Larry James Gianakos
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | author/historian/collector/raconteur |
| Location | LA, NYC, United States |
| Introduction | Nationally acclaimed writer and historian Larry James Gianakos has been considered the “preeminent historian of American entertainment broadcasting”(J. Fred MacDonald, Choice, June 1988), principally by way of his now classic seven-volume Television Drama Series Programming: A Comprehensive Chronicle, 1947-2008, from Scarecrow Press now based in Lanham, Maryland and London, England. He has critically examined dozens of individual dramatic teleplays for several national communications journals, including the Cable Guide and its West-Coast-based sister publication TV Time. In 1981 Mr. Gianakos served as a consultant to the enormously popular syndicated series The Golden Age of Television, produced by Sonny Fox Productions in Los Angeles, which consisted of nine newly restored kinescopes of live teleplays and taped discussions with key players and technicians. An avid collector, Larry’s private collection of kinescopes currently exceeds more than 300! |
| Interests | television and general media history, collector of Pulitzer Prize first printing literature and other first editions, collector of Presidential letters and ephemera, literary and political raconteur |
| Favorite movies | There are so many works of cinema that are eternally fascinating; indeed scenes out of otherwise ersatz film productions which remain compelling, it is impossible to list mere favorites. |
| Favorite music | As with cinema, great music is also eclectic in its composition and its appreciation. |
| Favorite books | Great literature too, is both eclectic and all-embracing. Naturally I have a predilection for works warded major literary prizes, if only because such works reveal the qualities of the compositions relative to the acquired tastes as a measure of "greatness" in any given period. Among American writers in the twentieth century, William Faulkner for me, as for so many others, is the very apotheosis of a literary master. |