Interview articles from March 2004

Interview archives from March 2004

Still pretty baby.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Francesco Scavullo, Richard Avedon, George Hurrell, David LaChapelle, Horst P. Horst, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patrick Demarchelier, and now Matthias Vriens are each responsible for creating some...

Department of alternative career planning.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Interview, One of the big delights for me in watching House of Sand and Fog was discovering the terrific acting of a performer I had never before heard of--the Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. So imagine my pleasure when I opened...

Mac is back.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Thanks for doing an article on Macaulay Culkin. It's refreshing to read about an entertainer who cares more about his work than he does about public approval. JARRETT LEE Seattle Dear Interview, Among the many...

Not just Wednesday--but Saturday night too.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Just got February's rag. Awesome. I really enjoyed Brad Goldfarb's interview with Christina Ricci. She comes across as well-rounded, mature, and unpretentious. And Matthew Rolston does a fabulous job of capturing how...

The request line.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I absolutely love opening your publication every month and finding so many artistic/pop-cultural icons gracing your pages. I do, however, have a suggestion of my own: How about a feature on BT, the electronica recording...

Evan Rachel Wood: not since 12-year-old Jodie Foster's turn in Taxi Driver has a kid made jaws drop the way Evan Rachel Wood did in last year's Thirteen. But that was just the beginning.(Newcomer On Everyone's Lips)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... If every young actress is looking for that one white whale of a part to kick-start a credible adult career, then Evan Rachel Wood just might have found hers in last year's girls-gone-wild sensation Thirteen. The wide-eyed beauty electrified...

Will Kemp: when he danced he dared to take unexpected turns and great leaps. Bets are he'll do this again in his next life as an actor.(Inter Man)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Every once in a while advertisements can be downright hypnotic--inflicting sudden cravings, popularizing insipid jingles, or in the case of last year's Gap campaign featuring a disheveled Brit named Will Kemp, setting hearts on fire. "Bizarrely...

Vito Schnabel: he could be the next great art dealer, but first he has other things to do--including college.(Tomorrow's Guy With The Eye)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... For nearly a month, thousands of people heading uptown from the Holland Tunnel were treated to a grand artistic display courtesy of a 17-year-old New York City native. No, it wasn't the new graffiti pieces painted on the exterior of the...

Elbow: these soulful art rockers aren't just drawing crowds--they're moving bodies.(This Month's Big Noise)(Guy Garvey interviewed)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Six years ago, at a tiny festival for unsigned artists in Manchester, England, two bands performed on the same bill: One, the melodic art-rock quintet Elbow, went on to burn through two record labels, twice record their ambitious debut album,...

Windswept and wonderful: this year optimism is the most beautiful trend in fashion.(Look Of The Month)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... After the gloom and doom of 2003, the New Year is off to an optimistic start as the look and spirit of the wide-open prairie comes roaring back into fashion. Windblown hair and sun-kissed faces suggest the chin-up stick-to-itiveness that...

Romola Garai: her personal history reads like a Jane Austen novel. Now she's taking her adventures to Hollywood.(One To Watch)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... SCOTT LYLE COHEN: You've been working in the movies for a few years, mostly in BBC literary dramas and English period films like Daniel Deronda, Nicholas Nickleby [both 2002], and I Capture the Castle. Now you're co-starring opposite Diego Luna...

Regina Spektor: what the strokes have wrought.(Music Spotlight)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... New Year's Eve is singer-songwriter Regina Spektor's new favorite holiday. To usher in 2004, the 24-year-old Russian emigre landed in Las Vegas before a throng of revelrous hipsters to open for the Strokes. Her performance marked the...

Sondre Lerche: sunny California lounge pop from the land of endless winter nights.(Music Heat)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Given Sondre Lerche's penchant for crafting melodies as warm and breezy as a lazy summer's day, it's hard to believe that he hails from Norway--land of frail sunshine and dark death metal. But the 21-year-old singer-songwriter's remote location...

Neil Young: rock's legendary rabble-rouser certainly has some stories--perhaps none more intriguing than the one surrounding his new film, a musical morality tale. Jim Jarmusch gets the goods.(Music News)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... For some musicians, making revolutionary music is a goal. But for Neil Young, it's just a beginning. Nearly four decades into a career marked by constant innovation, the 58-year-old singer-songwriter may very well have outdone himself with his...

Norah Jones Feels Like Home.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Blue Note) A painstakingly vintage affair, Norah Jones's follow-up to 2002's Grammy-winning Come Away With Me might be called "totalitarian retro": Simmering quietly through folk, bluegrass, and blues, never screeching or stressed, the...

John Frusciante Shadows Collide With People.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Warner Bros.) Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante melds punk, funk, and gospel into one of the most spiritual pop albums since George Harrison's All Things Must Pass (1970). While the mercurial rock savant can't escape the...

Courtney Love America's Sweetheart.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Virgin) The power of Love is a curious thing: She can write lyrics like Rimbaud, sing like Lennon, and scream like a banshee--sometimes all at once. Her first solo album is a fraught rock epic shot through warm, searing California riffs,...

