abstract:Thomas Jack (February 5, 1881 – October 9, 1961) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in the Men's Marathon. He did not finish.
In this wonderful new movie by the team of Alexander Payne (writer-director) and Jim Taylor (co-writer), Giamatti plays Miles, a failed novelist around forty who takes off for a wine-tasting tour with his buddy Jack(Thomas Haden Church), a washed-up TV actor who is about to get married.
The members of the Special Committee to oversee the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires are Thomas Bray, Louis Boccardi, Jack Fuller, Nicholas Negroponte and Susan Phillips.