Rex Pickett on Oregon from Holmes Johnson productions on Vimeo.
Sideways author Rex Pickett talks about his new book, Vertical, and his love of Oregon wine country.
I recently spent a day with Rex Pickett at his home in Santa Monica. I went down with Andrea Johnson to shoot a magazine cover for the Oregon Wine Press and make a short video on his new book, Vertical, which is a sequel to the hugely popular novel Sideways that became an Academy Award winning movie.
If anything in Santa Monica can be called modest, Pickett ‘s apartment can. He lives very simply in a one-bedroom place a few blocks from the beach.
Pickett explains that the character Miles in Sideways is very much autobiographical although physically Pickett is a tall, attractive man with a full head of hair much closer in appearance to the movie portrayal of Jack than Paul Giamatti’s portrayal of Miles. His personality also seems to be more Jack than Miles but Miles love of Pinot Noir is certainly all Pickett. His new book is centered on the Willamette Valley, the heart of Oregon wine country and in our talk his love of everything Oregonian takes center stage.
