Interview articles from March 2006

Interview archives from March 2006

Miller time.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I think Andy Warhol would have been mighty pleased with Sam Taylor-Wood's terrific cover story on Sienna Miller [February 2006]. In addition to creating unforgettable pictures of Miller that capture the spirit of Warhol's...

A match made in heaven.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... Dear Interview, When I first saw Jonathan Rhys Meyers onscreen in Velvet Goldmine (1998), I felt certain that big things were ahead for the actor--but I never imagined that any such opportunities would arrive via the king of New York...

Better late than never.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Dear Interview, I only recently ran across the September 2005 issue of your magazine, so this letter is kind of late, but I had to write to express how thrilled I was by your feature on Sinbad O'Connor. I truly...

Murphy's law.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... Dear Interview, There weren't many actors who had a profound effect on me over the past year--that is, until I saw Cillian Murphy [December/January 2006] onscreen for the first time. Never have I been so enraptured by an artist's...

It's in the DNA.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... Dear Interview, I wrote in several weeks ago asking for more articles on visual artists, so I was pleased to open your magazine a few days later and see the piece by Justin Conner on artist Rosson Crow [February 2006]. With this one simple...

Arielle Kebbel: as a teen beauty queen, she braved the jealous, backstabbing, and insecure world of pageants with aplomb. Hollywood should be a walk in the park.(MARCH ONE TO WATCH)
March 1, 2006... There are myriad routes that budding actresses take to Hollywood. For Arielle Kebbel, it was mostly Interstate 10 west from Winter Park, Florida, all the way across the southern states to Los Angeles, where an audition for the tween show...

Neko Case: forget the hair spray and the checkered shirts. Here's just what country music needs: a dash of Patsy Cline and a dollop of Gertrude Stein.(MUSIC NEWS)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... With her spectral beauty and haunting voice, Neko Case has been hailed as the second coming of Patsy Cline--and the new queen of alt-country tragedy and truth-telling. However, with her latest release, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Anti-),...

Ne-Yo: inspired by his single mother's romantic travails, this crooner's debut is a warning to would-be Casanovas.(THIS MONTH'S ONE TO LISTEN OUT FOR)(In My Own Words )(Sound recording review)
March 1, 2006... "I like antilove songs more than I like love songs," confesses R&B slayer Ne-Yo, the latest balladeer to burn up the airwaves. Considering that the Arkansas-born and Las Vegas-bred musician, a.k.a. Schaeffer Smith, was raised by his single...

Neil Young: an intimate new documentary attempts to bottle the lightning of one of music's most unstoppable road warriors by capturing him where he really lives: on stage.(view MAN)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... In the past year, Neil Young endured the death of his father, survived a life-threatening aneurysm, and took to the open road with Prairie Wind (Reprise), one of the most personal albums of his career. It would be easy to see why the...

Tom Wesselmann: artist Tom Sachs Zooms in on the most Enigmatic Pop-Art figure of all.(ART COMEBACK)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... INTERVIEW: Tom Wesselmann's having a comeback--one can just feel it. His work has been up front and center at the most important recent art fairs, and this spring it's the subject of a number of New York shows, including "Tom Wesselmann: Sunset...

Freddie and Natalia: the soccer star and the supermodel making sparks fly this season.(THE SPITFIRE AND SIREN; Freddie Ljungberg; Natalia Vodianova)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... NATALIA VODIANOVA: Freddie! FREDDIE LJUNGBERG: Hello! Where are you? NV: I'm in London, of course. FL: To work or socialize? NV: Socialize. I would imagine since you've been modeling with Calvin Klein, it's made you a lot of new friends. Are...

Ali And Cosell: one was the great-grandson of slaves and a convert to Islam, the other was the son of polish immigrants and a nonobservant Jew. But as a new biography reveals, theirs was a partnership that transcended race, religion, and personal history and would ultimately knock the world off its feet, here, an exclusive sneak peek.(SPORTS LEGEND)(Sound and Fury: Two Parallel Lives, One Fateful Friendship)(Excerpt)
March 1, 2006... Individually, Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell were two of the most interesting personalities to emerge from the '60s and '70s, each in their way establishing new standards by which to judge success in their respective fields. View them together,...

