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When actress Mira Sorvino came to the Park at Fourteenth Tuesday, she had no idea it would be a family affair.
Sorvino is the cover girl on Capitol File’s holiday issue, so she was the glossy mag’s guest of honor. What they didn’t tell her is that on his way down to Washington from New York, CEO Jason Binn landed his chartered jet in Pennsylvania to pick up her dad, actor/director/opera singer Paul Sorvino. The elder Sorvino, who famously quit “Law & Order” because the cold-weather filming interfered with his voice, surprised his daughter by singing “If I Loved You” to her.
Not that Mira is any stranger to D.C.: The magna cum laude Harvard grad has made several trips down here as a celebrity lobbyist for Amnesty International on the issues of the Darfur genocide and human trafficking.
On hand to see her and dad: former DNC chief Terry McAuliffe; attorney Abbe Lowell, who defended President Clinton during the impeachment saga; former Redskin LaVar Arrington.
Afterward, the Sorvinos led a group that sat down to a late dinner at — where else? — Café Milano. As the waiter served Paul his pasta, he said, “We sliced the garlic nice and thin, just how you like it” — a nod to Sorvino’s famous scene in “Goodfellas” where he’s slicing garlic in prison.
Staying in character, the actor replied, “Of course, now I have to turn my back on you.”
