Angelopoulos is an Olympic Organizer, Ambassador of the Greek State, lawyer and former Member of Parliament.

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The greatest of Greek directors, Theo Angelopoulos, who died on January 24th, was undaunted by this conundrum.

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Another grand and glacial enterprise from the veteran Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

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At the meeting, which took place at the New York Palace Hotel, where the Mexican President was staying, Angelopoulos agreed to sponsor him.

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The Athens organising committee has also been turned upside down, with Gianna Angelopoulos, who led the city's Olympic bid, appointed to head the team.

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Separately and together, he and his sometime lover and regular companion, Giancarlo Giammetti, made sure to greet and double-cheek kiss friends and supporters sitting at all the tables in their area, ranging from the young (the former reality-television star Olivia Palermo, the Brant brothers, the model Jessica Hart and her shipping-heir boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos) to the established (the interior designer Mica Ertegun, Barbara Walters, the Texan philanthropist Lynn Wyatt, the Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki).

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