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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | 'It's all so freaky' |
 | | Giamatti, New York-based, more slender than he looks on screen, but no less average-looking, is in town to talk about his breakout hit Sideways, a movie whose critical reception over the Christmas period is in the process of transforming him from contented character actor into something of a star. |
 | | Giamatti plays Miles, a tightly wound grade-school teacher and wine enthusiast waiting to hear if his third fat, quasi-autobiographical novel will be the one that gets published. |
 | | It's worth bearing in mind, however, that Giamatti is the son of a college English lit professor who became the president of Yale University (Giamatti's alma mater) and was later the commissioner of baseball, in which post he gained notoriety for expelling the legendary crooked player Pete Rose out of the game. |
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