Please, Paulā, itās not over
Paul Giamatti. Oscar-nominated for his professorial role inš āThe Holdoversā:
āAs a kid, Iād dress up as the Mummy orį¦ Wolf Man characters Iād see in a moviše. I wanted to act. From college I moved to Seattle. My girlfriend ran a little theater so I made a small living acting. Later I went to drama school.
āI remember the audition process for my first ever part. A slasher movie. I hate to admit that I was playing a stablehand who was a product of incest. Canāt believe Iām telling yą± ou this. At one point I thought Iād become a dš±entist.
āāāThe Holdoversā is aļ·½bout kids with no family place to go on holidays. My father was president of Yale University so I knew them. Some were snotty kids from screwed up fancy families who didnāt care or had no time for kids to comeš home.
āI thought about teachers. Iāve played teachers. A simple wordless scene in this film was my favorite. I take the kid skating and itās just us starting toš¶ like each other. You see both comingš» together in an unexpected nice way.ā
What happens after an actorās nominated?
āOffers come in, your price goes uššŖp. Being not very smart, I can only focus on one thing at a time. Not falsely modest but right now itās only that crazy award. I did not anticipate this stuff.
āYou get a script. Read it over and over. Feel the words which do lots to get your imagination going. Starts therš¼e. Sometimes I say them to the mirror. Or walk around saying the words. Let them get into my body and theyāll change how I move. Change everything. Starts with the words.
āWhen I heard I was nominated, I was asleep. Didnāt want to watch oār hear it. I was too nervous. Too anxious to šÆwatch or listen. My manager called and told me.
āMy other awards were in a closet. I didā¤nāt know where to put them so I wouldnāt be a showoff so I just stuck them on a bookshelf, but now theyāre out.ā
Paint these towns red ā or not
If dumped Valentineās Day ā try again next year. Travel websitį£e TheDiscoverer.com picked USAās most romantic small towns:
Friday Harbor, WšÆash. (wherever that is). Toš§ marry rich and get in on the glitz, Aspen, Colo.
Beaufort, NC; St. Simons Island, Ga.; Amelia Island, Fla.; Bar Harbor, Maine, all made the cut as did Skaneateles, NY, where Jennifer Lawrence frolicked naked last year in some comedy āNo Hard Feelings.ā Or Montauk, LI, if youāre OK with the sź¦mell of day-old fish ā their take on classic small-town charm.
High strung
No snooze with booze. Canāt serve it to š”underage or afšter certain hours. However, cannabis stays in a pickle.
Theš° fedsā Controlled Substances Act has not addressed the legality of THC, the psychoactive compound responsible for a marijuana āhigh.š ā
It remains š±in a legal haze. Stores are thus stuck in a bind.
Our city is great. šKill people on subwayš„s. Kill people on the street.
Pay high taxes for illegal immigrants. Go hungry because cannot afford food. Sleep on streets because canāt aą½§fford rent.
Need a policeman, theāreās a three-week waiting list. We knock off legal cops.
We sellā¦ illegal weed, the preferred choice over lāiquor or prescription drugs.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.