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'Sideways': Payne's Latest Comic Antidote

By Michele Norris

Published October 15, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

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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