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Film star Danny Trejo about his own fight addiction in a new service announcement encouraging those with drugs and to seek help. Trejo, 76 offers words support in the minutelong video, which supports the CRIHelp treatment facility in Los Angeles. “From the first time I used, I thought it was a party,” Trejo says in the clip. “More booze. More dope. Just more. But then I got tired of running from my problems.”

Trejo goes on to say, “When you fall down, get back up. I know you’re tired down. The program saved my life.” The tough-guy actor, an ex-con whose films include the “Machete” movies and “Desperado,” has been sober for 52 years.

Valle, a Brooklyn-bred director, actress, author and producer. Not only was her film “Princess Cut” one of three finalists selected to air on HBO and HBO Max next year for the premium channel’s annual 2020 Latinx Short Film Competition, she also got a pilot greenlighted at

CBS.

“Princess Cut,” a drama about two women who strike an unlikely friendship in an all-night laundromat that leads to a dark conclusion, joins shorts by Manhattan native Jeanette Dilone (“Rizo”) and Emil Gallardo’s “1, 2, 3, All Eyes on Me” in the annual showcase that stresses diversity behind the camera.

Del Valle is also writer and co-producer of “The System,” currently in development at CBS with actress Andrea (”Jane the Virgin”) serving as producer and lead.

The New York area lost two icons his h month. On Dec.1, Puerto Rican poet and a playwright Miguel Algarín (photo, .), who founded the groundbreaking Nuyorican Poets Café out of his Lower East Side apartment before moving it to its longtime home to a pub on E. 3rd St., died at 79 of undisclosed causes.

Algarín’s work, and the space he created, inspired and guided generations of artists who performed everything from slam poetry to Latin jazz. When he wasn’t mentoring artists, or stringing profound words together, Algarín was a professor at Rutgers University for more than 30 years.

Algarín received three American Book Awards. In 2001 he was portrayed by actor Giancarlo Esposito in the 2001 Miguel Piñero biopic.

And on Dec. 13, Edgardo del Villar, a popular Telemundo anchor, died at 51 following a two-year battle with brain cancer. The broadcaster, who began working for WNJU in

2017, was part of the channel’s 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts.

“Edgardo del Villar was a talented journalist and gifted storyteller with a smile that lit up the screen,” the station’s president, Cristina Schwarz, said in a statement.

“We stood in awe as he fought an incurable disease with remarkable resolve; pushing himself to the limits, returning to the air throughout his treatment and remaining positive and upbeat through it all,” Schwarz continued. “He was our inspiration and we loved him.”