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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The bigger a star you are in the movies, the closer the camera gets to your face. Those in below-the-title supporting roles appear mostly with their shoulders, and a character actor is seldom seen without his belly. It is only those whose salaries have passed twenty million dollars whose tiniest characteristics and tics we have seen so greatly magnified that we know them more intimately than we do our own: the delicately protuberant vein in Julia Roberts's forehead; the twitching around Jim Carrey's eyelids. So it is perhaps a sign of status ambivalence on the part of Paul Giamatti, who, with last year's film "American Splendor," made the rare transition from character actor to leading man, that he misses the days when, as an actor onstage, he could be seen from his head all the way down to his feet.
On a recent afternoon, shortly before the release of his new movie, "Sideways," Giamatti sat at...
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