Interview articles from March 2005

Interview archives from March 2005

Yahoo!(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Dear Interview, If I could thank you enough for your whopping photo gallery of Bryce Dallas Howard by Bruce Weber [February 2005], I would. In our current world of rather strange-looking women passing as the Lord's gift to man it makes me...

Way back when.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I had the privilege of knowing Brett Ratner [Dec/ Jan 2005] while attending NYU. He always had an enthusiasm for his work and shared that with whoever would listen. Reading the interview between him and Robert Evans clearly...

The misfits fit.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I've always thought that the architect Rem Koolhaas should run America. He knows how to ask questions that no one else has thought of and how to put a new spin on all things old. I'd always thought of him as the one...

On a wing and a prayer.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I wanted to take this opportunity to say just how much I enjoy your magazine. The articles and interviews are so informative, and the photography is always a delightful visual treat. Thank you for adding color and joie de...

That's what friends are for.(Bel Ami boys)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Dear Interview, You are a belle amie. Who else in America would interrupt the winter doldrums with a swimsuit story on the Bel Ami boys. One complaint, though: Hey, pals--give us more! More! More! JEAN LONG Graz, Austria

Kirsten Deirup: introducing an artist equally at home with beauty and beastliness.(Studio View)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... "People have described my work as whimsical and fantastical. Maybe it is, but there's a darker side to it," cautions artist Kirsten Deirup of her art. "1 think some people don't like the morbid aspect and see right past it," says the Berkeley...

Laurie Anderson: NASA's first artist in residence talks to fellow traveler artist chuck close about her avant-garde adventures into the great unknown.(This Month's Daring Duo)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... CHUCK CLOSE: I was trying to remember when we first met, Laurie, when I first became aware of you and your work. We were part of the same group, actually. And I'm struck by this photograph of you performing your new "The End of the Moon" piece....

Camilla Belle: in the current landscape of empty representations of teen life, here's the antidote.(Movie Prediction)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... One need look no further than Camilla Belle's lush dark eyebrows to predict those inevitable comparisons that accompany fame. "Yeah, I get Brooke Shields sometimes," says the 18-year-old Los Angeles native, who stars opposite Daniel Day-Lewis...

Shia Labeouf: his latest role has him battling for the souls of humanity--and stealing scenes from Keanu Reeves.(Movie Breakout)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... It was time for Shia LaBeouf to get out of the house. For one thing, he was 18 years old, and for another, his mother was always walking around naked. "She's just that type of person," says the actor, who recently moved in with friends. "It got...

Pell James: casting directors have met their match.(Movie Scoop)
March 1, 2005... Despite the fact that she'd recently had surgery and was totally numb from painkillers, Pell James refused to miss her audition for Jim Jarmusch's new film. But just as she was about to start reading, the 27-year-old New Yorker realized she was...

Harvey Keitel: garrulous, gruff ... and cuddly? The consummate tough guy looks inward.(Movie Profile)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Whenever Harvey Keitel appears onscreen, growling at his adversaries with his trademark inflection, you can be certain that their luck is about to run out. But that tough-guy persona is ripe for comedic manipulation, which is just what happens...

Preview: The Jacket.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... PREVIEW: THE JACKET (Warner Independent) Directed by John Maybury In this psychological thriller, Adrien Brody plays a Gulf War vet who, upon returning home, is wrongly accused of murder. When committed to a psychiatric ward, his character...

Preview: The Ring Two.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... PREVIEW: THE RING TWO (DreamWorks) Directed by Hideo Nakata By now you know the drill: Don't watch the tape, or a little girl will crawl out of your TV and kill you. In the sequel to the 2002 megahit The Ring, Hideo Nakata, director of...

Preview: Cursed.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... PREVIEW: CURSED (Dimension) Directed by Wes Craven Nearly a decade into his self-conscious second act, Wes Craven--the horror maestro behind A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) who reinvented himself as the genre's Robert Altman with Scream...

The Upside of Anger.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... REVIEW: THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (New Line) Directed by Mike Binder Underneath the patchy surface of this film about a family of women struggling with the abrupt disappearance of their husband and father is a well-intentioned rumination on grief...

Melinda and Melinda.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... REVIEW: MELINDA AND MELINDA (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Woody Allen Radha Mitchell stars as Melinda, a woman with a speckled past who returns to New York after a long time away. However, the events that precipitated her unexpected...

Millions.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... REVIEW: MILLIONS (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Danny Boyle From the director of Trainspotting (1996) and The Beach (2000) comes this unexpectedly bighearted children's picture. Boyle has fashioned a high-energy, fuzzy-warm pageant around...

Mondovino.(Movie Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... REVIEW: MONDOVINO (ThinkFilm) Directed by Jonathan Nossiter With Alexander Payne's Sideways bringing wine fetishism to the masses, this documentary from director Jonathan Nossiter is an impassioned plea against the increasing imperialized...

