#dukakis

Some pictures I found on gettyimages the other day. Him having to accept the Golden Globe he was nominated for himself on behalf of Murray aways breaks my heart a little even though he gave such a lovely speech.

Plus, I‘m always here for Tom with a beard. Plus, if you zoom in really close (as I always do), you can see that he‘s wearing a Dukakis button here *.* I don‘t know why, but knowing he was unabashedly a Democrat in Reagan‘s America gave me butterflies.

Thought our little community might understand my musings…

Oscar-winning actor Olympia Dukakis passed away on May 1, aged 89. The celebrated Greek-American actress performed in over 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and dozens of television series during a long and distinguished career in the US.

Born during the Great Depression in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1931 to Greek immigrants Alexandra and Constantine, the young Dukakis endured the struggles and the discrimination against Greeks from an early age. In an interview with Giorgos Tsiros for Costa Navarino Magazine in 2015, she elaborated on her childhood memories:

“Our parents fought in the mills and we, the children, fought in the streets. What were we fighting about? I am Greek, you’re Italian, you’re German. By the time I was 13 I had my own knife. Did I use it? No, but people had to know you had a knife, otherwise they would make fun of my name, my nose, my food; they would make fun of my parents. I fought not to let the others make fun of my identity, besmirch it (…).”

Although she majored in physical therapy at Boston University and treated polio patients, she later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in performing arts. In 1961, she embarked on an acting career in productions around Massachusetts. Her talent and her grace were soon discovered and in 1963, her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht’s “Man Equals Man” earned her an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance.

After she met her husband, Louis Zorich, the son of Serb immigrants from Croatia, they established the Whole Theater Company, where she served as producer, director and artistic director. Over the course of nearly two decades, the company produced a wide range of plays, including the works of Euripides, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, and others.

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