Here's the first one...quite a few more to come.



(From NW magazine, 30 August, 1999)

Cheryl L.

Thanks for sharing the article with us. It made me laugh, with a strong craving for oysters.

And some more...



(From TV Week magazine, November, 1996)



(From TV Week magazine, November, 1999)




(From TV Week, November 1999: "Eyes Wide Shut" premiere)



(From TV Week magazine, September, 1996)

More to come .....

Sorry, this one didn't quite fit in the scanner...



(From NW magazine, August 2, 1999)



(From TV Week magazine, October 12, 1996)

More to come....

(From NW magazine, August 23 1999)




(From Who magazine, October 14 1996)

That's it for now, I'm off to lunch. More to come later though.

I feel like Ive been through entree, main course & dessert in one sitting!

Delicious...thanks Cheryl

Miss Cheryl, you really are a bloody lil pearler!!

I had a great read there mate and I do recall some of the articles
from a lil ways back now.

Keep em comin pweeze.

Wow, tnx for sharing these! I don't remember seeing any article about Chris here in a dutch magazine after Wicked Game. The dutch people think he's not making music anymore or that is he's dead. Such a shame..

These are fantastic!! Thank you so much for sharing.

(and yes...please keep them coming!)

Brilliant Cheryl -thanks for sharing!! Especially liked the one of them all in their suits at the Gridiron game!!

Thank you for sharing these articles Cheryl. I haven't seen the articles or most of the pictures before!!!
Off topic: Did you ever find that "white t-shirt" picture that was discussed in the picture thread? It was about "arms, t-shirt, and a car!" and we posted like crazy and still couldn't come up with the goods!
Thank you again and yes, keep them coming!!!!

You're all welcome girls. Sorry I couldn't get back here again yesterday as planned, but I had the Customer-From-Hell who I unexpectedly had to spend all afternoon and most of the night trying to satisfy. O.k. back to the REAL business here!

Kathy ~ No, I never did find it the white T-shirt pic. I'm pretty sure it was from a photo-shoot he did for an Aus. magazine some years ago (called 'Studio for Men', which is one of the ones I can't find in my collection of cuttings. I actually ended up with two copies of that magazine, so I'm buggered as to how I lost both of them but c'est la vie).

O.k. on with the show.

From Who magazine, September, 1996 (in 3 parts):

(From TV Week, 19 October 1996)




(From Who, October 14 1996)



(From Australian Women's Weekly, September 1995)

This last one is a little sad (apart from the mischievous gleam in Chris's eye, ). The lady on the left (pretty blonde) is Belinda Emmett, Rove McManus's late wife. Some of you might remember she passed away last year after a long battle with cancer when Chris was touring down here. Chris sent his condolences to Rove apparently, which I thought was a truly nice thing for him to do. btw, this picture was taken when Chris was down here in 1996 to co-host the Aria Awards with Harry Connick Jr:



From New Idea, October 12, 1996

Just a little bit more to come now....

O.k. so I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel now...



(From Melbourne Herald-Sun...dunno what date though...)

Ooops, sorry...it wasn't supposed to come out as big as that!

Nice big article/interview to come (hand typed only sorry, I've lost the original) and that'll be it.

Chris Isaak would rather remember the bad times than bury them. Nui Te Koha speaks to a singer constantly in touch with his emotions.

Chris Isaak wants some fashion tips. The last time he was here - winter last year - he was able to wear his ghastly Hawaiian shirts only in a place where ghastly sights do not seem to matter that much: Queensland.

Now it is summer and Isaak has been tipped off that his bright hibiscus prints could - with his reflective songs and cool haircut - go on a national tour. He is excited and concerned.

"We've been goofing around in this interview and stuff - and that's fun," he says. "But I want a serious answer on this one: if I wear my Hawaiian shirts will people go, 'look at that dumb, American tourist'?"

No, I assure him. They would probably say, 'Hey, that dumb American tourist in a Hawaiian shirt looks like Chris Isaak.'

"Oh, so you're saying there'd be recognition," he says. "You know, I'm gonna wear that stuff anyway, it's all I've got. I suppose I just want to know whether I'll get laughed at."

Isaak, 40, is in a playful mood, an emotion at odds with his six-month old album, Forever Blue, an extended letter of heartbreak to his former long-time girlfriend.

For this meeting, his humour is twisted and sharp, more dry wit than sarcasm. He has just recorded an MTV Unplugged session, will work on two musical contributions for films and a soundtrack after his Australian tour. Isaak - cool Californian drawl, slick hair and wonky, grape-shaped nose - is in good form.

