Interview articles from November 2007

Interview archives from November 2007

Super surprised.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dear Interview, Flipping through the September issue, I thought, Who is Jonah Hill? Yes, I had read about his film Superbad and seen his photo, but I did not know who he was. Intrigued, I started to read. And at...

Our readers Carey on.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Dear Interview, I loved the September cover interview with Mariah Carey, and I couldn't help sending a quick note to corroborate the fact that she indeed loves her fans! One rainy Friday night this past June at Euro Disney in Paris, Carey...

Correction.(LETTERS)(Correction notice)
November 1, 2007... On page 197 of the September issue, credit for the necklaces pictured should have read "Necklaces by The Original Beadscarf."

Andrew Garfield: frat parties and Xbox tournaments: not a bad way to prepare for your bigscreen debut.(THIS MONTH'S ONE TO WATCH)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Andrew Garfield was cast as the callous frat rat Todd in Robert Redford's forthcoming Lions for Lambs, an Afghan war-related story involving a senator (Tom Cruise), a reporter (Meryl Streep), and a college...

Nicole Scherzinger: with a surprising new solo album, the chief Pussycat Doll purrs alone.(THIS MONTH'S ONE TO LISTEN OUT FOR)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "People know me as the girl from the Pussycat Dolls," says Nicole Scherzinger, stating a fact that has come to represent a bit of a paradox for the 29-year-old singer. Indeed, Scherzinger has found herself...

Amy Ryan: it's not often that an actress's profanity-laced rages and teary episodes have directors smiling.(FROM THE STAGE TO THE SCREEN)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Amy Ryan has made a splash in movies like 2005's Capote (she played the small-town detective's culture-craving wife) and in television series like The Wire. But her major accolades have tended to come on Broadway, in...

Mathew Cerletty: why this blazing young gun of the New York art world prefers watching the Colbert report and fast times at ridgemont High to looking at masterpieces at the met.(view MAN)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Interview placed artist Mathew Cerletty on our "New Pop A-List" earlier this year, we mentioned that he "paints the opaque veneer between appearance and innuendo." His new show at New York City's Team Gallery...

Milk Fed: a hairdo that says yodel-ay-hee-hoo.(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fall's makeup is minimal and natural-looking, so this season hair takes center stage, and to complement the nearly bare face, hair must be innocent and fresh as the morning dew. With back-combing, crimping,...

Fine specimens: for fall, accessories take flight.(FROM THE ANNALS OF LEPIDOPTEROLOGY)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... In Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House, one of the more beleaguered characters makes a stirring plea: "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!" This...

Out in New York City.(ART AND FASHION)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To sound the arrival of fashion week in New York City, Prada hosted a special gathering at their SoHo Epicenter store--bringing together the worlds of fashion, celebrity, art, and music. The evening was centered...

Thom Browne: he may be the guy famous for making men's suits shorter and snugger, but as Elvis Mitchell discovers, Tom Browne's philosophy is the antithesis of one-size-fits-all.(EYE OF THE NEEDLE)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the world of fashion, it's rare that a designer working in menswear makes such an impact that he single-handedly transforms things. There was Giorgio Armani; there was Ralph Lauren; and now, there is Thom Browne,...

A conversation between Michael Caine and Jude Law: the fellow Englishmen, actors, and alfies on dodgy remakes, blimey moments, and why playing the cad is bollocks.(LOOK WHO'S TALKING)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Sleuth, an aging writer invites to his English country estate a young actor who has stolen the heart of the older man's wife. Based on a play by Anthony Shaffer, Sleuth was made into a movie in 1972, starring...

