Interview articles from September 2007

Interview archives from September 2007

That special bond.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... Dear Interview, I just finished reading Sam Taylor-Wood's July cover-story interview with Daniel Craig. While I've always thought Craig was dreamy, he now seems like more than just a pretty face, and he clearly doesn't take himself and the...

A flower for sir Paul.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... Dear Interview, For those of us who are old enough to remember the arrival of the Beatles in the United States and the impact the band had on our lives at that time and for many years after, your article on Paul McCartney [July 2007] is a...

The happy birthday suits.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... Dear Interview, I love your magazine and have been a subscriber for many years. I just got around to reading the April 2007 issue and, having been a diehard Allman Brothers fan for 30-plus years, I felt compelled to bring to your attention...

CAA, are you reading this?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... Dear Interview, My name is Olesya Webb, and I am a professional rhythmic gymnast and contortionist. I came across your website and I had an idea: I was wondering if your magazine has a specialtalents section or something similar that I...

A red-letter letter.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2007... In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the following is an excerpt from a letter he wrote to Allen Ginsberg on September 22, 1960. Dear Allen, Yes, just got back, big TWA Ambassador flight,...

A parting of the waves: a trademark look gets a contemporary makeover.(LOOK OF THE MONTH)(Veronica Lake)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Veronica Lake's breakthrough film was called I Wanted Wings, but when it came to her image, she got waves instead. Her trademark hairstyle, with its strong side part and its tresses partially obscuring the eye, was set into cinematic quotation...

Toby Hemingway: steal scenes--also steals hearts.(MOVIE SCOOP)(Feast of Love)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... When your feature-film debut includes the line "Harry Potter can kiss my ass," it should come as no surprise that your fans on the Internet take notice. Though 24-year-old Toby Hemingway self-effacingly refers to the occasion for that...

Emma De Caunes: legal fugitive, empress of France, insatiable sex addict: never a dull role for this French actress.(MOVIE HEAT)
September 1, 2007... Imagine being trapped in a Mini Cooper with the mad Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson), a fugitive from the law who is determined to holiday in Cannes. This is the fate of Sabine (played by Emma de Caunes), who finds she's been identified as Bean's...

Eduardo Arroyuelo: in a scrappy little gangster film about the world's biggest rock band, he's the hustling, tussling surprise.(MOVIE SPOTLIGHT)(7 Days)(Movie review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Mexican actor Eduardo Arroyuelo understood what it would take to pull off a character who literally would risk his life to see his favorite band. "There's nothing bigger in Mexico than U2," says 34-year-old Arroyuelo, who plays Claudio, a man...

Zoe Kravitz: the daugther of an individualist rock star and a rogue actress cuts her own path.(MOVIE ONE TO WATCH)(The Brave One)(Biography)
September 1, 2007... For some kids, the summer between high school and college offers the opportunity to see Europe from behind a digital camera (or the bottom of a beer glass). For Zoe Kravitz, it meant time to prepare for both her freshman year at SUNY Purchase...

Jonah Hill: how did a former high school outsider become one of the most popular kids in comedy's class of 2007? By taking a buzz saw to teen movie cliches.(MOVIE BREAKOUT)(Superbad)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... You may remember him as the kid from the We Sell Your Stuff on eBay store in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Or as the guy with the pinkeye in Knocked Up. But with the release of the new film Superbad, people are about to start recognizing 23-year-old...

On the road: the godfather of American beatnikism, Jack Kerouac, rises again.(COUNTERCULTURE CORNER)
September 1, 2007... THE ANNIVERSARY Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the novel that has inspired generations of road trips (and head trips) in the search for a new America, celebrates its 50th birthday this month. On the Road: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition (Viking). ...

Young steff: can an 18-year-old velvet-voiced crooner who is already making his comeback album become R&B's next sugar daddy?(MUSIC SCOOP)(Biography)
September 1, 2007... For Stephen Goldsboro, a.k.a. Young Steff, music is something of a family crest. His father was a member of the gospel group Spirit, and an aunt--Gina Thompson--is a singer who has worked with producer Rodney Jerkins. "When I was a kid, my dad...

The pipettes: a rethinking of '60s girl-group glee, punk rock style.(MUSIC NEWS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... "We want to encourage people to be escapists," says RiotBecki, one of the three twentysomething singers in the indie-pop band the Pipettes, whose debut album, We Are the Pipettes (Cherrytree/Interscope), has just been released in the United...

Sean Kingston: hip-hop, reggae, doo-wop: calling his style a gumbo is just the beginning.(MUSIC BREAKOUT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... What happens when an undiscovered young artist writes to his guru on MySpace? If you're Kisean Anderson, a.k.a. Sean Kingston, you get a record deal and pen a hip-knocking single, and your life turns a full 180 degrees. The 17-year-old...

