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Mig 15:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Mig 15:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: What are you referring to?

Hi, first of all thank you for expressing your concerns. If I remember well I was referring to a page you created that has been deleted since (therefore I don't have any log to check). The page was very short. Since I couldn't help but remark that your username was very similar, I left a message on your talk page explaining the reason of my edits (I reverted your edit on List of Cuban Americans at the same time since it was pointing to the said page). I have no problem with the current state of the pages now. Thanks a lot for your input (and your story is really interesting and I think it has its place on Wikipedia). Regards, -- lucasbfr talk 05:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry this message seems a bit harshed and telegraphic. English is not my first language and I am very tired at the moment. My apologies! -- lucasbfr talk 05:09, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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I've just deleted my information -- so, let's move on. It doesn't matter in the final analysis. I don't have the power nor the connections to change anything significantly. More importantly, I don't have the time to engage in a struggle over my contributions to entertainment or society at large. Thank you --Mig Mig 14:52, 21 November 2006 (UTC)14:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, it's your page and you can do whatever you want. But I'm puzzled about your decision to blank it out, and a little disappointed. I thought it was a good idea to put your personal story on your user page, in your own words.
You know, Wikipedia does not determine the value of your contribution to society. It's just an encyclopedia. You do have a distinguished career, so I expect that one of these days someone else will write an article about you for Wikipedia, and other people will contribute to it.
In the meantime, I hope you will decide to contribute to the encyclopedia on the basis of your own expertise. There are WikiProjects on culture, including film and broadcasting, for example. -- Rob C (Alarob) 18:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I meant to say my information which would automatically be regarding such struggles because that's what my career has been about -- struggle for some semblance of equality and opportunity. I'm not Spielberg with an influential uncle to "discover" me. I mean, talk about "vanity." I obviously don't need the wrath of yet another powerful entertainment mogul to further blacklist me for speaking out.Mig 19:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Alabama Rob: my old friend and mentor Fred Haines, who has an Acadamy Award nomination for his adaptation of James Joyce "Ulysses" to the screen, did a small edit on the same same page that now reappeared on me with the same note.[1] He is a very incredibly intellectually-inclined good person, now retired. I'm in the midsts of an allergy-related asthmatic reaction to allergy medication. I have email and connection problems. I'm despondent. Mig 19:36, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I thought it might be a case of the blues, and I hope your spirits revive soon. I restored your user page so it looks as it did before you blanked it. You can always erase it again, but I hope you'll at least wait a little while. -- Rob C (Alarob) 20:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll wait. I do have the blues. My face is quickly disappearing from the side of a snow-covered mountain and I have to get it back before the melting snow brings it down. Mig 20:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] We're keeping the article about you in Wikipedia

Migdia, the discussion about the article has been completed, and the decision is to keep it. (Please remember that it is against Wikipedia guidelines to edit an article about yourself.)

Although I proposed deleting the article, I am glad about the decision. Does that make sense? -- Rob C (Alarob) 01:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

New Stuff

Thanks, Alabama Rob, for everything! I'm no longer feeling sick. My agent is retiring, however -- which means the search is on! I'm taking pastries to his office later today. I'm heavy-hearted. Mig 20:40, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

The WGAW Magazine published an important letter of mine -- edited -- which I include here at the end of this. Our film society had shown "Volver" thanx to me because I lobbied for it and had sent them so much info. I'm glad. It was a great flick -- one which I recommend. I sent Pedro Almovodar (the movie's director/writer) an email through his agency --CAA (used to be mine, too). I'd love to meet him. BTW, I lived in Tennessee for one year when I was little -- a place called Dixie that I'm not even sure it's on the map. Next to the Baptist church, and the cemetary, where I used to play hide & seek with other kids -- that may be why I write horror and Sci-Fi. Next week is a candle light walkabout in Historical Glendale. It should be totally fun. I did that at the Alhambra, in Spain. Gorgeous by candlelight with Spanish Classic music playing in the bg. This paragraph is full of the stuff I'll never forget.Mig 23:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Wrote some things about "Apocalypto" in the NYT that got many readers. I'm trying to post in the Chicano talk page -- which I can't find. Also something else very pointedly written by a Miami University Professor of Archeology. Where? Mig 20:40, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Here's my letter to the Guild -- except I haven't edited the letter that follows and, coincidentally, it was published alongside a letter from Gore Vidal (my mom just noticed) on an unrelated subject -- so you never know who's going to read your stuff.

Dear Written By Editor:

Kudos to Diana Washington Valdez and Lorena Mendez-Quiroga for their work "Border Echoes" on behalf of Mexican drug-related murders and MOST particularly the killing of innocent young women at the U.S. border with Mexico-- a story covered in the November 2006 issue of Written By. As a Latin woman, I can truly relate to their concerns and I applaud their selfless commitment

As a Cuban-American, and a professional screenwriter for many years, I’m also saddened by the deaths of freedom floaters, i.e., those attempting to cross the 90-mile-wide Florida Straits on flimsy rafts--a decision made by thousands of Cubans each year.

