Posting this for absolute verification!! I am co-founder and editor of the site.
-Sam
March 31, 2019 by wondersinthedark
Posting this for absolute verification!! I am co-founder and editor of the site.
-Sam
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"Juliano vividly evokes this apparent paradise on earth, even as he touchingly reminds us how fleeting it is and how hard a fall from grace can be" ![]() |
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Sam, was there ever a question? The internet can be crazy. I always loved this review which is moving and one of your very best!
Ha Ricky! Well today at Pinside.com, a site for pinball machine aficionados (another of my hobbies) a poster implied that the Willy Wonka review I wrote may have been fraudulently linked. He was apparently convinced for some reason that “farfromheaven26), my pinside identity was not really Sam Juliano. I had to prove that I am Sam and I wrote that review. Thank you my friend!
Sad that you have to go through that kind of questioning Sam. In your vast archive of film, theater, music and book reviews dating back over a dozen years, I always considered your Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory review as one of my favorites. That back story of directing the play and meeting up with your soulmate alone is priceless.
Frank, I really do appreciate that greatly. Thank you my friend!!!! Yet the back story of the review of course is dearest to my heart and to Lucille’s of course.
I am also a REAL Sam Juliano but I did not write the “Willy Wonka” review. And I like the other REAL Sam Juliano who DID write the “Willy Wonka” review and I follow and enjoy his reviews on WondersInTheDark!
Ah my southern namesake again. You are from Texas is that right Sam? I appreciate your support and very kind words and timely appearance on this post!! Trust all is well. One day I hope we’ll meet up!!!
Sam, I do indeed “live in Texas”, but I don’t claim Texas politics! I’m actually more of a New Yorker politics-wise, but alas, Austin was where the work brought me (electrical engineer) many years ago. When I first ran across your “The Last Picture Show” commentary and I saw *my* name, my immediate reaction was “when did I write this?” For a few seconds there I really thought it was something I had written and lost track of. But when I realized the literacy level of the commentary was far above my best work, I had to accept that maybe I had a doppelganger out there somewhere, at least name-wise. I confess that I’ve forwarded some of your reviews to friends to impress them, but eventually have to come clean when they say things like “wow, I didn’t know you could write like this.” You give our name a good name! PS. If I could attach a picture, it would be of my 1972 Allied Leisure Industries “Sea Hunt” Shaker-Ball pinball machine that has lived with me since UT-Austin days in the early 70s. Or my 1961 Continental 2 “Stereo Round” jukebox, or my Bally and Columbia slot machines… I’m a coin-op nut, with a particular soft spot for relay/mechanical pinballs! My best to you!