Interview articles from June 2007

Interview archives from June 2007

Even educated fleas do it.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... Dear Interview, Your piece on the Bird and the Bee [March 2007] was f--excellent. I had never heard them before, and now I just f--love them. Inara George is f--beautiful and her voice is as well. I would like to be her f--boyfriend. I...

The way you look tonight.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... Dear Interview, I was wondering why there was nothing on the website about Elton John's 60th birthday party. I was lucky enough to attend his anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden and was absolutely thrilled with the show. It was...

The department of special requests.(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... Dear Interview, Your idea of devoting a whole issue to Elizabeth Taylor was very unique--reminiscent of the early clays of Interview, when it featured publicity stills of actors and actresses. I was hoping you would honor Andy Warhol by...

The forest through the trees?(Letter to the editor)
June 1, 2007... Dear Interview, While I enjoyed the March 2007 cover photo of Brad Pitt, I have to say I was disappointed that he was the one chosen for the cover. We are already saturated with magazine stories about beautiful big-name megacelebs and...

Correction.(Correction notice)
June 1, 2007... Due to a transcription error, on page 92 of the April 2007 issue Molly Shannon is misquoted regarding the genesis of the Monica Lewinsky character she portrayed on Saturday Night Live. The line should have read: "A body with a beret. A little...

Cyndi Lauper: the always colorful singer does what she has always done: she takes a stand and sings her heart out for it.(JUNE VIEW WOMAN)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... Cyndi Lauper skyrocketed to fame in 1984 on the strength of her four-octave vocal range, zany persona, ragtag wardrobe, and multicolored hair. In the intervening decades her seemingly do-it-yourself image and icon-oclastic career have attracted...

The view: British rock is having another big moment--and this foursome's panoramic tunes are at the epicenter.(THIS MONTH'S ONES TO LISTEN OUT FOR)(rock bands)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Say what you want about Pete Doherty, but as he has exhibited in his well-documented romantic life, he still knows a prime catch when he sees one. It was no different when he heard a demo of songs by the View, a scrappy young rock 'n' roll...

Carly Schroeder: when she told the casting guns behind her breakthrough movie that she'd wrestled against--and beaten--guys who were years her senior, they knew they'd found their secret weapon.(JUNE FORECAST)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... In Gracie, the tale of one teenager's efforts to give girls the opportunity to play competitive soccer, actress Carly Schroeder was faced with the dual challenges of learning the sport and bringing to life the story inspired by the woman who...

Bright idea: high-visibility beauty.(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Everybody knows that red means "stop," green means "go," and Day-Glo means "pay attention." Adopted across the board from punk rock and pop art to surfing and packaging design, fluoro's energetic brightness says, "Look at me" in all languages....

Chrisette Michele: the voice? Big. The sound? Genre-busting. The potential? Enormous.(MUSIC SCOOP)
June 1, 2007... Imagine stepping into an elevator with Alicia Keys, Astrud Gilberto, and Sarah Vaughan. Then imagine the three divas morphing into one all-consuming whirlpool of soul-fevered vibrato and you'll begin to understand the sound of Chrisette...

Seth Rogen: so who do you want to call to get the scoop on the burgeoning phenomenon of comedy's bright and burly new crown prince of onscreen slackers? A ghostbuster, of course.(COMEDY LIVE WIRE)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... When it comes to comedy, Seth Rogen certainly has his bona tides: As a baby-faced teen he appeared in two of this decade's late, lamented (and most critically acclaimed) television comedy series--Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared; he was...

Sarah Polley: actors who say they want to direct are a dime a dozen--but ones who make movies like hers are few and far between.(CROSSING BOUNDARIES)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... With her high, intelligent forehead, and wide, clear eyes, Sarah Policy was anointed by nature to be on camera--she has the face for it. But it's not just the look, or a look, that she halls a 9-year-old, her curious, piercing stare in Terry...

