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There is a wonderful scene towards the end of the 2004 Alexander Payne movie Sideways which came to mind this week.

Miles Raymond, played by the great Paul Giamatti, has just left the wedding of his randy, washed-up actor pal Jack Cole, the pair having spent the week together getting up to hi-jinks in California wine country. Miles is divorced and depressed, a schoolteacher and failed author.