Word: maids
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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...
Although the advisory committee, chaired by Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69, did not announce its decision to maintain the department until maid-May, students discovered a month earlier that their campaign had been successful...
...does. We are worried about it ourselves. I don't know what is going to happen in 15 or 20 years. My grandchildren are different from my children, because they visit me and sing television ditties. They have been watching it. And no one is at home except the maid. I don't think we should continue that. The government can set the parameters, but the thrust must come from the family...
...into bed. Violeta (Ariadna Gil) is a lesbian who wears her hair short and likes tailored clothing. She has what is arguably the best scene in the film. During a carnival masquerade in the town, Violeta dresses in Fernando's uniform and the sisters dress Fernando as a French maid. Violeta leads Fernando in a lascivious, passionate, hilarious tango, much better than Al Pacino's in "Scent of a Woman." She then takes Fernando to a barn and h as her way with...
Somehow these familiar gender battles are played as serious conflicts despite little depth of thought in the script to justify the treatment. Upton's portarayal of Henrik, for instance, is at once pathetic and sympathetic, but plunged too deeply in melancholy to make his overtures to the maid and his step mother amusing. The others seems to follow his lead when playing out marital strife caused by infidelities, both real and merely desired. The result is a series of quasi-serious conflicts rather than the farcical situation comedies of the script. Stokes attempts some slapstick with his rejected advance...