blend of serenity and nerviness--these are unforgettable, in the recently released Somersault, Aussie writer-director Cate...

Rosie Perez: in a new documentary, the actress explores the meaning of all things Puerto Rican and finds plenty to be proud--and angry--about.(LENS ON THE WORLD)(Interview)
June 1, 2006... In the '90s Rosie Perez became moviedom's go-to Latina spitfire. But Perez has always been too independent and brainy to tone down her Puerto Rican roots just to put others at ease. So her first feature as a director--Yo Soy Boricua, Pa' Que Tu...

Ellen Page: how many teenagers could hold their own while wearing a leather suit and hanging 70 feet above the ground with Halle Berry? Ellen Page can.
June 1, 2006... Ellen Page was high off the ground, suspended on wires and about to be dropped 70 feet, performing a stunt for X-Men: The Last Stand. "I'm in a leather suit," says the 19-year-old actress from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's the most surreal thing...

Sam Huntington: paging Martha Stewart: the actor who plays the man of steel's new sidekick is big on restoring things--be they New England manors or the summer's most supersized blockbuster.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... It's fitting that Sam Huntington was chosen to portray Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen in this month's Superman Returns. "Jimmy is the everyman--innocent, happy-go-lucky, and eager to please," Huntington says of Clark Kent's faithful...

Bree Turner: clearly, the lucky bracelet she relies on to win over casting directors is working.(movie spotlight)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... In Just My Luck Bree Turner plays Dana, the straight-talking best friend of an incredibly lucky girl (Lindsay Lohan) who swaps fortunes with a star-crossed guy (Chris Pine). To refer to the movie as the Bay-area native's own lucky break would...

Spalding: Gray a new festival this month celebrates the uninhibited work--and inscrutable life--of the theater world's original king of pain.(Miranda July to priase the artist at a festival)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Spalding Gray's autobiographical spoken-word pieces--a mix of stand-up routine, university lecture, and psychotherapy session--cemented his place as one of the performance world's singular talents. On the occasion of two festivals that will be...

Charm school: take manners into your own hands.(STYLE COMEBACK)
June 1, 2006... What the world needs now is a little more charm. Amid all the Blackberry-buzzing, cellphone-ringing, and car-alarm-blaring, the art of grace has never been in shorter supply, which may be why jewelry and fashion houses such as Louis Vuitton,...

With love: in 1969--while social, artistic, and sexual revolutions rocked the culture--Cartier introduced a revolutionary two-piece bracelet that had to be locked together or unlocked by somebody else, preferably a loved one. Now it looks like lightning is about to strike twice.
June 1, 2006... In the summer of 1969 Carrier's Love bracelet, a solid-gold cuff studded with tiny screws, was designed by Aldo Cipullo. Inspired by medieval chastity belts, he created a two-piece bracelet that was bolted together with a separate screwdriver...

Style with sting: summertime and the fashion is bee-zy.(black and yellow combination trends in fashion)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... What's black and yellow and stylish all over? If we were to ask designers this season, they might answer, "You!" In nature a flash of black and yellow usually equals danger, but when seen through the eyes of Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, Oscar...

Various Artists: Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Verve Forecast) The late French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was a notoriously dirty man, both in his genre-bending, sexually charged songs and in his life. Appropriately, the sheer voracity with which some of music's hippest...

Corinne Bailey Rae: Corinne Bailey Rae.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Capitol) Living up to the title of the album's first track, the bluesy daydream "Like a Star," this newcomer from Leeds, England, debuted with a No. 1 album in Britain. Her pillow-soft vocals, soulful bedroom confessionals, and occasional...

The Stills: Without Feathers.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Vice) If someone were to erect an amusement park for pasty-faced rock bands, then the most popular attraction would be the Ian Curtis Roller Coaster of Doom. Swirling, majestic, and elegantly glum, it would be conveniently located near...

Peeping Tom: Peeping Tom.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Ipecac) Mike Patton rocketed to fame as the elastic-voiced front man behind Faith No More. Since then, Patton has been on a more avant path, seeing how far he can push his operatic pipes in collectives like Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, and...

Diana Ross: Blue.(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Motown/UME) This collection of previously unreleased standards isn't exactly new--it was recorded around the same time as Ms. Ross's star turn as Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings the Blues. Why these tracks were collecting...

Hot Chip: The Warning.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (DFA/Astralwerks) If Belle and Sebastian and Timbaland figured out a way to spawn a quietly rebellious love child, it would probably sound a lot like the U.K. duo of Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor, a.k.a. Hot Chip. The pair has always...

Alexi Murdoch: Time Without Consequence.(Sound recording review)
June 1, 2006... (Zero Summer) Cue up "Blue Mind" and prepare for a double take: Is this some long-lost Nick Drake outtake? Navel-gazing Scottish singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch's soft, tender vocals and contemplative lyrics call to mind the late great...

Elephant dancing: the who, the what, the wow, and the why.(MUSIC COLUMN)
June 1, 2006... 1 SARAH BERNHARDT L'Aiglon, from In Performance (no label) At the Jewish Museum in New York, near the end of the exhibition "Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama," which closed April 2, there was, after rooms of posters, costumes,...

Shots in the dark: in an era defined by information that travels faster than the speed of light, freedom still rings from the radio.(MOVIE)(Column)
June 1, 2006... The hullabaloo over First Amendment advocate Howard Stern's defection from AM-FM radio to the sat-caster Sirius highlighted the medium's vital role as a bastion of free speech, however vulgar. And however fragile: Long-term corporate impatience...

