Don’t tell this wife of a “GoodFella” that women don’t understand the Mafia classic.
Star Paul Sorvino‘s other half, TV and radio personality Dee Dee Sorvino, is on blast following Post movie critic Kyle Smith’s fiery new column claiming women just “don’t get” the film Smith dubs a “male fantasy picture.”
“I have the proof that women love and understand ‘GoodFellas’ because they come up to my husband Paul every single day to talk about the film and ask for pictures and autographs,” Big Paulie’s wife tells Page Six. “Women and men treat Paul like the Godfather. I have never seen anything like it.”
Smith — whose column has also been slammed by “Mob Wives” star Renee Graziano — says women would rather watch a fashionable circle of women gossiping at brunch (a la “Sex and the City”) than a bunch of tough-guys busting each other’s balls.
Smith wrote, “The first time I saw ‘GoodFellas,’ on a rented Blockbuster videotape in 1991, I was in a daze as the final credits rolled. If I had been a cartoon character, I would have had stars dancing around my head like Wile E. Coyote,” Smith wrote. “I turned to my girlfriend and said, ‘What’d you think?’ ‘Boy movie,’ she declared — and I knew our relationship was doomed.”
Smith says the classic characters are lauded as heroes by men but trashed as “lowlifes” by women. It’s quite the opposite, says Dee Dee: “Women like ‘GoodFellas’ because underneath it all they love men who act like men. They also love the power, glamour and money that usually go with them.”
“Women not only come up to Paul and tell him how much they love the film, they also discuss it with him more than the men do because they get the movie,” says Dee Dee, who married Paul late last year. “Power is an aphrodisiac.”