The New World Orders Pied Pipers By If youve ever seen the quirky 1960 comic film Never on Sunday, you may remember Melina Mercouris character, Ilyaa free-spirited, happy-go-lucky prostitute living in a seaside village in Greece. An erudite tourist from New York arrives, and, attempting to give Ilya some culture, takes her to watch a Greek tragedy in a large amphitheatre. Hes mystified when she cries while the rest of the audience smiles, and laughs at the tragic ending, when everyone else is crying. He soon learns whyIlya invents her own storyline, which always ends happily. She informs her American companion, that the characters arent really dead and that in the end, They all go down to the seashore!