Article: Paul Haggis, the Director Success Didn't Spoil

Paul Haggis, Academy Award winner, wants to help de-roach our apartment. This is after he's offered us a sip from his water bottle, the stash of cashews from his Ritz-Carlton suite, and after he's suggested we meet for drinks later because we didn't get through all of our interview questions. We say that would be great - - otherwise our biggest weekend plan involves pest control. So Paul Haggis says, "Oh, do you need help with that?" Staggering niceness. Decency overload.

Paul Haggis, what are you trying to pull?

Maybe it's because, as so many profiles love to point out, he's Canadian, pronouncing at all as uh'tall. Or maybe it's because he's still grateful -- having spent 30 years in ...

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