Which is not entirely surprising. Forever Blue, which could have choked on grief and longing has more emotions than just slow and melancholy.

It opens with the rock'n'bluesy Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, keeps the momentum on Don't Leave Me On My Own, but the underlying intention is loss, so the strongest tracks are the recent single, Somebody's Cryin' and the tearful title track.

"As a record, as a piece of work, as business, I'm real happy with it," Isaak says. "It said what I really wanted to say."

"On a personal level, when I look at it, it will always be a reminder of a tough time - and it still is: I can't believe it's been as long as it has been. It's always difficult to look back on something you didn't want to let go of. It's a drag."

But surely Isaak, in documenting his misery on the Forever Blue album, has set himself for a constant reminder for the rest of his career.

"Yeah, but I would rather remember things than forget them," he says.

"To me, the tragedy is that you can't hold on to your feelings, they are transitory, ephemeral, and then they're gone. The fact that you can remember things makes them seem, to me, valid."

"Your first girlfriend," he perks up, asking himself a question. "Do you remember what she looked like - 'no' - well, that's not a good thing. Me, I probably remember too much."

"People remember numbers, dates; me, I remember things about love."

Have women taken the unintentional, but glaringly obvious, subplot of Forever Blue - that Isaak is a free agent - as a license to try to seduce him?

"The same as always," he smiles. "Anybody, in any kind of rock band, whether you're playing in the corner bar or on TV, you have people who want to go out on a date."

"Do you get Siskel and Ebert (a largely unattractive movie review team in the US) over here?" he asks.

"I'm sure there are women trying to chase them, you know what I mean? You put them on TV and there's probably some broad going: "Ebert, he does it for me. He smokes me. I'm hot. I see him. I want him."

"I'll bet you it's true. I'll bet you he hits the hotel and there are flowers from somebody. You can't take it too seriously," he says, straightening up. "You just can't".

Isaak made five albums up to Forever Blue: the imagery of the first two - Chris Isaak and Heart Shaped World - and his brooding vocal and stratospheric falsetto set up shallow comparisons to Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison.

But it was the 1991 single Wicked Game - used by director David Lynch in Wild at Heart and promoted through a steamy video of Isaak and model Helena Christiansen making what he describes as 'MTV love' on a beach - that established his fame and style.

He was also one of the first of the new breed to do the movie/singer crossover.

Though admittedly - and Isaak seems slightly embarrassed about it - his movie roles (in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Bernardo Bertolluci's Little Buddha and the new Tom Hanks flick) have been bit parts.

"Somebody once told me: 'Oh, I let my kids watch your videos, but I tell them it's not real," he says.

"And I'm like: 'What?' And they say: 'The kids think you're having sex, you know?' and I'm like: 'I wish'."

Isaak lightheartedly rattles off a list of his tamer videos, sensing an observation that his music clips consistently feature half-naked women.

"You said 'raunchy'," he says. "I just know you're gonna use that word."

He recalls the shoot for Don't Make Me Dream, an under-the-doona assignment with a Los Angeles-based French model.

"So we're in this bed making MTV love," he says. "I'm not touching her breasts, I'm not touching her butt, I'm touching her leg or her arm. People, if you make love based on MTV you will never get pregnant."

"Anyway, I'm lying in bed, 20 people are around us filming. I'm making jokes in between. I'm nervous, she's nervous, all of a sudden her boyfriend comes in and he's freakin' out, yelling at her in French and she starts crying."

"I'm just lying there saying, 'What an idiot, man. We're making a movie. It's not real'. Talk about a jealous little guy."

Helena Christiansen in Wicked Game, he concedes, was a fluke. At the time she was an an up-and-coming model and friend of photographer and video director, Herb Ritts.

"If Herb ever asks you out on a double date, trust me: just go. He knows a million women just like Helena," Isaak says.

In his next video, for Graduation Day, Isaak stars with Jim Carrey's fiancee, Lauren Holly in a bikini.

"Actually, it's funny. Jim Carrey kissed me backstage at the MTV Movie Awards and I have to kiss Lauren in the video. I would have to say she's the better kisser."

Isaak plays Uncle Bob, a recording engineer, in the new untitled Tom Hanks movie about a 1960's rock band getting a one-shot chance at the big time.

"If I was Tom Hanks, I wouldn't walk any place, I'd get carried around on a big chair made of gold," he says. "I'd wear a turban and I wouldn't dress. I'd just wrap a big sheet around myself and, yeah, I'd get constant massages."

