Interview articles from May 2005

Interview archives from May 2005

Now that's swank!(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I had to write to tell you that I thought your March 2005 cover story with Hilary Swank (my favorite actress) was amazing. Not only is she a great actress and a very beautiful woman, but she's also a great human being. So,...

Match made in heaven.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2005... Dear Interview, Whoever it was over there who dreamt up the idea of pairing April 2005 cover hottie Ashton Kutcher with perennial hottie Brad Pitt is a genius. The chemistry between the two was palpable, and so was the pleasure they took...

Rebel with a camera.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2005... Dear Interview, I was so delighted to see you had an interview with Larry Clark in your April 2005 issue. As disturbing as I have found some of his work to be over the years, he has long struck me as one of the more interesting characters...

The way of the chameleon.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2005... Dear Interview, It says something interesting about Radha Mitchell that the various characters she's played over the last few years--the young photographer in High Art, the desperate mother in Man on Fire, the unhappy wife in Finding...

Sunny Mabrey: how leaps of faith can pay off big-time.(MOVIE NEWS)(Brief article)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... Growing up in the small town of Gadsen, Alabama, Sunny Mabrey wasn't encouraged to take chances. "Back home you have to do something practical in order to make life easy for yourself," says the 29-year-old actress, who left Gadsen with hopes of...

Martin Freeman: from cult show to cult movie and beyond.(MOVIE BREAKOUT)(Brief article)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... It's a peculiar career milestone: being set in plastic resin as a 6-inch action figure. But Martin Freeman, who stars alongside Mos Def and Zooey Deschanel in the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is...

Amanda Seyfried: if the movies don't work out, there's always meteorology.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... You'll probably remember Amanda Seyfried from last year's teen-comedy megahit Mean Girls. The 19-year-old actress played the dimmest member of the bitchy clique that Lindsay Lohan infiltrates for fun and psychological warfare. Lately, though,...

Ryan Reynolds: the funny guy on the sidelines steps into the light.(MOVIE SECRET)(Brief article)(Biography)
May 1, 2005... In the new version of The Amityville Horror, Ryan Reynolds plays George Lutz, a young family man who can't seem to catch a break from the ghosts that threaten his stake in an idyllic American life. Fittingly, the 28-year-old Canadian actor...

Queens of noize: the ladies running London's other court.(MUSIC MOVERS AND SHAKERS)(Mairead Nash and Tabitha Denholm)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... Queens of Noize--DJs Mairead Nash and Tabitha Denholm--have stirred up quite a bit of pandemonium in London's late-night club scene. Hosting their "booze-sodden weekly spectacular" at Camden's Barfly, the duo set about booking hot bands and...

Tom Vek: what's a rocker to do when there's nothing to rebel against?(MUSIC TIP)(Interview)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... A lot of rock music is about each new generation finding its own form of teenage rebellion--but not for Tom Vek. The 24-year-old London-based singer-songwriter spent his adolescent years in his parents' garage, where he eventually learned to...

Rob Thomas: he's been on top of the charts, ruled modern rock radio, and wrestled with critics who have called him a master of the middlebrow. Now matchbox twenty's main man is going solo--and staring down skeptics like never before.(MUSIC PROFILE)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... BERNIE TAUPIN: So, Rob, you've got this new solo album,... Something to Be [Melisma/ Atlantic]. How long have you been working on it? ROB THOMAS: Well, that's hard to say because some of the songs on this album were rejected from the last...

The heat is on, baby! Dress-down suiting is summer's new vice.(FASHION FLASH)(men's fashion)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... Pastels, highlights, and stubble: The stars of Michael Mann's Miami Vice, Detective James 'Sonny' Crockett and Detective Ricardo Tubbs, are back, not only in the director's upcoming big-screen adaptation of the series but also via their iconic...

Who is that?! You saw it here first! Interview introduces you to next season's traffic stoppers.(THE CATWALK CLASS OF '05)(fashion models)
May 1, 2005... SESSILEE (IMG) Age: 16. Hometown: Philadelphia. Something people wouldn't assume about you: I'm really goofy, not the mean model that I look like in print. Perks: Traveling to exotic places and not having to pay. I'm also a shoe fanatic. If the...

Adrienne Miller: the writer inside the editor busts out.(THIS MONTH'S TALKED-ABOUT BOOK)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... As the literary editor of Esquire, Ohio-born Adrienne Miller regularly debates sentence structure with the likes of Don DeLillo and George Saunders; but when it came to her own literary aspirations, the 33-year-old was decidedly less confident....

