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Subject: Streetwise (1984)
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Movies and Film
Asked by: diebad-ga
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Posted: 03 Jun 2004 11:00 PDT
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Question ID: 355976
What happened to the cast of the film Streetwise? Streetwise is a
documentary about homeless children in Seattle, and was directed by
Martin Bell. A friend told me there was an article about a cast member
in the Seattle Times or P.I. but I couldn't find it.
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Subject: Re: Streetwise (1984)
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 03 Jun 2004 17:51 PDT
 
I located an article in the Seattle Times dated December 23, 2003
where Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Bell?s wife tells us about Tiny.

?Mary Ellen Mark and her husband, documentary filmmaker Martin Bell,
were in town earlier this month to promote her latest photo book .

(..) 

But the main reason for the visit was to connect with "Tiny," aka Erin
Charles, a subject from her 1983 Life magazine photo essay
"Streetwise." Bell's documentary of his wife's project, also titled
"Streetwise," was nominated for an Academy Award. Mark has been
photographing Tiny ever since that project, capturing both the mundane
and milestone moments of her life.?

(..) 

?Today, Tiny is a 34-year-old married mother of eight living in
Federal Way. Mark's photographs of her trace the transformation of a
street-smart girl dreaming of owning "three yachts or more" to a woman
struggling to raise a family on a limited income.?

?When Tiny was younger, Mark and Bell offered to move her to New York
and put her in school. Still attached to her life on the edge and
completely disinterested in school, Tiny refused.?

?She spent her teens and 20s hanging out with her street friends,
quarreling with her mother, doing drugs, getting busted ? basically
throwing it all away, even as she continued to have children.?

?About four years ago, Tiny started to turn her life around. She got
married and quit drugs.?

"Her love of the streets is gone now ? she's like a suburban housewife," 

Read the full text at the Seattle Times Archives:
(Free registration) 

Source: Seattle Times
Focused on a life: Photographer uses camera as force for change 
By Tyrone Beason 
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=maryellenmark23&date=20031223&query=streetwise+%22MArtin+bell%22



Daily news
2004 Sundance Film Festival
January 15th?25th, 2004

 ?We are still in touch with the kids,? Mark said in a recent
interview with the Festival Daily News. ?I just came back from
Seattle, where I photographed the girl, who is now 34 years old with
eight children.?
 
Daily news
2004 Sundance Film Festival
http://festival.sundance.org/docs/daily/SFFDailyNewsDay2.pdf 

What happened to the others?

?You wonder what became of these young subjects after viewing the
film. Mary Ellen Mark still keeps in contact with Erin .Erin has 5
children and lives in a Seattle apartment. Ratt disappeared from
Seattle in late 1983,and hasn?t been seen since. Patty and Munchkin
broke up their relationship soon after the film was made. Munchkin is
a chef in a Seattle restaurant. Lulu was stabbed in a fight in 1985
while defending a friend. About 319 people attended her funeral, as
reported by CNN Headline News.?

?Just to let anyone interested know I went to the Mary Ellen Mark
website and she has pictures of Tiny and her family now, tiny is 30
and has 7 children (mostly all from different fathers) I was sent an
email that said mike (rats friend) now owns his own farm and is doing
well. That?s all I know, still curious as to what happened to patty,
shadow, rat and the rest of them if anyone knows please email me.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:trK59dlU0JAJ:www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JM83%3Fv%3Dglance%26vi%3Dcustomer-reviews+%22Martin+Bell%22+Streetwise+tiny&hl=en
OR
http://tinyurl.com/2puqo


Here are some photographs of Tiny with her children and mother Pat.


La Shawndrea, Daylon and Tiny, Seattle, Washington, 1989
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/212Y-068-009.jpg


Tiny in her tub, Seattle, Washiongton, 1999 
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/312N-039-011.jpg


La Shawndrea with Tiny crying, Seattle, Washington, 1999
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/312N-106-024.jpg


Tiny and her mother fighting, Seattle, Washington, 1999
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/312N-111-002.jpg


Keanna and La Shawndrea dressed up, Seattle, Washington, 1999
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/312N-174-003.jpg 


Pat and Rachel, Seattle, Washington, 1999
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/312N-113-015.jpg


Tiny and her mother, Pat, Seattle, Washington, 1993
http://www.maryellenmark.com/images/large/odyssey/404V-002-008.jpg

Comments about the film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088196/usercomments


There?s a great deal of information on Mary Ellen Mark?s website.

Essay 

?Mark has kept in touch with Blackwell, now the unmarried mother of
seven children, and has returned to Seattle repeatedly to photograph
her.?
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/mem55/mem55text001.html

Essay 

?During the filming of STREETWISE, for example, Tiny remained on the
streets, refusing legitimate job offers--even a film offer. Still
having a hard time, she lives, with her three children, on welfare.

Mark recognizes that Tiny's life is a tough one and feels a great
responsibility for her. Mark has kept in contact with the young woman,
visiting her in Seattle over the years. The photographer also receives
collect calls when Tiny is in jail or in other trouble. About making
provision, such as bail, for Tiny, Mark says: "I would never leave her
in a position where she's down and out...She's a very special kid.
She's extremely candid, and she gave us a lot. She really opened up
her life to us.?
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/25years/25text002b.html


1986 - LONDON SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/london_sunday_times/904G-000-019.html


Fall 1986
http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-062.html


In 1993 Tiny appeared in an interview on Nightline.

?One of the young people in the movie "Streetwise," the documentary
about Seattle street kids filmed nearly 10 years ago, will be
revisited tonight and tomorrow on ABC's "Nightline" (11:35 p.m.,
KOMO-TV, Channel 4). ?

?Ted Koppel interviews Erin Blackwell, a prostitute known as Tiny.
Blackwell reacts to her life as portrayed in film, video and still
photographs shot by Mary Ellen Mark, who was first assigned by Life
magazine to chronicle life on Seattle's streets in 1983. The next
year, Mark joined her husband, film director Martin Bell, to produce
"Streetwise."

?Over the years, Mark and Bell have kept in touch with Blackwell. She
was 14 when Mark first photographed her; today she is 24 and still
struggling.?

Thursday, September 16, 1993 : Entertainment & the Arts 
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1721298&date=19930916&query=streetwise+%22MArtin+bell%22



Search criteria: 
?Martin Bell? Streetwise 
?Martin Bell? Streetwise Tiny
?Mary Ellen Mark? Tiny
?Mary Ellen Mark? +Streetwise
?Mary Ellen Mark? +Streetwise +Tiny


I hope you find this helpful! 

Best regards,
Bobbie7
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