I waited far too long to see Sideways, the latest film of Alexander Payne (the director of Citizen Ruth, Election, and About Schmidt). It is so good that I am kicking myself for having procrastinated. Gratification for the mind, the eye, the heart, and the sense of humor, unnecessarily delayed. Sideways initially opened on just three screens, in New York and Los Angeles, to allow word of mouth and critical reaction to spread, and build an audience from the ground up. The strategy seems to have worked well, with Sideways currently on 497 screens, and a very respectable per screen...