Amy Poehler: Saturday Night's most crackling live wire.(COMEDY CORNER)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... Taking over for Jimmy Fallon as co-host for the Weekend Update news desk on Saturday Night Live could not have been an easy task for Amy Poehler. Not only was the 33-year-old comedienne filling the chair of one of the show's most beloved...

The big blue: fit for a princess.(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(blue mascara)(Brief article)
May 1, 2005... Not popular since Charles and Diana's engagement, and traditionally worn with a piecrust-collar blouse and pearls, blue mascara is once again on the menu at cosmetic houses for summer. Historically a bright Yves Klein blue, this time the...

Liz Smith: one has been chronicling the boldfaced long before dishing became a national obsession. The other is the star of the show that's brought rival networks to their knees. Together they talk turkey--deep fried and otherwise.(LOOK WHO'S TALKING)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... TERI HATCHER: Hi, Liz! LIZ SMITH: I can't believe I'm speaking to the flavor of the year. TH: My goodness--I'm a little nervous to be interviewing you. [both laugh] LS: Well, I hope I'll have the pleasure of covering you down the...

The Raveonettes: Pretty in Black (Columbia).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... This latest effort from Danish retrorock duo the Raveonettes opens with the pair channeling the Man in Black: "The Heavens" is a spectral ballad that could very well have been a Cash classic. But best of all about this follow-up to their 2003...

Shelby Lynne: Suit Yourself (Capitol).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... It's fitting that country-soul singer Shelby Lynne's ninth album was self-produced in part at her home studio: This record is rife with the intimate sound of an artist working within the confines of her own bedroom. From the celebratory grooves...

Nine Inch Nails: With Teeth (Interscope).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... Light on the industrial flourishes but heavy on the hard rock, With Teeth is Trent Reznor's first album of new material since 1999. The record finds last decade's King of Goth Angst in fine form, the brutal guitar riffs, fractured synthesizers,...

Mariah Carey: The Emancipation of Mimi (Island Def Jam).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... Listening to Mariah Carey's new album, it's striking to recall that 15 years ago, she almost exclusively sang the sort of syrupy ballads that Celine Dion still favors. Since then, Carey has decided not to grow up along with her audience,...

British Sea Power: Open Season (Rough Trade).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... This latest offering from British Sea Power explodes with the decadent, ambient dance rock and epic songwriting for which the band is best known. The art-rock quartet aren't just post-punk explorers, they're sonic field guides; "North Hanging...

Fischerspooner: Odyssey (Capitol).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... Fischerspooner's debut established them as masters of all things surface, complete with startling lighting, hilarious costumes, and deliciously danceable electronic production. But for a duo that started out as a performance art idea, the group...

Annie: Anniemal (Big Beat/Vice).(Sound recording review)
May 1, 2005... This debut from Norwegian singer Anne Lilia Berge Strand is decidedly into the groove, filled with down-the-downers pop hooks, propulsive dance rhythms, and trippy avant-garde production. With a thin, flinty voice that hovers somewhere between...

The Interpreter.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (Universal) Directed by Sydney Pollack A federal agent (Sean Penn) is assigned to protect an interpreter (Nicole Kidman) who has overheard an assassination plot. But what's lost in translation, it seems, is her dicey past in her fictional...

Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge Of The Sith.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (20th Century Fox) Directed by George Lucas In what's sure to be the feel-bad epic of the year, the Republic is crushed, many Jedi are murdered, and lovelorn brat Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) completes his transformation into that...

House of Wax.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (Warner Bros.) Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra A remake of the 1953 Vincent Price classic-which was itself a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum--this House of Wax veers away from the original's premise of psychoanalyzing its...

Crash.(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (Lions Gate) Directed by Paul Haggis The directorial debut of Million Dollar Baby scribe Paul Haggis, this ensemble meditation on race and rage in contemporary Los Angeles comprises a series of interweaving narratives involving, among...

Mysterious Skin.(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (Tartan) Directed by Gregg Araki Ten years after The Doom Generation (1995), director Gregg Araki returns with his most heartfelt and mature film, based on the novel by Scott Helm about the tenuous relationship between a teenage hustler...

Kontroll.(Movie review)
May 1, 2005... (ThinkFilm) Directed by Nimrod Antal This moody first film from Hungarian writer-director Nimrod Antal, set in the Budapest subway system, follows a man (Sandor Csanyi) who has given up all connections to the world above. He sleeps on the...