"I would go nuts if I was Tom Hanks, but he's kept himself together, I like that."

In Little Buddha, Isaak played alongside Keanu Reeves. Is Keanu as one dimensional as critics suggest?

"Oh boy," he laughs. "What a question. I'm probably the wrong person to ask about Keanu because I knew him only through this movie and he was really nice to me."

"I can tell you he walks that way in real life - he has hip injuries from playing hockey. But no, he borrowed my guitar and brought it back with no broken strings."

So do we blame you for Dogstar?
"Well, you can thank me, I guess," Isaak says. "I didn't like hanging around Keanu too much. He's tall and good looking. I don't wanna hang around people like that."

Where did the story about Isaak and Paula Abdul come from?

"I don't know, but it's not true," he says. "I should be happy; once in a while people think I'm doing something more exciting than I actually am."

"I was in the paper the other day and they'd cropped the picture to look like I'm going out with Bridget Fonda, which isn't true. But at least I'm in the paper with a cute girl."

What do you think about your nose? "I can't help it," he says. "Somebody else did that to me. Too many boxing matches. You know, I used to have a nose like Dean Martin."

"But I figure in 10 years, five years, two years, people aren't going to look at me forever. I'm waiting for the day when I get old and I can say, "Gee, I used to be really good looking."

Chris Isaak, National Tennis Centre tomorrow. Forever Blue Tour Pack with bonus live tracks (Warner) is out now.

(From the Melbourne Herald-Sun @ 1995/96)

Thanks for the fab articles, Cheryl. I think you might have to fly your archives over to Munchie in California for the CI Museum.

Great stuff, seriously.

Thank you for sharing these articles

It all seems so long ago now!!! It sounded so cool they were still saying The National Tennis Centre (where you know exactly what you're in for ... enough steps to give you a heart attack, plastic seats and concrete!) rather than Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park (delusions of grandeur even though it's the same place!)

Nui was far too eager to make CI 40 ... the poor man was still in his late 30s at the time!

Have women taken the unintentional, but glaringly obvious, subplot of Forever Blue - that Isaak is a free agent - as a license to try to seduce him?

"The same as always," he smiles. "Anybody, in any kind of rock band, whether you're playing in the corner bar or on TV, you have people who want to go out on a date."

"Do you get Siskel and Ebert (a largely unattractive movie review team in the US) over here?" he asks.

"I'm sure there are women trying to chase them, you know what I mean? You put them on TV and there's probably some broad going: "Ebert, he does it for me. He smokes me. I'm hot. I see him. I want him."

"I'll bet you it's true. I'll bet you he hits the hotel and there are flowers from somebody. You can't take it too seriously," he says, straightening up. "You just can't".

Some people around here would do well to read that comment and inwardly digest. Maybe it will help them stop wishing and hoping for the impossible, so they can just admire from afar and get on with making the best of their real lives.

Cheryl, I've got most of that stuff somewhere (maybe?) but your pile's bigger than mine The difference is now that my pile won't be getting any bigger, I've even started throwing stuff out (sort of ) and from now on it will be "misty water coloured memories of the way we were". Well, that's the goal

Fifi ~ Thanks! I guess Kathy and I can always open up our museum in Hawaii (half-way point, to be fair to both of us). Then we can just cut to the chase and open some kind of surfing-Chris-theme park.

Stuff ~ Yes you are right on the money with your comments (as always ) I've often thought that if some people actually read these interviews properly and thought to some depth about what Chris actually has to say, then there'd be a lot less speculation about a lot of stuff.....but the less said about that, the better!

As for the articles, well I thought I HAD thrown them out, a long time ago, lol. I only came across them by accident the other day when I was looking for my birth certificate. They were all in a folder under a pile of other stuff on the top shelf of my wardrobe. I was amazed to find them because I hadn't realised I'd hung on to even that much. I did actually have more, (the Studio For Men thing for one) but I can't find those at all, so I'd say that they probably went to that great archive place in the sky a long time ago.




You're welcome Marank.

"He smokes me. I'm hot."

I've never heard a woman say that in all my life!

It must be a generational lingo.

That picture with the "arms, t-shirt and a car" unfortunately isn't part of the "Studio For Men" series. If it was I'd post it!

Perhaps we all imagined it - just like the imagined scene in "Little Buddha"!!

not sure if this is the photo you girls are talking about or not - but its the only one I can find so far!!

one more

"just like the imagined scene in 'Little Buddha'!!" Jac

I saw that scene, too, so it wasn't imaginary!

