She won’t look be looking “Sideways” at Paul Giamatti any more.
Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced Saturday that the Oscar-nominated actor is blameless in the case of her missing Honda Civic hybrid.
After her “beat-up” ride disappeared from Park Slope for two days Trottenberg fingered Giamatti as having a role in the vanishing — because his Showtime hit “Billions” was shooting in her neighborhood last week. Her car, she reasoned, must have been towed to make room for the production crew.
‘I apologize for cracking wise when we were actually at fault.’
- Polly Trottenberg
“They’re shooting in our neighborhood this show ‘Billions,’” Trottenberg said Thursday at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce breakfast. “Some of you might have seen it. It’s got Paul Giamatti in it. Somehow the car has disappeared.”
She continued: “I’m calling Paul Giamatti and making him come give it back.”
But, it turns out, the missing auto was all the fault of her less famous husband, Mark Zuckerman, the president of the Century Foundation, a Big Apple/Washington DC think tank.
Zuckerman parked the car on St. Johns Place in front of a nearby driveway — and was rightfully towed, the commissioner admitted.
“Paul Giamatti is definitely off the hook, and I apologize for cracking wise when we were actually at fault,” Trottenberg said in a statement.
Giamatti’s manager said he “was not interested in commenting.”