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Hey, Paul, Where's the Damn Movie?!

Posted Feb 18th 2008 1:29PM by TMZ Staff

Paul SorvinoPaul Sorvino is pissing off people who invested in his upcoming movie -- a whole county full of 'em. Why? Because there's no movie!

Lackawanna County, Penna. somehow invested $500,000 in Sorvino's new movie, "The Trouble with Cali," which the "Goodfellas" star was directing in Pennsylvania. Scenes were shot in Scranton in 2006, but the movie has yet to hit theaters, and now Lackawanna County is asking WTF?

Sorvino, who lives in the nearby Pocono Mountains, told the AP, "To have my honesty impugned has never happened in my life. The record of how the money was spent was always available, to the penny. Sorvino adds that the film will be out soon -- and that he also invested $175,000 of his own scratch.

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1. Why should the taxpayers subsidize Sorvino's nepotism pet project anyway?

Posted at 1:54PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Carolyn (Abernathy)

2. Leave Daddy alone

Posted at 2:04PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Mira

3. Hey Liberals, tell me again how you believe the government knows how to spend your money better than you do.

Cut taxes, cut spending.

Posted at 2:09PM on Feb 18th 2008 by ellenpaigelooksveryveryhot

4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. "Somebody get me a camera! Quick!"

Posted at 2:11PM on Feb 18th 2008 by jollyex

5. People in Pennsylvania are not terribly bright.

Posted at 2:15PM on Feb 18th 2008 by FlBiker

6. How does a "county" ask a question? Name names or I'm just gonna file this in the same undisputable statement file along with "unnamed sources".

Posted at 2:42PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Tristania

7. And by the way Mr. Rabid Rightwinger, get out the lip balm and lube up, cause you're gonna be kissing liberal ass for a minimum of 8 years.

Posted at 2:45PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Tristania

8. Who let a county invest in this? Bad move!

Posted at 2:52PM on Feb 18th 2008 by bet the super bowl

9. Never even heard of this joke.

Posted at 3:07PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Michelle

10. dum du dum dum,

Posted at 3:23PM on Feb 18th 2008 by me

11. I live in Scranton.

The commisioners, WHO GOT VOTED OUT IN A LANDSLIDE, basically pulled the wool over ours eyes on this one.

Despite the critism and uproar, they did it anyway.

And the best part, our ex-commissioner is listed as THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER!

P.S. FIBiker, we here in PA are bright, we just have to deal with this politcal crap all the time.

Posted at 6:01PM on Feb 18th 2008 by ILIVEINSCRANTON

12. I live near Scranton, and the Lackawanna County Commisioners want to know the accounting of the county’s investment. He however, won't provide it. The only reason he even came to Scranton, PA was because he was good friends with the now deceased Jason Miller, a drunk one hit wonder.

Posted at 9:01AM on Feb 19th 2008 by CAT

13. I remember when they were talking about the movie last year on WNEP (local PA news). I think they invested because they wanted to get more movies and what not, to film in Lackawanna County.

I blame M. Night Shyamalan.

Posted at 4:43PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Thecaek Izalie

14. The local press here in Scranton are all over this. My favorite article so far:

http://www.ecweekend.com/columns/story.asp?id=46520

Posted at 7:06PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Taxpayer in Pa

15.

I blame The Office!

Posted at 7:17PM on Feb 18th 2008 by truthiness

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