Go for the gold: as they say, history repeats itself.(LOOK OF THE MONTH; gold jewelry popular Spring fashion season)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... With its warm, rich tones and versatility, gold has been used in celebrations throughout history. The Byzantines used it in their jewel-encrusted mosaics and ornate jewelry, while the Aztecs (who had mounds of it lying around) used the precious...

In with the ode: how do I love thee? Let me count the ways in spring's showstopping poet's blouse.(FASHION AND LITERATURE)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... We have the dreamy-eyed Gwyneth Paltrow and the pillow-lipped Joseph Fiennes to thank for making Shakespearian style sexy again. But that was almost a decade ago. This season, poetics step back into the spotlight courtesy of a wide range of...

Over the rainbow: picture the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion smiling.(FASHION AND DREAMS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... It isn't just in The Wizard of Oz where they dream of yellow brick roads and emerald cities. For spring/summer 2006, designers too are imagining a vivid world far removed from winter's doldrums. The most exciting looks this season explode with...

Wash and go style: no matter how you spin it, broken-in is always in.(FASHION AND LIFE)(jeans)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Everyone has a favorite pair of jeans, so rightly broken-in and washed to perfection that if they were to disappear, it would be like losing a close friend. Or that concert tee from high school that, although you still wear it, might be holier...

Into the woods: spring's new take on wooden heels is a chip off the old block.(STAND-UP STYLE)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Wooden-heel shoes have spanned many eras and cultures. The Dutch wore handcrafted cloggies to protect their feet in the garden; Japanese women sported geta, board-like flip-flops, to keep their kimonos clean; and disco divas and hippie chicks...

Animal magnetism: where the wild things are.(THE RED CARPET)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... On March 5, when the stars take their seats in the Kodak Auditorium, three of the most captivating performers of the past year won't be a part of the festivities. Prior commitments? Out of the country shooting another film? Protesting the...

Samuel Barnett: no one was more surprised to be starring in London's hottest play than scene-stealing actor Samuel Barnett. Just imagine how he'll feel when he makes his mark on Broadway next month.(THEATER BREAKOUT)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... TIM BLANKS: You're speaking to me from the National Theatre in London--what's going on there today? SAMUEL BARNETT: We're rehearsing The History Boys for Broadway. We're doing a Hong Kong art festival, a New Zealand art festival, a Sydney...

Kent Monkman: the Canadian artist who is exploding the mythology of the West--one brushstroke at a time.(WHAT'S IN THE AIR)(Interview)
March 1, 2006... DAVID FURNISH: What I find so striking about your work, in terms of the beautiful colored backgrounds and landscapes, is it has a very old-fashioned, burnished, comforting quality to it. At the heart there's a depiction of what you would...

Jeremie Renier: the hippest thing to come out of Belgium since mussels and Martin Margiela.(MOVIE HEAT)
March 1, 2006... Worlds away from Harry Potter, another young man has been growing up onscreen before our eyes. In 1995, Jeremie Renier, then a wiry, blond 14-year-old, gave depth and substance to La Promesse (1996), by the great Belgian filmmaking brothers...

Meagan Good: she used to turn on the drama while her policeman father was off at work--which makes her breakout role all the more ironic.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... As a child, Meagan Good would scream at the top of her lungs, fall down the stairs, fake a broken leg, and run from an imagined killer chasing after her. With such an overactive imagination, it's no wonder this born drama queen began acting in...

Brick.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: BRICK (Focus) Directed by Rian Johnson This directorial debut from Rian Johnson is a dark mystery in the grand tradition of hardboiled 1950s crime writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, set incongruously in a...

L'Enfant.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: L'ENFANT (Sony Classics) Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne This latest workout from the enthrallingly humane Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne is a dizzying morality tale in which an...

