Saw "Sideways" today

SUMG · January 28, 2005

Really good flick. UNT alum Thomas Haden Church is very good in the film.....but, Paul Giammati is to me, even better in the film, than Church is. (Giammati didn't get an Oscar nomination while Church did).

Giammati is the son of the short-termed baseball commissioner, A. Bartlett Giammati (who died very shortly after getting the job).

Coffee and TV · January 29, 2005

Giammati is the son of the short-termed baseball commissioner, A. Bartlett Giammati (who died very shortly after getting the job).

Seriously? I wasn't aware of that...

Did you see him in American Splendor? That performance was Oscar worthy.

SUMG · January 29, 2005

Seriously? I wasn't aware of that...
Did you see him in American Splendor? That performance was Oscar worthy.

I've seen parts of American Splendor......on HBO. Giammati is a good actor, that's for sure. He sure played that person, Pikar? (the cartoonist) very well.

BTW......your signature ("Tina come get some ham..") is a line from one of my favorite movies of late, Napoleon Dynamite. (I figure you know where it's from; just pointing it out to the rest of the folks). Even though that flick was aimed at the younger crowd, I'm 47 and thought it was great. Quirky movie, but sort of sweet, too. I even just bought the DVD.....

Edited January 29, 2005 by SUMG

Eagle-96 · January 31, 2005

I thought Church was excellent(his charatcetr was a self-serving jerk but Church made you like him) and this will no doubt propel him to bigger things. I also thought that Giamatti was superb as well.