Mira Sorvino
Mira Sorvino @ "Like Dandelion Dust" Premiere in Deauville, France
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 after a late four martini lunch by Moe
Photo Credit: Bauer-GriffinMira Sorvino plays the role of Wendy Porter in the film adaption of "Like Dandelion Dust," which is based on the novel by the same name by Karen Kingsbury. Variety magazine did a write up of the movie which was screened back in January @ the Palm Springs Film Festival.
A natural stewpot of drama -- the battle between poor birth parents and wealthy adoptive parents to care for and raise a little boy -- cooks and nearly boils over in "Like Dandelion Dust," an on-the-nose though cathartically emotional melodrama giving Mira Sorvino her most substantial bigscreen role in years and featuring a head-turning performance by Barry Pepper. Fans of Karen Kingsbury's novel, and auds at U.S. regional fests, could build word of mouth for a nifty theatrical tour before vid and tube home visits.
Stephen J. Rivele and Michael LaChance's screenplay adaptation takes its time building the links between the two families at the heart of this tug of war -- with little Joey (Maxwell Perry Cotton) in the middle -- and at first it's not clear that there's a crisis. Early passages are largely concerned with Wendy Porter (Sorvino), her brutal abuse at the hands of factory-working husband Rip (Pepper, superbly cast), and his eventual release after a seven-year sentence in an Ohio prison. [Source]
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Mira Sorvino Lookin' Juicy @ 20th Annual Palm Springs Film Festival
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 while eating a Bastardly Mercado Certified lunch by Moe
Photo Credit: AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN.COMMira is pictured alongside husband Christopher Backus.
For being 41, Mira Sorvino is looking far hotter than socialite whores like Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan. God damn!
Mira was among many other celebrities on hand giving her condolences to the Travolta family's recent loss of their 16-year old son. Hollyscoop caught up with Mira at the film festival,
"I’m terribly terribly sorry for them," Mira told Hollyscoop exclusively. "I send my love and sympathy to them. I cannot imagine how much pain they must be in right now. It’s the worst thing that can ever happen to a mother or father."
Speaking about her own children, Mira said, "I love my children more than life itself. There’s nothing in the world that compare to loving children. Before I had them, I never knew what love was.” [Read more]