Eli Roth: a charter member of the splat pack, Eli Roth is riding a wave of over-the-top guts and gore. Elvis Mitchell goes in for the kill.(DIRECTOR PROFILE)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... Writer-director Eli Roth's trademark as a filmmaker--easing viewers into his films by meticulously and often hilariously developing character and milieu before the floodgates of gore open--tends to be obscured by the fact that he's so...

Swim siren: come on in, the water's fine.(FASHION SPLASH)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... The bathing-beauty pinup endures as an icon of playful, arched-back sensuality. For summer, designers are taking a cue from the swimsuitclad sirens of Hollywood's golden age to make waves of the Esther Williams variety. Prada's runway featured...

Elephant dancing: the who, the what, the wow, and the why in music and around it.(SOUND ADVICE AND MUSIC PICKS)
June 1, 2007... 1 MICHAEL THOMAS Man Gone Down (Black Cat) In this stupendously jittery novel, the narrator, with no idea how to make it to the end of the week when the bills come due, walks into a Brooklyn club on amateur night. AI Green is on the...

Live Free Or Die Hard.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Preview: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (20th Century Fox) Directed by Len Wiseman There's always a risk when you drag an old favorite out of the vault, dust it off, and set it loose. Just look at Rocky Balboa. But perhaps with Die Hard's John...

Evening.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Preview: EVENING (Focus) Directed by Lajos Koltai Based on a book by Susan Minot and with a screenplay adapted by Minot and Pulitzer Prize--winning novelist Michael Cunningham, Evening tells the story of Ann (played at different points in...

La Vie En Rose.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Review: LA VIE EN ROSE (Picturehouse) Directed by Olivier Dahan Marion Cotillard lunges, with teeth and talons bared, into the role of French chanteuse Edith Piaf in this resolutely old-fashioned biopic that transcends its slightly...

I Don't Want To Sleep Alone.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Review: I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Strand) Directed by Tsai Ming-liang One of the greatest living directors you might never have heard of, Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang (2001's What Time Is It There?) has been making exquisitely...

12:08, East Of Bucharest.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Review: 12:08, EAST OF BUCHAREST (Tartan Films) Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu won the Cannes Film Festival's Camera d'Or as best first film for his melancholic and humorous investigation into his...

Once.(Movie review)
June 1, 2007... Review: ONCE (Fox Searchlight) Directed by John Carney Winner of the World Cinema Audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Once somehow manages to be both unassuming and overblown, getting by mostly on breezy charm. A Dublin...

Fans of Chet Baker and Bruce Weber have reason to be the opposite of "Almost Blue.".(NEWS FLASH)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Fans of Chet Baker and Bruce Weber have reason to be the opposite of "Almost Blue." Weber's classic documentary, Let's Get Lost (1988), about the hipster jazz genius with the unmistakable voice, is being re-released with a newly restored print....

All the dish: welcome to the clubhouse.(FOOD COLUMN)(Morandi)(The Waverky Inn & Garden)(Cafe Cluny)(Restaurant review)
June 1, 2007... New York City may be populated by people who arrived here with nothing, only to find themselves the proverbial king of the world a decade or two later, but it's still a place where velvet ropes and secret handshakes are part of the social...

Shots in the dark: the enduring, complex legacy of John Wayne.(Column)
June 1, 2007... In John Ford's The Searchers (1956), Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) and Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter) have been searching the south-western deserts for Ethan's nieces, who've been abducted by Comanches. After they learn the eldest has been raped...

Letter from the editor June 2007.(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... Almost 16 years ago Interview ran a piece on Adrienne Shelly, who was then a 25-year-old actress starting to make it. At the time she'd been in one feature film, Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth (1990), and was about to appear in Hartley's...

Kerri Russell.(Interview)(Cover story)
June 1, 2007... YES, SHE WAS A MOUSEKETEER. YES, SHE WAS IDOLIZED BY MILLIONS OF TEENS. BUT WHEN THE GRIND OF LIVING UP TO EXPECTATIONS HAD KERI RUSSELL HEADED FOR BURNOUTSVILLE, SHE WENT SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING OFF THE MENU--AND WHAT SHE'S SERVING UP NOW IS...

