PORTLAND, Ore. — Gus Van Sant, director of “Good Will Hunting,” pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of drunken driving and reckless driving. He was ordered to a Feb. 9 alcohol diversion hearing.

Van Sant, 54, was arrested the night of Dec. 21 near the city center. Police said he registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, more than double Oregon’s limit of 0.08 percent.

An officer saw that Van Sant’s headlights weren’t on, Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Brian Schmautz said. Van Sant had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech, smelled of alcohol and failed sobriety tests, Schmautz said.

Van Sant wasn’t required to appear at the arraignment in Multnomah County Court. He was represented by attorney Richard Oberdorfer.

The February hearing will help determine whether the Portland filmmaker enters a diversion program, which could eventually remove the charge from his record.

Judge Leslie Roberts imposed the standard conditions that while the case is pending, Van Sant must avoid alcohol and not drive without a license or insurance.

Several of Van Sant’s movies have been set in Oregon, including “Elephant,” about a high school shooting, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. He has been shooting “Paranoid Park” in and around the city.

His films also include “My Own Private Idaho,” “Drugstore Cowboy” and “Finding Forrester.”

NEW YORK — Foxy Brown, sentenced to probation and anger management classes for a fight in a nail salon, left court smiling Wednesday after hearing “an excellent report from probation.”

Brown, 26, said the sentence has been good for her “because probation forces you into structure. It is making me grow up. I have matured a lot since I started the anger management.”

Accompanied by her lawyer, state Sen. John Sampson, Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, had a good word for Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson. The rap princess had several hostile exchanges with Jackson before the judge sentenced her to three years’ probation and anger management classes.

“This is only the first time in two years that I’m pleased with Judge Jackson,” said Brown, wearing a tan plaid skirt and purple blouse, as she climbed into a large sport utility vehicle. “She got an excellent report from probation.”

Sampson said the judge told Brown to return to court March 15.

Jackson sentenced Brown in October after the rapper pleaded guilty in August to misdemeanor assault charges. Brown was accused of kicking one employee and smacking a second in the face on Aug. 29, 2004, in an argument over payment for a manicure at Bloomie Nails in Manhattan’s Chelsea area.

STOWE, Vt. — “Goodfellas” actor Paul Sorvino, who pulled a gun on his daughter Amanda’s ex-boyfriend in a confrontation, was allowed to carry it and never pointed it at the man, police Chief Ken Kaplan said Wednesday.

Amanda Sorvino, 36, told a Monroe County judge in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Tuesday, that she had locked herself in a bathroom and called both police and her father after the man pounded on her Stowe Motel room door and made threats on Jan. 3.

“He got in my father’s face and said, ‘Go ahead, Paul, shoot, I ain’t done nothing wrong,”’ Amanda Sorvino testified. The judge granted her request for a protection-from-abuse order against Daniel Snee, 21, of Effort, Pa.

Sorvino, a deputy sheriff in Pennsylvania, is entitled to carry a weapon from state to state, Kaplan said.

“He expressly stated there was no way through his training that he aimed the gun at this person, he didn’t even threaten him,” Kaplan said of Sorvino. “He just said, ‘I have a gun, I want you to stay away from my daughter.”

An affidavit filed by Stowe police Officer Frederick Whitcomb said Amanda Sorvino had broken up with Snee earlier that night.

After being arrested, a handcuffed Snee escaped through an open window of a police cruiser and was found hiding in trees behind the motel about an hour later, the affidavit said. He was charged with escape and disorderly conduct.

The affidavit said Snee had a blood alcohol content of 0.175, more than double the legal limit for driving in Vermont.

He was being held Wednesday at the St. Johnsbury Regional Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Paul Sorvino starred in 1982’s “That Championship Season.” His film credits also include “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.”