40 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LARRY JAMES GIANAKOS CO-FOUNDER The Gianakos-Safos Collection Warren, OH Larry James Gianakos has been in the vanguard of historical research, in his youth publishing a six-volume set titled “Television Drama Series Programming: A Comprehensive Chronicle,” a classic reference for which he has been called “the premiere chronicler of video drama in the United States.” He wrote on the history of vintage video for national telecommunications journals. He was solicited by Sonny Fox Productions in Los Angeles in 1981 to help promote their series “The Golden Age of Television.” Mr. Gianakos became a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Cleveland chapter in 1991, attending prime-time Emmy ceremonies of ATAS in 1993 and 1994. Seated between veteran actors Marvin Kaplan and the Emmy-winning Peggy McCay, then representing AFTRA, a conversation ensued regarding the restoration of live theatre in his northeast Ohio, resulting in “Curtain Calls Productions,” having had a brief run from 1993 to 1996. Joining Mr. Kaplan and Ms. McCay would be Joseph Mascolo, Peggy’s co-star in “Days,” and Hollywood-based composer Richard Loring, as national advisory members. In 1996, Mr. Gianakos became a member of “The Players,” the celebrated theatre organization established by preeminent American Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, at his four-story brownstone in Gramercy Park, Manhattan, in 1888. He was elevated to the status of lifetime member in 2012. In 2008, he was commissioned by the Archive of the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences via Koch Productions to compose liner notes for the 52-page booklet for their premiere release. The multi-disk set “Studio One Anthology” the Huffington Post would call “the best DVD boxed set of the year,” he lectured through Barnes and Noble bookstores and created the Internet blog “The Resurrection of an Era” at https:// larryjamesgianakos.blogspot.com/. The singular passion of Mr. Gianakos’ lifetime has been the acquisition of, and systematic documentation of, Pulitzer Prize literature in particular, America’s highest literary distinction since its evolution in 1916. Gathering first editions when just 19, the collection swelled to
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