Duck Season.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: DUCK SEASON (Warner Independent) Directed by Fernando Eimbcke Two 14-year-old boys, Flama (Daniel Miranda) and Moko (Diego Catano), spend one lazy Sunday together, eating junk food, playing video games, and harboring crushes on the...

Dave Chappelle's Block Party.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY (Rogue) Directed by Michel Gondry In this off-kilter documentary, Michel Gondry--he of the White Stripes videos and the fabulously out-of-the-box Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)--captures a...

Thank you for Smoking.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Fox Searchlight) Directed by Jason Reitman This satirical first feature from director Jason Reitman tracks Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a flack for Big Tobacco. Under pressure to keep alive the industry...

Lonesome Jim.(Movie review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... REVIEW: LONESOME JIM (IFC) Directed by Steve Buscemi Having failed to make it in New York, Jim (Casey Affleck) returns home to the small town in Indiana where he grew up, ostensibly to find himself. In the process, he consorts with his...

Shots in the dark: so what really happened in the mysterious 1969 drowning of Rolling Stones founding member Brian Jones? A new movie offers some answers.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT--MOVIE COLUMN)(Stoned)
March 1, 2006... Every few months a fabulous cadaver is exhumed from pop music's overcrowded graveyard, freshly perfumed with hyperbole, gilded with cultural significance, and reheated as the subject of a movie for our delectation. And why not? We love dead...

Morrissey.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Ringleader of the Tormentors (Attack/Sanctuary) Produced in Rome by Tony Visconti, Morrissey's latest is brusque, ballsy, and downright inspired. There is a children's choir. There is Ennio Morricone. And there are some choice lines: In...

Sergio Mendes.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Timeless (Concord/Starbucks Hear Music) In the '60s Sergio Mendes proved to be Brazilian music's prime ambassador, merging jazzy pop melodies with groovy sambas and bossa novas resulting in a boatload of hits. In time, however, Mendes was...

Various Artists.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Run the Road 2 (Vice) The second volume in the U.K. grime compilation series contains much of the same style of spit-take hip-hop and frenetic lyrical flow as the first. Standouts here include the cockney-voiced MC No Lay's "Unorthodox...

Arctic Monkeys.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not (Domino) Yorkshire, England, quartet Arctic Monkeys have somehow managed to capture the imagination of Mother Britain's fashionably unwashed masses--and it's not for lack of inventiveness, as...

Bent Fabric.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Jukebox (Hidden Beach) Is it an insidious form of ageism to consider this album of groovy piano-driven Danish funk a little hipper than you might otherwise, just because the guy behind the music is 81 years old? Probably. True, the...

Beth Orton.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Comfort of Strangers (Astralwerks) Equal parts whirling, soulful joyride and intimate, acoustic confessional, this follow-up to 2002's Daybreaker is a high-stakes hit. There are too many self-assured, home-away-from-home, slow-burn jams to...

Hard-Fi.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT-SOUND ADVICE: BOUNCING BOSSA NOVAS, BROODING BALLADS, AND BUSTLING DEBUTS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Stars of CCTV (Atlantic) Will the U.K. ever stop spitting out rock bands? if this debut album from Anglo quartet Hard-Fi is any indication, then the answer is not bloody likely. Cuts like the brash, dubby first single "Cash Machine" expand...

Elephant dancing: finally, a New Orleans tribute CD that goes straight to the soul.(THE CRITICS GO AT IT--MUSIC COLUMN)(Our New Orleans)(Sound recording review)
March 1, 2006... Our New Orleans, a recent collection of performances by refugees and expatriates from the city, recorded after the flood that destroyed it, is the latest in a series of New Orleans tribute-charity-telethon extravaganzas--all of which seemed to...

Patrick Giles: to a big voice with a big heart, a tip of the hat and a thank-you.(MARCH TRIBUTE)(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Not all great talents are known to the world in their lifetimes. Take Patrick Giles (1957-2005), a brilliant man who not only knew about any topic one might bring up but had the words to make all subjects come alive. Patrick's contribution to...

