And if he insistently pushes it on you, please feel free to borrow (at 0% interest) my personal credo, with hats off to Melina Mercouri: “Never on Tuesday.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confusion and Turbulence] Reference

This Olympian view of custodianship was vehemently rejected by Mercouri, who in 1981 became her country's minister of culture (a post she held, save a four-year interregnum, until her death in 1994).    From Wordnik.com.  [Grading the New Acropolis] Reference

Especially at the start of the Cold War, the McCarthy era prosecuted many with many film directors losing their jobs or else fleeing the United States like Jules Dessain who ended up marrying Melina Mercouri and since then is staying here in Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [hatto fischer | politics and the arts « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Mercouri chases a doomed romance with the gangster's weak-willed son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

In 1956, he met Mercouri, whom he would marry a decade later, and with whom he made nine films.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

Mercouri (who died in 1994) and Dassin would both come to be revered in Greece as national treasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

It was DVD that revived Dassin's rep - not for the Mercouri films but for his early-prime crime pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Then during the resistance to dictatorship we met and admired the Greece of Ritsos, Mercouri, Theodorakis, Lambrakis, Costa-Gavras, Pappas, and Andreas Papandreou.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The movie earned five Oscar nominations, including the two for Dassin and a Best Actress nod for Mercouri, and it won Best Song for its ubiquitous, bouzouki-flavored title track.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

When the military despots revoked her citizenship, Mercouri spat out: "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grading the New Acropolis] Reference