Watching the About Schmidt DVD I bought back in November (had seen it in the theater). Right after Jack Nicholson’s Warren Schmidt visits his alma mater in Lawrence, Kansas, there is a shot of a movie theater. Sideways is on the marquee. Sideways is the film that Schmidt’s writer and director Alexander Payne made as his follow-up to Schmidt. How very clever. And I just felt like noting that. Haven’t googled to see how many others have already pointed this out…