Oscar for Paul--Please!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2005)

It is time for "Pig Vomit*" to get what he deserves! And what he deserves is a little Golden Statue! I have loved Paul Giamatti since he gave Julia Roberts a cigarette in "My Best Friend's Wedding" and have dreamed of this day for almost a decade. And then I went to see "Cinderella Man," as until 2006 I believed there was no way I'd miss a Ron Howard film, in spite of Russell Crowe, also brilliant BTW. In this under-appreciated masterpiece previous Oscar winners Crowe and Zellweger should be nominated again, as should legendary Ron Howard, but the heart and soul of this **** out of 4 masterpiece (best film of 2005 bar none) is the feisty manager Joe Gould played my MISTER Giamatti. After this spring we won't need to look up his name to remember it.
(*character name in 1997--"Private Parts")