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	This Far by Faith . Daniel Payne \| PBS
		Payne became the premier bishop of the AME Church and was in some ways the most influential African-American Christian in the 19th century.
		Payne was born in 1811 to Methodist parents in Charleston, SC.
		Payne fled to the North to pursue an education with the Methodist Episcopalians.
	www.pbs.org /thisfarbyfaith/people/daniel_payne.html (921 words)

	MAGAZINE \| INDIES \| Alexander Payne \| VOLUME 27-4: November 2002
		Payne began his career as a writer, achieving considerable recognition when he also directed the films, Citizen Ruth (1996) and Election (1999), both of which he co-wrote with Jim Taylor.
		Though he is a screenwriter, Payne defends the right of the film director to ultimately control the screenplay.
		Payne added that there was "very little improvisation and very little rehearsal" among the actors, a fact assented to by the actors.
	www.dga.org /news/v27_4/indie_alex_payne.php3 (981 words)

	October 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| features \| interview \| alexander payne gellar
		Alexander Payne has directed films that have taken place outside a big city and with currently film, not only does he focus on the outskirts of San Francisco, mainly the valley, but the focus is on wine and relationships and how time tends to heals old wounds.
		Payne: I've had that question a few times and here's what I've been saying: Oh, I like the humanity of the characters and the comic set pieces and the wine aspect because I like wine, and those gals, and it seemed like it would be a lot of fun to make.
		Payne: There's something, and you know what, it was even present in her eight by ten photo, there's something present in her eyes which - it's that she looks at you and she listens and then she thinks and she speaks.
	www.blackfilm.com /20041015/features/alexanderpayne.shtml (1819 words)

	AlexanderPayne.net
		With only four features to his credit, writer-director Alexander Payne has established himself as one of the most reliable auteurs in American comedy, drawing comparisons to Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder for his crackling dialogue and acerbic social commentary.
		Payne's ambivalence over Midwestern life got its fullest treatment in 2002's About Schmidt, a painfully funny portrait of a retired middle manager (Jack Nicholson) who comes to terms with his wife's death and his daughter's marriage.
		Payne recently spoke to The Onion A.V. Club about Jim Taylor (who co-wrote all of Payne's films), modern comedies, the Midwest, unfaithful adaptations, independent cinema, and signs of a return to the director-driven films of the '70s.
	www.alexanderpayne.net /articles/sideways/sideways_16.html (2301 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Alexander Payne
		Alexander: Exactly, to the point of driving up the 101, pulling off and tasting at Sanford, going on up to Buellton, staying at the Windmill Inn, walking down the 246 to the Hitching Post, walking back - all of that is exact to reality.
		Alexander: You mean, did anybody say no? No, we had really, really good luck getting the locations we wanted for this one.
		Alexander: I was unfamiliar with his TV work, I think I've seen half of one "Wings", but I knew him - he'd auditioned for me for Election and he had auditioned for About Schmidt and he makes a big impression, that guy.
	www.themoviechicks.com /fall2004/mctsideways.html (1601 words)

	Esquire:The Next Scorsese:Alexander Payne
		After just two features, thirty-nine-year-old writer-director Alexander Payne thinks that the critics who've rushed to compare him to satiric greats like Preston Sturges (whose work Payne actually isn't all that crazy about) or Billy Wilder (whom he reveres) are jumping the gun.
		Payne isn't sentimental about the heartlandyou get the feeling that one reason his characters develop manias is to stave off sheer aimlessness.
		Payne is more intrigued by the way Reynolds's character doesn't strike himself as hypocriticalhe can be sincere about his cause even as he's basking like a sultan in leadership's perks.
	www.esquire.com /features/articles/2000/scorsese/000301_mfe_scorsese_payne.html (515 words)

	Alexander Payne - Biography - Moviefone
		Director and screenwriter Alexander Payne made his big-screen debut directing one of nine vignettes about love and relationships in the 1992 film Inside Out.
		As with his previous efforts, Payne's scope remained limited in a noteworthy attempt to keep his characters both identifiable and three-dimensional, but audiences just seemed to have a much easier time connecting with an embittered middle-aged writer/wine connoisseur and a sex-crazed has-been actor than they did with an aged and embittered divorcee.
		Alexander Payne - Biography, Birth date, Relationships, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alexander-payne/105871/biography (276 words)

	A Sideways Conversation with Alexander Payne - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers
		With his latest film, however, Payne seems to be turning a new corner, one more invested in emotion than intellect.
		Payne even asked female lead Virginia Madsen if she'd be comfortable performing without make-up, to which she readily agreed.
		Payne's favorite shot in the film, in fact, is only meant to enhance the setting, not further the plot.
	www.philadelphiawriters.com /articles/10_2004/sideways.htm (1068 words)

