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Rex Pickett’s 2004 novel Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated in four other Academy Award categories.
Set in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County the movie Sideways has two men in their forties on a week long road trip to the wine country, this is where things go “Sideways”.
Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne whom adapted this screenplay of Pickett’s novel won multiple awards. In the movie Paul Giamatti portrays, Miles Raymond, who is an aspiring writer and teaches middle school English in San Diego. Miles a real wine-aficionado is going to take his college roommate and friend, Jack Cole, played by Thomas Haden Church, an actor who is soon to be married on a road trip to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country.
Miles and Jack have very different ideas about the idea of what quality time on a road trip in the wine country together means. Actresses Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh, portray local women who live and work in this beautiful wine country. They both become romantically involved with the men and this is where the story begins.
Today though is about a new beginning and I had the pleasure of hosting two star cast members, John Colella and Julia McIlvaine, of Rex Pickett’s new theatrical production Sideways The Play. The play which parallels the novel much more closely than the movie has been a hit since its opening and has been extended twice through September 2nd. Sideways The Play is directed by Amelia Mulkey whom as John and Julia were quick to suggest is brilliant. (Full length podcast; http://trail1033.podbean.com/2012/08/26/wine-guy-mike-for-august-26/ )
John and Julia’s bios:
John Colella has been acting in theatre, film, and television for the last 25 years. A native Chicagoan and a graduate of the Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University where he received his BFA, John recently took home an Indie Soap Award for Best Actor in a Comedy for his portrail of Donnie G. in his Web Series-Vampire Mob. Film credits include: Hotel Noir, Girl Walks Into A Bar, The Chicago 8, and The Swear Police (Best Short under 5 min, Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Film Festival). He has also been seen on Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, CSI:NY, American Dreams, Will & Grace, The West Wing, and NYPD Blue. Theatre credits include: Miles in Sideways, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, Italian American Reconciliation, Faithful, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and Lobby Hero.
For more information on John, including full resume, demo reel, and testimonials, www.johncolella.com
Julia McIlvaine has been working as an actress for over 15 years, in Los Angeles and New York City. “Sideways” is her 4th production at the Ruskin Group Theatre, alongside “All My Sons,” “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Cyrano,” which starred “Sideways” own John Colella. In New York, she appeared in Marsha Norman’s “Pride’s Crossing,” and “Henry VIII” at the New York Shakespeare Festival. She has also worked in four network pilots for CBS, ABC, and Fox, and three TV movies for Hallmark Hall of Fame. She is a graduate of the USC School of Theatre, and the Ruskin School.
It is everyone’s desire to take the play on the road and it sounds like this may happen in the spring of 2013. It was great fun to have Colella and McIlvaine join me on the show, Sideways the movie is one of my personal favorite wine films for a number of reasons.
The film had a global impact on the wine industry having stimulated great interest in wine for wine lovers and new wine drinkers alike. As for Merlot, well it killed the varietal on a global level; it was just not sheik to have a glass on Merlot in your hand. Pinot Noir was brought to life in an amazing way. Globally sales of this intellectual varietal have risen to new levels and continued to enjoy lofty popularity. This is one of the strongest trends historically for wine, yes driven by a discussion between Jack and Miles in Sideways the movie:
Jack: If they want to drink Merlot, we’re drinking Merlot.
Miles Raymond: No, if anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any f**king Merlot!
And the rest is history, literally. Sideways The Play has sold out every night and been extended twice under the direction of Amelia Mulkey. Each night an hour before the play high end Pinot Noir’s from the Santa Barbara wine country and Central Coast wine region are enjoyed by the attendees.
John Colella and Julia McIlvaine are dynamic personalities who enjoy very successful careers as actor and actress. Rex Pickett now markets his own brand of Merlot and hopes to position Sideways as global brand. Pickett, Mulkey, and the outstanding cast of Sideways The Play will be taking this production on the road and I hope that it comes to a city near you.
Julia and John I want to thank you both for taking time from your busy schedules to be featured guest on this week’s WineGuyMike Radio Show, it was great fun and I hope you will both join me again.
I have two inexpensive Pinot Noir wines that I’m recommending for you this week. Both are available especially priced at Liquid Planet, Missoula’s “Best of Beverage”, located in the Heart of Downtown Missoula.
The wines reviewed today all receive the WineGuyMike™ Seal of Approval™
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From my table to yours,