Shots in the dark: what the boxing movie does for the Oscars, the film world's equivalent of a title fight.(Movie Column)
March 1, 2005... Robert De Niro won the Best Actor Oscar for his savage performance as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980). According to Martin Scorsese's masterpiece, the world middleweight boxing champion from 1949 to 1951 was rendered inarticulate if he...

Demetri Martin: pared-down punchlines and high-brow high jinks from a comic on the edge.(Comedy Corner)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Demetri Martin is a master of minuscule mirth. The 31-year-old stand-up comic and former Late Night With Conan O'Brien writer is a practitioner of the nearly lost art of the one-liner--finely honed, small-carat gems in the spirit of Steven...

Think tank: how to be true to an idea.(Design Lab)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Colorful as fighter fish in an aquarium full of tadpoles, Calvin Klein's tank dresses prove that sometimes the best ideas are the simplest ones. From its earliest days, the tank has been just that. Its name derives from the top of a man's tank...

Welcome to cafe la lips: introducing spring's fresh-brewed, fresh-baked lip colors.(Look Of The Month)
March 1, 2005... Blame it on the boom of coffee culture, but what's most surprising about this season's crop of cafe-inspired lip colors is not their departure from the usual reds, pinks, and beiges, but rather that the beauty world has never so fully tuned...

Keren Ann: big, existential questions from a singer for the here and now.(Music News)
March 1, 2005... If ethnic ambiguity, the mixing and mingling of diverse races and cultures, is in, then singer Keren Ann is ahead of the curve. Raised by her half-Javanese, half-Dutch mother and Israeli father of Russian descent, she was born in Israel, then...

Duran Duran: the band that once asked "is there anyone out there" is calling again.(Music Legends)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Not only did Duran Duran define the glitz and glamour of rock 'n' roll in the 1980s, but they elevated it to the level of performance art, singing about topics like nuclear war and the exploitation of women over some of the most indelible tunes...

All Rattle and Dust: some people turn to music to exorcise their demons. He turned to music so he'd never forget them.(Music Discovery)(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... It's fitting that the name of Ben Driscoll's band, All Rattle and Dust, sounds like the title of some obscure field recording from the 1930s: The Jersey City-based group plays ragged-edged, irony-free roots rock. And if their debut, Cold Hard...

M. Ward: Transistor Radio.(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... M. Ward Transistor Radio (Merge) For the past few years, Matt Ward has been stealthily building a committed following with live performances that showcase his remarkable skill on guitar. The virtuosity with which he's previously wowed fans...

Brendan Benson: the Alternative to Love.(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Brendan Benson The Alternative to Love (V2) Like a distressed Xerox version of Rubber Soul--era Beatles or Alex Chilton on antidepressants, Benson is an old-school pop hookmeister. He, however, infuses his cheerful melodies with a rushed,...

Tori Amos: the Beekeeper.(Brief Review)(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Tori Amos The Beekeeper (Epic) Obsessive fans of melodramatic, flame-haired singer Tori Amos will have no shortage of lyrical lines to read between on this, her eighth album. Off-kilter titles like "Barons of Suburbia" and "The Power of...

Beck: Guero.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Beck Guero (Interscope) When last we heard from Beck, on 2002's Sea Change, he was brokenhearted and driving West on a dusty dirt road while the sun's fiery glow sank into the California canyons. That's how the album sounded, anyway--like...

Kasabian: Kasabian.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Kasabian Kasabian (RCA) Unlike their namesake--Charles Manson's getaway driver Linda Kasabian--this lysergic stoner-rock band from England is a trip you want to be on. The group's self-titled debut booms with late 1960s psychedelia and...

Mary Gauthier: Mercy Now.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Mary Gauthier Mercy Now (Lost Highway) If those puddles of drunken tears on barroom floors could sing, they would sound like Mary Gauthier. Her rich, gothic country tales of broken homes and chemical abuse are easily comparable to Lucinda...

Solomon Burke: Make Do With What You Got.(Sound Recording Review)
March 1, 2005... Solomon Burke Make Do With What You Got (Shout! Factory) Rolling gloriously towards his seventh decade, the king of rock 'n' soul is a large man with a large brood (21 children, 74 grandchildren) and an equally super-sized sound. His...

Nathalie Rykiel: the next French revolution?(View Woman)
March 1, 2005... INGRID SISCHY: So, Nathalie, how long have you been involved with Sonia Rykiel, the clothing line started by your mother that you serve as both artistic director and chief executive officer? NATHALIE RYKIEL: If we include when I started...

