Talk:Raúl Juliá/Archive 1

Archive 1

Jewish?

I've reverted recent edits [1] [2] claiming Raúl Juliá's parent's were Jewish and that he was Jewish. I've tried to verify this but haven't found any sources supporting it, and it more or less contradicts cited statements in the article saying he was Catholic. If there are sources supporting this, please say what they are. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:59, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Illness, death & cancer

Why is there no mention of the fact that he had cancer? His stomach cancer played a large role in the last weeks of life and I find it a bit odd that any mention of it has been removed. A few months ago I remember reading this article and it listed several details about it. Think it should be included again, this is a bio about him after all. Coinmanj (talk) 03:34, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Raul Julia's sister confirmed that he had stomach cancer on the recently released PBS documentary "American Masters: Raúl Juliá: The World's a Stage". Fellow actor and costar Esai Morales mentions that on his last film shoot, Julia has some sort of "box" attached to his abdomen for some type of treatment. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 14:14, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

In the documentary, "American Masters: Raúl Juliá: The World's a Stage", Esai Morales and friend Raúl Juliá hugged on the set of their film, "The Burning Season". Morales felt an object under Juliá's shirt and began by calling it "a box" and ended by calling it "a pump". Chemotherapy drugs were frequently administered that way, though many treatments are changing these days. Thank you for your time, 173.3.61.241 (talk) 02:54, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Puerto Rican Descent

The article states Raúl was born in Puerto Rico of puerto rican parents. The statement "was an actor of Puerto Rican decent." is missleading for he was puerto rican. The statement that Raúl "was an actor of Puerto Rican decent." leads you to believe he was not linked to Puerto Rico but through his ascendants but Raúl was born on the island, from parents also born on the island, spanish was his mother tongue and puerto rican his culture. Actor Lorne Greeene for example was a canadian actor of russian jewish descent, not russian himself but of russian descent. Another case would be actor Beau Bridges, born in california son of Lloyd Bridges also born in California. In that case it doesn't say: "Beau Bridges is an actor of californian descent", Bridges is californian not of californian descent same as Juliá, puerto rican not of puerto rican descent. Laraweb (talk) 22:08, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Just plain Raul Julia

He used to be discussed and credited as regular unaccented American actor Raul Julia, Rowl JEW-lee-a, at times, and the article should simply acknowledge that at some point.
Decades ago, he was more likely to insist on an accented Raúl than other Latin actors, but it was not every time.
And although I have read the discussion above, this "Juliá" thing is just plain freaky-lookin'.
Varlaam (talk) 16:27, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Way up top, it is noted that Juliá is not Castilian, but Catalan. That should satisfy any concerned Spanish speakers. Varlaam (talk)

Thank you! It speaks of blatant disregard for Iberic and Latin American culture to insist on the fact that modern Spanish and Portuguese naming rules still apply worldwide - if they have ever. There are tons of regional variants for almost every personal and family name due to the millenia-old history of migration of these two people. Any linguistics degree is worthless, if you do not have a historic insight into matters. Very sad story of cultural bias up there. -- 92.231.36.88 (talk) 09:05, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

If it is Catalan, the surname should be written as "Julià".--Escorxador (talk) 22:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

signature in infobox

Can his signature be added to the infobox? --the eloquent peasant (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)  Done

Illness and death

The entire section is convoluted and unintelligible. It reads as if the food poisoning had any impact on his condition months later. His weight loss and October 16 hospitalization were due to his progressing cancer. "stroke" is not a medical diagnosis, it is either a hemorrhage or ischemia, and given his overall condition I would assume the latter, but that is speculation. In a section about his medical condition the films he worked on is just distracting. Anyways, the chaotic section needs a thorough rewrite. ♆ CUSH ♆ 08:05, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

@Cush: Hi. Last week, I did an online purchase of his biography (and am waiting for its arrival in the suddenly very slow USPS mail). I also am curious and will update this section, if the book addresses it- which it should. And anyway, don't you find that's a lot of detail about someone's death. I don't think most biography articles go into so much detail on that aspect of a person's life. Thank you. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:39, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

@Cush: I'm not sure if you're following this so I ping you. I updated the article sections and your criticsm here was on the money. Thank you. Cheers!--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 15:42, 10 October 2020 (UTC)