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Dear Cloveapple, I believe I have been posting to the wrong place for you since I have put things on the Talk:Kevin Stea site rather than here. So I will copy what I have done so far below. Your guidance is deeply appreciated as I learn more about working in wikipedia. You wrote:
"Since some of his work is in Italy I've started Googling for sites in Italian that mention him. (If you go to the advanced Google search you can set the language to Italian. Or you can use the language tools to search.)
So far all I've got is picture of what I think is an Italian magazine article posted on his Facebook from a magazine called Casagrande. If you check the actual facebook page you should be able to download it. I'm not on facebook so I can't try that. (Yeah I know, I try to Google Italian sites and I get the guy's facebook page!! Sad.)" My responses:
If you use Google.it, it is better to use a modifier with the name to get better results: Kevin Stea ballerino (Kevin Stea dancer), Kevin Stea articoli (Kevin Stea articles) or Kevin Stea di moda (Kevin Stea fashion) which will yield much better results. I am very grateful for your offer to brainstorm searching for acceptable sources to fill out the article. I have heard of Kevin Stea because I was the editor of the English language newspaper in Rome and at the time he was a fashion icon for Italian fashion designers, and was a hot Italian pop culture icon as part of the trio with Luca Tommassini and Lorella Cuccarini. Appearing every Sunday in a "sigla" (introductory olio) of the show Buona Domenica. (You couldn't pick up a teen magazine without some picture and gushy story). On TV (Rai2) he sang, danced, and performed comedy skits. I wonder if videos from that time are acceptable references? They can be found on several italian sites too. Also since this was 1994-1995 a lot occurred before the web got underway so it is hard to find things. For example, you can see he is the cover model for Cosmopolitan (european edition) and has features in many fashion magazines (Harper's Bazaar) etc., but these magazines are either out of print or do not have online archives. Would libraries have them? I look forward to brainstorming with you when I get home tonight so I can get a better handle on direction and technique. Thank you. 64.206.227.62 ( talk) 23:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)Greg McCombs Gmccombs ( talk) 04:42, 8 June 2011 (UTC)Gmccombs
BTW, The magazine is not called Casagrande, that is the name of the photographer. The magazine was called Beautiful (or Beautiful Magazine). Other magazines I remember are Chi and S4m (Sport for Men). I also can get you links to Tiramo News with an article from this year and an Italian site with an interview with Lorella Cuccarini looking back on her 25 year career and naming Kevin Stea (who worked with her only one year) as the most memorable "soulmate of a choreograpaher" in all of that time, though she did mention that she worked with another choreaographer for the past 16 years. (I worry about putting long posts on this talk page. Is there a better way to discuss things, offline perhaps? 69.181.192.117 ( talk) 01:46, 8 June 2011 (UTC)Greg McCombs
I want to figure out how to independently source the international impact of Mr. Stea's work. I know he has a devoted following in India, as part of the tour with India's megastar/singer A.R. Rahman. There are several articles in The Times of India, and I have a link to a video that A.R. Rahman made (which features Stea) as a Thank You to London for their tour there. The tour went thoughout southeast Asia and Canada, and I suppose the United States. There seems to be a fan base in Jakharta, Indonesia but navigating the indonesian sites is beyond me, even with google translator. There is a fan base in Australia, from work done there. I believe hx magazine would be the source for that. There is also a huge fan base in Japan for several reasons. One is the 1990 Blond Ambition Tour in Japan with Madonna. The other is the more recent tour with Japan's pop superstar Seiko Matsuda. The Mitsubishi (English site) on YouTube has every single Blond Ambition performance available on YouTube. I can even link to the Seiko Matsuda video with Mr. Stea. But there is a lot more in Japan, because Seiko Matsuda and Mr. Stea became involved in a national scandal... they did a Japanese commercial where they french kissed, she was topless, married with a kid. It aired every 2 minutes. Then the newspapers 'outed' Mr. Stea for being gay. He was her partner on the tour and also sang on that tour. But negotiating Japanese search engines to document this is way beyond me. I can't begin to figure out the alphabet even with translator. I wish there were a bi-lingual wikipedia editor who could help. Let me know if you have any brainstorms on what diirections to take... I will be compiling a list of links in these areas to get your opinion of what is considered the strongest independent source. Gmccombs ( talk) 02:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)Greg McCombs
