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Instead of a Nobel laureate, Allen finds Linda, a dumb, beautiful, young, sexy porn star/prostitute (surprise, surprise), whom he quickly befriends. As he spends more and more time with Linda (played by Mira Sorvino, who should be winner of this year's Most Annoying Voice Award), his wife begins to cheat on him, and eventually he turns to Linda for consolation...
...their ethics at the baptismal font. Even as a kid, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) was crazy about the gangster life. He connives in murder one, runs a cocaine cartel, robs decent folks blind -- and, when he is caught, shrugs off all remorse. His patron is a stately Mafioso (Paul Sorvino) who warns him to stay out of the drug business; Henry jumps right in. His best friend is a wacko hoodlum (Joe Pesci) who gets whacked by his own family; Henry sheds no tears. His mentor is an Irishman (Robert De Niro) who cuts Henry in on the biggest hijacking...
While comedies experiment a bit, crime dramas this season have the smell of used goods. Among veteran performers starring in new series are William Conrad as a wily district attorney in Jake and the Fatman, Paul Sorvino as a police- department p.r. man who returns to the streets in The Oldest Rookie, Jerry Orbach as a private eye in The Law and Harry McGraw, and Dale Robertson as a crime-solving Texas billionaire in J.J. Starbuck. Only Robertson seems to be truly enjoying the work. NBC's Private Eye, created by Anthony Yerkovich (Miami Vice), is hipper but not much...
Dusa (Mira Sorvino) is a mod mom who eulogizes the virtues of motherhood. By playing Dusa with false sincerity, Sorvino does not make her a credible character. The fourth woman, Fish (Heather Gunn), is a journalist-activist-feminist and the most ideologically optimistic woman of the bunch--often hopeful to the point of idiocy. Gunn's overstudied performance does little to help us sympathize with...
...sort of a nice complement [to the other singing groups]," said Veritone Mira K. Sorvino '89. "I don't really see the Veritones as a stepping-stone...