That bloody elusive picture, lol. I always assumed it was from 'SFM' but from what you say Jac, it must have been from some other shoot. All I remember is that he's sitting in his car, indoors (possibly in his garage) with the car door closed, looking out the open window. He's leaning his elbow on the window frame (most resembling Stuff's second picture above) except he's not smiling, but looking beyond the camera into the distance, rather than right into it). He's wearing a white T-shirt - pretty much like the one in these other photos - and I'm pretty certain it was a black and white shot.

btw, what was that scene from Little Buddha everyone's talking about here? It's been a while since I saw this movie. All I can remember is that scene where Chris jumped Bridget's bones in the hallway, and that their house mysteriously disappeared at the end, as if it had never been there....oh, and that weird scene where the giant snake came down on top of Keanu.




Thanks for that Katina - nice picture. (From 'Baja Sessions' shoot??)

How about one of these Cheryl? Just pretend they are b & w!




This one is very similar to Stuff's photo.... only he's looking straight ahead like you said.

this one looks indoors but that's about it - until I started looking I didn't realise how many photos Chris has with cars




this is the only black & white photo of Chris in a car that I have - think its from around 2001

Chris Isaak, white t-shirt, nice arms, sitting down, looking ahead, not smiling and ... imaginary car! Damn I was going well there too

Oh my Miss Cheryl - looks like this thread will keep me busy for
a while. What a way to spend my first day back at work honey!

Thank you for sharing those with us,
I hadn't seen a couple of those before.

Mwah Sugz xx

EUREKA!! That's one one.

**squeals**....**bounces**...**squeals**...**bounces** (and just does the happy happy dance in general, lol). I LURVE that picture. Ta so much for that Stuff.

(p.s. Sugar Babe ~ You're welcome. Enjoy all the articles. )

Sorry Cheryl - that IS from Studio for Men, but as it was already in the "All About" thread, I didn't think it was the one you were looking for! My mistake.
It IS a great shot - my copy's been autographed to me, with a heart and a few XO's plus the Isaak caricature profile. Should frame it!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my search still goes on ....... nice white t, car, biceps ........

Does Chris really drive?

I've never really seen him drive. All the pictures and t.v. shows just show him sitting behind the wheel.

I know from interviews that he only has one car and it doesn't have seatbelts...and he drives really slow because of it. He said he took someone to dinner once in his car. I think he wears a helmet, too...anyway...I think he prefers to walk...and even if he does HAVE to drive, it's only a few blocks to the beach. You think an old car like his is really good for long distances? No.

Cheryl,

Sounds like a plan. Hawaii would work for a CI museum. Chris could make personal appearances in between surfing. OR, as you say, open a Chris/sufing theme park. Call it "Six Flags over Silvertone" or something stupid like that.

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Sorry.......... I know he is not in a car, but all the talk of Chris in a white t shirt made me post this yet again!

Thanks for the articles, Cheryl I had never seen any of them.

Oh, and sorry for the attachment, I completely blanked out on the photobucket thingy!

No worries Jac! I probably did check out the "All About" thread but somehow missed it, or didn't recognise it....egads, does this mean I'm failing 'Isaak 101'?!!

Yes - do get that picture framed, with your own personal autograph on it, it's a treasure!

I'm sure he does KV. From his interviews you can tell he's really into cars - he must be if he owns a classic car in the first place. It's such a male thing, huh? There's a special bond a guy has with his car we females (for the most part) will never understand. To us they're just a means of getting from Point A to Point B. I know which end the petrol goes into, and how to open the bonnet/hood....but that's about as far as my interest goes. As for the real enthusiasts, I think some of them are born with it. Recently my mother sold her old car, a Holden Kingswood to a 16 year old who'd been hunting high and low for the 'right' one to do up. All that time we'd been sitting on a classic car and never even realised it, lol.



It DOES sounds like a plan to me, Fif!




You're welcome Turtlegirl. Don't worry about the attachment thing - NICE PICTURE!! Mmmmmmm! Thanks for posting it. Well most articles printed in Aussie newspapers and mags never see the light of day outside of Australia (I guess similar to publications in other countries?). Unless it's something really controversial, or unless you get a heads-up about it from somewhere, and can look it up online. So I thought I'd spread the looooove around.

Neat car photo, Cheryl. A couple of my co-workers went to Australia and one of the guys brought me several photos of Holdens since we don't have those cars in Canada. We had the Efijy Concept Car up here at the Toronto Auto Show in the winter. Very cool! --

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90314203@N00/363894223/

I love old cars and cars that look like old cars. I go to car museums and classic car "cruise" nights......I think I should have been a man because most women, like you say, don't care about these things. Id' like to see Chris' '64 Nova. Weird thing is, my brother's first car was an old '64 Chevy II which is similar to a Chevy Nova. (His was white -- when I first saw Chris' car, I thought it looked strangely familiar...)