Marissa Nadler: think songs about lost love are all the same? Think again.(MUSIC SPOTLIGHT)(Songs III: Bird on the Water )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... "My mother is a clairvoyant," says dream-folk musician Marissa Nadler, "but I don't believe in that stuff." Despite her skepticism about ghosts, Nadler, 26, writes songs that spin tales of folklore and witchcraft, and she performs them in a...

Tom Sachs: if this artist were in charge of the space program, we'd already have shopping malls on the moon.(STUDIO view)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Forty-one-year-old artist Tom Sachs's latest project--on display starting September 8 at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills--is a kind of space program. It features space suits and control panels, as well as a 20-foot-by-31-foot exact replica of...

Kris Van Assche: the pressure is on for this designer, and all eyes are on him.(FASHION PROFILE)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... JOSEPH ERRICO: You've had your own self-titled line for several years now, but since you were named artistic director for Dior Homme, the spotlight has been on you--as well as the pressure. Let's start by talking a little about your background...

The lil' blue dress has its day: to vary a fashion favorite, the news is in the hues.(FASHION NEWS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Classically speaking, fashion's uniform is black, and the military's uniform comes in blue: dress blue, Prussian blue, navy blue. For fall, however, fashion's new uniform takes its cue from the soldierly palette--so instead of the little black...

Out of this world: ground control to major trend.(FASHION IDEA)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Thanks to the stargazers at Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, and other houses that are fond of antigravity, we can now dream about lifting off into the future, suited up in astral attire that is sure to take us across the Milky Way rather than...

Pleats and thank you: for fall, fashion returns to the fold.(FASHION FLASH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... There are box pleats, cartridge pleats, fluted pleats, and plisse pleats. There are even Watteau pleats, named after the French painter Antoine Watteau. But the most common sort in evidence this season is the accordion variety: permanent folds...

Just Jack: the former furniture maker's playful brand of hip-hop has found an army of fans in Britain. Is America ready for a rapper who doesn't fit into the formula?(Inter MAN)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Jack Allsopp's initial foray into recording, 2003's The Outer Marker, was not blessed by beginner's luck. The debut of this U.K.-based artist--whose professional name is Just Jack--was overshadowed by the Streets' Original Pirate Material...

Elephant dancing: in an age of apathy, an album that dares to say anything is possible.(MUSIC COLUMN)(Sound recording review)
September 1, 2007... I was listening to the New Pornographers' Challengers (Matador) over and over; at the same time I was reading a pitchforkmedia.com review of the recent box set of Sly & the Family Stone albums. The writer, Jess Harvell, was comparing Sly...

Chaka Khan: Funk This (Burgundy).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... CHAKA KHAN Funk This (Burgundy) Just as the United States has grown too dependent on oil as an energy source, American music has come to rely too heavily on funk. Far from the freewheeling, subversive records of James Brown, George...

The Go! Team: Proof of Youth (Sub Pop).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... THE GO! TEAM Proof of Youth (Sub Pop) The Go! Team managed to rally some big crowds with their first album, 2005's Thunder, Lightning, Strike, with a mix of cheerleadery chant songs and rhythmic rock numbers. On Proof of Youth, their...

Dax Riggs: We Sing of Only Blood or Love (Fat Possum).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... DAX RIGGS We Sing of Only Blood or Love (Fat Possum) This solo album from Dax Riggs, the artist formerly of Deadboy and the Elephant men, is a mess of Southern and psychedelic rock, running the gamut between deliciously garish metal and...

Baby Elephant: Turn My Teeth Up! (Godforsaken Music).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... BABY ELEPHANT Turn My Teeth Up! (Godforsaken Music) Not a lot of kids even know the name Stetsasonic these days, but that was the old-school hip-hop outfit in which a young B-boy called Prince Paul cut his teeth, and now he's turning them...

Lori McKenna: Unglamorous (Warner Bros.).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... LORI McKENNA Unglamorous (Warner Bros.) Having released four little-heard independent albums, 38-year-old housewife Lori McKenna was signed to a major label after Faith Hill recorded a trio of McKenna originals for her 2005 album Fireflies...

The National: Boxer (Beggars Banquet).(SOUND ADVICE)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... THE NATIONAL Boxer (Beggars Banquet) On their latest album, the National seem to have found their perfect pitch. On Boxer, the followup to the Brooklyn-based quintet's 2005 album, Alligator, singer Matt Berninger's vocals and lyrics are a...

Shots in the dark: why all's not quiet on the Western front.(MOVIE COLUMN)(Movie review)
September 1, 2007... Movie history would have been poorer had Russell Crowe never donned a cowboy hat. The one worn by his character, Ben Wade, in this month's 3:10 to Yuma is no Stetson, however, but a squatty affair, like James Caan's in El Dorado (1967). It...