	Alexander Payne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American film director and screenwriter.
		Payne, a Greek American (his Greek name is Alexandros Konstandinou Papadopoulos: Αλέξανδρος Κωνσταντίνου Παπαδόπουλος), grew up in the same neighborhood as billionaire Warren Buffett.
		Payne is also one of the writers who worked on Jurassic Park III (2001).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Payne (668 words)

	SIDEWAYS' ALEXANDER PAYNE AND JIM TAYLOR KEEP IT REAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Writer-director Alexander Payne and his frequent collaborator, writer Jim Taylor, have had nothing but critical and commercial success the last several years, producing a series of sharp, insightful comedies.
		Payne's dark, satirical sensibility should be no surprise, since he prefers "directors like Bunuel and Kubrick who show that really icy, clinical look at things.
		Payne: "And I certainly won't begin production...until the script is in good enough shape to be shot...So many movies, oh, they have a start date, they're already cast and are building the sets while writing the script.
	www.hollywoodlitsales.com /cf/journal/dspJournal.cfm?intID=2834 (1143 words)

	SPLICEDwire: Alexander Payne intervew (1999)
		Payne: A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio -- and it's also an American cultural thing -- is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
		Payne: I liked it not because I read it and saw a satire, but because I read it and thought, look at these interesting people doing these really pathetic and hilarious things.
		Payne: You know when I think she's really good in the movie is when she's making those (campaign) buttons (on a heavy press).
	www.splicedonline.com /features/payne.html (1593 words)

	About Payne - STATEWIDE Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Film director Alexander Payne and actor Jack Nicholson are getting rave reviews for "About Schmidt." The movie was filmed in Omaha and other Nebraska locations during the spring of 2000.
		[Payne] Yeah, and it got my foot in the door in a nice way into American filmmaking in terms of people at studios got interested in me and I got an agent and all that kind of stuff that one hopes to get from a thesis film at a film school.
		[Payne] One of the things I like about art and about film is when it asks the question, no matter what the ostensibly the theme is, but the basic question.
	net.unl.edu /swi/pers/alexander_payne.html (2864 words)

	Alexander Payne/Sideways
		Few directors are as critically acclaimed as unique visionary Alexander Payne, who has defied Hollywood by making character-driven films that are sharply observed satires on modern America.
		It was appropriate that I met Payne, not at a stuffy LA hotel, but at a luxurious hotel spa, the Bacara.
		Payne: I will be, I'm still in the middle of promoting this, and I haven't begun writing, Jim Taylor and I will co-write, start writing again in a couple of months.
	filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/AlexanderPayne/AlexanderPayne.html (1120 words)

	Alexander Payne
		As a screenwriter and director, Payne has had remarkable success making intellectually challenging, character-driven movies within a studio system that usually aims for the lowest common denominator.
		Payne's career is still in its early stages, but he has already been compared with Preston Sturges, as a gifted storyteller focused on the realities of life in real America.
		For extra income, Payne also contributed to the screenplay for Jurassic Park III.
	www.nndb.com /people/305/000031212 (250 words)

	Alexander Payne
		Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Alexander Payne became interested in filmmaking at the age of six, when his father was given an 8mm camera.
		Payne received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Spanish literature from Stanford University before going on to study at UCLA’s filmmaking program, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts.
		Payne and his co-writer, Jim Taylor, won several "Best Screenplay" awards from various film societies, and as well, were nominated for an Oscar®.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2229 (318 words)

	MoMA.org \| 2003 Film and Media Exhibitions \| Alexander Payne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Accompanying the benefit is a special presentation of Payne’s three feature films, as well as a rare screening of his UCLA thesis film, The Passion of Martin (1991).
		Payne’s UCLA thesis project about an alienated photographer who instantly falls in love with a woman he sees admiring his work garnered him the kind of industry attention most film students can only pray for.
		For Payne the film is an “examination of extremism and fanaticism on both sides of any contentious issue, and of how polarized debate may at times cause us to lose sight of individuals.” 106 min.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2003/payne.html (354 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Sideways" movie review (2004) "Sideways" review, Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church
		Alexander Payne's "Sideways" emerges as a full-fledged film, with a brilliant use of cinematic language and pacing, but also has a novelistic breadth without spilling much over the 2-hour mark.
		Payne goes the extra mile by casting unconventional faces and giving them a chance -- in some cases their first -- to really shine.
		Best of all, Payne doesn't let the source material (a recently published first novel by Rex Pickett, which the director optioned before it was published) weigh down his film adaptation.
	www.splicedonline.com /04reviews/sideways.html (723 words)

