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Titanic II... That's the name of the new ocean liner that Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to launch in 2016. Built in China instead of Belfast, Ireland (which is where the original Titanic was built), Titanic II would mimic the appearance of her doomed predecessor (plus her trans-Atlantic route) as much as possible...with the exception being that the new vessel will have modernized lifeboats and life rafts capable of carrying a total of 3,500 people (Titanic II will have 2,435 passengers plus 900 crew members aboard), plus a modern hospital, a helicopter landing pad, full air-conditioning and access to high-speed Internet. This is in contrast to the original cruise ship...which carried 2,224 passengers and crew on it, but had just 16 wooden lifeboats capable of accommodating 1,178 people (a third of Titanic's total capacity; you know what happened to the rest). But just like the first Titanic, her successor will have passengers split into three different sections—with third-class passengers residing below the deck just like poor immigrants did on the first vessel back in 1912. On the plus side though, third class will probably be the place to go a-rockin'...if the 1997 Best Picture-winning film is anything to go by.
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Speaking of that flick, it looks like James Cameron might get to do a sequel to Titanic if T2 (pun intended) doesn't avoid the so-called 'sink jinx.' God forbid that that happens. But I assume a potential story for this would-be film would have a descendant of Rose, Kate Winslet's character, as an unwitting passenger aboard the new ocean liner when crap hits the fan? Nevermind. I'm delving into Seth MacFarlane-type territory with these anecdotes. Do you think Celine Dion will compose a song for the new mov— Darn it, stop!
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