My Big Fat Greek Wedding started life as Vardalos' one-woman stand-up performance, based on her own life as a Greek marrying a non-Greek.
De Castries, a fan of Greek mythology, believes a Greek exit would be akin to opening a Pandora's box.
To draw a real crowd for a Greek tragedy is a more ambitious project.
Some of them are inclining towards a Greek solution - a government of national unity led by a technocrat.
However, there is a certain interest in English football matches across Europe, so the original owners of the rights, the footbal clubs through the League, sell French broadcast rights to some French channel, Greek rights to a Greek one.
Look around and you may see a coffee-table resting on a Greek capital, a tiny Roman mosaic sprucing up the foyer, a spread of Phoenician statuettes and Byzantine coins strewn along the bookshelves or a discreet Crusader cannon in the courtyard.
At which point, presumably, the rest of the eurozone would have to accept a Greek default and a much more significant reduction in the value of what the country has to repay than the implied 21% that has been allowed so far.
The potential scope of disruption following a Greek Euro exit was revealed this evening when British Home Secretary Teresa May told the Daily Telegraph that the UK authorities were exploring emergency immigration controls in case of a Greek exit and further economic turbulence in countries like Spain.
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While I do think a recovery plan is needed, and that any recovery plan will require a Greek bailout, I also believe that if Greeks do not want to pay the necessary taxes to sustain a very large public sector and if Greek officials are incapable of undoing a culture of corruption, any bailout will only stem the bleeding.
It received a boost when New Democracy proved victorious in a second Greek election, mitigating the risk of a disorderly Greek exit from the Euro.
She was making an appeal on a Greek TV programme when a viewer contacted the show with the photo.
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The prospect of another market crash caused by a Greek default is keeping a lot of people on the sidelines.
There are fears that a Greek exit could trigger a run on the banks - not only there but in other Eurozone countries.
The Greek prime minister survived a no-confidence vote Tuesday evening, and now there will be a Greek government vote on austerity measures next Tuesday.
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Europe's leaders have made it clear that a Greek default would be a catastrophe, leading to banking losses elsewhere in Europe and threatening the European banking system.
The first Dow Jones headline said that a Greek exit could trigger a domino effect, and lead to other countries, such as Ireland, Portugal and other weakened countries leaving the E.
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What policymakers and market players are worried about right now is if foreign investors see a Greek deposit crisis as a signal to rush for the exits in Italy and Spain.
None of this is to say that a Greek exit would be a good thing for the UK. But it is important, as ever to consider the alternative scenarios for Greece and the rest of the eurozone.
Stress tests of Europe's biggest banks are due to be released on July 15th and are expected to show that the region's banking system could absorb the losses from a Greek default with only a dozen or so banks having to raise extra capital.
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After discussing the situation with Randy McDuff, we also felt that the Greek economy was such a small piece of the world economy that we thought the Greek election would be a non-event.
Here is a slightly simplified account of how this works: when someone takes 100 euros from a Greek bank and transfers it to the perceived safety of a German bank (which has been happening quite a lot), that Greek bank gets the 100 euros from the Greek central bank, which in turn borrows the money from the Bundesbank.
Had there been a real legal argument supporting the return of the marbles to Greek soil, they would be in a Greek museum by now.
In February a Greek court told Stanleybet, a British firm, to shut its operations in Greece.
The author William Dalrymple describes seeing Christians and Muslims praying together in a Greek Orthodox convent in Syria a few years ago.
Mr Clerides may accept Mr Denktash's demand for a rotating federal presidency: a Greek Cypriot one time, a Turkish Cypriot the next.
Klimaka, a Greek nongovernmental organization that runs a suicide helpline, has said the number of people calling has doubled in the past year.
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While the Greek prime minister has survived a no-confidence vote this week, there will be a Greek government vote on austerity measures next Tuesday.
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The landlord, a Greek named Constantine who had a dozen other properties in the area, was waiting for the market to improve before he redeveloped.
On the other hand, forcing a Greek exit would likely produce a much larger default on the debts that Greece owes the rest of the Eurozone than an orderly restructuring within the Euro.
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