The Break-Up.(Universal Studios Inc. to launch a movie directed by Peyton Reed)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... PREVIEW: THE BREAK-UP (Universal) Directed by Peyton Reed Vince Vaughn stars with real-life love interest Jennifer Aniston in this romantic comedy about a couple on the rocks that refuse to move out of the condo they share. Whether the...

The Omen.(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.'s remake of a horror movie)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... PREVIEW: THE OMEN (20th Century) Directed by John Moore This remake of Richard Donner's 1976 classic tells the story of Damien Thorn (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick), the child of a wealthy American diplomat (Liev Schreiber) and his wife (Julia...

Lemming.(Movie review)
June 1, 2006... REVIEW: LEMMING (Strand) Directed by Dominik Moll German director Dominik Moll understands the mechanics of suspense. But, as in his laborious Hitchcock wannabe With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), a grabber of a premise here devolves into...

The King.(Movie review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... REVIEW: THE KING (ThinkFilm) Directed by James Marsh A maelstrom of incest, murder, and religious hypocrisy is unleashed when the mysterious Elvis (a creepy, American-accented Gael Garcia Bernal), freshly discharged from the Navy, travels...

Wordplay.(Movie review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... REVIEW: WORDPLAY (IFC) Directed by Patrick Creadon This documentary delves into the world of New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz--a realm that he presides over with Willy Wonkaesque brio, pontificating on the nature of...

This month's blockbuster question.(humorous comments on premise posed by the book "The Da Vinci Code")(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... How would the world be different if the premise of The Da Vinci Code--that Jesus and Mary Magdalene got married and had children together--were true? "Their offspring would be remarkable people, but if what we know is any indication, by...

Letter from the editor June 2006.(view)(Editorial)
June 1, 2006... If one was in New York City during the first half of April, it was hard to miss the drama of Molly, a black cat who got jammed behind a wall in the Myers of Keswick shop, a tiny Greenwich Village institution where folks with a taste for...

Lindsay Lohan.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... "I LOVE CHANGES," ANNOUNCES LINDSAY LOHAN. WHETHER MOVING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN BLONDE AND BRUNETTE, OR CHANGING OUTFITS THREE DIFFERENT TIMES DURING THE COURSE OF THIS YEAR'S OSCARS, THIS ACTRESS ON THE RISE IS ALREADY MASTERING THE...

The fiery furnaces: it's an old joke that most fledgling rock bands would sell their grandmothers for a record deal; this one made theirs the lead singer. Welcome to the weird, wonderful world of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... The Fiery Furnaces--singer Eleanor Friedberger and multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer Matthew Friedberger--are the most adventurous band in the country. Experimental is not the word; as David Thomas of Pere Ubu once put it: "We are not...

Black in: everyone celebrates the little black dress. But how about its summer cousin--the little black bathing suit?
June 1, 2006... Model: KAREN AMBRUS/Elite Models. Hair: YUJI KOJIMA/therexagency.com. Makeup: JAKE BAILEY/Solo Artists. Special thanks: 5TH AND SUNSET STUDIOS. Cosmetics by TOM FORD ESTEE LAUDER AZUREE COLLECTION. Hair products by RENE FURTERER, Fragrance: TOM...

Kuno Becker.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... WHEN HIS PARENTS SENT HIM AWAY TO MUSIC SCHOOL AT AGE 9, HE SPENT HIS RENT MONEY ON VIDEO GAMES AND HAD TO PLAY VIOLIN ON STREET CORNERS TO SURVIVE. WHEN THE DIRECTOR OF A NEW BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE TRILOGY DIDN'T WANT TO CAST HIM BECAUSE HE'D...

Deborah Harry: the woman who reinvented punk rock with a shot of Hollywood glamour talks about the new frontiers of feminism, fighting music-industry complacency, and how you can dye your hair red and still be the singer in a band called Blondie.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... ANA MATRONIC: How's everything going? DEBORAH HARRY: Good, very good. I'm getting ready to go out on another tour, and I'm working on a little show that's going to run at the Kitchen for a couple of weeks. It's called The Show (Achilles...

Color me crazy: the colors in the rainbow multiply this season as designers bring tint and tingle, hue and highlight, depth and dimension to fashion's palette.
June 1, 2006... This page: Dress by PRADA. Opposite: Dress by VERSACE. Boots by PRADA. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This page: Dress by DONNA KARAN COLLECTION Shoes by LOUIS VUITTON. Opposite: Dress by FENDI. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This page:...

Tracey Emin: as a girl, Tracey Emin would create dollhouses out of cardboard boxes and wall hangings that she'd stitch together by hand. Today her works still have that same homespun quality, but it's the in-your-face, no-holds-barred way they speak about her inner life that brings down the house.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... Tracey Emin is a daring artist, though not necessarily for the reasons many people might initially think. Certainly it takes a kind of bravado to create a work that incorporates the name of every single person you have ever slept with, as one...

Bedfellows and soul mates.(PAGE 5)
June 1, 2006... 1 Susan Sarandon at the Maritime Hotel in NYC for the reception following the "Bring 'Em Home Now!" concert. 2 Larry Tee at the "Bring 'Em Home Now!" party. 3 Devendra Banhart and Tahiti at the "Bring 'Em Home Now!" party. 4 Rufus Wainwright...