What ethnicity is Andy Sidaris?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

Who, you ask? The director/producer/writer of such 80s films as "Mailbu Express"--inventor of the blonde/bikini/bazooka genre of soft-porn action film. Shamelessly copied by Tarantino at times...

So does anyone know his ethnic background? Or anything at all about him?

[Phillycat]

1. Well, David and Amy SEdaris are Greek.

But I don't know about this guy. Sounds Greek though.

[tridim]

11. Amy is an alien

Or at least her brain is. She's a nut. In a good way. :)

[Phillycat]

14. Oh, I don't think anyone in that family is quite right.

[BurtWorm]

2. I think Sidaris is a Greek name.

:shrug:

I could be wrong.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

4. Seems like a consensus

But "Sidarous" is an Egyptian name (Coptic Christian). Some Arab friends of mine were saying there's a particularly Arab kind of sleaze about his productions, so we were wondering.

[BurtWorm]

7. If it's the blonde/bikini/bazouki genre, he has to be Greek.

;)

[Bluebear]

3. As * would say, he's "Grecian"

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

5. Did he really do that?

I bet the "Grecian Formula" will be used in tonight's debate, BTW...

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. I believe it was in reference to "the Grecians" as a nation

or something. "man and the fish can coexist"

[Bluebear]

9. Indeed he did.

"Keep good relations with the Grecians."—Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

[amber dog democrat]

6. Geek

He is Geek.

[bif]

10. "Hey, the Greeks shall inherit the earth."

n/t

[pbg]

12. Considering he's a Chicago boy...

...he could be Lithuanian.

That 'is' suffix is a clue.

[Beaverhausen]

13. My boss had lunch with him 3 weeks ago

what do you want to know? He said he's a really great guy.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

16. Mainly if he has Egyptian-Coptic background

But I'm also interested in his politics. I just bought a $1.99 copy of Malibu Express the other night and I was impressed with its subversive irony, Reagan-era vintage.

[Calico Jack Rackham]

15. I believe he is

a fellow Greeker

From a interview with "Underground Online"

About 34 years. I think my wife was 11 when I married her . I'm a southern boy. Nah, she was a Brooklyn Jewish princess from New York, and I'm a Greek from Louisiana.