Interview articles from October 2004

Interview archives from October 2004

This stone knows how to rock.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Interview, Having recently heard Joss Stone's singing for the first time, I have to say I was struck by a couple of things in your recent interview with her [August 2004]. No, not the fact that she's a white girl from England (that...

A case of poor reception?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I love how Camille Paglia in your August issue refers to [punk-rock group] Television as "the groundbreaking but short-lived group" that she feels "lucky to have seen perform at CBGB's in the '70s." Urn, thanks for the hot...

Karma klatsch.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Interview, What a great idea to get Beastie Boys together with Russell Simmons [August 2004]. Though Russell got a little personal asking them if they were still fooling around with girls, the Boys kept it very professional. Maybe...

A protester's wish list.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Interview, I greatly enjoyed Elton John's pointers on music, but it was not his tips in the July issue that motivated me to write this letter. Rather, it was his view on the absence of artists willing to speak out against President...

In the cards?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Interview, You've done it again! I absolutely loved your interview of Jeff Bridges by Philip Seymour Hoffman [July 2004]--two of my all-time favorite actors alive. In 1991, my girlfriend did a tarot reading for Bridges on the...

6 ready for their close-up.(actors Michelle Trachtenberg, Jake Muxworthy, Emily Deschanel, Meagan Good, Max Minghella, and Emily Van Camp)
October 1, 2004... 1. MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG "I've been training for this movie since January," says Michelle Trachtenberg, star of this December's romantic comedy Ice Princess. "And I've bashed up every bone in my body, so no one can say I haven't suffered...

4 bands making noise.(The Killers; Living Things; Spalding Rockwell and The Faint)
October 1, 2004... 1. THE KILLERS They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But with an aptly titled debut called Hot Fuss (Island) and a knack for spinning literate yarns about banged-up relationships, homicidal sociopaths, and dudes who look like...

Anderson Cooper: as a scrappy 22-year-old aspiring newsman, Anderson Cooper strapped a camcorder to his shoulder and set off for the world's hot spots. Now he's got his own show on CNN, and he's not through jumping into the fire.(View Man)(Brad Goldfarb interviews Anderson Cooper)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... As host of his nightly newscast on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360[degrees], for the past year, Anderson Cooper is rewriting the rules of news anchoring. Never speaking down to his viewers or slipping into talking-head mode, he is at once smart,...

First impressions: a gallery of picture that predicted the legends-to-be: everybody in the following portfolio was once a rookie. Often Interview has been the magazine to give them their first media break. What follows is a look back to that first moment of eureka!(Back Through The Crystal Ball)
October 1, 2004... TALKING HEADS PHOTOGRAPH BY DUNCAN HANNAH AUGUST 1976 At the time, they were opening for the Ramones at CBGB; word of mouth alone got them there as the best of New York's so-called new underground. Talking Heads were without a...

What's that shimmer? This season it's not just clouds that have a silver lining.(Look Of The Month)
October 1, 2004... Makeup is finding inspiration in the plethora of sequins and metallic fabrics in this season's collections, mirroring the trend by taking shimmer up a notch--from a soft, sheeny glow to vibrant, sparkling shades. Paying homage to the Factory...

Elvis Costello: he's gone from being the "angriest man in music" to one of the busiest, collaborating with bigwigs, composing orchestral pieces, and continuing to rock like it's 1977. Now, with his credibility still intact, music's most restless troubadour stops to smell the roses with the rocket man.(2 Music Trailblazers Talk)(Elton John interviews Elvis Costello)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... ELTON JOHN: You've always been the sort of artist who's willing to experiment and change your tune, from your rock "n' roll albums to your orchestral work and all your collaborations. But your new album, The Delivery Man [Lost Highway], really...

Heeeere's Andy!(35th Anniversary Original Art Special)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... ANDY WARHOL WROTE IN HIS BOOK THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL, "WHEN I DID MY SELF-PORTRAIT, I LEFT ALL THE PIMPLES OUT BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS SHOULD." FOR THIS SPECIAL ISSUE, WE ASKED 12 OF TODAY'S MOST VISIONARY ARTISTS TO CREATE PORTRAITS OF ANDY...

Tallulah Bankhead: as skilled with an off-the-cuff one-liner as a line of Shakespeare, actress Tallulah Bankhead--brash, beautiful, brazen--knew how to hold the world's attention. Here, an exclusive first look from a new biography.(A 21st-Century Look At The Original Wild Woman)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... She was certainly talented and beautiful, but what made Tallulah Bankhead unforgettable was her outrageousness. These days we are used to actresses (and musicians) who swear, drink, and sleep around openly, espousing liberal political causes...