The Vines Winning Days.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Capitol) With the success of the Vines' debut, Highly Evolved (2002), the Australian quartet's front man, Craig Nicholls, garnered more notoriety for his public tantrums than for his innovative songwriting. This schizophrenic follow-up...

TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Touch and Go) On paper, this debut from the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, threesome looks the part: The drums are mostly loops, electroshock-haired Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner guests, and their soul-punk sound begs for remixing by a...

The Von Bondies Pawn Shoppe Heart.(A Sultry Singer, A Fiery Guitar Hero, And Rock's Real Deal)(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... (Sire) He may have received rock 'n' roll's most recent notable smackdown, at the hands of Jack White, but Von Bondies' front man Jason Stollsteimer--bloodied but unbowed--comes out swinging on this Jerry Harrison-produced sophomore...

The snow show: a crazy idea finally has its day, and artists and architects get to play.(The Nature and Culture Beat)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Finland's sky is being turned upside down this winter: Constellations normally seen above us appear floating in a large internally lit pool. Red-painted ice forms an 82-foot-long maze while a lantern made of ice stands nearly 33 feet tall....

John Waters: the den mother of society's weird and wonderful outcasts gets a hanging. Selma Blair asks the questions.(Showtime)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... SELMA BLAIR: I'm so glad New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art has put together this retrospective of your work [through April 15]. The show is mostly of your photographs, right? JOHN WATERS: There are a few movies I made when I...

Zuleikha Robinson: tired of cookie-cutter ingenues? Here's the antidote.(Movie Spotlight)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... On her first day on the Moroccan set of Hidalgo, Zuleikha Robinson saw thousands of extras in costume. "1 thought, I want to go home!" she recalls. No wonder, given the theater-trained actress was bowing in her first film lead, playing a...

Kristin Kreuk: attention Canada's new prime minister: if this actress writes you a letter, answer it.(Movie News)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... When Kristin Kreuk was 9, she wasn't into star worship. She was into trees. She wrote to the prime minister of Canada, then Brian Mulroney, asking him to help save the Brazilian rain forests. Now 21, the actress, who plays Lana Lang on TV's...

Tom Hardy: last year, he was named outstanding newcomer to the London stage. This year, he's hoping the accolades will follow him across the Atlantic.(Movie Tip)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Tom Hardy has been working in Hollywood for three years, but if he's not yet a recognizable face, it's because he was covered in mud in Black Hawk Down (2001), tucked beneath a helmet in Band of Brothers (2001), and masked in a bald wig and...

Hidalgo.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Touchstone) Directed by Joe Johnston Arabia, 1890. Accomplished American horseman-turned-circus rider Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) and his trusty steed, Hidalgo, kick sand in the faces of their hosts when he agrees to participate in...

Starsky & Hutch.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Warner Bros.) Directed by Todd Phillips Road Trip (2001) and Old School helmer Phillips takes you back in the day to the 1970s, when TV cops Starsky and Hutch ruled the streets of San Francisco. The casting of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson...

Spartan.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Warner Bros.) Directed by David Mamet Agent Scott (Val Kilmer) is a grizzled special-ops vet on the trail of the president's daughter in peril (Kristen Bell). Gung-ho but green Agent Curtis (Derek Luke) lights a fire under his superior,...

Broken Lizard's Club Dread.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar A serial killer is loose on a swanky island resort, and the staff must either solve the mystery or hide the massacres at the risk of losing their jobs. Starring the Broken Lizard comedy troupe...

The Girl Next Door.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (20th Century Fox) Directed by Luke Greenfield Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a dorky high schooler prepping for college. His boring life heats up when he starts dating the new babe in town (Elisha Cuthbert), but when she's revealed to be...

The Dreamers.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Sibling incest, menages & trois, and graphic sex land a major studio affiliate the first NC-17 rating in six years. While the '68 student riots erupt throughout Paris, a teenage brother and...

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (ThinkFilm) Directed by Lone Scherfig In the director's bittersweet, darkly witty follow-up to her heartwarming Italian for Beginners (2002), self-sacrificing bookseller Harbour (Adrian Rawlins) repeatedly stops his younger brother, Wilbur...

Good Bye, Lenin!(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Sony Classics) Directed by Wolfgang Becker A comatose East German socialist sleeps through the fall of the Berlin Wall and wakes in a new chapter of history. To protect the bedridden believer from a fatal shock of the new, her girl-crazy...

Noi.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... (Palm Pictures) Directed by Dagur Kari In bleak, beautiful rural Iceland, Noi, a rebellious teenage genius, wallows in boredom. When an ex-city girl who works at the local gas station inspires him to flee the small town, Noi finds himself...

Shots in the dark: the love-it-or-hate-it hot button of last year's film festivals finally gets its day in the theaters.(Movie Column)(Movie Review)
March 1, 2004... The torments inflicted on Frodo in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films and on Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ make them the purest depictions of martyrdom in recent cinema. But when it comes to provoking audiences to think...