There are articles in the NY Times, or photos at least, but it looks like you have to pay the Times to look at them. But is there a way to link to them? If we could somehow link to the NY TIMES we'd find his photo for the romeo gigli G.Gigli (fashion) show back for fall/winter 1996 and again on the front of the arts section, and again with Naked Boys singing (this picture was chosen as the poster for the Movie.) Also there must be a way of documenting that Stea won Star Search an unprecedented 10 Times in 1990 (a Dick Clark show with Ed McMahon) with the dance group New World. The $100,000 grand prize was won on a network television national competition with high ratings. Would that be a notable resource to document? Meanwhile, I'd like to rewrite the opening paragraph that an editor has put up for the article to correct a few things with independent sources. I'll try my hand at it and then ask you about those links too. Grazie. 02:29, 8 June 2011 (UTC)Greg McCombs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmccombs ( talk • contribs)
I wouldlike to rewrite the 1st paragraph to something like this which will establish two important things 1) He was the assistant choreographer and dance captain for Madonna, and 2) the lawsuit was withdrawn. Below this I have listed sources for the information:
Kevin Alexander Stea (born 17 October 1969) is an American dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, director and model. At the age of 20, he became widely known as the Assistant Choreographer and Dance Captain for Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour and in the documentary about it, Madonna: Truth of Dare in 1990/1. On January 21, 1992, two dancers from the tour, Oliver S. Crumes, III and the late Gabriel Trupin, sued Madonna’s production company Boy Toy Inc., Miramax and Propaganda Films in Los Angeles Superior Court for fraud and invasion of privacy. When Stea, as Dance Captain, joined the suit, it became an item of international notoriety, to the extent that Stea appeared on the Maury Povich show to talk about the issue. The suit was withdrawn and settled amicably. [1][2][3][4][5]
SOURCES: Information about the lawsuit: http://absolutemadonna.com/?p=7726
Movie bio listing kevin stea as associate choreographer, dance captain and dancer for Blond Ambition tour… http://www.darkbluefilms.com/wildcat_bios.html
Resume AMCK London – listed as assistant choreographer for Blond Ambition http://www.amck.tv/includes/pdf/artist_cv.php?id=380
DancePlug professional site for dancers. Stea bio lists him as associate choreographer, dance captain and dancer for Blond Ambition tour… http://www.danceplug.com/kevin-stea
IMDb database (other works) lists him as assistant choreographer and dance captain for Blond Ambition tour: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824084/otherworks
Listed as dance captain and dancer for Blond Ambition by this organization: http://sharetv.org/person/kevin_alexander_stea
NOTE: If none of these sources for dance captain is valid, I’ll bet I could get a statement for the tour’s main choreographer to these facts, could he put that on wikipedia in discussion? Would that help?
Source for dismissal of lawsuit – Hartford Curant: http://articles.courant.com/1994-10-02/entertainment/9409300079_1_madonna-gabriel-trupin-oliver-crumes
The lawsuit is also discussed in the Asiance Magazine article which is now part of the references that they took from my first list and added. Interestingly, one of the sources used for the lawsuit is the book by Madonna’s brother. In the Asiance article there is reference to this book and a reference that the brother apologized to Mr. Stea for the lurid coverage by saying… “It was such a long time ago.” Also in this article Stea points out that he wasn’t a part of the original lawsuit filing, but joined it later.
Also, you noted that there was a picture on facebook but you are not on facebook and cannot download it. The same pictures are on his website kevin@kevinstea.com and can be downloaded from there. I have been using the 8 page resume from this site to help me do searches for independent sources. Maybe the resume should be added to the pages too somehow?
