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'Sideways': Payne's Latest Comic Antidote

NPR | By Michele Norris
Published October 14, 2004 at 10:00 PM MDT

NPR's Michele Norris talks with filmmaker Alexander Payne about his new movie Sideways. Payne's previous movies include the dark comedies Election and About Schmidt, and he says he sees comedy as an "antidote" to tragedy.

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