Shots in the dark: why the secret weapon of today's historical epic has little to do with special effects.(MOVIE COLUMN)(Column)
May 1, 2005... If the Rome of Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) offered a veiled critique of a modern America engorged by imperial wars and bloody spectator sports, the multi-faith Jerusalem attacked by Muslim martyrs in the same director's Kingdom of Heaven...

All the dish: how New York City's museums are putting their money where your mouth is.(FOOD COLUMN)(restaurants at the Museum of Modern Art, Neue Galerie and the Whitney Museum)
May 1, 2005... Back in the dark ages of art appreciation, the most you could hope for when grabbing a bite at a museum was a well-stocked vending machine or a steam table and a plastic tray. Today, however, museums have gotten wise to the one ingredient that...

Small talk: Camille Paglia on the great academic meltdown of 2005.(CULTURE KLATSCH)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... INGRID SISCHY: So, what's with all these college professors? CAMILLE PAGLIA: [laughs] Do we have five hours? IS: I thought the art world or the movie world or the fashion world had their nutters and their characters, but academia seems to...

Letter from the editor May 2005.(view)(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... What's striking about a number of the lead stories in this issue--Russell Crowe by Paul Giamatti, Lisa Marie Presley by Melissa Etheridge, Burberry's Christopher Bailey, Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, the re-explosion of rock 'n' roll in London by...

Eva Green: her first role had people blushing. What she's got in store may have them seeing red.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... In Bernardo Bertolucci's lusty love letter to the French New Wave, The Dreamers (2004), first-time actress Eva Green took on a risky role that sent the MPAA's ratings board into a tizzy and left little--if anything--to viewers' imaginations....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: with a pair of culty new movies slated for the coming months, the former television alien stands poised to launch into another world.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... This month Joseph Gordon-Levitt co-stars in Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, adapted from Scott Helm's disturbing novel. Like his breakout role as the youngest in a family of wacky aliens on NBC's 3rd Rock From the Sun, it's a project that...

Lisa Marie Presley: she may have inherited the world's most famous lip curl--along with a mountain of expectations--but with her defiant new album, Lisa Marie Presley takes it all on. Here she talks with a fellow musician who knows all about walking through fire.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... MELISSA ETHERIDGE: You grew up in the most famous household ever, and if anyone had a huge wall of expectations to climb--a mountain, really--it was you. But as I listen to your lyrics and your voice, there is something very relatable. Tell me...

Russell Crowe: from growing up in his father's pubs to brawling, bristling, and brilliance.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... Russell Crowe's relationships with both the movie industry and the trappings of fame have been unorthodox by modern standards. He has won awards. He has been begrudged awards. He has brawled in bars. He has bristled at critics. He lives in...

The house that never got old: on the occasion of the Chanel exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Karl Lagerfeld takes Interview on a private tour through one hundred years of forward-thinking in fashion.
May 1, 2005... 1916 "The Chanel of 1916 and 1917 were very similar. Fashion evolution during the war was essentially nonexistent. This suit appeared a year later. It was one of Chanel's classics, one of her basics." 1919 "This dress has nothing...

Amanda Peet: as a college student Amanda Peet chose the uncertain life of acting over the security of a career in law--just one more argument for the wisdom of taking a chance.(Interview)
May 1, 2005... It's a busy time for Amanda Peet--currently sharing the screen with Ashton Kutcher in the just-released A Lot Like Love, she's also part of Woody Allen's latest, Melinda and Melinda, and come September, she'll be pondering the fate of the...

Hello, color!(Christopher Bailey shows how fashion designers take inspiration from art)
May 1, 2005... RIGHT FROM THE GET-GO, with his very first ready-to-wear collection for Burberry in June of 2001, Christopher Bailey showed his true colors. The designer, who is the creative director for the house, made it clear that he has an affinity with,...

The bands: dirty, disorderly, dazzling, and dangerous, they're the five broods at the center of London's new rock 'n' roll renaissance.(Hedi Slimane talks about photographing Babyshambles, Bloc Party and Razorlight)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... STEPHEN MOOALLEM: I want to talk to you a little bit about the genesis of this project you've undertaken documenting this new wave of rock bands percolating in the clubs of London. Pete Doherty of the Libertines and now Babyshambles, obviously,...

Hotshots and hot spots.(PAGE 5)(celebrity photos)(Brief article)(Photograph)
May 1, 2005... Christina Aguilera at the opening of the Roberto Cavalli store in Beverly Hills. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zoe Cassavetes and Matt Dillon at the Stella McCartney store in NYC for the Fur Free party. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...