Letter from the editor March 2006.(view)(Editorial)
March 1, 2006... They say that cats have nine lives, but sometimes it seems like we humans do, too. That's certainly what it feels like to me as I look back on the month since I wrote my last editor's letter to you. Exactly four weeks ago, I woke up with more...

Michelle Williams: she might play the spurned party in the season's most talked-about love story, but with her star on the rise, heath ledger on her arm, and paparazzi tracking her every move, Michelle Williams has arrived.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... You don't have to be a cowboy in love with a cowboy to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. In Ang Lee's towering Brokeback Mountain, Michelle Williams gives the performance of her career so far as the trusting young wife and...

Kristen Stewart: tired of table-dancing dilettantes and fluff-shilling prima donnas? Here's the wolf-taming, heartbreaking, real-deal antidote.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... In an era when a vapid teen sex comedy seems to be the plat du jour for adolescent actors, 15-year-old Kristen Stewart is charting her own much more interesting path through the system. The toughness and maturity of her performance four years...

Kevin Zegers: after years spent having his scenes stolen by a slam-dunking golden retriever, the former child actor was ready to quit. Now with two gender-busting movies, his dog days may be over.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Until recently, Kevin Zegers was known primarily for his ability to engage a golden retriever in a quick pick-up game of hoops. As the child star of the Air Bud film franchise, Zegers exuded a sweetness and adorability only just barely matched...

Camilla Belle: she's got the crush-worthy looks, the big-league chops, and the most unforgettably alluring set of eyebrows to hit the big screen since Brooke Shields, enter this era's queen of the era's queen of the new teen brat pack.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Last year in Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Camilla Belle delivered one of the most complicated, unnerving portrayals of an adolescent coming of age in recent years, starring opposite heavyweights Daniel Day-Lewis and Catherine...

The divine Miss M: from her days singing torch songs in one of the most legendary bathhouses in New York City to all the big challenges, big battles, big songs, and big moments that have followed, she has never stopped being true to her roots and never stopped being Bette.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... ANTONY: Hi, Bette! BETTE MIDLER: Hi, Antony! Hi, Ingrid! INGRID SISCHY: Antony's talking to us from Australia, Bette. BM: I know. I was there last May. I had a great time. Are you having fun? A: Yeah, we've done a few shows...

In the flesh: if you can't go naked, go nude. Expose your sheer genius and celebrate this season's fashion masterpieces.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Model: SOPHIE DAHL. Hair: RYAN TRYGSTAD/The Wall Group. Makeup: GIANPAOLO CECILIATO/ Judy Casey. Prop stylist: DONNIE MYERS/De Facto. Special thanks: NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART. Cosmetics by M*A*C. Hair products by L'OREAL FERIA. Fragrance: TOM...

Throw me for a Lupe Fiasco: can a science geek and Jass buff lead hip-hop's revenge of the nerds?(Interview)
March 1, 2006... A SCIENCE GEEK AND JAZZ BUFF LEAD HIP-HOP'S REVENGE OF THE NERDS? A Chicago zip code. A debut album overflowing with boundary-smashing musical ideas. And a startlingly imaginative but slightly nerdy rapper with a lyrical flow propelled by...

Your inner Penguin: Strut your stuff by channeling the indomitable spirit of the animal kingdom's best-dressed birds with evening wear that says you're to walk.
March 1, 2006... This story is dedicated to the dignity and determination of the stars of the documentary March of the Penguins. Above: Clothes, bag, gloves, and jewelry by CHANEL. Fragrance: CHANEL. N[degrees]5. Opposite: Clothes by EMPORIOR ARMANI. Bow by...

The Cowboys in my life: a special portfolio shot by Bruce Weber.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Cowboys are the only people who can do anything in the world. They can fix fences, ride horses standing up on the saddle, cook a grand meal over a small fire in the wilderness, and write poetry, which they recite at the Annual Cowboy Poetry...

Night moves.(PAGE 5)
March 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Chris Backus and Mira Chateau Marmont in Hollywood HBO's pre-Golden Globes party. Natalie Portman at the HBO party. Bonnie Clearwater, Albert Oehlen, and Esther Freund at the Museum of Contemporary...