Please tell me what you think and what the next steps might be. Gmccombs ( talk) 04:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC) Gmccombs
Thank you for responding with more information. I apologize for my ignorance, since I am just learning how things work. I am fascinated by the wiki process though, I must say. People are so good at research and know how to write so well. They are also so well versed in policies that what they have done to date to improve the article has truly impressed me. I realize I will not be able, at this time to figure out how to make a reference to underscore the facts in a sentence, but I can see that is what makes the article in wikipedia so good, because you can follow references to each assestion and judge the information for yourself. again, I will remember about copying other people's remarks, and simply reply. Gmccombs ( talk) 01:53, 9 June 2011 (UTC)Gmccombs
The tour of Japan with Mr. Stea and Matsuda Seiko was called the Glorious Revolution Tour from May-September 1993, I believe. I do note that the CD compilation from the tour was released in 1994 so I may be wrong on the year. The controversial commercial that they made that caused a national stir was for Takano Yuri salon, so these names might help find references. Gmccombs ( talk) 19:08, 11 June 2011 (UTC)Gmccombs
Thanks - I may take a shot at fixing it. Although not immediately obvious, the article is not about a living person but about a place and a group of people. The named source, Dr. Lateef Adegbite, does appear to be an expert on Egba history, so this very garbled account probably is based on genuine oral history. I don't know if much of this version can be preserved, but there may as well be an article on the subject. A challenge to make it meaningful though. Aymatth2 ( talk) 19:50, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
It's okay, everyone makes mistakes. Hurricanefan25 ( talk) 22:53, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
I just spent a great deal of time correcting all the ref formats in the article, neutralizing its tone, and converting a bullet list to encyclopdedic prose. Perhaps you might look in and double-check my work. Thanks, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 04:48, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
I see you created the new article Igor Begelman. This article looks very well put together. There is a good number of citations and references. As you know, Wikipedia is not just an "encyclopedia", it's a "community" as well and there will always be resources to help you along your way. Jipinghe ( talk) 21:33, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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Hi -- just a quick response. There were some articles about the WGA/CBS case comtemporaneously, in the Los Angeles Times and other publications -- -- but all of those have disappeared from the radar because it's been long and things are often removed, as was the long and extensive Heterodoxy piece written by Lloyd Billingsley -- for one. I've tried to find certain articles for myself, but have been unable to even get other than microfiche. Some people have passed on. That's why the articles cannot be found on line -- but a while ago, when the page was put together by Alarob and various other people, the articles were available. I was recently surveyed on my opinion of the Wikipedia free-lance editors. This was angled on the fact that there are few women involved in this process. I do find this process very daunting and have become frustrated with the twisting of my efforts and the removal of clarification and everything else. This is simply not fair. I guess that's why there aren't more women because this is not a very nice process and some of us do not have the expertise to comply technically, and with families and sick relatives, and personal responsibilities and the like, do not have the time to devote endless hours to respond to numerous requests and deletions.
Therefore, if you wish to delete my page for lack of any available or more current information, I can't stop you. I was one of maybe two people in the history of entertainment intiating a class action lawsuit against the industry's discrminatory practices --n that I'm a hispanic woman who had a career at the time makes it even more poignant, perhaps. It's much easier to hide behind relative anonymity.