And about the CI Museum we are opening with Munchie -- let's make it a CI/surfing/classic car museum.

Alright, I'm asking. I've never heard of microwaving cats for either fun OR profit You pervert, you

Your new logo or whatever you call it (why are you giving Ms. Hilton even more publicity? Sorry, that's a separate topic!) just reminded me to tell you that I think you got the last sighting of the old cat across the road. We haven't seen it again since We haven't spoken to the people that live there either (anti-social as ever ... no, no reason to and I can hardly go and knock on the door and ask where the cat is ) I am sure it's got nice fresh kitty litter and fresh fish every day up in kitty heaven. I'm glad you got to see him, otherwise people would have thought I was making the tale of the cat who'd lost his marbles up

You should know how twisted I am by now, Stuff.



Ditto...




Alas poor puss. Wasn't that the cat I almost reversed over once? (And I swear I didn't do that deliberately, I seriously do not microwave cats for fun nor for profit, lol) Seriously, if he was that far gone he's gone to a better place, that's for sure.



Fifi, I uploaded some pictures of Mum's car to show you. This Holden Kingswood was not in as good condition as the one from that other picture from the Kingswood website. My mother got it back in the 70's and only gave up driving just last year. It got too much for her to handle in the end (and I take my hat off to her, because it's ALWAYS been too big for me to drive - no power steering, and I'm used to smaller cars). I drove it for a few weeks once when my car was off the road due to an accident, and I used to dread having to park it at shopping centres etc. It was an automatic however, so that did help (once again it was so different to what I was used to as I've always driven manual cars).

Mum was seriously worried that no-one would be interested in buying it because it needed so much done to it, but I used to laugh at her and tell her that some guys just live for that kind of thing, so not to worry. Sure enough, no less than three people made her an offer on it within the space of about 3 months last summer. One day this young lad and his father knocked on the door and asked to take a look at it, and that was that. We'd only just taken the number plates off too. Mum was rushing around saying 'It's got rust and this is no good...and this needs replacing', blah blah, (my mother is one of these people who was BORN feeling guilty about everything, lol) but that didn't throw them at all. I think Dad was a mechanic or perhaps a panel beater, because he really seemed to know what he was doing. The boy was ecstatic to get it, he promised my mother he'd bring it around one day to show her after it was done up, but we'll see, lol.

Here's the link to the car pictures:

http://www.graphicallusions.com/isaak/kingswood.html
(Sorry about the quality...I had to take them in a real hurry, hence the light and shadows at the wrong time of the day. This was literally in between the time they said they'd buy it, and left to bring the money back, so I only had a few minutes to take some last minute shots for my mother).

As for the Efijy concept car...hmmmm. I'm wondering if this is an updated version of the old FJ Holden (the most famous Holden of all). It looks SO much like the original one, and the 'Efijy' name could be a play on the old 'FJ' title. Here's some info. on Australia's most famous car:

http://www.holden.itgo.com/fj.html (scroll down beneath the Specifications list for more pictures)

http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/recent_a...ions/fj_holden/

Would I be blowing my newfound masculine-like car expertise if I said how much I love the colour of the Efijy? lol. (well, it IS purple, and that's my favourite!)

Wow, catching up late in this thread but Cheryl, I love your new avatar too. LOL!!

I had that same thing with your mom's car happen with a '66 Karmann-Ghia some years ago. The engine was completely shot but some young guy was buying it fot his wife and had a shiny perfect Beetle engine all ready to put in it. I didn't get to see the fixed up version though.

And "Holden" cracks me up just cause years ago I worked with a guy who had a silly friend who'd always call and ask for him and give a silly name and one that had me rolling on the floor in stitches was "Holden McGroyen".

Thanks for the photos and info, Cheryl. Methinks you know more about autos than you are letting on! It's interesting that your Mum was driving a 1970's car up until last year. We don't see a lot of that vintage on the road where I live because most of the '70's cars rusted out long ago and ended up in a scrap heap. I guess it's because of all the salt that gets put down on the roads during the winter. It really eats through our cars here.

And about the Holden "FJ" -- yes, I think that the Efigy name is taken from that. Perhaps you should buy yourself one in purple.

Talk about Isaak overload. Am I boring anyone yet bringing these threads back.
Just thought they're too good for people to miss out on seeing.