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Start giftingSideways: The Life of Wine (The Podcast), Vol. 1
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Learn moreRex Pickett, author of the book Sideways (and adapted into an Oscar-, BAFTA-, and Golden Globe–winning movie) talks to Youssef Mourra about his life in wine, movies, screenplays, and books.
This collection includes the following episodes:
“Introducing Rex Pickett, Author of Sideways”“Introducing Sideways: The Life of Wine”“The Pinot Noir and the Rose”“Why Pinot Noir”“Wine Tasting”“An Update on All Things Sideways and Rex”“The Pinot Gris and the Chardonnay”“The Enduring Appeal of Sideways”“A Different Take on Food and Wine Pairings”“The Aging and the Vintage Wine”“No Fucking Merlot”“Chile and Chilean Wine”“Wine Snobbery”“Newsflash 1 - Sideways: The Play in Spain Falls Mainly on the Payne?”“Sideways: The Musical”“Miles and Jack”“The Worst Things about Men”“Why Rex Writes”“Sideways: The Movie Part I”“Sideways: The Movie Part II”“Sideways: The Movie Part III”“Sideways: The Movie Part IV”
Youssef Mourra lives in New Zealand. He was born in Lebanon and migrated as a nine-month-old with his parents to Australia in 1967. Still in recovery from that upbringing, Youssef first discovered the world of Sideways after watching the movie in a cinema. The movie had a major impact on his drinking as he immediately switched to drinking Pinot Noir, forsaking cheap “Cab Savs” and other grape-flavored liquids. Fueled up with the passion for Sideways, he wrote a “fan boy” letter/email to the creator of Sideways, Rex Pickett, and the rest, as they say, is a mystery as to why Rex chose Youssef to become his partner in this amazing podcast project.
Rex Pickett is a California-based screenwriter and author who is most well known for writing Sideways, the book that became one of the most critically acclaimed and highest-grossing comedy films in Hollywood history. The screenplay for the film was named one of the Top 100 Screenplays of All Time by the Writers Guild of America while the movie itself was nominated for five Oscars (winning Best Adapted Screenplay) and seven Golden Globe Awards (winning Best Screenplay and Best Picture). Pickett also wrote the script for the Oscar-winning Best Live Action Short My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York, and his Sideways sequel Vertical won the Gold Medal for Popular Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The Rex Pickett Papers are in archives at Geisel Library on the campus of his alma mater, UCSD. Pickett resides in Del Mar, California.
Youssef Mourra lives in New Zealand. He was born in Lebanon and migrated as a nine-month-old with his parents to Australia in 1967. Still in recovery from that upbringing, Youssef first discovered the world of Sideways after watching the movie in a cinema. The movie had a major impact on his drinking as he immediately switched to drinking Pinot Noir, forsaking cheap “Cab Savs” and other grape-flavored liquids. Fueled up with the passion for Sideways, he wrote a “fan boy” letter/email to the creator of Sideways, Rex Pickett, and the rest, as they say, is a mystery as to why Rex chose Youssef to become his partner in this amazing podcast project.
Rex Pickett is a California-based screenwriter and author who is most well known for writing Sideways, the book that became one of the most critically acclaimed and highest-grossing comedy films in Hollywood history. The screenplay for the film was named one of the Top 100 Screenplays of All Time by the Writers Guild of America while the movie itself was nominated for five Oscars (winning Best Adapted Screenplay) and seven Golden Globe Awards (winning Best Screenplay and Best Picture). Pickett also wrote the script for the Oscar-winning Best Live Action Short My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York, and his Sideways sequel Vertical won the Gold Medal for Popular Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The Rex Pickett Papers are in archives at Geisel Library on the campus of his alma mater, UCSD. Pickett resides in Del Mar, California.