Interview articles from November 2002

Interview archives from November 2002

L.A. special issue (part two). (Contributors).
November 1, 2002... A great big thanks to Karl Lagerfeld, who photographed so many of the portraits for this special L.A. issue, the second in a two-part series. Thanks also to Sheryl Nields, who photographed the cover story and the entire L.A. Rocks...

Letters.
November 1, 2002... SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE? Dear Interview, I just wanted to write and thank you for running that piece on Jake Gyllenhaal [August]. I've literally just got back from seeing The Good Girl and I can't tell you how amazing it is to see a...

Charlie Hunnam: He's blond and anything but bland--get ready for the swooning. (This Month's Actor to Watch).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Charlie Hunnam plays the handsome, elusive figure at the heart of Stephen Gaghan's thriller Abandon: So smart, rich and gorgeous he could drive a girl crazy. Playing an object of desire is how this English actor first gained notice, as the boy...

Eminem: as multiplexes rake in the dough this month with Eminem's big-screen debut, will the spirit of Elvis be buttering the popcorn? (This Month's Button-Pusher).
November 1, 2002... Last year the great basketball player and famed uncensored mouth Charles Barkley addressed himself to the Eminem question. "You know this world is fucked up when the best rapper's white and the best golfer's black," he said. Unless he said, as...

Maggie Gyllenhaal: one half of the movies' hippest sister/brother act stands up and stands out. (This Month's Breakout Actress).(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Twenty-four-year-old actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is the latest standout from the movie family of the moment. Both her parents, Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner, are long-established talents behind the camera (he as a director-writer-producer,...

Lina Wertmuller: more than 25 years after her movie redefined (and reignited) the war between the sexes, the fall sweeps a Madonna-led remake to our shores. Do we smell a sequel in the air? (This Month's Big Remake).(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 2002... With Guy Ritchie's remake of her 1974 film Swept Away in theaters, we spoke to director Lina Wertmuller about this new version, its director and one of its principals. PATRICK GILES: After Swept Away opened in America, relations between...

Alison Lohman: putting the shadow back in teens, she blooms as Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter in White Oleander. (Movie News).(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Newcomer Alison Lohman has many gifts, a good number of which are displayed in the current White Oleander. The 23-year-old shines as Astrid, the film's central character, a teenager shuttled between foster homes and miseries after her mother...

Frida Kahlo: when the uni-brow is said and done, will Frida Kahlo's life prove her greatest work of art? (This Month's Art Film).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Frida Kahlo had it all. The sex, the revolution, the tragedy, the notorious affairs, the talent... But what makes her one of the most important female artists of our time, one of our most controversial and fascinating figures, an inspiration to...

All the dish: California suite--an L.A. story, starring six meals in 48 hours. (Food Column).(Restaurant Review)
November 1, 2002... In a town like L.A., where restaurant experiences tend to be remembered more far who ate the meal (and with whom) than for such details as what was eaten, it Is easy to forget that the city is home to plenty of establishments worthy of ink in...

It's sweater time: pullover and take cover. (Fashion Yarn).
November 1, 2002... This fall, fashion embraces lushly textured and lavishly cabled sweaters. Some seem inspired by fishermen's knits, while others are the fantastic exaggerations of a woolly lamb's coat. So, thanks to Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons'...

Birds do it, bees do it, even fashionistas do it: designers' message for the fall? Turn up the heat. (Flashion).
November 1, 2002... In ancient rites initiates tried to harness the power of their female sexuality by painting their erogenous zones. This fall designers do that for you with silhouettes that emphasize, embolden and outline the iconography of the female form. ...

Donna mills: she got what she wanted on '80s TV with power, shoulder pads and makeup. Here, Camille Paglia revisits an unlikely feminist icon. (TV Legend).(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Before she won the vixen role of Abby Cunningham on CBS' Knots Landing in 1980, Donna Mills had made nearly 20 TV movies where she played victims stalked by stranglers and rapists. In her nine years on Knots (currently being rebroadcast by the...

The L.A. Lakers: Jack Nicholson explains why L.A. needs the Lakers. (Sports-Courtside View).(Interview)
November 1, 2002... The three-time reigning NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers captivate their hometown like nothing, and no one, else. (Not even plum roles and buzzed movie treatments get Hollywood as excited as the men in purple and gold.) Forget Fred Segal, CAA's...

A coed cracks, the earth almost stops and a troublemaker electrifies the screen. (Movies: Reviews, Previews, Our Views).
November 1, 2002... PREVIEW: 8 MILE (Universal) Directed by Curtis Hanson Reunited after 1997's L.A. Confidential, Hanson and Kim Basinger join the platinum-haired and platinum-selling Eminem in his acting debut. This urban drama follows a white kid with...

Shots in the dark: what happens when women run away? (Movie Column).(Morvern Callar )(Movie Review)
November 1, 2002... Watching the party chicks played by Samantha Morton and Kathleen McDermott traipsing along a dusty track in rural Spain in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar reminded me less of Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon driving though the southern wastes in...

