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7 unusual facts about Sideways


American Film Institute Awards 2004

Sideways (Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy Picture)

Ballard, California

The wine producing region around Ballard was featured in the Academy Award nominated film Sideways.

Château Cheval Blanc

The film Sideways features the Cheval Blanc 1961 vintage as a plot element.

Daytime Drinking

Ushering in a new era of independent filmmaking in South Korea, Daytime Drinking is a comedy in the spirit of Stranger Than Paradise and Sideways, but with a distinctly Korean twist.

Missy Doty

Doty became well-recognized with her performance in the dark comedy/drama film Sideways (2004), playing the minor, yet crucial, role of Cammi, the waitress with whom a main character, Jack, copulates before getting caught in flagrante delicto by her cuckolded husband.

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2004

Sideways won 3 awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Giamatti) and Best Supporting Actress (Madsen).

Santa Barbara County, California

The 2004 Alexander Payne film, Sideways, set in the Santa Maria Valley, brought additional attention to the county as a wine region.


Active Value Investing

Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets (Wiley, 2007) is a book written by Vitaliy Katsenelson, and describes a strategy for sideways stock market.

At This Velocity

So the whole thing went sideways, and I looked over at Ryan from Poison the Well, and I said, 'Dude, what the fuck is going on?'

Autódromo Miguel E. Abed

On June 14, 2009 During the 97th lap of a 100-lap NASCAR Mexico Series race at Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Amozoc, Puebla, Carlos Pardo (September 16, 1975 – June 14, 2009) was hit by Jorge Goeters, which caused him to lose control of his car and he crashed sideways into the end of a lower retaining wall at over 200 km/h.

Carrier's constraint

Crocodilians use a "high walk", with a more erect limb posture that minimizes sideways flexing, to cross long distances.

David Borrow

In 2003 he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of State at the Department for Transport Kim Howells, and remained so when his boss moved sideways to the Department for Education and Skills in 2004.

Edward A. Irving

He mapped the movements of Vancouver Island and other parts of the Cordillera that have moved sideways and rotated relative to the Precambrian Canadian Shield.

Eurasian Collared Dove

Subsequent spread was 'sideways' from this fast northwest spread, reaching northeast to north of the Arctic Circle in Norway and east to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and southwest to the Canary Islands and northern Africa from Morocco to Egypt, by the end of the 20th century.

Ivan Zagni

Ivan Zagni (born 16 October 1942) is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded albums with Aynsley Dunbar, Elton Dean, Don McGlashan and Peter Scholes.

In 2003 Zagni was reunited with members of Blam Blam Blam/Big Sideways/Avant Garage to record with Tim Mahon's The Moth on the album Music From A Lightbulb.

More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School

More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is the fifth novel in the Wayside School series of novels by Louis Sachar.

Plagiosternum

Plagiosternum (plae-jee-oh-ster-num, meaning "sideways breastbone") was a middle Triassic temnospondyl that is native to Spitsbergen.

Pleuropogon hooverianus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced narrowly cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Pleuropogon refractus

The inflorescence bears widely spaced cylindrical spikelets which hang sideways off the stem, resembling semaphore signals.

Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo

The game is a sideways-scrolling adventure, where Miyamoto Usagi has to defeat opponents in sword fights, and also have encounters with other characters (also anthropomorphic animals), for example priests, who usually carry a cane and utter Zen Buddhist koans, such as "if you see the Buddha on the path, kill him".

Sandgrouse

Foraging techniques vary between species that coexist which reduces competition; in Namibia, Double-banded Sandgrouse feed slowly and methodically whilst Namaqua Sandgrouse feed rapidly, exploring loose soil with their beaks and flicking it away sideways.

Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School

Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Sideways Stories From Wayside School series.

Sideways Bob

Sideways Bob's appearance was likely inspired by the look Billy Bob Thornton sported in the film Sling Blade.

T-15 Light tank

Since experience with the Polish armed forces Vickers' showed that the air cooled 80 hp engine tended to overheat, the Belgian army requested a prototype equipped with a water-cooled Rolls-Royce engine, which would not fit in the back and therefore was installed sideways in the modified 6-ton tank.

Unified Emulator Format

Sideways ROMs are likewise stored as raw data, plus an indication of their purpose and a ROM slot recommendation.

Wayside: The Movie

After a mix up with the contractor, the school was built sideways with the room were stacked on top of each other instead of side-to-side, resulting in an Escher-esque design revolved around a fantasy environment and kid logic.


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