Coming out of the dashboard was a figurative Wyoming in counterpoint to the literal one that Giamatti was seeing through the windshield. cavalry officers at a frontier outpost in the late eighteen-sixties, featuring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. That day, Radio Classics was airing episodes of “Fort Laramie,” a drama from 1956 about the lives of U.S. The car had Sirius XM satellite radio, and Giamatti, hunting for a channel that would sustain him across the empty spaces, settled on Radio Classics, which airs programs from the so-called golden age of radio, before the medium was shunted aside by television as a place for storytelling. After a flight to Cheyenne, he picked up a rental car and started driving north. Photograph by Mark Peterson / ReduxĪ few years ago, Paul Giamatti, the actor, went to Wyoming to visit a friend. Paul Giamatti transformed Herman Melville’s story of a balky copyist into a comic performance.
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