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Topic: The Poseidon Adventure
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David M. Ballew
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 113
From: Burbank, CA USA
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted June 25, 2013 04:50 AM
My buddy Mike and I both love puns, the more tragic the better.
Some years ago when the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California, closed its doors, I made several farewell visits. Mike, being a native of Southern California, had been there many times himself. In a phone conversation, he asked me what I thought of the old place.
“I love it,” I told him, “but they do have some fairly ancient displays in there. They’ve got a diorama of The Poseidon Adventure that looks like it’s been there since 1972.”
“Yeah,” he deadpanned, “I guess you could say they don’t have a lot of turnover.”
The game was on! “Don’t get me wrong, Mike. I loved it. You might even say it turned my world upside down.”
“You sound like you really flipped over it.”
We were both laughing like fools at this point. Then I told him,
“Yeah, but they really should have depicted that scene right after Stella Stevens dies, when Ernest Borgnine starts weeping and bawling his eyes out. Ask me why.”
I sensed a certain hesitance on his end. “Why?”
“Mike... there’s got to be a mourning actor.”
True story.
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