Today is an historic anniversary, indeed. Unless you live under a rock, you will already know this. Today is the anniversary of the Titanic. Fifteen years, four months, and seventeen days ago on this day in 1997 James Cameron launched his "unsinkable" motion picture, "Titanic". It has been called one of the greatest Maureen disasters in history. Maureen is my sister and she loves good movies. Maureen went to see "Titanic" on its opening day, and she was horribly disappointed. She called it an unmitigated disaster. "Typical Hollywood ending," she wrote at the time," The big boat sinks. Entirely predictable. I could see it coming a mile away." In her scathing review, she goes on to say that the whole plot was basically unbelievable. "Sure!!" she taunted Mr. Cameron, "Pull the other one!!" She also pointed out that the Leonardo DiCaprio line: "I'm KING of the world!!" was stolen from an Academy Awards acceptance speech.
In tomorrow's blog, I will speak with actual living survivors... people whose love of great film survived the bombastic and gratuitous vehicle known to the world as "Titanic". I speak to, for example, Clara Hutson in Belleville, ON, about how she managed to escape from the theatre before the start of the second act. She will tell us about the usher who tried to stop her, saying: "It's women and children first!!" (Clara is not the most attractive of women... I say that, not to insult her, but to explain the usher's confusion. She decided to pass as an eight year old child rather than to try to prove her gender to him.)
Watch for our 3-D blog on Saturday. Get your glasses from neighbour's recycling box. If you want free SUNglasses, just call me. I have lots.
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