Interview articles from June 2008

Interview archives from June 2008

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June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My friend Benjamin Liu, whose job for a time was walking around with Andy, has a habit of talking about "the boss" in the present tense. He doesn't say, "Andy thought..." He says, "Andy thinks..." I've always...

Leven Rambin: girl about town.(SOAPS)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Eighteen-year-old Leven Rambin has never taken an SAT class or worried about a graduation dress. But the Texas-born actress and star of the daytime soap All My Children has quickly risen to the ranks of New York...

Chris Noth: the original Mr. Big talks to the man who played him on TV's Sex and the City (now on the big screen).(FILM)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even people unplugged from all media probably know by now that there's a new movie called Sex and the City high-heeling into cinemas. What even a few fans of the television show may not know is that the character of...

Hunter Parrish: straight outta plano.(FILM)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With the fourth-season premiere of Showtime's critical darling Weeds, Hunter Parrish reprises the role of Silas Botwin, the eldest son of a suburban-MILF weed pusher played by Mary-Louise Parker. It's going to be a...

Brittany Snow: she's got sunshine in her past and flurries in her future.(FILM)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The city of Tampa, Florida, has delivered more than just death metal and a Super Bowl win. It's also the hometown of actress Brittany Snow. Last year, 22-year-old Snow appeared in the remake of Hairspray. This year,...

Tracie Egan: introducing your new favorite Internet slut.(BLOGS)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tracie Egan may not be a household name, but her alter ego, Slut Machine, is a Web sensation. The 29-year-old writer and former editor at the feminist magazine Bust first began to garner blogosphere buzz when she...

Bill Maher: with his new film, Religulous, the comedian presses the world's oldest, hottest button.(COMEDY)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Avoiding controversial, difficult, or polarizing subject matter has never been Bill Maher's strong suit. So it's appropriate that for his latest project the comedian would take on what is perhaps the most divisive...

Scarlett Johansson: on putting on her porkpie hat and tackling Tom Waits.(MUSIC)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When the news broke that Scarlett Johansson had recorded an album of Tom Waits songs, questions abounded--most commonly, "Why?." But here it is, Anywhere I Lay My Head (ATCO/ Rhino), an atmospheric, almost art-rocky...

ModRocket: making the best of being born in the wrong decade.(MUSIC)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Back in 2005, then-15-year-old Alice Blythe and her friends formed their band, ModRocket. Almost immediately--and, it would seem, inevitably--the all-girl quartet's gritty, vintage-rock-inspired sound got them lumped...

The Fleshtones: garage rock of ages.(MUSIC)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Surviving three decades of dank bars, bad career choices, fast music, and themselves is no small feat. But "America's Garage Band," the Fleshtones, are back with their 19th album, Take a Good Look (Yep Roc). ...

Patrick Robinson: minding the gap.(FASHION)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... As reality IV sage Heidi Klum so famously puts it: In fashion, one day you're in, and the next, you're out. These days, Patrick Robinson is in at the Gap, where he's been executive vice president for the ailing giant since last May. While some...

Keith Sonnier: the art world's free radical prepares to enter his stadium-rock phase.(ART)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Keith Sonnier's sculptural works have been changing people's perceptions about what art is or might be for the past 40 years. With several major shows this spring, Sonnier once again asserted his magisterial position...

Sunglasses: retro-styled sunglasses for all your alter egos.(STYLE)(Brief article)(Photograph)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOP ROW (FROM LEFT): SUNGLASSES BY BURBERRY. SHIRT BY CALVIN KLEIN. TIE BY BLACK FLEECE BY BROOKS BROTHERS; SUNGLASSES BY DRIES VAN NOTEN BY LINDA FARROW. SHIRT BY MARC JACOBS; SUNGLASSES BY BOTTEGA VENETA. SECOND...

Julien D'ys and Tom Pecheux: what's black and white and red all over? Hair and lips.(BEAUTY)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] French hairstylist Julien D'Ys and makeup artist Tom Pecheux are two of the fashion world's most sought-after creators. Their work with Yves Saint Laurent creative director Stefano Pilati for YSL's fall/winter 2008...

Hugh Laurie: the house-master gets quizzed about ex-girlfriends, the perks of fame--and what ever happened to his MG convertible.(TELEVISION)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Everyone knows Hugh Laurie as the gruff, witty physician Dr. Gregory House on the Fox TV series House M.D. But there's much more to the 49-year-old actor. For example, like his father, Laurie was a champion rower. He...

Marc Jacobs: what's art? What's fashion? A business artist blurs the boundaries.(Interview)(Cover story)
June 1, 2008... Marc Jacobs is a fashion designer who's changing the meaning of that job. He does what an ordinary superdesigner does, i.e., create fashion-changing clothes for his own labels and for a great French house, but he also does so much more. His...