Recently a number of older professional screenwriters sued several entertainment concerns for ageism and won $70 million plus dollars. But as must be the case, time passes by and incidents are erased and/layered with time and forgotten. Not forgotten by me so much because I have had to live with the notion of being blacklisted and I've had to try my luck elsewhere -- sometimes without much luck. I'm very fortunate that I was able to make a short film that has been very well received. I worked very hard on it. But I ask you to, please, don't make me go through any more of this endless back and forth because I simply don't have the energy. It's clear to me why more women are not involved in Wikipedia. Instead of support, we find many roadblocks. This is meant in the best possible way that I can say it -- although much gets lost in good intentions and words. The word "friendly" does not in any manner make something that isn't right, right. Friendly fire comes to mind. The end result is the same. Thank you --
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I apologize for sounding stressed. I'm shooting another film and there are a number of logistical decisions. I'm also the producer, so the buck stops here and everything comes from me. I know you're trying hard and your response tells me that you were sensitive to what I was trying to convey. I will try over time to come up with the information that was available back when the page was created, but it's often difficult. There was an article by Lloyd Billingsley on Heterodoxy, a magazine published by David Horowitz in 1999. An article by Roger Hernandez entitled "Invisible Hispanics" in a King Features Syndicate publication in 1999. Articles on Hispanic Business out of Santa Barbara, several of them, in fact, and the Los Angeles Times - ditto. As time passes these things disappear. Roger passed away. It's sad for all of us. There was also lots of information on the Writers Guild page, but I'm afraid all of that is lost. Thanx for your response -- I will be in touch:) Mig ( talk) 14:06, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi again -- the following page was deleted -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(Street_Meat)-- they came after it big big guns and personal remarks. I wish to go on record that this experience was personal and has had a stifling effect. When the article on the Huffington Post is published, I'll bring it here for your consideration -- I'll send myself a link to your page here because I find it difficult to find all the scattered remnents of "talk." I still think that this way too contentious a forum for calm and logical input. My friend Cloveapple, if you wish or have time to take a look at the last page for "anonymous (street meat)", it would be nice.
In regards to that lawsuit again, I know that there was a lot more coverage than is now available. However, we must remember that CBS and the Guild would have an interest in burying or quieting down all discussion on the issue for obvious reasons. The article on Heterodoxy by Lloyd Bilingsley goes into that insiduous blacklisting by the Guild, which is known for blacklisting writers during the McCarthy era, for example. If there's material on the McCarthy period, and I'm sure there is, you may see similarities in behavior. In any event -- I'm proud of my work on "anonymous (street meat)" and believe that it deserves a page, which is a heck of a lot more than other pages for projects or people who have done nothing socially relevant. Thanks again -- Mig ( talk) 15:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Cloveapple -- here's a quote from my wikipedia page "Later she filed a 138.6 million dollar class-action discrimination lawsuit against the WGAw and CBS in response to their implementation of a training program for minority writers that gave these trainees half pay." I think that it's important to note that this wasn't a program for all minorities -- only Hispanics -- and that it was intended to be for proffessional writers members of the Writers Guild in violation of the Minimum Basic Agreement, which is our contract with producers. Under the program, perofessional writers would get half of what was stipulated minimally in our contract. Because I did not wish to participate in this program, and my collaboration was required as Chair of the Writers Guild of America Hispanic Committee, I was blacklisted. I realize that a lot of time has passed. Had it not been for this half-pay, my career would have continued bumping along. It was effectively truncated and I'm now a student with hopes only to teach where I'm not clobbered. The decision NOT to work for half has affected and affects my life daily -- it has had a domino effect, first the career, then my marriage, then my having to take menial jobs to survive. It's been difficult, to say the least. With the word "later," it reads like I filed a frivolous lawsuit or that I'm flaky. It was not and I was not the only person who signed the class action. In a way this is misleading. Hate to rehash stuff -- but that's the truth and it's only too depressing that most articles on this issue -- like "Invisible Hispanics" by the late Roger Hernandez (King Syndication) have disappeared from the web radar because it offers a more complete picture. BTW, some Hispanics were too busy acepting half pay and badmouthed me and those who would not work for half.
