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...women directors, producers and executives, as well as the influence of stars like Emma Thompson and Nicole Kidman, who were pivotal in creating "Sense and Sensibility" and "To Die For." Note, however, that three of this year's nominated female actors--Elisabeth Shue and Sharon Stone for Best Actress, Mira Sorvino '90 for Best Supporting Actress--play prostitutes. Oscars have often gone to female actor in prostitute roles, including Jane Fonda, Susan Hayward and Elizabeth Taylor. Playing a prostitute in "Pretty Woman" turned Julia Roberts into a star. It seems that women's roles tend to fall into...
HOOKERS Played by Best Actresses Elisabeth Shue and Sharon Stone and supporting bet Mira Sorvino...
After months of strenuously denying any romantic attachment, gore-auteur QUENTIN TARANTINO and Mighty Aphrodite star MIRA SORVINO have given in. Love has blossomed just in time for Valentine's Day-and the announcement of the Academy Awards, for one of which Sorvino is highly likely to be nominated and Tarantino equally likely not to be. The couple, currently in Paris for her publicity tour, share an interest in Chinese films, but for different reasons: he likes the violence, she studied East Asian languages and civilization at Harvard...
...winners in the 61st annual Film Critics Circle awards went to Jennifer Jason Leigh who won best actress in the film "Georgia"; Ang Lee as best director for "Sense and Sensibility"; Kevin Spacey as best supporting actor in three films -- "Seven," "The Usual Suspects," "Swimming with Sharks" and "Outbreak." Mira Sorvino won best supporting actress for Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite...
Here he's Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and, to his joy, a five-year-old adopted son Max. Curious about the boy's lineage, Lenny finds Max's natural mom, Linda (Mira Sorvino), a prostitute who also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked...