Zorba the Greek Message Board
Nick Cairis posts a message on 7/2/2012 10:46:53 AM
Hah! I´ve been asking myself that question for years......
I worked as a screenwriter for a time and have a wonderful reworked script circa 1980´s.
Everyone can learn from such a character the basics of life and living....
mark hanna posts a message on 7/2/2012 10:11:11 AM
Why hasn´t anyone done a remake of this fabulous character with his down to earth philosophy?
nick Cairis posts a message on 12/20/2007 12:10:28 AM
Yea, that's gotta be me!
They waived reform school for me on the promise that my mother take me out of the sate to go live with my uncle in New York...
I think I actually remember. I really remember that round black iron stove and the wood Mikhali would chuck in in the back room, do you?
bill vanarthos posts a message on 12/19/2007 10:11:25 PM
ATT "CARIS"I WAS LOOKING AROUND THE NET WHEN I NOTICED MY BROTHER GEORGE TALKING ABOUTR MY GRANDFATHER PAPOU MIKE AND A LONG LOST TEEN CRIMINAL COUSIN ANSWERING. COULD THIS BE THAT CRAZED GUY WHO TOUGHT US TO BALISTICALLY CATAPALT OUR TOYS AT EACH OTHER? ALSO AN ACTOR BILL
bill vanarthos posts a message on 12/19/2007 10:11:11 PM
ATT "CARIS"I WAS LOOKING AROUND THE NET WHEN I NOTICED MY BROTHER GEORGE TALKING ABOUTR MY GRANDFATHER PAPOU MIKE AND A LONG LOST TEEN CRIMINAL COUSIN ANSWERING. COULD THIS BE THAT CRAZED GUY WHO TOUGHT US TO BALISTICALLY CATAPALT OUR TOYS AT EACH OTHER? ALSO AN ACTOR BILL
nick Cairis posts a message on 2/2/2006 10:34:52 AM
To all Greeks who have the spirit of Kazantakis' Zorba character in their makeup: "Elatha pote then petheni"
nick Cairis posts a message on 1/23/2006 8:49:08 PM
Dear George,
Here is the family tree going back a few generations. Great grandfather Mikhalis Kairis from Constantinople. Settled on Leros, Dodecanese Islands. He had two sons: Zani and Nikolas. Nikolas eldest son was Mikhalis. Then there was Loukas died two years after birth; Emmanuel (my father) Leonidas who lost a leg during WWII, Vasilis and Maria. Mikhalis jumped ship to Canada and came down to New York. I was at the house on Rockaway Blvd. my sister and I when very young and Yolanda was there. Yolanda was Mikhalis first daughter with his first wife whom he brought from France. Both died on Leros. Yolanda had no children,and died 6 months after her husband from grief (true love) she was light haired and had blue eyes. My mother and I stayed some months at the house as I was kind of a juvenile delinquent at the time. That was in 1964-65. I am an actor. In fact I worked today on the film "Stiffs" with Danny Aiello. I played a mobster killer in a flashback scene. Mikhali was in a movie and maybe you have the still shot of him? It was a Canadian film by a Greek director. I remember it...
Mikhali and my father did not talk for some years, but I do not know why. The Kairis are kind of crazy.
Let me know if you want to know any more? And stay in touch!
Nikolas
George Vanarthos posts a message on 1/23/2006 2:16:21 PM
Mabel was my grandmother. Amazing!!!
Although Michael Cairis was not my grandfather, he took me in and raised me as though I was his grandson. He was, Papou Mike.
A soft spoken man of large physical stature, worked in construction past retirement age to put food on the table.
A memoir writing class has caused me to genuinely reflect on my childhood at 48 years of age and Papou Mike comes up all the time.
I googled his name to find out where he is buried, since everyone has past-on and your name came up. I didn't expect you to be related to him.
How are you related to Michael Cairis? You say he is your uncle. I did not know Papou Mike had family in the US. Are you related to his brother?
nick Cairis posts a message on 1/21/2006 8:12:57 PM
Hi, Greasball,
That's a cool email. I remember how the Anglo-Saxons and especially the Irish like to say that when I grew up.
I forgot that I posted anything about "Stiffs" the movie which is a black comedy about an older Italian gangster (Danny Aiello) who drums up business by whacking people for his funeral parlour. My scene is in a flashback in his mind.
Yassou, file'
greaseball posts a message on 1/21/2006 12:38:35 PM
Nick, Looking foward to your "kiss of death" scene. You are a very funny character actor! Can I have your autograph?
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