In 1964, when “The Times They Are A-Changin’” first caught the nation’s ear, Bob Dylan was already being called the voice of a generation, and this sounded like the kind of song a voice of a generation would write. It seemed like it had been written by a committee: all bases covered. Pundits, politicians, parents — look out, the world is turning upside down.

And yet the song was too unpredictably written and compoed to surrender to its own cliches. You couldn’t sing along to it, as with “This Land is Your Land” or “Eyes on the Prize.” “Come Senators, Congressmen/Please heed the call,” Dylan sang — that was a trumpt blowing flat. But “Don’t stand in the doorway/Don’t block up the hall” instnatly raised the specter not of the people’s representatives but of the people themselves, a tide rushing through.

The song has never gone away. Its licensing for commercials — for a Canadian bank years back, for Kaiser Permanente today — has not deformed it, perhaps because the song never promised that the times were changing for the better, only that change was the rhythm of life — in politics and culture, style and ideas, images and sound. Today it’s less a promise than a challenge, to whoever might hear it, a flag waving for all that could change: could, should, might, won’t, must. [Greil Marcus]

• Ethan Hawke By: Julie Delpy
• Rachel Weisz By: Mike Meyers
• Keith Urban By: Elton John
• Alicia Keys By: Gladys Knight
• The One To Watch: James McAvoy

UPDATE :: Added the other two interviews!

• Shia LaBeouf By: John Turturro
• Catalina By: Walter Salles

Alicia Keys on cellphones: [laughs] The cell phone thing is out of control. Here’s my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

Interview Magazine October 2006 features Alicia Keys -– everybody knows she can sing. It’s how she’s using her voice now, though, that shows what she’s made of. Here she’s interviewed by the legendary Gladys Knight. Full article after the jump!
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Scarlett Johansson, 21, and Alicia Keys, 26, make colorful costars yesterday on the Queens, N.Y., set of The Nanny Diaries. Johansson plays an au pair for a rich family in the film based on the bestselling novel. The Nanny Diaries was authored by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. More pictures in the gallery!