	Cinema Confidential News: 10/27/04 - INTERVIEW: Director Alexander Payne on "Sideways"
		Talking to the trim Alexander Payne (who looks much younger than his forty-three years), I got the sense that he was after something much larger than filmmaking.
		ALEXANDER: ‘99 was the year when “Election”; came out, “Three Kings,” “Rushmore,” “Magnolia” was out that year, and Spike’s film, “Being John Malkovich,” so (people) were starting to discern this generation.
		ALEXANDER: It’s not coming out soon, he hasn’t made it yet, but Jim has a wonderful screenplay, which will be his first feature film as a director.
	www.cinecon.com /news.php?id=0410274 (2866 words)

	Dawn Alexander-Payne
		Dawn Alexander has had a long association with the Department of History having been an undergraduate (B.A., 1993) and graduate (M.A., 1995) student, and having served over time as the department's graduate assistant, the administrative assistant, and adjunct teacher, an instructor, and the undergraduate advisor.
		She is currently working on her Ph.D. at Texas Christian University where she plans to write her dissertation of Alexander Campbell and Humanitarian Reform in the Age of Jackson.
		Among Alexander's achievements have been papers presented before the Southwest Social Science Annual Convention, the Mid-America Conference on History, the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations Conference, and more.
	www.acu.edu /academics/cas/history/faculty/alexander.html (195 words)

	Fox Searchlight Pictures : Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Payne made his feature film debut with the critically acclaimed CITIZEN RUTH, a provocative satire about the abortion rights war.
		Jim Taylor is the long-time collaborator of writer-director Alexander Payne.
		In addition to his continuing collaboration with Alexander Payne, Taylor is currently at work on two screenplays that he will direct.
	www.foxsearchlight.com /filmmakers/paynetaylor (304 words)

	Alexander Payne - Moviefone
		Director and screenwriter Alexander Payne made his big-screen debut directing one of nine vignettes about love and relationships in the 1992 film...
		Alexander Payne (II) (Actor, Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings (2002) (V)); Alexander Payne (III) (Ad Hominem Enterprises)...
		Alexander Payne has written an article discussing his short film,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alexander-payne/105871/main?_pgtyp=pdct (126 words)

	Alexander Payne - The Director of Sideways, About Schmidt, & Election
		Alexander Payne has written an article discussing his short film, "Carmen," which is now available on DVD via the Cinema16 website.
		Alexander Payne's short film, "Carmen," is now available on DVD.
		Payne's work will be included on the DVD, which is scheduled for UK release in May.
	www.alexanderpayne.net (358 words)

	Alexander Payne Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Writer-director Alexander Payne has shown a remarkably interesting vision with his films, in which the often quirky set-up is merely a seriocomic stage through which to explore human foibles.
		In the wake of "Schmidt's" immense critical success, Payne continued to focus on smaller, more personal films, and the director was not only able to continue to lure terrific actors, he was also able to help audiences discover the depth of talent in actors that may have previously taken for granted.
		Payne also took home a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director and Best Screenplay trophies from the Independent Spirit Awards, where "Sideways" was also named Best Film and swept every category for which it was nominated.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/187259 (1413 words)

	The Alexander Payne Picture Pages
		Alexander Payne is one of the most unique filmmakers working today.
		Perhaps one of the boldest elements of Payne's filmmaking style, is his risk to handle characters which are neither good nor bad.
		Alexander Payne made his feature film debut with the critically acclaimed Citizen Ruth, which won first prize at the Munich Film Festival and for which Laura Dern won best actress at the Montreal Film Festival.
	www.superiorpics.com /alexander_payne (312 words)

	Amazon.ca: About Schmidt (Widescreen): DVD: Alexander Payne,Kathy Bates,Len Cariou,Hope Davis,Howard Hesseman,Dermot ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Coming off "Election," which was quite possibly the funniest movie of all time, director Alexander Payne delivered another classic here, but one of a different stripe.
		Alexander Payne's portrait of Midwestern suburban life is almost unrelentingly bleak, following its main character around and focusing on all the tiny indignities that steadily pile up on him.
		Many critics unfairly compare "About Schmidt" to Alexander Payne's previous film "Election." Both movies are completely different and appeal to different people and tastes.
	www.amazon.ca /About-Schmidt-Widescreen-Alexander-Payne/dp/B00005JLSK (3489 words)

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