Word: corrina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reprise of her real-life cross-racial relationship with Ted Danson, Whoopi Goldberg stars "Corrina, Corrina" as the yin to Ray Liotta's yang. As the ever-helpful, racially suppressed and mischievous maid Corrina (pronounced Core-ee-na), Goldberg delivers what is a lackluster performance...
...Corrina's accent is strong and she speaks in excited fast sentences that lurch from place to place. Now she is the oldest; her older brother was killed this summer in a motorcycle accident. She works full-time at the Rainbow, sometimes thirteen hours a day. Sometimes she complains that her brothers are free to do what they want while she is expected to work. Typical of Asian immigrant families, she says...
...Corrina thinks her older brother was hit by a drunk-driver. She is angry that the police will not investigate. She does not cry very often, but she still gets frustrated thinking about her brother's death. "We have it good now," she says...
After Vietnam, Corrina's family lived in Malaysia. Then they moved to the United States. On the ship from Malaysia to America, Corrina saw girls get raped and killed. "Sometimes there is a lot of shame in a family when a girl gets raped. Sometimes the family will throw her overboard. So many people die on the boat, sickness or no food or too young. So many people...
...Corrina's brother Langlo will graduate in January from B.U. Langlo works in the Rainbow on Sunday nights. He is open and friendly and speaks with many of the customers. But he is reticent when it comes to his family's history. "I don't want my history being published," he says. "I'm planning to write a book myself. When I graduate, I'm going to write a book about how much we had to struggle...