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Daughter: Sorvino Pulled Gun in Dispute (Goodfellas actor defends daughter from ex-boyfriend)
AP ^ | Jan 17, 7:51 AM (ET)

Posted on 01/17/2007 7:26:48 AM PST by dead

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) - "Goodfellas" actor Paul Sorvino pulled a gun on his daughter's ex-boyfriend after the man pounded on her hotel door and made threats, the daughter testified Tuesday.

"He got in my father's face and said, 'Go ahead, Paul, shoot, I ain't done nothing wrong,'" Amanda Sorvino, 36, told a Monroe County judge. The judge granted her request for a protection-from-abuse order against Daniel Snee, 21.

Amanda Sorvino testified Snee threatened to kill her at a hotel Jan. 3 in Stowe, Vt.; she said she locked herself in the bathroom and called both police and her father. Her 67-year-old father showed up before police, she testified. When police arrived, the young man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, she said.

Sorvino said that she met Snee when he was hired to care for her horses and that they began dating, but that the relationship soured. She said he then began threatening her, and her father "if he ever got in the way."

Sorvino testified that although the threat happened in another state, she wanted a court order that would protect her at another home she has in Monroe County. The order lasts for three years.

Snee could not be reached for comment because he was jailed in Vermont, it was not immediately clear if he has lawyer.

Paul Sorvino, the star of 1982's "That Championship Season," did not accompany his daughter to court Tuesday. His screen credits also include roles in "Goodfellas" and "The Cooler."

He is also the father of Mira Sorvino, who won an Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's 1995 comedy "Mighty Aphrodite."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goodfellas; joepesci; martinscorsese; paulcicero; paulsorvino; paulvario; scorsese; sorvino
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To: pinz-n-needlez

Joss really came into his own with Buffy. He demonstrated his genius time and time again with that show. He obviously liked the cast from Firefly, as he brought several of them over into Buffy and/or Angel as recurring characters on those shows.


61 posted on 01/17/2007 8:21:00 AM PST by VRWCmember (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: Scotswife; billbears; the OlLine Rebel; HitmanLV

I rarely carry one topic into another thread, but remember how we were talking about how many FR threads become anti-woman? Here's a thread about a man who threatens the life of a woman and her father, and alot of posters IMMEDIATELY blame the WOMAN because she had the AUDACITY to date a younger man. WOW.


62 posted on 01/17/2007 8:21:13 AM PST by Hildy (Words are mere bubbles of water...but deeds are drops of gold.)
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To: AnnaZ

8 years is ok but sheesh, this women was 18 years older! That's almost MILF territory. Stiffler's mom!!!!


63 posted on 01/17/2007 8:22:07 AM PST by rintense (Just say no to McCain in 2008!)
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To: rintense

15 years. Amanda is 36.


64 posted on 01/17/2007 8:24:16 AM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: RockinRight

OOps! Thought she was 39. Still...


65 posted on 01/17/2007 8:31:10 AM PST by rintense (Just say no to McCain in 2008!)
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To: Deaf Smith
"If someone tires to kill you, well you just kill them right back".

Thank you, Mal.

Love and Kisses.

YoSafBridge.
66 posted on 01/17/2007 8:35:42 AM PST by Maven
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To: VRWCmember

Joss is a man who wrote for dead and undead characters for years... I have great faith in his ability to work around *THAT* detail! LOL


67 posted on 01/17/2007 8:36:34 AM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: 2banana

.. .. yuppers ,... & uh bookmark ping , fer later


68 posted on 01/17/2007 8:42:26 AM PST by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
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To: AnnaZ
didn't Mira marry someone eight years younger than her

14 years younger.

69 posted on 01/17/2007 8:43:04 AM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: RockinRight

well basically i was parodying the naughty teacher pinglist posters. since this is getting such a diff response i figure most of you aren't the ones on those threads saying how lucky the 15 yo boy was etc. i would have called for a pic of the 21 yo but figured people might think i was serious ; )


70 posted on 01/17/2007 8:43:34 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Maven
YoSafBridge.

LOL

71 posted on 01/17/2007 8:44:03 AM PST by VRWCmember (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: Hildy

you never hear that sort of criticism of the teachers on the naughty teacher pinglist threads, they are always not guilty and their judgment rarely questioned.


72 posted on 01/17/2007 8:45:02 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Lancey Howard

Oh all right I'm sorry I ever said anything. Bunch of men on this thread!


73 posted on 01/17/2007 8:45:27 AM PST by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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To: dead

Good for him!

Heavens, a Hollywood guy with his own gun!

What will Rosie o'Doughnut say???


74 posted on 01/17/2007 8:46:27 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: VRWCmember; pinz-n-needlez
That was such a great show. I don't understand how Fox can keep the mindless dreck like "Stargate" on for years, but cancel Firefly after less than a full season. I have never seen a cast that gelled as well as the cast of Firefly did. They were even better together than the cast from the early seasons of Buffy.

Hollywood and the networks are much like government: decisions are made and vast sums of money are controlled by idiots.

Both Firefly and Serenity were fatally damaged by such stupidity, as was Superman Returns this past summer. Dumb scheduling and lack of promotion killed Firefly, and the pathetic studio promotion of Serenity cost them several box-office points.

The Browncoats already knew what the movie was about, but if an uninformed person saw one of the TV promotional trailers they got almost no information as to what the movie was about nor why they should want to see it. The message content of those trailers was almost nil.

75 posted on 01/17/2007 8:47:16 AM PST by tarheelswamprat (So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
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To: Doe Eyes
14 years younger.

Egads. Worse than I thought.

76 posted on 01/17/2007 8:49:00 AM PST by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: Hildy
and alot of posters IMMEDIATELY blame the WOMAN because she had the AUDACITY to date a younger man. WOW.

I don't think it is "anti-woman" or "blaming the woman" and it is certainly not about her "audacity" of dating a younger man, but rather how STUPID it is for a 36 y/o woman to be involved with a 21 y/o man, especially one that could not possibly amount to anything other than a sponge off of her substantially better financial position than his.

She is fortunate that she has a daddy that understands the value of guns for self-defense. Otherwise, she would be relying on the "protective court order" and presumably would hope that the paper that the court order is printed on is strong enough to stop a bullet or a knife.

77 posted on 01/17/2007 8:50:18 AM PST by VRWCmember (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: rintense

Or Demi Moore?


78 posted on 01/17/2007 8:51:58 AM PST by Deguello
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To: rintense
Turns out Mira's spouse is 14 years younger. Silly wimmin.
79 posted on 01/17/2007 8:53:01 AM PST by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: VRWCmember

"I didn't kill you, you did that yourself. I just carried the bullet a while." - Captain Reynolds. The Message.


80 posted on 01/17/2007 8:53:54 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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