by Sam Juliano
The final-stage editing on Irish Jesus of Fairview continues, with a potential late-May publishing date within reach. Meanwhile, I have resumed writing Roses for Saoirse.
This past week, Jim Clark published a superlative essay on Jerzy Skolimowski’s masterful EO.
Lucille and I watched two recent films via streaming this past week. Neither gets top grades, but both were moderately entertaining. The techno thriller Missing was the better of the two, though the comedic thriller Cocaine Bear had its moments. I am rating both 3.5 of 5.0.
On Friday Lucille is scheduled for her lower spine procedure. Though anticipation is that all will be well, the operation is likely to sideline her from school from four to six weeks.
Wishing everyone a great week. Spring is now officially with us.
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Sam, you and Lucille enjoy a wonderful and successful creative life together! And both of you also address health challenges that can be stressful but the eventual outcome will be the reward. We will be cheering Team Juliano on for an excellent result.
Thanks for posting Sam, Jim and Valerie
Jim, many thanks over to you and Valerie for those beautiful words!!! Yes, as you say, the outcome will be the reward indeed! Thank you for the cherring in her behalf!!!!
From Texas, Pam and I wish Lucille the best on her upcoming procedure. She (and your whole family) will certainly be in our thoughts!
Thank you so very much my treasured Texan namesake! I will convey those beautiful words from you and Pam to Lucille and the family!!
Have you ever seen “Grizzly,” Sam?
It’s a 1970s “Jaws” knockoff with a preposterously big bear (“18 feet of towering fury!”) instead of a Great White. The movie is just amateurish and dumb enough to be amusing for a one-time look-see. With the excellent Richard Jaeckel.
Will be thinking of Lucille on Friday.
I was just thinking. Between 1986 and 1988 Bette Midler made Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune, and Big Business, a brilliant run of raucous comedies, and she never received a nomination. The Academy really does regard comedy as an inferior art.
Midler was, however, nominated in 1992 for the sentimental For the Boys with James Caan.