Please, let me know -- kind regards, Mig ( talk) 17:35, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Did a search and found this: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19990924&id=oJEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SFoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5183,5321810
Mig ( talk) 17:49, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Don't be modest. I truly appreciate your help and trust you understand what is going on and what has been going on. Poor Roger -- he was so trying to convey the problems inherent in this Hispanic dilemma. I now regret not having worked for half. My principles have caused me too many problems and here I am.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/1994%20April%20Vol%202,%20No%208.pdf
Here's the Billingsley Heterodoxy article, you need to scroll down to "Half Pay Hispanics" to read it in its entirety. It covers a lot of territory and it's not easy to find, so maybe there's a reason for everything. There's a fire at the school's science building. But my TFT dept. is far away from that area. And here I am -- kind regards, always -- Mig ( talk) 20:09, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-19/entertainment/ca-44408_1_tv-and-latinos-latino-based-scripts
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-05/entertainment/ca-39021_1_latino-community
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-10-20/local/me-52345_1_latino-writers
Chon Noriega's book -- Chon is a Professor of Chicano Studies at UCLA:
More trivia about the case:
http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4847868-1.html
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view.action?id=6006944208 Mig ( talk) 00:02, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Congressional testimony -- Mig ( talk) 03:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC) http://books.google.com/books/about/Hearing_on_oversight_of_the_Equal_Employ.html?id=kB00AAAAIAAJ
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-28419463.html
Mig ( talk) 14:57, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
http://bankrupt.com/CAR_Public/990520.MBX Mig ( talk) 13:17, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible to put an "under construction" sign on this page. I'm embarrassed by what it reads on top. Thanx so much!
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Perspective from the other side...
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=3691 Mig ( talk) 17:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24989765.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-24989768.html Mig ( talk) 18:15, 26 October 2011 (UTC) Mig ( talk) 18:19, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanx so much for your comments -- here's a link to "anonymous (street meat)" if you're over 17-years of age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IVmVa8HzYE Cicero, Tiny Tullia Zoe & Colossal Cato the Younger Mig ( talk) 15:49, 19 October 2011 (UTC) |
All of this is uncomfortable stuff for me. But it bears remembering that I made scant contemporaneous comments precisely because I did not wish to be quoted making remarks that were personal or angry. But the other side could not do much but resort to personal and vindictive. To be fair, the editor here would have to put the good with the bad. Convicted swindler Bernie Madeoff probably also has a good side and did what he did for altruistic reasons, correct? To help people out? But for those who were taken in and lost everything, bad and abusive was/is bad and abusive. Mig ( talk) 13:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Yes. There's not much -- couldn't find the in chanbers record in which Letts makes his comment about "if you can get something for half, why would you pay full price?" in his and the network's defense of a program that was created to pay half of what the union stipulated in the MBA contract with the union's approval and in violation of said contract. So his position made little sense, since that was the point "if you can get something for half, why would you pay full price?" The argument was precisely about how half-pay undermined anyone getting full pay and -- apparently -- the judge didn't read the brief sufficiently, or understood the basics, or thought that the case was too unimportant to consider the implications to the "real" non-Hispanic writers (a point made by Vera in his letter to the Times) -- especially, in the face of the real serious big guns behind the program's defense which had been cloaked under the banner of "affirmative action." This, at a time when the stats on the empoyment of Hispanic professional writers were so low and embarrassing, they were being inflated artificially by the "altruism" of those who believed half-pay was all Hispanics could aspire to get, and would get, if at all. And they did want to force me into the program because I was the Founder and Chair of the Guild's Latino Writers Committee. In sum, the Hispanics' collective intellectual "inferiority" was rather hammered in by this judge who talked greatly in chambers about his golf game -- a conversation in which he engaged in numerous other cases, as the recpord shows Mig ( talk) 17:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Mig ( talk) 15:43, 10 November 2011 (UTC)Hi Clove -- here's the Huffington Post article -- I don't care about publicizing my family history -- although I'm proud of my family and it is contextual. I am stressed that some comments made about me in a wikipedia-related email (I thought it was email) called gendergap are googleable and the stubs quite damaging. I also made some comments, but never mentioned anyone's name or moniker and never said anything damaging -- but on both sides, everything is completely out of context. You know, Clove, I was trying to be informative about "anonymous (street meat)" mainly because of its implications about the banks. When I opened the page, I did it with my best intentions. This has turned into a nightmare for me. I'm glad the page is available to me as a user's page. But I'm afraid to touch it.
