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Nico Mastorakis ((ギリシア語:Νίκος Μαστοράκης); born 28 April 1941 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer. ==Early career== At the age of 18 Mastorakis as a young reporter with the Greek newspaper ''Ethnikos Kirikas'' scored his first international scoop, an exclusive interview with the exiled Princess Soraya. Later, as an investigative reporter for the daily ''Messimvrini'', adding to multiple award-winning reports, he created the first "automobile page" in Greek press. In his last job as a reporter for the daily ''Apogevmatini'' he posed as a musician for the group of popular singer Yanni Poulopoulos and gained access to Onassis’ yacht, the ''Christina'' where Onassis was hosting Jackie and Ted Kennedy. He used a Minox camera hidden behind the strings of his guitar to take photos but was inevitably discovered by Ted's security men and although managing to fly out of Scorpios with his negatives intact he was later arrested by the junta's secret police and detained for the night while his negatives were discovered and confiscated. Although his article about that night being heavily censored he broke the news of Ari and Jackie getting married months before the official announcement. Mastorakis’ adventure on board the Onassis yacht was later described in detail in both ''Ari'' and ''Nemesis'', by Onassis’ biographer Peter Evans, who writes: "… Onassis used his pull with the colonels and Mastorakis was picked up in Athens… later Ari showed me a copy of Mastorakis’ original story which had been cut to ribbons by the military censors…" He was already a radio personality since the late 1950s, considered by many to be the DJ who brought international pop to Greek radio. In all, he hosted and produced more than 22 different radio shows. In the late sixties Mastorakis was introduced to the Beatles and became friends with John Lennon. On April 17, 1967 he produced the first ever international pop concert in Athens, booking the Rolling Stones for a memorable albeit troubled concert, dominated by police and amidst the riots which plagued Athens at the time. The military coup came four days later. As a lyricist and record producer he launched the careers of almost all of the Greek pop groups of the sixties, working mainly with the Forminx and their keyboard player / composer Vangelis Papathanassiou, later known internationally as Vangelis for his film scores to ''Chariots of Fire'', ''Blade Runner'' and more. Their superhit "Jeronimo Yanka" was a sensation for many years and still represents one of the popular party dances in Greece. Mastorakis was instrumental in the creation of Greek television in the late 1960s. From early 1966 (before the junta years) and until 1973 while Greece was under the Regime of the Colonels, he produced and hosted numerous entertainment shows in the army-owned YENED TV station. While the station's primary goal was to propagandize for the army his shows were mostly apolitical fare, such as game shows and celebrity interviews, including a Greek version of This Is Your Life, and he was among the most popular TV personalities of the time. He produced local versions of many international formats (''Candid Camera'', ''To Tell The Truth'') and worked for both YENED and ERT, the country's national TV network. In addition to his shows he produced and directed ''Alati kai Piperi'' (Salt and Pepper), hosted by noted Greek columnist Freddy Germanos. One of the highlights of that show was when Mastorakis brought John Lennon and Yoko Ono into the military TV's two-camera studio. He wrote, produced and directed dramatic series and variety shows as well as the short-lived breakthrough sci-fi episodic ''Invasion From Another Planet'', the first on Greek TV to be shot on film. However his TV career took some dramatic turns as he was ousted twice by the junta, the unofficial reason being cited "for speaking freely". The first time that his shows were abruptly banned was for his comment to a 6-year-old girl (in a kiddies show) "how can you ever buy a Christmas tree with the cost of life as they are today", a comment which was considered by the military regime as "anti-government propaganda". At the time he was serving in the navy and eventually returned to TV, only to be ousted (by order of dictator Papadopoulos) because he interviewed a 12-year-old girl who had married and had a baby. Papadopoulos considered the interview as "corruption of ethics for the Greek family". For almost a year, Mastorakis was producing "underground" with the silent consent of YENED's management until his final return. His career as a journalist also had clashes with the junta. After writing a long piece about Mikis Theodorakis’ concert in London, for the weekly magazine "Epikera", he was arrested and detained at the ESA (Military Police) headquarters for a day. Later on, publisher Georgis Athanassiades, hired Mastorakis for the daily "Vradini" (which had been shut down by the junta and was about to be published again) only to find out from Dimitrios Ioannidis (head of the Military Police and later the dictator who replaced instigating a bloodier junta) that the newspaper's permit had been withdrawn because "Athanassiades had hired anarchist-communists like Mastorakis". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nico Mastorakis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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