But whereas no one in their right mind would defend the corrupt Mexican government vis-a-vis their dealings with their own impoverished citizens, their drug cartel, and/or journalists covering such stories, a number of powerful entertainment figures have endorsed Castro's totalitarian and equally corrupt regime. For example, Steven Spielberg spent eight-hours schmoozing with the Cuban despot and dubbed it "the most important moment of his life."

Jack Nicholson and others have also endorsed Fidel Castro on the trade publication Variety after visits to Cuba.

It is disheartening how gifted, well-meaning artists--eyes ablaze with romantic notions of revolution--see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe, ignoring the sad reality that is totalitarian Cuba.

Perhaps these well-meaning individuals are not aware that in Cuba you would not enjoy the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms which we all enjoy in the United States of America. It is, in fact, a lack of free expression and association which have compelled almost two million Cubans (15 percent of the entire Cuban population) to seek exile abroad.

Cuba’s dictator not only has cracked down on free speech and actions, but he has also demoralized and segregated those individuals who peacefully have strived to lead others in Cuba to the warmth of freedom.

Specifically, the Castro regime has recently sentenced writers, journalists, economists and other human-rights activists to prison for 20-30 years for doing what many of us do on a daily basis in the United States: speak freely to our fellow citizens and petition our own government.

Case in point is Hector Palacios, a leader and organizer of the Varela Project, who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Varela Project is an effort to use constitutional avenues to bring actual freedoms of speech and association, amnesty for political prisoners and leeway for free enterprise and the citizens of that nation. Mr. Palacios sacrificed to garner the 11,600 signatures that were part of this petition filed with the Cuban government––a petition which the Cuban government ignored.

Castro summarily executed three men who were trying to commandeer a dilapidated barge to Miami. This barge or tugboat, "13 de Marzo," acted as a kind of ferry connecting the vicinity of Regla to Havana Harbor. On July 13, 1994, the vessel left on what--by all appearances--was a routine trek carrying 22 men, 30 women, and 20 children. In reality, those 72 people were attempting to flee the prison island. The children on the boat ranged in ages from six months to 11 years of age. In all, 41 people were drowned in the attack.

Indeed, Castro is a "genius," as some have put it--a genius at covering up his crimes against humanity, and a real genius at using Hollywood celebrities for his self-serving propaganda.

Personally, I don’t get an opportunity to speak or write much about what goes on in Cuba, or with respect to Cuban-Americans issues, or even Miami, outside of a small circle of friends, because the media prefers to hear from non-Cuban-Americans on Cuban issues since we are not perceived to be "objective." But who better than us Cuban-Americans? I’m frustrated by this double-standard. Everyone else, it seems to me, is able to write about their own backgrounds without impediments.

Therefore– here, for my fellow WGAW members’ contemplation, is a partial list of the Cuban children murdered by Cuban authorities in the tugboat attack of July 13, 1994.

IN MEMORIAM:

Helen Martinez Enrique, 6 months old Odalys Munoz Garcia, 1 year old Cindy Rodriguez Fernandez, 2 years old Yolindis Rodriguez, 2 years old Jose Carlos Nicole Anaya, 3 years old Angel Rene Abreu Ruiz, 3 years old Gisella Borges Alvarez, 4 years old Caridad Leyva Tacoronte, 4 years old Juan Gutierrez, 10 years old Elieser Suarez, 10 years old Juan Mario Gutierrez Garcia, 11 years old Yasser Perodin, 11 years old Yousel Eugenio Perez Tacoronte, 11 years old Marjolis Mendez Tacoronte, 17 years old.

Thank you for your patience –

Migdia Chinea

Mig 23:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

New Sci-Fi screenplay sample scene: There's a tense beat as he instantly panics and goes under. Surfacing from the depths of the sea is a fin. A shark fin? A sea monster? Can't quite make it out, but whatever it is it's making its way towards him.

Jake sees it and chews up the ocean frantically.

The sea creature glides up to him. Jake resigns to his fate. What fate?

It is actually a computer-animated GORGEOUS MERMAID whose long blonde flaxen hair streams back. Her extraordinary body is partially covered with shimmering scales. Jake treads water, mesmerized, as she swims directly to him.

DISEMBODIED VOICE Due to the sea creature's special powers, Jake becomes increasingly more buoyant.

Although she speaks telepathically, we're able to hear her voice.

MERMAID Greetings stranger. I'm Zina, from Agartha. I was brought together by means of systematic thought and perceptible phenomena at the moment of conceptualization. Your telepathic S.O.S. was received. (blinks) Can I be of some assistance?

JAKE Holy guacamole. Am I glad to see you.

MERMAID (ZINA) Like what you see?

Mig 23:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] CHANGES IN MY LIFE

I know this is not a big deal for most people, but after so many years of dancing with my coach, Doug, I'll be trying a new one starting the new year and I'm already going to a new studio. Doug is great but I need something new. Meanwhile, changes are hard for me because I've built my life around continuity (yeah, I know, in entertainment, isn't that amazingly swell?!). Fortunately, I'm almost finished with my new screenplay and need to get going in other areas. Wish me well --

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. Therefore: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Mig 18:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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