Hotel Chelsea: as those who are interested in matters of Bohemia know, there's been a change in management at New York's Hotel Chelsea. What will that mean to its decades-long tradition of providing a climate conducive to the growth of artists, writers, and musicians--not to mention a few piranhas?(ENDANGERED SPECIES)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] This past June, when the board that runs New York City's Hotel Chelsea told Stanley Bard, 73, and his son, David, 42, that they would be replaced as the establishment's management team, the shudders sent through the...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: they slept here: some for only a night or two, others for almost a lifetime.(ENDANGERED SPECIES)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... SARAH BERNHARDT WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE ARTHUR C. CLARKE LEONARD COHEN BETTE DAVIS WILLEM DE KOONING BOB DYLAN WILLIAM EGGLESTON JANE FONDA MILOS...

Betsey Johnson.(ENDANGERED SPECIES)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... ANITA SARKO: When did you live at the Hotel Chelsea? BETSEY JOHNSON: I think it must have been the late '60s or early '70s. I was still going to Max's [Kansas City] till all hours, and I might have been on the verge of leaving [the clothing...

Berlin Alexanderplatz: a new exhibition on the groundbreaking, obsessive work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder brings into stark relief what's missing from filmmaking now.(SHOWTIME)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Berlin Alexanderplatz, a 15-hours-plus work directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and first shown on German television in 1980, is the culmination of that filmmaker's career. And while the just-released DVD version of...

Khalid Abdalla: an actor who is the embodiment of a 21st-century melting pot builds a career by battling stereotypes.(MOVIE BUZZ)(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the new film The Kite Runner, director Marc Forster's adaptation of the best-selling novel, Khalid Abdalla plays Amir, an Afghan man living in California. He returns to his native Kabul in search of his childhood...

Lymari Nadal: she ditched her career as a chemist, but she still knows how to get reactions.(MOVIE SPOTLIGHT)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Lymari Nadal is not a smug starlet-in-training. In conversation the Puerto Rico native talks a lot about feeling "blessed," "grateful," and "privileged." It's easy to see why: This month the 29-year-old former chemist--who arrived in Los...

Doveman: an antsy sideman takes center stage.(MUSIC SPOTLIGHT)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Love, heartache, hope, and loss abound in every imaginable--and emotionally exhausting--incarnation on the New York City-based group Doveman's recently released sophomore album, With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead...

Lil Mama: how a fiery teenage rhyme-slinger discovered a muse inside her makeup bag.(MUSIC BREAKOUT)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In calling herself Lil Mama, rapper Niatia Kirkland has picked an especially apt stage name. The East New York native--whose clean-fun hit single, "Lip Gloss," has lit up the hip-hop charts--may only be 17 years old,...

Kate Nash: a take-no-prisoners debut fueled by bad luck, big attitude, and a broken ankle.(MUSIC HEAT)
November 1, 2007... Another day, another Brit Internet star: First it was Arctic Monkeys, then Lily Allen, and now... Kate Nash. In a little over a year, Nash, 20, went from working at a fast-food restaurant to the top of the charts. Her debut album, Made of...

George Carlin: the man famous for spilling "the seven dirty words" on the airwaves is marking his 50th anniversary in showbiz by doing what he does best--poking fun and busting taboos.(COMEDY CORNER)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During his 50 years in entertainment, comic George Carlin's career achievements have been many and varied: five Emmy nominations, four Grammy awards, three New York Times best-sellers, one comedy routine ("Filthy...

All the dish: New York's Spanish uprising.(FOOD COLUMN)(Sevilla Restaurant and Bar, Mercat, Suba)(Restaurant review)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the last few years New York City diners have begun to embrace a cuisine that prognosticators have been declaring for years would be the next to make serious Inroads in America's restaurant scene: that of Spain....

Shots in the dark: why so many filmmakers are zooming in on "an eye for an eye".(MOVIE COLUMN)(Movie review)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If someone destroys your family, you can be forgiven for wanting them dead or locked up. Acting on that desire is more complex. Jackie (Kate Dickie), the grief-stricken Glaswegian CCTV operator in Andrea Arnold's Red...

Elephant dancing: in his new Bob Dylan biopic starring Cate Blanchett and equally surprising others as the music legend, Todd Haynes throws the rules out the window and opens the curtains on the man.(MUSIC COLUMN)(Movie review)
November 1, 2007... Todd Haynes's movies get under your skin or they pass right over it. Velvet Goldmine (1998) was seductive from start to finish, and I've almost never thought of it since. I could hardly bear Safe (1995) and Far From Heaven (2002) when they came...

Chris Brown: Exclusive.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Brown Exclusive (Jive) For teenage R&B phenoms, puberty seems to occur somewhere around the release of the second record, identifiable by a noticeable deepening of the voice, an increased interest in sex,...

Fiery Furnaces: Widow City.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Fiery Furnaces Widow City (Thrill Jockey) This sixth album from the brother-and-sister combo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger is a wildly theatrical collection of songs that range from the garage-rock inspired to the Broadway ready....

Band of Horses: Cease to Begin.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Band of Horses Cease to Begin (Sub Pop) This second album from Band of Horses is admirably scruffy and artfully arch. The Seattle-bred group is part of a growing line of contemporary artists such as Built to Spill, My Morning Jacket, and...

Siouxsie: Mantaray.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Siouxsie Mantaray (Decca) Despite the fact that she hasn't put out a new record in years, goth-punk icon Siouxsie Sioux's presence has been felt on the music scene--as her influence can be heard in the music of acts ranging from Goldfrapp...

Scout Niblett: This Fool Can Die Now.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Scout Niblett This Fool Can Die Now (Too Pure/Beggars Group) Scout Niblett is a British-born singer-songwriter whose first name was taken from To Kill a Mockingbird, and whose folk-pop is pretty, brittle, and melancholic. She distinguishes...

Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead.(SOUND ADVICE: ECCENTRIC CHARMERS, DANCING FIENDS, AND GENRE-HOPPING LIBERTINES)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Serj Tankian Elect the Dead (Serjical Strike/Reprise) The struggle of rock 'n' roll to effectively engage the political in the age of the digital download is, like the music industry itself right now, a problematic quandary for which there...

American Gangster.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... AMERICAN GANGSTER Directed by Ridley Scott (Universal) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shot through the lenses of race, class, war, and the fractured America of the early '70s, Ridley Scott's latest film chronicles the real-life rise of Harlem...

Mr. Untouchable.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... MR. UNTOUCHABLE Directed by Marc Levin (Magnolia) As this documentary from director Marc Levin so dutifully demonstrates, Frank Lucas wasn't the only gangster making hay on the Harlem drug circuit in the '70s--there was also Nicky Barnes,...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD Directed by Sidney Lumet (ThinkFilm) At age 83, director Sidney Lumet has turned out one of his darkest films: a gripping, pitiful biopsy of familial collapse in the guise of a heist tale. Philip Seymour...

The Kite Runner.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... THE KITE RUNNER Directed by Marc Forster (DreamWorks/Paramount Classics) Director Marc Forster mounts an impressive production for this fluid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-seller about the scars left by the friendship and betrayal...

Things We Lost in the Fire.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE Directed by Susanne Bier (Paramount) Bringing the sensibility of her bruising, naturalistic dramas to an English-language film for the first time, Danish director Susanne Bier has fashioned a tough, moving...

Wristcutters: A Love Story.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY Directed by Goran Dukic (Autonomous) A film about a suicide with subtextual similarities to The Wizard of Oz (1939) sounds like a risky proposition, but this one from Croatian director Goran Dukic strives to be...

Letter from the editor: November 2007.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... "It was my world, my life, my family, my people," says Betsey Johnson, the free-spirit fashion designer who, instead of taking the usual bow, is known to do a cartwheel or two down the runway at the end of her fashion shows. As you'll read in...

Javier Bardem: despite his affinity for the anti-formulaic anti-heroes of life, Javier Bardem has everything that Hollywood could ever ask for in a leading man. A boxer's mug, a poet's soul, and an ability to leap off the screen that just might win him an Oscar.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ELVIS MITCHELL: Since the last time we spoke, shortly after you'd completed Alejandro Amenabar's Mar Adentro [2004], you've made four English-language movies with four very different--and very distinctive--directors:...

