Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits a showdown at the film's completion. But Lange's and Farmer...
...they see it, to let the general public in on the fact that women athletes can be just as nastily competitive and talk just as dirty in shower and sauna as their male counterparts. As for the movie's centering on a pair of pentathletes, Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) and Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly), who have not just a sweetly ambiguous lesbian encounter but a fullscale, move-in, move-out relationship-well, there goes what's left of the old image. Even if Chris finally leaves for a man, it is too late, the harm has been done...
...Since the spring of 1980, when Cuban President Fidel Castro opened the port of Mariel to those who wanted to leave, about
...spring of 1980, when thousands of Cubans were mobbing the port city of Mariel for their helter-skelter exodus to the shores of Florida, President Fidel Castro denounced the emigrants as escoria (scum). As if to ensure that he was at least partly correct, Castro added some convicts and mental patients to the Mariel horde. Indeed, of the 125,000 "Marielitos" who landed in Florida, 1,709 have been jailed by federal authorities as undesirables, and 587 more have been locked up until they can find sponsors. Nearly all the rest have settled in Dade County, which includes Miami...
...social services are being strained to the breaking point by just trying to take care of law-abiding Marielitos, most of whom are desperately poor. The federal spending cuts are certain to make the situation even worse. Some 16,000 refugee children have flooded Dade County schools since the Mariel exodus, requiring a $32 million addition to the education budget. Welfare rolls have increased by a third. Yet as a consequence of the federal cuts, 139 of the 176 county welfare caseworkers now ministering to the Marielitos will be laid off or transferred. Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital...