The Illustrious Career of HBO Impressario Anne Thomopoulos
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S O C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GrEEk-AmEriCAN PuBliCATiON 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 972 May 28 - June 3, 2016 c v $1.50 The Illustrious Career Greece to Get a Third Bailout – 11 Million Euros Of HBO Impressario Tsipras Agrees to Demands for More Anne Thomopoulos Taxes and Austerity By Vasilis Papoutsis keeping the same salary, with TNH Staff the understanding that if she LOS ANGELES, CA - Anne Tho - was successful she would retain ATHENS – Greece’s European mopoulos is a prolific television the position. She remained lenders are ready to reward and film producer. As Senior there until HBO knocked on her Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Vice President of HBO, she was door. Thomopoulos was brought with 11 billion euros from a instrumental in the develop - in to establish a dramatic series third bailout in return for reneg - ment of Emmy and Golden department and she created the ing on anti-austerity promises. Globe-winning series From the popular and critically acclaimed Tsipras, the Radical Left Earth to the Moon and Band of series Oz. SYRIZA leader, came to power Brothers among others. With a budget rivaling that last year on the back of promises She is the daughter of Tony of the motion picture industry to reverse pay cuts, tax hikes, Thomopoulos, the former Pres - but without the content con - slashed pensions, worker firings ident of ABC Broadcast Group, straints of conventional broad - and privatizations but agreed to and a graduate of Georgetown cast television, HBO became the implement more, completing his University. place filmmakers wanted to be. surrender to the creditors. THE ROAD TO HBO MAXING MINIS The Quartet of the European Thomopoulos began her ca - Then came another highly Union-International Monetary reer at Witt/Thomas/Harris Pro - acclaimed production, the Fund-European Central Bank- ductions, which produced 25 miniseries From the Earth to the European Stability Mechanism American primetime television Moon. “Tom Hanks pitched it to (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM) last year ap - series, mostly sitcoms. She then us right after Apollo 13 and we proved a rescue package of 86 worked for Michael J. Fox' Pro - loved it, Thomopoulos told billion euros ($96.44 billion) duction company in charge of TNH. “It was a great story and but has withheld most of it until development. When the presi - we approached it like a feature Tsipras rammed more austerity, dent of the company resigned, film.” including pension cuts, through Thomopoulos offered to take The cost was $68 million and EurOkiNiSSi Parliament. over the position temporarily, traced the history of the Ameri - Tsipras-Bartholomew Meet at the UN’s World Humanitarian Summit The new monies are ready to can space program from its in - be disbursed, the Bloomberg ception to the Apollo 17 moon Greek PM Alexis Tsipras traveled to Constantinople on Sunday, in order to attend the UN’s World news agency reported but will landing. It won an Emmy for Humanitarian Summit. On the sidelines of the UN summit meeting, Tsipras met with Archbishop be used mostly to repay the Outstanding Miniseries and Bartholomew and discussed the Greek minority and reoperation of the Theological School of Chalki. same lenders providing the res - helped spur HBO into historical cue package and 240 billion eu - miniseries dominance. ros ($269.12 billion) in two pre - The story about the making vious bailouts. of Band of Brothers has an in - The funds will be used to teresting twist. Thomopoulos Run Alexei Run! Write Alexei Write! clear arrears and to cover debt had read an article in the Los servicing needs, including a 2.3 Angeles Times about another billion-euro ($2.58 billion) to book by the same author, the TNH Staff Tweets poetry about her work - moral to this story and yet there the ECB in July, according to a eminent historian Stephen Am - outs, writes poetry and a is a finish line. draft of the European Commis - brose, titled Citizen Soldiers, She’s as far from a self-ab - monthly poetry column for “I didn’t start it, by the way,” sion’s compliance report for the and she was in the process of sorbed professional athlete as Women’s Running magazine, es - she said of the interest in her Greek economic program seen inquiring about film rights. Tom you can imagine and that’s the says, a play, a film and will ap - hairstyle. “A high school team in by Bloomberg. Hanks who was in the 1998 allure of Alexei Pappas, 26, of pear in a semi-autobiographical Oregon had tweeted me a pic - Of the 11 billion euros Academy Award winning film Eugene, OR: a world-class 5,000 movie, Tracktown at the Los An - ture of all of them wearing the Athens may receive, 7.2 billion Saving Private Ryan had already and 10,000-meter runner who geles Film Festival on June 4. ‘Alexi Bun.’ I retweeted it. It took euros will go towards covering secured the rights to Band of will compete for Greece in the She’s only among the seven off from there,” she told The debt servicing costs and the re - Brothers and the switch to an - Olympics but is adored just as best American women runners Times. maining 3.8 billion euros will other award-winning miniseries much by her young fans for her at her distance yet the most rec - Her grandmother was born in be used to reduce state arrears, was made. unconventional and literate life ognizable for a personality so al - Greece, earning Pappas dual cit - leaving nothing for a Greek so - FRENCH CONNECTION – along with the “Alexi bun” on luring it was the subject of a fea - izenship, her celebrity making it ciety hammered by big pay cuts, Thomopoulos' dual citizen - the back of her hair. ture in the New York Times by a lot easier likelier than for other tax hikes, slashed pensions and Anne Thomopoulos is respon - ship, American and French, has She’s a track star with rock writer Sam McManis, rhapsodiz - Greeks of the Diaspora who find worker firings. sible for many of HBO’s highly star appeal, an athlete who ing her life’s bio-rhythms and acclaimed hit series. Continued on page 5 quotes Faulkner from memory, running for space and time, no Continued on page 6 Continued on page 11 Former Priest Metropoulos, Onassis Center Presents Greek Gods & Mortals In Jail for Sexual Abuse, is TNH Staff The Onassis Cultural Center Now Being Sued by Victim (OCC) presents Gods and Mor - tals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus at its galleries at TNH Staff tenced to 12 years in prison, is the Olympic Tower, 645 Fifth now being sued by the victim, Avenue. This extraordinary ex - BANGOR, ME – Adam the Bangor Daily News re - hibition which opened on March Metropoulos, a 53-year-old for - ported. 24 and runs through June 18, mer Greek Orthodox Priest, who The name of the plaintiff, is free and open to the public. in March was convicted on four now 24, is not being released Ancient artifacts the result of felony counts of sexual abuse of publicly because he was the vic - finds during four decades of ex - a minor, and in April was sen - tim of sexual abuse, the News cavations in the ancient city of reported. The lawsuit also Dion are on display in the base - names as co-defendants ment galleries of the OCC. Lo - Metropoulos’ supervisors and cated on the lower slopes of the Greek-American community Mount Olympus, Dion flour - Evening of in Bangor, although it does not ished with Macedonian king specifically name St. George Archelaus I, great-grandfather Greek Orthodox Church, where of Alexander the Great, as its Food, Film Metropoulos served. ruler. The exhibition was orga - The victim claimed to have nized by curator Dr. Dimitrios sustained severe and permanent Pandermalis, President of the At NYAC physical injury, emotional dis - new Acropolis Museum in tress, mental anguish and future Athens and Director of Excava - and past medical expenses be - tions at Dion on Mount Olym - By Eleni Sakellis cause of Metropoulos’ sexual pus and Professor of Archaeol - abuse, which occurred in 2006 ogy at the Aristotle University Aliana Productions presented and 2007, and he claimed, the of Thessaloniki. a Spring Soiree, An Evening of News reported, that the Boston The variety, nature, and qual - Fine Food & Film at the New Metropolis, its leader Metropol - The artifacts on display at the Gods and Mortals exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center on York Athletic Club (NYAC), on itan Methodios, the Greek Or - Continued on page 4 Fifth Avenue represent over 40 years of excavation finds. May 23. The event began with thodox Archdiocese of America, a reception and tasting of sig - and the Greek Orthodox com - nature dishes from Eataly, The munity in Bangor were negli - Spotted Pig, Breslin, Loi Estia - gent in their supervision of torio, Molyvos, Sarabeth's, We - Metropoulos. Philoptochos Spring Luncheon a Big Success instock Cakes, and Billy's Cup - The Boston Metropolis re - cakes. A flavorful taste of moved Metropoulos from his octopus was on the menu at the position the day following his By Fotis Papagermanos the work they do. Vasilis Philip - America’s role on the world Loi table, presented in charming arrest. pou, Consul General of the Re - map. tasting spoons for guests to en - Metropolitan Methodios did NEW YORK – Eleni Kounalakis, public of Cyprus, also praised She went on to discuss her joy.