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Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film-A Reporter's Perspective, 1998-2012 By Leo Adam Biga. Foreword by Timothy Schaffert. Foreword by Thomas Schatz. Omaha ne: Inside Stories, 2013. 295 pp. Photographs, index. $19.95 paper.
In Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film-A Reporter's Perspective 1998-2012, Leo Adam Biga writes about the major American filmmaker Alexander Payne from the perspective of a fellow townsman. The Omaha reporter began covering Payne from the start of the filmmaker's career, and in fact, even earlier than that. Long before Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, Sideways, The Descendants, and Cannes award-winner Nebraska, Biga was instrumental in arranging a...