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He's a star of Gavin & Stacey, landed a role in the new Harry Potter movie and is renowned for his stage work.

When Dave Ball talks about pinot noir, it's hard not to think of the Paul Giamatti character from 'Sideways.' It's not just because Ball is also a self-described pinot noir nerd, or because he talks about wine in a way that is slightly intimidating, or even because he, too, went to California on a wine quest.

Paul Giamatti is considering the prospect of trying Buddha's soul on for size. "How about the Buddha? That would be the good one, wouldn't it?" the star of Sideways and American Splendour says.

Everyman actor Paul Giamatti talks to Rob Driscoll about egos, swashbuckling and why he loves Wales HOLLYWOOD star Paul Giamatti is a long way from his Brooklyn home right now - deep in the valleys of South Wales, in fact, causing untold bloody mayhem and overseeing acts of indescribable violence.

Interview: Paul Giamatti - 'It would be nice to just be the funny guy. Or the calm guya ' To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the The Scotsman site.

Paul Giamatti tends to play moody defeatists and rageful misanthropes. Which is just the way he likes it Paul Giamatti, star of Cold Souls.

Some years ago, New Yorker Winifred Horan set her mind to becoming a classical violinist, even attended the Aspen Music School for a summer.

Miles from the movie Sideways may consider using wine for cocktails as sacrilegious as drinking merlot, but there's a long history of utilizing fermented grape juice in mixings.

Festival serves up a course in food. Martha Cheng Oct 21, 2009 Antique reminds us that cake makes it all better.

COLD SOULS: Written and directed by Sohpie Barthes. Cinematography, Andrij Parekh.

BUDGET blockbuster is due to be filmed in Swansea. Mediaeval action thriller Ironclad, due for release next year, will see a host of Hollywood stars visit the city for filming.

Pitiful stuff. David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti examine extracted human souls.

C old Souls posits that the soul can be removed from the human body, thus, alleviating any psychic burdens the person is suffering.

What: An outdoor screening of the Japanese remake of "Sideways" presented as part of the Wine Country Film Festival When: 8 p.m. Sunday, after a 6:30 p.m. reception with wine, food and appearances by the film's cast and crew, including director Cellin Gluck and actress Rinko Kikuchi Where: Napa Valley Expo, 575 Third St., Napa Cost: $22.50 in ...

Barney Panofsky with his father, Izzy , in a wedding banquet scene from Barney's Version, adapted from Mordecai Richler's novel.

Paul Giamatti will to play the tyrant King John in Ironclad , a medieval-era action film that will begin production in Wales next month.

This week, nilpferd takes you on a cinematic booze cruise, raising a glass to the best film clips that show the seductive chemistry between grapes and great movies Bottoms up a Paul Giamatti enjoys a tipple with Thomas Hayden Church in Sideways "Give me wine , that I may for a time forget the cares of the world," wrote Persian poet Hafiz, cruelly ...

"Cold Souls," as in cold storage, is a little bit of science fiction, a little bit of existentialism and a whole lot of Paul Giamatti.

Oh, Momma: You wanted it, you got it: The Big Momma's House franchise will have a third installment.