Age of innocence.(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2007... THINK BACK TO THOSE MENAGERIES OF STUFFED ANIMALS THAT POPULATED YOUR CHILDHOOD BEDROOM. ALL THOSE VELVETS AND ANGORAS AND PLUSHES WERE THE VERY DEFINITION OF PLEASURE AND COMFORT. GUESS WHAT? THEY STILL ARE. THIS FALL, COLLECTIONS ARE...

Patrick Wolf: how a tall, introspective kid who struggled to fit in with the pack wound up making music that's as cacophonous, wild, and dramatic as a howl at the moon.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... British songwriter Patrick Wolf began making his own home recordings as a preteen, playing a thrift-store organ and a makeshift theremin and singing into a rickety four-track machine. Now, 13 years later, Wolf's music still retains the...

Thrown to the wolves! four other musical acts that are baring their teeth--and not just in name only.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE ARE WOLVES Their name evokes a certain solidness, like they're bona fide purebreds that come from good stock. The music of Montreal trio We Are Wolves, however, is proudly the stuff of mutts. The group's...

Kristen Stewart: these days is it even possible for a young woman in Hollywood to have a hard-driving career and still avoid the speed traps? If the road map offered by Kristen Stewart--so far--is any indication, the answer is "yes!".(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] She is the girl we all want to be--super self-confident without being cocky, deeply appealing without compromising herself, entirely natural in unnatural situations. Call it what you will--talent, grace, joie de...

Walter De Maria: long before the environment was a lightning-rod issue, Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field electrified earth art.
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1981 I made my first visit to Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field--which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month--along with Interview's Ingrid Sischy, then the editor of Arfforum. The journey began with our...

The brave ones with Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... MARGOT AT THE WEDDING--WRITER AND DIRECTOR NOAH DAUMBACH'S FOLLOW-UP TO HIS SENSATIONAL THE SQUID AND THE WHALE OF 2005--PAIRS TWO OF THE MOST GIFTED, FEARLESS ACTORS ALIVE TODAY: NICOLE KIDMAN AND JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. MARGOT IS THE...

Interview magazine presents ultimate fighters.
November 1, 2007... FEATURING RANDY COUTURE ROGER HUERTA KEITH JARDINE THIAGO SILVA CHUCK LIDDELL GEORGES ST. PIERRE SCOTT SMITH IVAN SALAVERRY QUINTON "RAMPAGE" JACKSON To Senator John McCain, it's "human...

Emmy Rossum: the actress talks about posing half-naked for her new album cover, leaving opera behind, and surviving a high school full of mean girls.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Emmy Rossum has a varied background as an actress, having played everything from a young Audrey Hepburn in the television movie The Audrey Hepburn Story, to the doomed daughter of Sean Penn's character in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003),...

Josh Brolin: he may have a famous name and a Hollywood pedigree, but it's a youth marked by mucking stalls and 5 a.m. horse feedings that's the secret of his success.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... A Hollywood legacy can be a mixed blessing, something Josh Brolin knows all too well. The son of actor James Brolin (and for nine years now, the stepson of Barbra Streisand), Brolin made his feature-film debut in 1985's buried-treasure drama...

Out in print ...(PAGE 5)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2007... 1 Blaine Trump at Milk Studios in New York City for a party celebrating the publication of Bob Colacello's Out (a book of pictures originally taken for Interview's famous "Out" column), hosted by Diane von Furstenberg and Interview's Sandra...

... In with Pollack ...(PAGE 5)(Brief article)(Photograph)
November 1, 2007... 14 Aaron Young at the Park Avenue Armory for the presentation of Greeting Card, his live performance piece inspired by Jackson Pollock's painting of the same name. The evening, which included a postperformance dinner in Young's honor, was...