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Articles in Oct 2007 issue of Interview

• A conversation between David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen: when the director known for getting under the skin teams up with the actor famous for playing strong, silent, offbeat types, anything can happen—and it does
• Sharon Jones: soul music's latest phenomenon isn't a bright-eyed teen or a saccharine quartet, but a prison guard turned singer
  by Dimitri Ehrlich
• P.J. Harvey: White Chalk
  by Jonathan Durbin
• Kanye West: first came the acclaim, and then the inevitable backlash. Now Kanye West is out to reinvent himself as a man of the world. But is the world ready for what he's got in store?
  by Dimitri Ehrlich
• To Internet or not to 'net
  by John Gray
• Julie Taymor: in everything director Julie Taymor has created, she has taken a leap. Now she dares to center her latest movie, Across The Universe, on the cathedral of pop music: the Beatles catalog
  by Eddie Izzard
• Little Britain: the bizarre, brilliant cast of characters from Dudley and Ting Tong to Bubbles de Vere that Matt Lucas and David Walliams created for their warped, hilarious Little Britain series has ensured that the show's catchphrases will become part o
  by Anna McCarthy
• Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
  by Justin Conner
• Gaetano Pesce: designer and architect Gaetano Pesce is a visionary outsider who has made a home for himself on the creative forefront of design, exploring new materials and pushing the boundaries of what we know to be possible
  by Brad Dunning
• Snap, crackle, pop!
  by Renee Newbold
• Spellbound: own your witchiness
  by Annabel Tollman
• Sean Penn: the story of a director's decade-long desire to capture a young man's yearning that was so big only Alaska could begin to express it
  by Ingrid Sischy
• Vanessa Carlton: Heroes & Thieves
  by Stephen Mooallem
• The one and only
• Spreading the word
  by Stephen Howse
• Velozzi: meet the responsible race car that reminds us that Green also means "go!"
  by Bill Vourvoulias
• Velvet on the ground: a shoe for all reasons
  by Frank E. De Jesus
• Shots in the dark: why two movies about dead rock stars come alive onscreen
  by Graham Fuller
• Jason Schwartzman: how growing up in a family full of individualists, rogues, and rebels proved good preparation for his latest film
  by Molly Shannon
• Jim Sturgess: this actor is going places: Sin City, the middle ages, and—in the new film Across The Universe—on a fantastic voyage through '60s America
  by Bill Vourvoulias
• Collier Schorr: the intimate story of a local hero from queens who dreamed big and died too young
  by Nicholas Herman
• Block party: how to give the sidewalk some sizzle
  by Madhu Puri
• Letter from the editor October 2007
  by Ingrid Sischy
• Kara Walker
  by Brendan Lemon
• Kelli Garner: the movies' new girl next door bowls a strike
  by Mark Olsen
• Millard Kaufman: the man who shows it's never too late to try something
  by Stephen Dougherty
• Lake of fire: a bristling new documentary ventures to the stormy front lines of a matter of life and death
  by Stephen Mooallem
• Jake Gyllenhaal: he's been called everything from brave to focused to just plain obsessive, but for moviedom's athletically inclined, politically minded man of action, it's 100 percent or nothing. Director David Fincher catches up with the actor whose mom
  by David Fincher
• Our lady detective dresses to kill
• Gregory Smith: just what a former child actor needs to grow up quickly: a battle with the forces of darkness
  by Julia Cosgrove
• Michelle Ryan: looking for a TV heroine who really packs a punch? Here she is—and she's got the $50 million body to prove it
  by Dan Torday
• Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
  by Matt Diehl
• Tang Wei: a debut as big as the country she comes from
  by Stephen Mooallem
• Malin Akerman: if things had gone a little differently for this actress, she might have been voted Sweden's sexiest child psychologist
  by Ed Burns
• Amber Heard: attention big-screen funnymen: here comes the competition
  by Jonathan Durbin
• Common: why hip-hop's square peg refuses to live up to his name
  by Dimitri Ehrlich
• Calvin Harris: I Created Disco
  by Matt Diehl
• Richard Prince: the instigator's time has come
  by Ingrid Sischy
• One boss night
  by Patrick McMullan
• Alicja Bachleda: a breakout role that's all bruises, bloody lips, and bravery
  by Ethan Silverman
• The Plastiscines: French rock music, hold the Fromage
  by Martha Tuber
• Underworld: Oblivion With Bells
  by Matt Diehl
• Annie Lennox: her voice is one of the most ethereal in pop. But on her first album in four years, her passions are more of-this-world than ever
  by Tim Blanks
• Dan Fogler: from the theater world, a big-screen funnyman cometh
  by Elvis Mitchell
• The D.E.Y.: they've got the beat, the heat, and the sound of the street
  by Anicee Gaddis
• Foo Fighters: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
  by Jonathan Durbin
• Shades of gray