Warhol memorabilia philia: our pop archeologists dig into the vaults of the Andy Warhol Museum.
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Andy Warhol's huge artistic output has been documented and catalogued with care and precision. But when it comes to Andy Warhol's huge collection of stuff, which in a way can be seen as another body of artwork, we've...

Billy Name: who named the factory painted it silver? Took the photos ]hat made everybody move to New York? His name was name.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Billy Name, ne William Linich, was one of Andy Warhol's most crucial co-conspirators. He painted the first Factory silver, helped name it "the Factory," introduced Andy to many of his superstars, assisted on the...

Rene Ricard: Warhol superstars are a bit like titanic survivors, but this poet and painter still has his famous wits about him.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although he acted in only two Warhol films, Rene Ricard was one of Andy's most brilliant superstars. As an actor he's best known for his role in Eric Mitchell's Underground U.S.A. Ricard is an acclaimed poet with...

Brigid Berlin: superstar, Andy's closest confidante, and an artist in her own right "B" talks to Warhol's friend and business manager about factory days.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vincent Fremont and Brigid Berlin were probably the people closest to Andy for the longest time. Brigid was "B" to Andy's "A," in books and in real life--his favorite phone friend. She started out as Brigid...

Taylor Mead: Warhol's first movie star talks about acting, sleeping with Montgomery Clift, and how he could have warned Andy if only he read his mail.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Writer and actor Taylor Mead's turns in Ron Rice's seminal experimental film classic, The Flower Thief (1960), and, later, as Tarzan in Andy Warhol's Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964) went a long way toward...

Mary Woronov: the sexiest, darkest superstar talks about Warhol's early films.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mary Woronov first made her mark--more like a vivid scar--in Andy Warhol's early films and her star turn as Hanoi Hannah in Chelsea Girls (1966). She wielded a mean whip, dancing with Gerard Malanga in the Velvet...

Andy's girls: mirror, mirror on the wall what will superstars wear this fall?(Photograph)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BRENNAN IS MR. WARHOL: JACKET BY SALVATORE FERRAGAMO. SHIRT BY SAINT JAMES PANTS BY KENNETH COLE NEW YORK. SHOES BY Z ZEGNA. VINTAGE BELT FROM MELET MERCANTILE. GLASSES BY SELIMA OPTIQUE. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED]...

Pat Hackett: Andy Warhol's gal Friday talks about her boss's odd work habits and her career as amanuensis, screenwriter, and co-author.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One September afternoon in 1968, Pat Hackett took the subway down from the Columbia University campus in Morningside Heights to Union Square in lower Manhattan. She went to No. 33 on the west side of the square and...

Paul Morrissey: the director of Warhol's best known and most commercial films goes on record about their work and his old partner's talents and weaknesses.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Morrissey directed a dozen films that were produced by Andy Warhol, starting with Chelsea Girls in 1966 and ending with Blood for Dracula in 1974. During this time, Warhol's films went from definitely...

Paige Powell: if Warhol had a wife, it would have been the quirky associate publisher of interview, a favorite date and a power behind the scenes.(FACTORY WORKERS: WARHOLITES REMEMBER: SEX, DRUGS, SILKSCREENS, XEROX MACHINES ...)(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Born and bred in Portland, Oregon, Paige Powell came into Andy Warhol's life in the early '80s when she moved to New York and was hired as an advertising associate at Interview. Very quickly, Powell shot up the ranks...

Seeing Warhol: 14 artist reflects his vision, and dozens of friends remember him.
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION OF ANDY? FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: A MIRROR WITH EYES. NICK RHODES (DURAN DURAN): MEETING PEOPLE YOU ADMIRE IS A DANGEROUS SPORT, AND, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, YOU END UP WOUNDED. WITH...

Giorgio Armani: artists love artistry, so Andy Warhol loved making portraits of great creators. An iconic subject reflects on his image.(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Giorgio Armani first met Andy Warhol in 1980, the fashion designer had just begun a new phase in both his life and his career. Armani had stepped out on his own several years earlier with a succession of...

Andy Warhol: June 1977: interview editor Glenn O'Brien interviews the boss, who created interview and interviewed the stars.(Interview)
June 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] This interview was conducted at the third Factory, at 860 Broadway. It took 90 minutes--the time of one tape. I had thoughts about some of the questions, but mostly the interview was improvised. Andy was really on...

Society pages: nightlife might not be the same since Andy died, but its still a lot of fun.
June 1, 2008... I first met Andy Warhol in the early '80s with Marci Klein, Calvin's daughter, who is now the Emmy-winning executive producer of 30 Rock. A senior at Dalton, Marci wore thick wool socks and puffy skirts, and she had a bodyguard because she'd...