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The new Alexander Payne movie, "About Schmidt," is, when you get down to it, about Schmidt. In fact, it is all about Schmidt (Jack Nicholson). There is barely a scene in which, glazed with inertia, he does not swinishly loll. Our initial sight of Warren Schmidt finds him sitting in his office at an Omaha insurance company, as he has sat, more or less, for thirty-five years. (In Louis Begley's novel, of which mere traces remain, Schmidt was a Manhattan attorney.) Today is his last day in the business; from here on, he will find that, to his loved ones, as to the unloved hordes who constitute the rest of society, he has shrunk to a spent force.
Schmidt is married ...