3 new movie men.
October 1, 2004... 1. BRIAN WHITE: BY JUAN MORALES SIDELINED WITH AN INJURY, THIS PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER TACKLED THE ACTING GAME--AND SCORED "Acting and athletics are very similar," says Brian White. As a former New England Patriot, a onetime member of the...

William Morris: on the occasion of his traveling exhibition at the Boise Art Museum (which runs through October 17), glassblower William Morris has a maverick-to-maverick chat with designer Donna Karan.(Boundary-Breaking Artist)
October 1, 2004... DONNA KARAN: When I was in your studio, I was very moved by your work and your process. To me, it felt like you were playing with this volatile substance, this energy. MORRIS: I call it "energy"--but it needs to take form. It needs to have...

Galaxy 2004: Andy Warhol's superstars often took their destinies into their own hands to make their dreams happen, meet 10 folks who follow the same modus operandi.(21th-Century Superstars)
October 1, 2004... SOPHIA SUPERSTAR "I have always been called 'Sophia,'" declares the young transgendered actress/hostess Sophia Lamar. "After I came to America as a refugee in the Cuban boat lift [in 1980] I thought, I made it across la mar--"the sea" in...

Grey Gardens: the spirit of Edie Bouvier Beale returns in this fall's madcap style.(The Perfect Costume For The Day)(designer Phoebe Philo at Chloe)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... For fall 2004, pieces you never thought would be right together somehow are--and if it "goes," it's a no-go. Reminiscent of Edie Bouvier Beale's eccentric style, captured in the Maysles brothers' documentary Grey Gardens [1976], this is a...

Kristeen Young: growing up in a religious home, she lived by the rules. Now this glam-rock chanteuse has made an album about breaking the bible's top ten.(Music Spotlight)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... One night last year, Kristeen Young was holed up in a sweltering, humid apartment in Lisbon, Portugal, when she was struck by an idea of biblical proportions: For her latest album, X (TVPI), she would craft a cycle of songs based on the Ten...

The shape of time: why the new watch from Christian Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane is anything but bling-bling as usual.(This Month's Object)(interview with Joseph Errico)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... JOSEPH ERRICO: Let's talk about your new line of watches for Christian Dior Homme, which will be available in Dior boutiques this fall. What inspired the designs for the three versions? HEDI SLIMANE: I've always been interested in watches...

Presenting a portfolio from the archives of Interview of 4 iconic brits captured live on Red Hot Tape.(From The Interview Vaults)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... 08/81 MICK JAGGER BY ANDY WARHOLD & PALS TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1981, 6:00 p.m., NEW YORK: ANDY WARHOL and BOB COLACELLO are visiting MICK JAGGER at his Central Park West apartment. ROLLING STONES drummer CHARLIE WATTS is also present. BOB...

Bob Colacello: you never know who you'll end up meeting at Interview, and as Bob Colacello, the magazine's former editor, reveals, you never know where those encounters will take you.(Alumni Corner)(Claudia Cohen interviews former editor and author Bob Colacello)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... This month, journalist and former Interview editor Bob Colacello releases the first of his much-anticipated two-volume biography of the Reagans, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House (Warner Books). Here, his longtime friend, reporter...

Has anyone ever told you you should be a model?(Scouting Special)(ten new faces from seven photographers)
October 1, 2004... ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT BEAUTY IS HOW IT'S DIFFERENT IN EVERYBODY'S EYES. INTERVIEW'S FOUNDER ANDY WARHOL, SAID HE NEVER MET A PERSON HE COULDN'T CALL A BEAUTY. WITH THIS IN MIND, WE PRESENT A DISCOVERY PORTFOLIO OF TEN NEW FACES FROM...

Factory workers unite! Andy Warhol's factory was a creative incubator for a host of independent movements in culture. Presenting three of the creative collectives that are carrying on that spirit today.(Teamwork Special)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Ever since Andy Warhol handed him his first assignment--a black-and-white portrait of stuntman Lance Guecia for Interview in 1984--photographer, video director, and filmmaker David LaChapelle has amassed a body of work that has not only...

Conor Oberst's sound factory.(The New "Factories"--Music)
October 1, 2004... Conor Oberst's creative utopia finds its pitch in the unlikely locale of Omaha, in the high plains of Nebraska. There, Oberst and his ever-growing network of musicians and artists, meet to exchange ideas, collaborate, pat one another on the...

