According To Whom?
Juliane Hiam is a playwright, screenwriter and director. She wrote and directed the feature film DEAD SILENCE that starred Danny Aiello, Sally Kirkland, Maureen Stapleton and the uber talented ingénue Shanee Edwards. The film won Juliane AMC Theater’s Best Screenplay Award, Las Vegas Film Festival’s Best New Director and Best Film. Ms. Edwards received the Best Actress Award at HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Juliane made the film when she was 21 years old.

Subsequently, she had her first play produced in the Berkshires by Shakespeare and Company. The play, called “A Tanglewood Tale”, is the story of the intense friendship between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne during the year 1850-1851. “A Tanglewood Tale” sold out nearly all of 21 performances and had a special reading recently at the 200th Birthday Celebration of Nathaniel Hawthorne at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall by Marisa Tomei and Jane Fonda.

Her play, “Mrs. Pringle’s Porch”, an adaptation of Hawthorne’s “A Wonder Book” was produced, also by Shakespeare and Company, this past summer.

Juliane has written several screenplays for German producer Artur Brauner (Europa, Europa), including an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “The Genius and the Goddess”. She is currently working on a new play, and also working on her first novel.

Jacuzzi, her alter-ego and long-time nickname, first appeared in the pages of the Berkshire Eagle about five years ago when Juliane was writing some feature stories and out of boredom, created a fictional character. Jacuzzi, and her fictional handyman Ben, his great Aunt Jerusha, and others, continued to appear in her feature stories and became popular among readers. A few years later, Juliane convinced editor David Scribner, a.k.a. Scribby (check out his site scribbyworld) to give Jacuzzi her own weekly column, “The World According to Jacuzzi.” The column was rated number one in the paper, and was picked up by other newspapers in southern California including the Daily News Los Angeles. Juliane took time off from her print column to have her third child and now writes the column here at bimbopolitics.com. You are one of about 80,000 monthly readers. Yay!

Drop Juliane a line at jacooz@bimbopolitics.com. She loves your feedback.

2/9/2006
Great new site, Juliane!

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2/17/2006
I ordered Dead silence and it is another pic with James GarnerMarlee matlin and Lolita Davidovich from HBO Films! The names the same?

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2/17/2006
I do believe there are more than one film with that hideous title (sorry, but it wasn't what I originally called it. "Renata of Wilbur Falls" was the original title. I've always thought "Dead Silence" was unfortunate. At any rate, google "Dead Silence Juliane Glantz" and I think you'll find the right one.

-Jacooz

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