41 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT Recently, Mr. Gianakos was designated an “Emissary of Light” for The Alavina Foundation, established as a national nonprofit in 2018 and became a co-founder of the nonprofit The Alexandrian Academy, seeking to advance the homoiousian themes of global enculturation of Alexander the Great himself in the modern world. Mr. Gianakos remains of the belief that “there is a majesty to ‘Living in Literature,’ as it bridges dislocation and even disappropriation. Indeed, I have never really lived anywhere else.” epic proportions when in 2008 he joined with his lifelong friend, regional Attorney Robert P. Safos, elevating the collection stratospherically. Today, the Gianakos-Safos Collection of Pulitzer Prize Literature, with some 4,600 axiomatic copies, is considered the finest in the world, called by James Cahill of Quintessential Rare Books, a leading authority on first editions, as being an “Absolutely fabulous collection; that’s all I can say, probably the best in the country… Truly, a work of art collection that museums don’t even have.” A website was established regarding the collection at www.gianakossafos.com. With a design to prepare a narrative film on the extraordinary educational aspects of having assembled this now definitive collection, it would come to the attention of the Bristol, Englandbased MarbleMen productions, founded by the highly cultivated London-born Nikkos J. Frangos and his cousin and mentor George T. Lemos, the heirs to Greek shipping magnates. Mr. Gianakos would come to call Mr. Frangos a “Renaissance Man,” and likewise label Mr. Lemos as an “ArtistSoul.” Aware that the centenary year of the Pulitzers was fast approaching, MarbleMen would put up the capital to executive produce the documentary “The Pulitzer at 100,” as directed and produced by Oscar and Emmy-winner Kirk Simon, in conjunction with his brother Chevalier Ron Simon, the longtime television curator of Manhattan’s Paley Center for Media, whom Mr. Gianakos had known from the late 1970s. First screened theatrically in Manhattan in 2017, and later released via the STARZ cable network, “The Pulitzer at 100,” featuring readings and interviews with several Pulitzer laureates and Hollywood Oscar winners, remains the only feature-length documentary on the Pulitzer’s centenary celebration. Its website also notes the books of The Gianakos-Safos Collection at www.thepulitzerat100.com.
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