Interview articles from May 2008

Interview archives from May 2008

Well done, Madge.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Being a Madonna fan for more than 25 years, I found it refreshing to hear her live up to her name. Over the years, she has had her critics, but I would love to see what they are saying these days. This woman is...

Point-counterpoint.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... While I never thought I'd ever find a reason to write to Interview, I doubly doubted I would ever be writing you to correct something said by Camille Paglia! However, when I was reading "Small Talk" in the February 2008 issue, I couldn't help...

You're welcome.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... I don't know how often you get letters from readers who thank you for placing a certain advertisement. In this case I think the thank you letter is well justified. Last year, I was honored to be on the team for the Fashion Against AIDS...

Glad to be of service.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... I am a progressing bloggerista who loves you. Each month, Interview's interviews inspire me to think and, more important, to write. Whether it's the interview with Julie Christie or Nicole Kidman, I always learn something new about the actors...

A real page-turner.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... Ellen Page is fascinating not just because she is a talented and versatile young actress who can play a wide range of roles, from the quirky, humorous, and vulnerable pregnant teenage girl in Juno to one who is as tough as nails in Hard Candy,...

More sex, please.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... I loved Sandra Bullock's interview with Ryan Reynolds--I just wish there'd been some barechested pix to go along with all the talk about shirtless photographs! NAME WITHHELD Via the Internet

Less sex, please.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... Do not ever send me another issue of your magazine. I hate it. It is so inappropriate. The pictures in the "Dream a Little Dream (of Me)" [fashion story] in your March 2008 issue are totally inappropriate. You've got a sexually inappropriate...

Correction.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
May 1, 2008... On the "Contributors" page of our April issue, Tommy Tune was photographed by Franco Lacosta.

Jade Jagger's dagger: why drinks everywhere will be lusting for a spiking.(ACCESSORIES)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jade Jagger spent her adolescence in the wilds of the Upper East Side, attending Spence School and hanging out in Central Park. She was living a real-life version of Kids (1995), and having lots of fun, until her...

Eli Broad at Lacma: L.A.'s new art museum asks the question "is L.A. The new New York?".(ART)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum was the art event of the millennium. Well, so far anyway. No, that wasn't an earthquake rattling Chris Burden's forest of street-lamps outside the Renzo...

Yasmine Chatila: turning art inside-out.(PHOTOGRAPHY)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yasmine Chatila is a 33-year-old artist whose work I encountered recently at Edelman Arts. Her computer-manipulated photos of New York city-scapes express a romantic view of urban living, by turns haunting, sad,...

Jerry Schatzberg: a photographer records a few of fashion's glory days.(PHOTO NEWS)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the '60s Jerry Schatzberg was a star lensman for Vogue, Esquire, Life, and many other magazines. In the '70s he directed films like The Panic in Needle Park. He's been a legend ever since. A new book showcases his...

Erykah Badu: getting spiritualized with neo-soul's boho big mama.(MUSIC)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's been more than a decade since a songstress from Dallas with her hair wrapped in a Nefertiti scarf first unleashed her boho soul upon the rest of the world. Singing womanist anthems in her reedy voice, Badu...

Stephin Merritt: a singer-songwriter known for his eccentric talks about brands of chewing gum, bubblegum music--and chocolate-chili chips.(MUSIC)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stephin Merritt is one of America's most original and distinctive singer-songwriters. He has contributed music to soundtracks, works of musical theater, and television commercials, but he remains best known as the...

The Virgins: a rock band that's easy to like and hard to Google.(MUSIC)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Virgins, a quartet of downtown New York City boys, are on the verge of releasing their major-label debut, a brash collection of rock 'n' roll songs. The album (self-titled; due out on Atlantic Records) pays...

Simone: the daughter of a soul music legend crafts a debut that's a valentine to her revolutionary mom.(MUSIC)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's not uncommon for people to have somewhat complicated relationships with their mothers--but that bond is trickier when your mom is musical icon Nina Simone. Born Lisa Stroud in New York City, the singer known as...

Santi White: if there's such a thing as punk-funk, then this vivacious singer embodies it.(MUSIC)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I get a call from Interview 10 minutes after the appointed time--they still haven't heard from Santi. They'll get me back on the line once they've tracked her down. Already a diva, I think to myself. It shouldn't,...

Josh Peck: will drop beats, pants.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Josh Peck might be best known as one half of the Nickelodeon franchise Drake & Josh, but the 21-year-old New York native is branching out in all kinds of ways. Having recently appeared in the comedy Drillbit Taylor,...

Kristen Bell: geek + glamour = this TV star.(FILM)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Name a hot TV series these days and it seems that Kristen Bell is somehow associated with it: She's the voice-over narrator for Gossip Girl and was allowed to crash the Heroes party because the show's writers so...

Rachael Taylor: whether code-cracking or ghost-whacking, she gets moviegoers a-yakking.(FILM)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's not easy to hold your own when your co-stars are shape-shifting alien robots and eerie specters, but Rachael Taylor has managed to pull it off. The 23-year-old Australian actress got her big break in last...

Sebastian Horsley: visiting the Dandy author of a wicked autobio.(BOOKS)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sebastian Horsley's recently published--and justly acclaimed--autobiography, Dandy in the Underworld, is a true story of love and drugs and clothes and marriage and money and gangsters and actually getting crucified...

JFK times.(FASHION)(Brief article)(Photograph)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] THE 35TH PREZ WAS A STYLE ICON. FROM BERMUDAS TO WHITE-TIE, HE WAS ALWAYS APPROPRIATELY TURNED OUT. HERE ARE THE WATCHES THAT KEPT HIM UP TO THE MOMENT. CLOCKWISE FROM THE TOP LEFT: WATCHES BY LONGINES,...

Erin Wasson: a chain saw? A crown of thorns? Is this a horror movie? No, it's this designer's roasting-hot new jewelry line.(FASHION)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Erin Wasson is having a good year. The 26-year-old Texas-born model acted as a co-stylist with Alexander Wang, the punk-rock-outlaw-ish fashion force who's been nominated for the Swarovski Award for Womenswear at...

View May 08.
May 1, 2008... We hope you have a lot of fun with the May issue. It's a little different. The lovely Maggie Gyllenhaal graces the cover. In pictures by Bryan Adams and an interview with Tim Blanks, the actress reveals her sexy and playful sides. Richard...

Maggie Gyllenhaal: on playing coy, playing house, playing druggy ex-cons, playing movie star, and never playing it safe.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Maggie Gyllenhaal is a broad-in-waiting, the kinda-wanna-sorta brunette who cracked wise through Hollywood's Golden Age. You could see as much four years ago when she made Vanity Fair's Hollywood cover, slumped in a...

Jakob Dylan: he's his own man, and he's not afraid to get his hands dirty writing songs.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jakob Dylan and I first met in the early '90s. I was working in the music business, finding and developing new talent, and a mutual friend slipped me the new demos that Jakob and his band, the Wallflowers, had just...

The Girls of Battlestar Galactica.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... THE SCI FI CHANNEL SERIES IS IN ITS FINAL SEASON. WILL THE HUMANS AND THEIR CYLON ENEMIES FIGHT TO MUTUAL EXTINCTION? OR WILL THEY LEARN TO LOVE AND LET LIVE? WE KNOW THEY CAN GET IT ON, BUT CAN THEY GET ALONG? WE SENT ARTIST RICHARD PRINCE TO...

John Waters: how one of the film world's most prolifically wacky (and subversive) directors became Broadway's unlikely new multi-million-dollar baby.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The interview that follows takes place in John Waters's apartment in New York the day after a press preview for Cry-Baby, the Broadway musical based on the 1990 Waters film that launched the movie career of Johnny...

Harmony Korine: how one of the freest filmmakers around finally got his groove back.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Tumultuous, disassociated riffs on the modern dysfunctional family, assembled in a way that dares you to sit through them, is the way many might describe the movies of Harmony Korine. After his script for Kids...

Plain, no sugar, no cream, no fakes, no frills. Medium. Plain. Nothing on the side.(Brief article)(Photograph)
May 1, 2008... GEORGIE WEARS A DRESS BY RALPH LAUREN COLLECTION FRAGRANCE: RALPH LAUREN EAU FRAICHE FASHION DETAILS PAGE 116. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ERIN (OPPOSITE) WEARS A DRESS BY ANNA SUI. HAIRPIECE BY ELLEN CHRISTINE MILLINERY. ALINE WEARS A...

Evan Rachel Wood: unlike her rock-star boyfriend, this actress--who's played everything from a wholesome beatle maniac to a jaggedly rebellious teen--has no fixed public image. And that's a good thing.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evan Rachel Wood's restrained performances in Thirteen (2003), Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2005), and her latest, The Life Before Her Eyes, have raised the specter of an all-American golden girl who...

The wizard makes the artist: Tom Sachs talk like a philosopher.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Tom Sachs is an artist whose Pop-the-NextGeneration Art melds seamlessly such heady and usually disparate notions as bricolage, dub, and magic with masterful results. His friend Ricky Jay is a writer, an actor, and...

Francisco Costa: making your own mark at a fashion house founded by one of America's most influential designers ia a daunting task. But since taking the reins from the legendary Calvin Klein, Francisco Costa has managed to do just that.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Francisco Costa was tapped five years ago to become the creative director for women's wear at Calvin Klein, he assumed one of fashion's most intensely scrutinized posts. Having worked behind the scenes for more...

Christopher Wool and Richard Hell: the abstract painter and the rocking writer talk about their new collaboration.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Christopher Wool is widely recognized as one of the world's most important painters. His first one-man show was at the legendary Cable Gallery in 1984, and since then, he has showed his bold word paintings; edgy,...

Society pages.
May 1, 2008... During my first stint at Interview, mid-'80s, Brigid Berlin, the receptionist at the Warhol studio, looked like a Republican update of Madame Defarge in comfortable shorts. The former Warhol superstar, known for her late-'60s tit prints...