Karole Armitage: it's hard enough to keep a dance company afloat, let alone keep in perfect step with the times for more than two decades. This still-radical choreographer has done both.(Dance Innovator)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Whether raising her arms to the heavens in arabesque or falling to the floor to slither like a serpent, movement--classical or bebop, Balanchine or breakdance--has been Karole Armitage's letter to the world. For just over a quarter century, she...

Kenneth Cole: how to succeed at designing clothes and redesigning the status quo. Artist Barbara Kruger, a seer when it comes to words and images, talks to the man who uses them brilliantly.(View Man)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... BARBARA KRUGER: I thought I would start our conversation by running something by you that you were quoted as saying once--that how a person looks is a self-fulfilling prophecy. This, to me, is a more complex take on how we put ourselves...

Splashion: what happens when you combine a dash of art, a dollop of fashion, and a stroke of genius?(Trend Watch)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Some things will never mix well. Take oil and water or Pink and Britney, for example. Other things, like art and fashion, can sometimes dance well together because their permutations are so endless that when they meet, the results can be as...

Glass slippers: Cinderella would have maxed out her credit card.(Style Latest)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Fashion loves a paradox, which may explain why some designers are turning to glass in all its fragile glory to give shoes a boost this season. With balls and flattened panes adorning sandals and stilettos alike, glass is hitting streets in more...

Tim Robbins: in 1981, he co-founded the theater troupe the actors' gang to bring a greater social conscience to the stage. More than two decades later, with the gang's production about the war in Iraq running in New York, he's still offering up grist for debate.(All The World--Staged)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... In the 11 years since Tim Robbins took the stage at the Oscars with partner Susan Sarandon and waxed political about the treatment of HIV-positive Haitians, he has become one of culture's most feared and fearsome entities: the opinionated...

Letter from the editor March 2004.(View)(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... We're always hearing and reading that today's worlds of music, film, art, and fashion are devoid of people with their own voices and visions, and full of manufactured, cliche-embodying stars. As you'll see, this issue contradicts that...

Charlize Theron: given the chance to show what she can do, this actress emerged not only with a great performance, but with a reminder of why acting is a great art.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Manacled, enraged, shrieking pleas and warnings, Aileen Wuornos was a favorite subject of American tabloids until her recent execution by the state of Florida. The public never got to see her humanity--one reason to be grateful for Patty...

Josh Groban: so how did Josh Groban manage to woo millions of hearts with just his set of prodigious pipes?(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Bringing the force and romance of a classically trained voice to contemporary love songs and ballads, Josh Groban sold more than five million copies of his heartfelt eponymous debut, attracting opera admirers and pop fans alike. His second...

Anna Faris: her send-up of celebrity vapidness in last year's Lost in Translation had audiences asking, "who is she?" but from her earliest days as a schoolyard loner to her accidental career in comedy, she's been surprising everybody, including herself, with her savvy moves.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Make 'em laugh. That's the quickest way up the Hollywood food chain, and that's exactly what Anna Faris has been doing, first by starring in the gag-a-minute Scary Movie series, and then by playing a daft Hollywood tart in Sofia Coppola's Lost...

Stripe out!(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... WHETHER BLACK OR WHITE, THICK OR THIN, CRISSY OR CROSSY, THIS SEASON THE STRIPE STRIKES BACK IN A BIG WAY In this story: Models: WILL PUCKET/IMG and VALERIE SIPP/Ford. Hair: FERNANDO TORRENT/L'Atelier NYC. Makeup: MARIEL BARRERA/Joe...

Heath Ledger: how does a young actor with smarts help his audience get over annoying details like his pinup factor? By throwing himself headfirst into roles that require more (and less) than a pretty face.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... No sooner did Heath Ledger arrive in Hollywood from his native Australia than some powers that be tried to stick him in a box and label him "cheesecake." Certainly his well-coiffed bravura turns in The Patriot (2000) and A Knight's Tale (2001)...

Blondie: with the music industry desperately in need of a shot of adrenaline, rock 'n' roll's first platinum punks are back to prove, once again, that for music to be popular, it need not be predictable.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... While there is an air of elegance to the name "Deborah," to everyone who experienced an awakening of sorts when Blondie first hit the global stage back in 1978, the blonde in one of the punk-rock era's most influential bands will always be...

Drama class.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... AS ALFRED HITCHCOCK ONCE SAID, "DRAMA IS LIFE WITH THE DULL BITS CUT OUT." THE DRESSES THAT WERE PARADED DOWN RUNWAYS THIS SEASON WERE A CELEBRATION OF ARTFUL DRESSMAKING... NOT TO MENTION THE ART OF MAKING AN ENTRANCE. Model: ERIN...

Samantha Morton: from a private life filled with unexpected turns to a career fueled by taking risks, this actress is no friend of convention, here, she compares notes with another performer who lives and works outside the box.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... After near-silent turns in Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Minority Report (2002) established her as one of the movies' bright young stars, Samantha Morton opened her mouth and opened eyes last year in Morvern Callar and In America. The latter,...

Neon nights.(Page 5)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2004... A sign of the times from the so8os dinner. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Petrie Wardell and Anita Sarko at the Spike Gallery in NYC for a private exhibition of some of Patrick, McMullan's so8os images. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Marisa...