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Geoffrey Giuliano
Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11, 1953) is an American actor and author.
Giuliano was born on September 11, 1953, in Rochester, New York. He moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family when he was 12 years old, where he graduated from Plant High School and Hillsborough Community College. He later attended and graduated from SUNY Brockport.
Giuliano has written extensively on popular music, particularly the Beatles. By 1999, he had authored 20 books, including Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison (1990) and Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney (1991).
In an interview for The Guardian in September 1992, Giuliano referred to the Beatles as "real shits in real life" and dismissed Paul McCartney as "just shallow and vacuous". On October 5 that year, George Harrison's wife, Olivia Harrison responded, writing, "like a starving dog he [Giuliano] scavenges his heroes, picking up bits of gristle and sinew along the way." She also complained about Giuliano's use of a quote by Harrison on the cover of Dark Horse, saying: "My husband once made the remark: 'That guy knows more about my life than I do.' Giuliano missed the joke and used it to endorse his book." When interviewed in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, Harrison said of Giuliano: "Yeah, I met him briefly. I have no way of recalling what year it was. I met him at the home of "Legs" Larry Smith for possibly thirty minutes."
Giuliano's biography of John Lennon, Lennon in America: 1971–1980 (Cooper Square Press, 2000), was similarly controversial. Giuliano said the book was based in part on transcripts of Lennon's diaries given to him by the late American singer Harry Nilsson and on audio tapes recorded by Lennon. Several people close to Nilsson said they did not believe that he ever had the transcripts in his possession; others familiar with the journal and the tapes disputed the accuracy of Giuliano's interpretation. Writing in The Washington Post, David Segal described Giuliano's text as "a highly critical, luridly detailed account"; he quoted Giuliano's response when he was asked to corroborate his claim that Nilsson gave him the diaries: "It's obvious that I'm going to do things in an ethical manner." Steven Gutstein, a former New York assistant district attorney who read the diaries during an early 1980s larceny lawsuit, recalled that they contained "a lot of philosophical musings combined with mundane details of everyday life". Colin Carlson of Library Journal said of Lennon in America, "Non-fans will be put off by this image of Lennon as cad, drug addict, and paranoiac; this often sensationalized account is for voyeurs and fans with deconstructive tendencies and is one of the best, most detailed books available on this subject." Less impressed, a Publishers Weekly reviewer commented, "If Giuliano's own double-talk isn't enough to diminish this work's credibility, his endless, voyeuristic descriptions of Lennon's sexual encounters are."
The 2005 film Stoned: The Wild & Wicked World of Brian Jones was partly based on Guiliano's book Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones (1994).
In December 2021, he wrote an audio book detailing his experiences acting in the 2021 South Korean series Squid Game, where he played "VIP #4". The book was titled Surviving Squid Game, I Am VIP 4.
As a teenager, Giuliano joined the Tampa Community Theater, starring in productions of Streetcar Named Desire and Macbeth.
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Geoffrey Giuliano
Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11, 1953) is an American actor and author.
Giuliano was born on September 11, 1953, in Rochester, New York. He moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family when he was 12 years old, where he graduated from Plant High School and Hillsborough Community College. He later attended and graduated from SUNY Brockport.
Giuliano has written extensively on popular music, particularly the Beatles. By 1999, he had authored 20 books, including Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison (1990) and Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney (1991).
In an interview for The Guardian in September 1992, Giuliano referred to the Beatles as "real shits in real life" and dismissed Paul McCartney as "just shallow and vacuous". On October 5 that year, George Harrison's wife, Olivia Harrison responded, writing, "like a starving dog he [Giuliano] scavenges his heroes, picking up bits of gristle and sinew along the way." She also complained about Giuliano's use of a quote by Harrison on the cover of Dark Horse, saying: "My husband once made the remark: 'That guy knows more about my life than I do.' Giuliano missed the joke and used it to endorse his book." When interviewed in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, Harrison said of Giuliano: "Yeah, I met him briefly. I have no way of recalling what year it was. I met him at the home of "Legs" Larry Smith for possibly thirty minutes."
Giuliano's biography of John Lennon, Lennon in America: 1971–1980 (Cooper Square Press, 2000), was similarly controversial. Giuliano said the book was based in part on transcripts of Lennon's diaries given to him by the late American singer Harry Nilsson and on audio tapes recorded by Lennon. Several people close to Nilsson said they did not believe that he ever had the transcripts in his possession; others familiar with the journal and the tapes disputed the accuracy of Giuliano's interpretation. Writing in The Washington Post, David Segal described Giuliano's text as "a highly critical, luridly detailed account"; he quoted Giuliano's response when he was asked to corroborate his claim that Nilsson gave him the diaries: "It's obvious that I'm going to do things in an ethical manner." Steven Gutstein, a former New York assistant district attorney who read the diaries during an early 1980s larceny lawsuit, recalled that they contained "a lot of philosophical musings combined with mundane details of everyday life". Colin Carlson of Library Journal said of Lennon in America, "Non-fans will be put off by this image of Lennon as cad, drug addict, and paranoiac; this often sensationalized account is for voyeurs and fans with deconstructive tendencies and is one of the best, most detailed books available on this subject." Less impressed, a Publishers Weekly reviewer commented, "If Giuliano's own double-talk isn't enough to diminish this work's credibility, his endless, voyeuristic descriptions of Lennon's sexual encounters are."
The 2005 film Stoned: The Wild & Wicked World of Brian Jones was partly based on Guiliano's book Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones (1994).
In December 2021, he wrote an audio book detailing his experiences acting in the 2021 South Korean series Squid Game, where he played "VIP #4". The book was titled Surviving Squid Game, I Am VIP 4.
As a teenager, Giuliano joined the Tampa Community Theater, starring in productions of Streetcar Named Desire and Macbeth.