And the page on me in which you have worked over time lost some of the citations that I have provided here. There was never any tabloid information because since there was a pending class action, the other side was being careful, I presume. So I got just about all there was at the time -- the pros and the cons, so to speak. This is so that when you put the page together, you will be able to draw contemporaneous information. There are certain assumptions or comments made here that will make it difficult for me to get work if people continue to make them and repeat them and they become "truth." I am concerned about getting employed because I don't have anyone on whom to depend for a living. I work very hard and I'm an easy target for some in many ways, physical, as well as emotional. Self-promotion goes hand in hand with entertainment, but I'm hardly one of the Kardashians. I went back to school and it's been truly hard physically -- long commute -- having to put my "former" entertainment career aside so that teachers don't feel threatened by someone who has worked as a pratical matter more than some of them have. All that while battling the bank coming after me due to their own abusive nature (with laws in their favor and no oversight) and a series of unfortunate incidents completely outside of my control and completely ignored by the powers-that-be no matter how hard I tried. I thank you and , pleadse, feel free to get in contact with me regarding any matter contained herein in which I might be helpful or anything you feel like asking me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-cubias/are-the-banks-still-comin_b_1076388.html Regards, Mig ( talk) 15:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC) Mig ( talk) 15:43, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
BTW, Clove, would it be possible to remove the following (below) announcement from the page, since what is there I did not "extensively edited" The page is not even one full edit long to qualify for extensive. I have not done that even to correct erroneous or misleading information -- I know of no "institution" editing this. And you and I certainly do not know each other -- "This article is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject or an institution related to the subject. Please help edit it to conform to Wikipedia's neutral point of view, in line with the discussion on the talk page. (October 2011)" Thank you and kind regards, Mig ( talk) 15:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi -- the edit I did was to clarify or improve someone else's edit. I think I added a word or removed a word. But that was removed by someone else. Since I always request that someone see it, so it doesn't appears that I'm lurking, perhaps my intentions are misunderstood. Anyway -- the person who had edited that page a long time ago was Alarob and I did contact him in this instance to see if could edit it again properly, as references had disappeared. But I never heard back. Thanx for your response. I added a personalized "award" for cute and adorable diligence with a picture of my pups and don't know if the powers-that-be understood clearly that I own the photo and give Wikipedia the right to use. It's under Dogs called Cicero Schnauzer, Tullia-Zoe Schnauzer and Cato the Younger Schnauzer. Found it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cicero,_Tullia-Zoe_and_Cato_the_Younger.jpg
Gosh, the edits here and the contributions are getting progressively more difficult. Note: I'm almost finished shooting "Ninth Floor" and cut a one-minute edit for class. The whole edit will take a while --- a long while. Thank you so much, Cloveapple, for your efforts and kind regards, the pups await. Mig ( talk) 14:46, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Clove -- this is what I'm working on now http://vimeo.com/32418338 -- "Ninth Floor." I put this together for class in about 3 hours. Much work to be done, but most of the scenes are here and a thread of story -- I shot some footage at the rairoad tracks and also homeless bins and just ambience here and there in Highland Park, CA. Get a glimpse of the UCLA discarded purple paper on the floor at the very beginning. An editorial. Hahahahahahahahah!
I will also shoot ambiance with a Super 8. BTW, the deer just showed up. A nice visitor :)
I have not seen "Women on the Edge of Time" (Almodovar's "Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown?" I have seen that one), but I will check it out. Update: I did check it out. Gosh, I think it looks very interesting! Amazing coincidence! Kind regards, Mig ( talk) 21:39, 22 November 2011 (UTC) Mig ( talk) 19:20, 22 November 2011 (UTC)