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...latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world. It's a quiet, sad, beautiful story about how ego obstructs work and love. And it contains the best joke about Merlot in cinema history--along with the funniest beating...
...says something of Payne that the actors felt they could do that. "Really, what a good director should be is a control freak who lets you think you're in charge, and he's good at that," says Giamatti. "He really likes doing what he does and wants you to have a good time, first and foremost." And yes, they got their wine...
...last glass, the sommelier brings the very wine Giamatti's character, a wine snob, rails against: American Merlot. But it's a 2001 Pahlmeyer, and it's impressive. "It's got so much going on. So much acid, so much tannin, so much fruit--you taste them so distinctly that with age they'll meld into one distinct flavor," Payne says. It's that same blending that Payne does, mixing the effete and the unpretentious, the banal with the surreal, the painstakingly honed with the unretouched, that make his movies so good. At least that sounds smart after four really...
...PAUL GIAMATTI IN SIDEWAYS The indie-film stalwart proves himself a leading man in this smart, engaging comedy about the search for the perfect wine and other pleasures. His partner is the adorably horny Thomas Haden Church--a cinch for a Supporting Actor nomination...
...YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WHOM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE PLAY YOU? Brad Pitt couldn't do it. He's not built like me. I like Steve Buscemi. He'd need a lot of makeup, but when he's onscreen you're always looking at him. I also like Paul Giamatti, who was in American Splendor...