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...complexities of the Tolstoy's life, offered in the form of Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy), a nervous, good-hearted young secretary sent to the Tolstoy's country estate to help Leo with his papers. Valentin arrives as a pawn of the Countess' sworn enemy, the exiled Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), who urges him to keep vigilant eye on the Countess, whom he describes as "very, very dangerous" (primarily because she opposes Chertkov's plan to get Tolstoy to sign away the copyrights to his work...
After I sent several letters to Yale’s President A. Bartlett Giamatti and other Yale faculty, his arrest for trespassing was “nolle’d” when it went to court...
Michael Emerson The Emmy Award--winning television actor stars as the nefarious Ben Linus in ABC's hit series Lost I am inspired by actor Paul Giamatti. He makes me think differently about a whole set of American characters by investing them with unexpected intelligence, tenderness and theatricality. He reminds me that I should always strive for empathy, fearlessness and a light touch...
...Duplicity, writer-director Tony Gilroy's follow-up to Michael Clayton, Roberts shares star billing with Clive Owen, but it's not a Julia Roberts Movie. The film is a nimble, witty whirligig of a caper, and it's no criticism to say Paul Giamatti, playing an insecure loon of a CEO, and Tom Wilkinson, as his devious rival, snatch the spotlight from the pretty people every chance they get. So does the timeline, which bounces around far more than Roberts' glossy tresses. The role of Claire Stenwick, a former CIA operative now playing the espionage game in the highly...
Adams (Paul Giamatti) didn't catch many breaks. He wasn't tall and commanding like Washington, wildly gifted like Ben Franklin or silver-tongued like Jefferson--and, he notes, he doesn't have an inheritance, so he must work for a living as an attorney. This colors his personality; Giamatti plays him as a trudging bulldog, noble but vain, intellectual but provincial, idealistic but cautious. And it colors his politics, giving him a darker view of life than those of his colleagues with cleaner fingernails...