"60
Minutes" producer Michael Karzis is the perfect tour guide to take you
behind the scenes on the show's Mt. Athos story. Karzis is the son of
Greek immigrants and speaks Greek. Those things surely helped as he and
fellow producer Harry Radliffe tried to get permission to film a "60
Minutes" story on the otherworldly Mt. Athos, a self-governed peninsula
in Greece that's home to 20 monasteries and some 2,000 monks.
But
getting permission was no easy task. "The parliament that exists there,
the holy community, is the only parliament on the face of the Earth
that has been continually in session since the 10th century," says
Karzis. "And these are the guys we were looking to get permission from
to shoot on Mount Athos."
The Holy Community turned
down requests from "60 Minutes." "They said, 'Thank you very much but,
get in line,' Karzis recalls. "I mean, the BBC's been knocking on the
door for 40 years, the French, the Germans, they've all wanted to come."
They then appealed to the powerful abbots who run individual monasteries on Mt. Athos and finally had a breakthrough.
Watch part one and part two of Bob Simon's report.
Via http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20056220-10391709.html
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