Dave Eggers's word factory.(The New "Factories"--Literature)
October 1, 2004... With his journals, magazines, books, websites, CDs, readings, and other pseudo-happenings, writer and editor Dave Eggers has built a truly alternative literary culture. The flagship of Eggers's mini-empire, the literary quarterly McSweeney's,...

Shots in the dark: looking back at 1969, through the eyes of a midnight cowboy.(The Critics Go At It--Movie Column)
October 1, 2004... Though saddled with an X rating, John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy took Andy Warhol's Factory mainstream when it was released on May 26, 1969. Naive wannabe gigolo Joe Buck (Jon Voight), fresh from Texas and looking like a dumb, beautiful...

Wimbledon.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PREVIEW: WIMBLEDON (Universal) Directed by Richard Loncraine Kirsten Dunst's real-life romance with Jake Gyllenhaal may have recently hit some bumps, but the grass is greener for her onscreen in this love-and-laugh-fest about a rising...

The Forgotten.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PREVIEW: THE FORGOTTEN (Columbia) Directed by Joseph Ruben In this psychological thriller reminiscent of The Sixth Sense (1999), a mother (Julianne Moore) whose young son has died in a plane crash is told by a psychiatrist that the child is...

Ladder 49.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PREVIEW: LADDER 49 (Touchstone) Directed by Jay Russell Joaquin Phoenix stars in this Backdraft (1991) style drama about a rookie Baltimore firefighter whose life flashes before his eyes as he awaits death in a burning building. John...

I Heart Huckabees.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PREVIEW: I HEART HUCKABEES (Fox Searchlight) Directed by David O. Russell In this bizarre ensemble comedy, a beleaguered executive (Jason Schwartzman) hires a husband-and-wife team of "existential" detectives (Dustin Hoffman and Lily...

The Yes Men.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REVIEW: THE YES MEN (MGM) Directed by Chris Smith The latest documentary from the acclaimed director of 1999's American Movie follows two gonzo activists as they impersonate representatives of the World Trade Organization, attending...

Around The Bend.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REVIEW: AROUND THE BEND (Warner Bros. Independent) Directed by Jordan Roberts When the family patriarch (Michael Caine) dies, three generations of his male descendants (Christopher Walken, Josh Lucas, and newcomer Jonah Bobo) go on a road...

Stage Beauty.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REVIEW: STAGE BEAUTY (Lions Gate) Directed by Richard Eyre Shakespearean gender politics simmer but never come to a boil when King Charles II (Rupert Everett) decrees that men can no longer play women's roles onstage. As a result, the...

The Motorcycle Diaries.(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REVIEW: THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (Focus) Directed by Walter Salles Long before he became an icon of American hipster fashion, Che Guevera was a medical student, traveling across South America and experiencing all kinds of adventures and...

Dig!(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REVIEW: DIG! (Palm Pictures) Directed by Ondi Timoner Promises of "unrestricted access" reek of hype, but this documentary--which follows 1990s alt-rock could-have-beens the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols as they tour across...

Small talk: mud and sweat and joy and tears--playing back the sounds of 1969.(The Critics Go At It--Music Column)
October 1, 2004... Rock music split down the middle in 1969. Rock was still viewed as a revolutionary political force at the Woodstock Music Festival in August of that year, when half a million young people danced and grooved for three days of peace, love, and...

Bjork.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... BJORK Medulla (Elektra) To say that this latest set from Bj6rk is strange fruit would be putting it lightly. This collage of rare Icelandic bagatelles and home-brewed electro-blues rounded out by two signature numbers is a conceptual freak...

Dizzee Rascal.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... DIZZEE RASCAL Showtime (XL) On this follow-up to last year's Mercury Prize-winning Boy in da Corner, Dylan Mills, a.k.a. Dizzee Rascal, the 19-year-old British garage prodigy, proves he's got legs. Dipping back into his bag of ineluctable...

Joss Stone.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... JOSS STONE Mind, Body & Soul (S-Curve) Summoning Mavis Staples and Betty Wright is always a good trick, especially if, like Joss Stone, you're a 17-year-old white girl from England. Stone's first full-length and first stab at original...

Green Day.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... GREEN DAY American Idiot (Warner Bros.) With their sixth record, the forefathers of today's neo-punk movement have gone and made themselves a political rock opera. Indeed, the album's Forrest Gump (1994)--like exploration of its titular...

