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...Mira Sorvino ’89-’90, 1996, Best Supporting Actress
...cadre of double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity of the two main characters. There is some fine acting in this film, particularly from Paul Sorvino as the outdated singer in the casino lounge, but perhaps The Cooler would have been better served had the bright lights of the Strip not been dimmed so bleakly...
...eating gelato and the like. We are introduced to in-the-closet Angelo (Luke Kirby), a young Italian man from Montreal finally moving out after twenty-seven years of in what he calls “the trap,” living at home with his parents Gino (Paul Sorvino, betraying fans of his work in the far superior Goodfellas) and Maria (Ginette Reno), who just want him to meet and fall in love with a nice Italian girl...
...Sopranos” and all these people leave these shows that are clearly as good as it gets. Also, what happens to all those people that really make a splash and just don’t happen, like Rebecca deMornay and Treat Williams and Sherilynn Fenn and Mira Sorvino and Alicia Silverstone—all the next big things who choose bad roles and it all falls apart. Why does that happen? What does Gwyneth Paltrow know that they don’t? I mean, she’s very talented, but also she picks good parts. All these other...
Though her professional career didn’t get started until after her college years, acting was something that was always in Mira’s blood—literally. The daughter of actor Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas, Nixon), Mira grew up close to the movie industry, but was discouraged from following in the footsteps of her famous dad. “My father would not let me be a child actor,” reveals Sorvino, “and I’m very glad that he didn’t let me. It’s a terrible...