All the dish: chow for the armchair traveler.(FOOD COLUMN)(Provence 38, Hill Country and Mai House)(Restaurant review)
September 1, 2007... As Labor Day rolls around many of us must face the fact that our fantasies of visiting the Greek islands, or Bangkok, or Yosemite National Park must be deferred for another year. But as any armchair traveler can attest, one doesn't always have...

Out witH Bob and Andy: a new book spotlights the glitterati of a freedom-filled age.(FLASHBACK)(Bob Colacello: Out)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Andy Warhol made multitasking into an art form, and he passed his habit of wearing many hats on to everyone who worked for our magazine, Interview. As executive editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1974 to 1983, Bob Colacello was, among many...

A sparkling affair.(OUT IN PARIS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... When Karl Lagerfeld opened up his Paris home for a celebration of the campaign he shot for Dom Perignon's Oenotheque, corks popped, bubbly flowed, and an array of guests mingled merrily. If there'd been a swimming pool, many guests--including...

Painting the town red.(OUT IN ROME)(The house of Valentino's 45th anniversary )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The house of Valentino marked its 45th anniversary with a whirlwind weekend of events in Rome--an exhibition opening followed by a party at the Temple of Venus, the haute couture presentation for fall '07, and a gala ball at the Villa Borghese....

Broadway's undressing room.(OUT IN NEW YORK CITY)(Great White Way)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Strippers meet tippers when the Great White Way's dancers perform at Broadway Bares, an annual event that benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. On this steamy evening, Roseland Ballroom in midtown Manhattan becomes a bacchanal of bodily...

Letter from the editor: September 2007.(view)(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... In the early hours of a morning in late July our cover subject, Mariah Carey, took me on a tour of her apartment in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood. And like the singer herself, as readers of our interview (pages 156-165) will see, her home is...

Mariah.(Mariah Carey)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... THROUGH ALL OF HER UPS AND DOWNS, SHE'S BEEN CALLED A VARIETY OF THINGS: AN INGIENUE, A DIVA; A HAS-BEEN; A COMEBACK QUEEN. BUT NOW IS THE TIME FOR A DIFFERENT, MUCH MORE HUMAN STORY TO EMERGE. HERE, SHE OPENS UP HER HOME AND HER HEART LIKE...

Casey Affleck: he's casting aside the moniker "Ben's little brother" in favor of the title "new leading man".(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Casey Affleck is thoughtful, reflective, and philosophical--about everything but his work. He is the only person I've ever interviewed who had as many questions for me as I had for him, and he'd done his homework, ready to quote my work back to...

Mandy Moore: bubblegum pop star? Been there, done that. Strong-willed woman who zigs when everyone expects her to zag? In the making.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Mandy Moore the actress has tended to be taken more seriously than Mandy Moore the singer. Her roles in the movie satires Saved! (2004) and American Dreamz generated good buzz, and she's got a new film, Dedication, that should serve to...

Fashion's front line: deep in the huddle wearing Karl Lagerfeld.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... For some who like to sit on the sidelines, the coming of fall augurs the new fashion season. For other people, the prime autumn spectator sport is football. It's long been assumed that never the twain shall meet. Until now. Suit up! This...

Eve: the rapper-turned-minimogul has a message for anyone who thought they had her pegged. you don't know me from Adam.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... In the eight years since she first made her mark on the pop-music scene with 1999's double-platinum Let There Be Eve... Ruff Ryders' First Lady, rapper Eve has been one of the busiest women in show business. In addition to making music (two...

Roberto Bolle: the leaps of the ballet world's exuberantly unconventional new rafter-raiser are causing a sensation both on and off the stage.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Ballet hasn't had a leading man who's crossed over to pop-star fame since Mikhail Baryshnikov. If any current dancer can achieve that status, however, it's Roberto Bolle. Over the past decade, Bolle, 32, has become a significant media presence...

Catch a fire.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Long celebrated as the anthem of international good vibrations, Rasta music has often brought its eclectic style to fashion. From roots-rock reggae to dub and dancehall, the sounds of Jamaica have influenced legions of would-be urban...

Monica Bellucci: from the country shape like a boot, the actress who's giving risk-taking roles a kick in the pants.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... With the beauty of Sophia Loren and the fierceness of Anna Magnani, Monica Bellucci is a celluloid force of nature. But if her natural assets have made her into a fashion muse for designers such as Dolce & Gabbana, she also likes to toy with...

Mellow yellow nights.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... 1 Steve Buscemi at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room for a screening of Interview, hosted by Dior Beauty and the Cinema Society. 2 David Schwimmer at the Interview screening. 3 Sienna Miller at the Interview screening. 4 Stanley Tucci at the...