Classic rock, teen pop grown up and one surprisingly slowly brewed comeback. (Sound Advice).(various recordings reviewed)(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2002... CHRISTINA AGUILERA Stripped (RCA Records) Despite calling in producers like Pink's fairy godmother Linda Perry, Aguilera's most valuable asset is her voice, especially now that she's working her lower register. On Make Me Over," it's...

Days between stations: after the all-out success of Bringing Down the Horse, the Wallflowers could have petered out. But with Red Letter Days they prove there's plenty of fuel left to burn. (Music Column).(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2002... "How Good It Can Get" is a typically expert Wallflowers tune--and a key to why their new Red Letter Days (Interscope) is a break through the wall of craft and moderation the group has always played behind. Since the band's debut 10 years...

Letter from the editor: November. (View).
November 1, 2002... Let me tell. you about my evening last night. At about 10 P.M. I found myself at a dinner in midtown New York for Zac Posen, the 22-year-old American designer who grew up here in SoHo and is rightly being hailed as one of the bright lights in...

Olivier Martinez: A breakout year behind him, checking in on Le Paris/Malibu hunk.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... In Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful, Olivier Martinez took Diane Lane to new heights of passion, and Richard Gere to the depths of a homicidal fury. While Martinez has been working on the other side of the Atlantic for over a decade, the 36-year-old...

Macy Gray: in a cookie-cutter industry, she's a wild card amongst a crowd of mouseketeers.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... At a time when many pop stars are as formulaic as mathematical equations, aren't we thankful for Macy Gray? Sounding and looking like a funked-up spawn of Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin, the Canton, Ohio, native has proven, with her two...

Thora Birch: it's weird, weird world, and this child of Hollywood knows it. We promise she'll never bore you.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... From her early days of TV commercials and G-rated family fare to gangbusting turns in American Beauty [1999] and, more recently, Ghost World, Thora Birch has become the actor who epitomizes the angst and anxiety of the adolescent mind. Here she...

Ice Cube: hip-hopping from music to movies with major pizzazz.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Since he burst onto the scene 14 years ago as a member of the hip-hop supergroup N.W.A--other members included Dr. Dre and the late Eazy-E--which is credited with launching gangsta rap, Ice Cube has been a pop culture pioneer. One of the first...

Alanis Morissette: the musician who once played god talks about earthly pleasures.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Ever since Jagged Little Pill--1995's all-out jailbreak of an album that sold 28 million--people have tried to compartmentalize Alanis Morissette. But in what box do you place an artist who continues to question and challenge herself--and her...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: The terminator meets the scorpion king.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Somebody had to do it. When it came time to match Arnold Schwarzenegger with an interviewer, there was only one choice: The Rock. Both came to acting from athletics-bodybuilding and professional wrestling--and began their film careers in...

Faye Dunaway: frank words from a cult goddess.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Ever since her gunslinger galvanized 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, Faye Dunaway has been one of the movies' greats. Chatting with friend and fellow actor Melanie Griffith, the legend shares her thoughts on filmmaking, the cutting edge and having fun...

Selma Blair: she got hear start playing a piece of furniture onstage; that was the last time anyone described hear as wooden.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... From her tamer turns in Down to You (2000) and Legally Blonde (2001) to the risque Cruel Intentions (1999) and the risk-taking Storytelling. Selma Blair has caught moviegoers attentions by pushing the envelope and defying expectations. She...

Kristin Davis: sex and the city's naughty nice girl.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... On the most recent season of Sex and the City, while producers went to great lengths to disguise the expanding stomach of mom-to-be Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis' character, Charlotte York, was doing a little growing of her own....

Jack Nicholson & Benicio Del Toro: two reasons to go to the movies talk about their crazy business.(Interview)
November 1, 2002... Jack. Benicia. No last names needed, thank you. Not with two of the movies' biggest, brightest stars, four Oscars between them: A candid, casual conversation between two colleagues, collaborators and friends in Jack's Beverly Hills living room....

L.A. Rocks: eleven acts that shatter the cliche that L.A.'s a one-note town.(Pussycat Doll; Rhett Miller; Supreme Beings of Leisure; 30 Seconds to Mars; Pete Yorn; Snoop Dogg; Soopafly; Aimee Mann )(Interview)
November 1, 2002... THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS CHRISTINA APPLEGATE Blame it on Baz Luhrmann. Even though L.A. dance troupe the Pussycat Dolls had been high-kickin' at the Viper Room since 1996, it wasn't until after Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge and the "Lady...

It's a two-way street: The hunter poses with his game. (P.S.).
November 1, 2002... It is sometimes easy to forget that for every photograph there is a photographer. While some subjects may be wild enough, weird enough, beautiful enough or interesting enough to stand free of props, no photograph is ever complete until someone...