Fatboy Slim.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... FATBOY SLIM Palookaville (Astralwerks) Norman Cook, known to one and all as Fatboy Slim, has discovered that rock is the new dance music--just in time to grunge up his fourth album. Damon Albarn cameos on "Put It Back Together," while...

Blues Explosion.(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... BLUES EXPLOSION Damage (Sanctuary) Now asserting their communality, the band formerly known as Jon Spencer's is on fire on this follow-up to 2002's dirgy Plastic Fang. Spencer blazes about love, lust, and democracy like a punk-rock Elvis...

Moving Units.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... MOVING UNITS Dangerous Dreams (Rx/Palm Pictures) There's nothing remotely new about this ballyhooed debut from this Los Angeles retro dance-rock trio: "Emancipation" sounds like Steve Strange fronting the English Beat, "Available"...

All the dish: a trip down Warhol lane.(The Critics Go At It--Food Column)
October 1, 2004... In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol wrote, "My favorite restaurant atmosphere has always been the atmosphere of the good, plain American lunchroom or even the good, plain American lunch counter." It's no surprise, then, that Warhol's...

The pipeline posse: she's surfing's boswell, a woman who can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the sport, its heroes, and its villains. Here, she talks about both.(35 Years Of Freedom)
October 1, 2004... While most sports enthusiasts in the northern hemisphere are finalizing plans for their first trip into the frigid white winter land of their favorite ski resort, suffers from all over the globe are packing their surfboard collections, or...

Look who just got off the bus.(Project Discovery)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... THEY KEEP SHOWING UP: GUTSY KIDS HUNGRY TO DO SOMETHING BIG, TO BE SOMETHING BIG. INTERVIEW MET WITH DOZENS OF THESE TALENTED GO-GETTERS, AND ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES WE PRESENT--IN FULL GLAMOUR AND GLORY--SOME OF OUR FAVORITE EXAMPLES OF NEW...

Letter from the editor October 2004.(View)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... "I came out of the dust bowl," Dennis Hopper remembers in the story that begins on page 308. We were talking to him about the beginnings of his now legendary life in film. Looking back he recalled: "When I went to the theater with my...

10 for our time: a portfolio by David Lachapelle.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... STYLIST: MARYAM MALAKPOUR FASHION DIRECTOR: ANNABEL TOLLMAN 22 EYE-POPPING PICTURES. PLUS: INTERVIEW GIVES EACH STAR THE WARHOLIAN ONCE-OVER WITH A SURPRISINGLY REVEALING POP QUESTIONNAIRE, SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ON PAGES 330-335....

14 to be: plucked straight from the vine, these up-and-comers discuss big plans, hidden talents, and the powerful pull of the Bard's prose.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... 1 ALEXIS DZIENA This salty star once sold pretzels. Now she's selling Strangers With Candy HOMETOWN: New York City MADE WAVES: Appeared opposite Marcia Gay Harden in last February's TV movie She's Too Young FIRST CREATIVE...

Tom Brady: were he not the star quarterback of football's best team, Tom Brady might have been coming soon to a theater near you.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Tom Brady is football's matinee idol, the golden boy of the gridiron. As quarterback for the New England Patriots, he has managed to turn one of the NFL's perennial losers into the class of the league. Now entering his fifth season with the...

Gee, Edie!
October 1, 2004... PHOTOGRAPHS BY Lola Schnabel FEATURING Paz de la Huerta AS EDIE SEDGWICK THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR... Lac Posen THE SITTING EDITOR... Annabel Tollman HAIR BY Hyunsoo/artistsbytimothypriano.com MAKEUP BY Fiona Horne/The Wall Group ...

Paz and Lola and Lac ... and Edie.(Edie Sedgwick)(Biography)
October 1, 2004... America's obsession with Edie Sedgwick began when the old-money heiress came to New York City in the early 1960s, triggering one of the biggest Richter scale measurements of the Youthquake that shook up the culture. Quickly noticed by our...

From sea to shining sea.(Page 5)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... Kate Bosworth and Naomi Watts in L.A. at the dinner for the opening of Prada's new Epicenter store on Rodeo Drive, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Lisa Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Jane...

From the Garden State to the Golden State to the Empire State.(Page 5)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... In the middle of the long, hot summer, over the course of two consecutive weeks, Interview magazine (along with a few of our partners), hosted premieres in Los Angeles and New York for Zach Braff's quirky coming-of-age film, Garden State. The...