Gregory Galloway: the whodunit may seem old hand, but with his debut novel, Gregory Galloway gives the form a 21st-century spin.(Book Tip)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... As Romeo, Juliet, and the cast of The O.C. could no doubt attest, few times in life are fraught with as much drama, angst, and self-discovery as adolescence. But fortunately for writer Gregory Galloway, such is the stuff good books are made of....

Sarah Shahi: it all began when Robert Altman told her to put down her pom-poms.(TV Spotlight)(Brief Article)(Interview)
March 1, 2005... When Sarah Shahi had to prepare for her sexy role as Carmen, the Latina DJ on Showtime's popular dramedy The L Word (which just started its second season), she turned to good old-fashioned hard-core lesbian erotica. "I read a lot of it," she...

Knit hits: this season, fashion's having a ball ... of yarn.(What's Big In Spring)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... There was so much macrame, crochet, string, and thread paraded down runways for spring that both craft lovers (and cats of the world) could be forgiven for thinking they'd died and gone to heaven. From Prada's nifty knits (pictured opposite) to...

All the dish: lighting a fire in the belly of New York.(restaurants)
March 1, 2005... To those who aren't familiar with life in New York, the assumption is commonly made that the city is comprised of sharp corners, hard edges, and glass towers--a rigorously forward-focused setting in which neither the buildings nor its residents...

Letter from the editor: March 2005.(View)(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... One of the best things about my job at Interview is that I have a front-row desk in the school of human nature, getting to watch what happens when people enter that infinitely mirrored, always morphing realm known as fame. Do they forget where...

Javier Bardem: the actor's actor talks to the critic's critic.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... There aren't many other actors under 40 who can attune their physical presence, modulating from a truculent, sunny realization to a baleful, bruised honesty. Javier Bardem has traversed that territory with fleet grace in his last two roles...

Radha Mitchell: until recently, hers has been a story of promise. But now that she has the attention of the director who gave neurosis its sex appeal, she's on her way.
March 1, 2005... In her latest film, Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, Radha Mitchell plays the titular role of a troubled woman whose unexpected reunion with two college friends precipitates a series of calamities, betrayals, and psychological unravelings. If...

Christian Marclay: this artist makes music like you've never seen before and art like you've never heard before.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... The art world is enjoying an extended fling with pop music--Fischerspooner and Lansing-Dreiden balance smart songcraft with multimedia presentations, while Black Dice fill galleries with squalls of feedback--and sound art is booming, most...

Tutu time!
March 1, 2005... FEISTY ANARCHIST EMMA GOLDMAN ONCE WROTE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, "IF THERE'S NO DANCING, COUNT ME OUT." THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF LIFE ITSELF. THIS SPRING, IN TIME FOR SHIMMYING AND SHAKING OFF SEASONAL BLUES, DESIGNERS SENT ENOUGH...

Bloc Party: once again, British music is coming on strong. Here are the leaders of the pack.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Are Bloc Party the only new band that matters? On the basis of the group's debut album Silent Alarm (Vice), the answer is definitely maybe. Bloc Party are perhaps the most anticipated British group since Cold-play. Political and personal,...

Hilary Swank: in the ring with the movies' fighting spirit.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... Hilary Swank and Interview's editor in chief, Ingrid Sischy, have just been seated at a banquette at Matsuri restaurant. It's been a full day. They've come from the cover shoot for this issue, which mostly took place at Pier 59, with Max...

All decked out: what sets apart this season's new fleet of nautical-inspired clothes is the sense of adventure--rather than cliches--designers captured when they put together their salty creations.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Models: GREG H/Elite, ROBYN/Major NYC, STAN/Citizen, and NICOLE TRUNFIO/Women. Hair: DENNIS LANNI/Art Department. Makeup: CYNTHIA SOBEK/defactoinc.com. Prop stylist: MANUEL NORENA. Special thanks: DAYLIGHT STUDIO. Cosmetics by M,A-C Hair...

Christina Milian: a singer who needs no lessons in cool talks to hip-hop's queen bee.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... In the new film Be Cool, Christina Milian stars opposite John Travolta and Uma Thurman as Linda Moon, a singer stuck in a corny girl group called Chicks International, who is trying to cut her own path in the record industry. The film's plot,...

Thomas Haden Church: he's said adios to Hollywood--now he's the talk of the town.(Interview)
March 1, 2005... DEBRA MESSING: So, I am purely thrilled that we have this opportunity to talk because I know that you live out in Texas now, and I didn't know when or if our paths would cross again after we worked together on Ned and Stacey. After Sideways...

Interview's big nights out.(Page 5)(Illustration)
March 1, 2005... Paul Beck at NYC's Stephan Weiss Studio for the party celebrating the publication of the 7L book set Andy Warhol's Interview--The Best of the First Decade 1969-1979. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Karl Lagerfeld and Tommy Hilfiger at the...