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“ Corrina, Cortina
About Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
The film is produced by Paula Mazur
and Steve Tishch. Writer, producer,
director is Jessie Nelson. Music score is
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by Rick Cox.
“Comna, Comna” is rated ‘PG’
and has a running time of 115 minutes.
O r e g o n S y m ph o n y
JA M E S B E P R E I S T
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W e S hall O vercome :
A T ribute to
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot; A uthor o f I've Known R ivers A ddison-W esley, S e p te m b e r 1994
Sara Law rence-Lightfoot is
Professor o f S ociology at the
H arvard G raduate School o f
Education. In 1984, she was
the recipient o f the prestigious
M acA rthur Prize Award, and
in 1993 sh e w as a w a rd e d
H arvard’s G eorge Ledlie Prize
given for research that m akes
the “m ost valuable co n trib u
tion to science” and “the ben
efit o f m ankind.”
W hether w riting about the
im portance o f relationships in
schools and fam ilies o rth e lega
cies one generation passes to
the next, L aw rence-L ightfoot
has dedicated h erself to “ deep
ening the conversation” about
issues that m atter to us, includ
ing race, gender, culture, class
an d h u m an d e v e lo p m e n t.
B ringing b iography into the
realm o f social science, she has
m astered the art o f narrative as a
pow erful m eans o f changing the
way people think about our place
in the world.
L a w r e n c e - L ig h tf o o t has
w ritten four books. Her m ost re
cent w ork, Balm 1 G ilead: Jour
ney o f a H ealer (1988), a portrait
o f her m other, a pioneering child
psychoanalyst, was praised for
“ raising the standard o f authen
ticity in A frican-A m erican biog
rap h y .” It was also a C hristopher
A w a rd -w in n e r, Los A n g e le s
Tim es Book P rize-finalist, and
New York Tim es N otable Book
o f the year.
O ther books include W orlds
apart: R e la tio n sh ip s B etw een
Fam ilies and Schools (1978), Be
yond Bias: Perspectives on C lass
room s (1979) (with Jean C arew ),
and The Good High School:
P o rtra its o f C h a ra c te r and
C ulture (1983), which received
the 1984 O u tstan d in g Book
A w ard from th e A m eric an
Educational Research A ssocia
tion.
In addition to her teach
ing, re s e a rc h , and w ritin g ,
L a w re n c e -L ig h tfo o t sits on
num erous p ro fessio n al com
m ittees and boards o f d irec
tors, including The N ational
A cadem y o f E ducation, The
Boston G lobe, and the John D.
and C atherine T. M acA rthur
Foundation.
In 1988, she was profiled
by Bill M oyers for his W orld
o f Ideas series (PB S-TV ).
Sara L aw ren ce-L ig h tfo o t
has two children and lives in
Boston.
W hoopi Goldberg a s Corrina
“Corrina, Corrina,” a heartwarm
ing family comedy starring Whoopi
Goldberg and Ray Liotta, opens at
select theatres everywhere on Friday,
August 26th.
Written, produced an directed by
Jessie Nelson, “Corrina, Corrina” is a
about a young girl named Molly (Tina
Majorino) who has withdrawn into
herself since the death of her mother.
The housekeeper who comes to take
care of her (Goldberg) gradually draws
Molly from her shell, and Molly at
tempts to play Cupid with her father
(Liotta) and Corrina. As her hopes for
a romance between the two develops,
the relationship turns the heads of sur
prised family, friends and neighbors.
New Line Cinema Presents A
Steve Tisch Production: Whoopi
Goldberg and Ray Liotta in “Corrina,
Corrina,” starring Tina Majorino,
Wendy Crewson, Larry Miller, Erica
Yohn, Jenifer Lewis and Joan Cusack.
M artin L uther K ing J r .
S ymphony S undays
Sunday
September 11,1 994
3 pm
James DePreist, conductor
Raymond Bazemore, baritone & narrator
Portland Symphonic Choir,
Bruce Browne, director
♦Schwantner: New Morning for the World:
Daybreak of Freedom
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James DePreist
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works which echo his words and dreams.
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