Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FOSSE FILM is a little like a steel fragmentation grenade shiny, precise, and efficient--but not something one wants to get too close to. Some say that Fosse's new film Star 80 is merely a violent update of A Star is Born: pretty, naive young Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) is discovered working in a Vancouver Dairy Queen by a small-time promoter and pimp, Paul Snider (Eric Roberts). He wines and dines her, wins her away from her mother and younger sister--and gets her into the centerfold of Playboy magazine. Dorothy marries Paul, becomes Playmate of the Year...
...force and originality in Fosse's recounting of a true story that has attracted much journalistic attention and has already been done as a TV movie (Death of a Centerfold) lie in the way he defeats one's conventional expectations of his material. Mariel Hemingway's Dorothy is not the tragic tart that custom usually dictates in works of this kind. In an arrestingly straightforward, naturalistic performance, Hemingway suggests neither portents of doom nor a sense that she is self-destructively abandoning herself to a media fairy tale from which the only possible awakening is a rude...
...America as a melting pot but not as a trash dump for foreign undesirables. Letting in all those criminals and mental patients among the Mariel refugees was Jimmy Carter's biggest mistake...
...desperate measures to get back home: nine of the twelve successful hijackings to Cuba since May were committed by Marielitos. Still others-usually the criminals and sociopaths of Castro's prisons and asylums-resorted to crime, helping to make "Marielito" for many a catchword for terror. Typically, the Mariel misfits are young men between the ages of 18 and 34, unemployed, with the equivalent of a ninth-grade education and a history of emotional and mental problems. Many wear tattoos made from colored toothbrushes melted down in prison. Some of the designs, hidden in the webbing between the thumb...
...dark face of Mariel continues to overshadow the scene. In December, Universal Studios will release Scarface, a film featuring Actor Al Pacino as a Marielito drug dealer. Despite that land of negative image, the honest Cubans working hard in their new home seem to have faith that the true picture of the Marielitos will emerge. "The spirit of the Cuban boat people has not been beaten," says Cuban Artist Alberto de Lama. "They are not an amorphous mass. They are a much suffering people, with deep fears, desperate hopes and dreams of freedom." Says Miami Assistant City Manager Cesar Odio...