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To: Jonathan Feins who wrote (142)	4/12/1999 8:40:00 PM
From: Sam Biller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217

Titanic picks up steam again By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY The Titanic took just hours to sink. Not so Titanic mania. Almost two years after the blockbuster movie re-ignited interest in the famous ship, a company that specializes in rock concerts is unveiling what's billed as the first permanent Titanic exhibit -- a $7 million attraction called Titanic: Ship of Dreams. As much live theater as museum, the attraction, opening Saturday in theme-park mecca Orlando, offers re-creations of the famously doomed ship's interiors (including the Grand Staircase), with actor-guides in period costumes. It also has a smattering of actual Titanic artifacts and movie memorabilia. Located in Orlando's Mercado tourist zone, it's just the latest -- and splashiest -- of several new or ongoing diversions focusing on the 1912 disaster, which took place exactly 87 years ago Thursday . Other Titanic attractions: Titanic, the Exhibition, a traveling tour of artifacts recovered from the wreckage, is now on display in St. Paul, Minn. (through April 30). The collection, which includes a 20-ton piece of the hull, will resurface in Atlantic City in May. Information: 800-848-2642 or www.titanic-online.com. Yet another permanent exhibit dedicated to the ship, the 3,500-square-foot Manitoba Museum of the Titanic, opens Thursday in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada . Organizers boast of 150 Titanic-related artifacts, including a deck chair and woodwork found as floating debris. Information: 204-857-7447 or www.titanicconcepts.com. Over the past year, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was a base for recovery vessels in 1912, has expanded its Titanic exhibit of artifacts recovered when the ship went down. Information: 902-424-7490 or titanic.gov.ns.ca. Thanks to a recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that opens up access to the Titanic wreck, adventure travel company Zegrahm DeepSea Voyages will resume trips to the ship this summer. For $35,000, tourists can see what's left of the boat while diving in a state-of-the-art minisubmarine. Information: 888-772-2366 or www.deepseavoyages.com. For the second year in a row, the Seelbach Hilton's Oakroom restaurant in Louisville is marking the anniversary of the sinking with a re-creation of the last dinner aboard the ship. The $150 meal will be offered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Information: 502-585-9211. Developers are seeking permission to build a full-scale replica of the Titanic in Las Vegas and turn it into a 1,000-room hotel and casino. At the Orlando exhibition, designed by SFX Entertainment, each visitor receives a ticket with the name of a passenger. At the end of the tour, they learn whether the passenger survived and can look up other biographical details. There are several rooms re-created to look like parts of the ship: a first-class parlor, a cafe, the cargo hold, the promenade (where the temperature is kept to a chilly 50 degrees to evoke the feel of that North Atlantic night). Artifacts on display include a Titanic deck chair, life preserver and letters written either on the ship or by a survivor afterward, including one in which passenger Nellie Walcroft describes how panicked passengers were shot by a crewman trying to prevent a lifeboat from being swamped. Visitors can also see movie gewgaws such as Leonardo DiCaprio's costume in the blockbuster Titanic. And one room will have an ice block designed to look like part of an iceberg, which children can touch. Information: Titanic: Ship of Dreams is open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily; tickets: adults, $15.85; children 6-11, $10.55; 5 and under are free; 407-248-1166.