From the Interview archives: a conversation with Adrienne Shelly.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... In the August 1991 issue of this magazine an interview ran with Adrienne Shelly, then an up-and-coming actress with considerable buzz behind her name. The writer back then, Henry Cabot Beck, quoted Shelly as saying, "I'm a little illogical and...

Two sides of Rufus.(Wainwright, Rufus)(Interview)
June 1, 2007... ANYONE WHO KNOWS RUFUS WAINWRIGHT KNOWS THAT A PERFORMANCE BY HIM IS OFTEN A FAMILY AFFAIR, WITH HIS MOTHER, SISTER, AND COUSINS SHARING HIS STAGE. IN THAT COLLECTIVE SPIRIT, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS NEW ALBUM, RELEASE THE STARS, INTERVIEW WENT...

In a galaxy not so far, far away.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Practically everybody and their robot's mother has at one point or another predicted what tomorrow will look like. In fact, one might say that the future has a long history. This summer, designers are putting their stakes in looks that are both...

Felix Gonzales-Torres.(Interview SHOWCASE)
June 1, 2007... In his short but influential career Felix Gonzalez-Torres who will represent the United States at the upcoming Venice Biennale (June 10 through November 21), strove to complicate the reception of his art. At times he achieved this effect by...

The new pop A-list: 50 to watch: (age 30 or under).
June 1, 2007... SURE, THE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKES AND SCARLETT JOHANSSONS OF THE WORLD HAVE STILL GOT OUR ATTENTION--BUT THE FOLKS ON THE LIST BELOW ARE NIPPING AT THEIR HEELS. HERE WE PRESENT, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, OUR WIDE-RANGING ROLL CALL OF THE YOUNG,...

Kelly Rowland: with her rump-shaking, dance floor-quaking new solo album, Ms. Kelly, the former Destiny's Child better says good-bye to girl-group life and hello to taking matters into her own hands.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... "I respect and love Destiny's Child, and it's a part of my history, but I want to be able to stand on my own."--Kelly Rowland This page: Kelly Rowland wears a dress by LOUIS VUITTON. Shoes by CESARE PACIOTTI Opposite: Dress by RALPH LAUREN...

Crazy love: when Linda Riss met Burt Pugach, he was a successful lawyer who very quickly swept her off her feet. The rest is history, and their story makes for one of the wildest rides to ever hit the screen.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... Burt Pugach and Linda Riss seemed like a perfect match. Burt was a wealthy lawyer who had just produced his first movie and was never at a loss for impulsive fun-making; and Linda, enamored with the world that he opened up to her, was eager to...

Ellen Barkin: the woman who spices up this month's Uber-male-dominated Heistfest, Ocean's Thirteen, talks comebacks, left turns, and Nachis with the legend whose last interview was a 2,000-year-old man.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... CARL REINER: Ellen! How are you? ELLEN BARKIN: Hi Carl. I'm so happy you agreed to do this. CR: Are you kidding? This is fun. One of the things I do in life that I haven't done in a while is interview people. The 2000-Year-Old Man was...

Paging Ellen Page: want brave, honest, quirky? Here she is.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... A quick survey of 20-year-old Ellen Page's work to date leaves little wonder why she's generating the kind of buzz she is. For one thing there's the scope of her very obvious talent--a sensitivity and mutability that first got her noticed as a...

Adrian Grenier: as a kid, what Entourage star Adrian Grenier knew about his father mostly limited to things his mother told him. But in his new documentary, the actor shares what happened when he went looking for the truth.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... For the last seven years Adrian Grenier, costar of HBO's Entourage and the love child of a pretty, strong-willed New York woman and a taciturn Ohio man, has been keeping a film record of his efforts to connect with his father. Since Grenier's...

His song.(Elton John)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... "Can you feel the love tonight?" is a line that's become instantly recognizable from Elton John's hit musical The Lion King, and on an evening in late March tile love is exactly what the Rocket Man was feeling. That's because John was feted...