Mira Sorvino

Mademoiselle Magazine - November 1998 - Mira Sorvino Cover!
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Cover Stories - Fitness Secrets of Hollywood's Hottest Bodies: Celebrity body doubles tell how they keep their star-quality legs, abs and butts in shape. A Little Romance: The prettiest dresses to feed your floral fixation, the richest velvets to tempt you - and him, the best scents to help you succeed in life. Survey: The Sex You Want...Is It The Sex You Get? 1,000 men and women tell us their real sexpectations and whether reality measures up. There's Something About Mira...and it's not just the beauty / brains thing.

Covert One: The Hades Factor
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5 of 5 stars to the suspense movie, The Hades Factor. First, I should explain that I have read the book twice and seen the movie twice. Second, I am a big fan of Robert Ludlum's work. This is one of Ludlum's best efforts and I highly recommend either/both the book and the movie.

The story opens with the start of a plague. First a couple of soldiers die, then other people. Clearly easy to spread this disease and clearly it is deadly. No cure. Early the story takes on a mid-east terrorist theme and we begin to learn the disease is being spread by the terrorists. As the team at "Covert One" (a secret US government intelligence agency) ramps-up, we learn that the terrorists have a method of deployment of this airborne virus that will be very effective. The story mostly focuses on where did the original virus come from and who is causing it to be spread. There are some plot twists slowing down the investigation (like murder of some key people). While the story seems to be exclusively a bio-terrorist plot, there is a big plot twist where the terrorists are simply the agent of the people who are really behind the plot.

The movie is very long at 2h45min. I believe it was originally a for TV-mini series (two episodes). The style and approach of the movie is that of a high-end TV program rather than an epic movie approach. Lots of photography techniques you see often in TV but never in the movies. The settings, though rich in look, seem "closed-in" (more like a studio than a location). Clearly broken into chunks where commercials could be placed. Well acted, well photographed, just a bit "closed-in" compared to a made-as-a-movie movie.

A well told story with building suspense. Alot of reality in the story which is chilling to imagine this could really happen (i.e. it ain't sci-fi; it could happen). In the real world, we have seen SARS, Bird Flu and recently H1N1 Flu effecting the population; what if the disease is more deadly than these? What if it spread widely? Yes, this is an exciting, suspenseful story. This is an exciting race against time to save the world! I highly recommend it!

Tales of Erotica - Authentic Region 1 US DVD Starring Mira Sorvino
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I have no idea where the first reviewer is coming from. I watched the film very easily although my DVD had flaws so there had to be a lot of stopping, reversing and fast forwarding. In the first segment Mia Sorvino gets entranched with a Dutch painting and tries to become part of the
scene to fulfill some fantasies. I found this segment to be the weakest.
In the second, one young man keeps following a beautiful woman around the beach, in the hotel dining areas and even tries listening from outside her hotel room. He hears buzzing sounds which turn out to be didios for
her gratification. Finally catching up, he finds reality is far different
than reality. This is fun. The third segment by Melvin Peebles is a wild gem. VROOM, VROOM, VROOM takes a young virginal guy on a fantasy voyage when a spirit helps meet his needs. The music is lively and fun red hot.
Finally, a beautiful lady enters a bathtub sales firm just as it is closing, to use the washroom. She then tries to get the manager to let her try out bathtubs. Using her sexy guiles, she gets him to let her sit in one with all the jets going. The end is funny and unpredictable. I can see 4 stars for this segment and VROOOM alone. But there is very little
sex or erotica. There is a lot of playful pyscho-sexual enjoyment.
My real rating is 3***. In no way can I see this rated any less. So, I have tried to even the first reviewer's pitiful 1*. Have fun and enjoy the hot tub.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
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I'm going to reiterate what a previous reviewer stated and say I absoulutely love this movie. This isn't the end all or be all of high school reunion flicks but a gentle lampooning on the genre. To take it as some profound statement about going home again would do the film a disservice. The soundtrack here is impeccable. Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, two of the top comediennes of the previous decade, have chemistry to burn. To boot you have Alan Cumming, one of the great British funnymen, as the object of Kudrow's affection. Irresistable is an understatement.