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...Spike Lee movie you can barely see the characters behind all the editorial placards. Da boys in this hood hang out under a big sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bronx Bull | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...blase is not unique to our treatment of the candidates for the council's top jobs. The same can be said for student attitudes toward star athletes, musicians or scientists. As much as we enjoy claiming famous alumni like Al Gore '69, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Mira Sorvino '89, we are often unwilling to grant our fellow students the title of campus superstar...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: The Eclipse of the Campus Superstar | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Vasquez) of mid-century Paris how endearing and tender this supposed easy woman can be. The whore with a heart of gold? It's been done, you say. But not to the music of Giuseppe Verdi: the passion and the thrill of his music will make every Mira Sorvino '89/Elisabeth Shue '88/Kim Basinger poseur-hooker seem like a mean-hearted trollop in relation to the radiant and self-sacrificing Violetta...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sumptuous `Traviata' Shines on a Grand Scale | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

They must have been a spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...March 1996, Mira Sorvino '89 was onstage in Los Angeles accepting her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite. That film's writer-director, nominated the same evening for his screenplay, was named earlier that month as the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. And where during all these festivities was the illustrious filmmaker himself...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Orleans Jazz Musician Hits Big, Also Directs Several Films | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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