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Tarn Stephanos
Member
Username: titanictarn
Post Number: 732
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 12:00 am: | 
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Louis Abernathy is an interesting, charasmatic fellow- having played 'Louie Bodine" in Titanic, and having dived as himself in the 'Ghosts Of The Abyss' Imax film.....
What is his back story- is he an actor, and under sea explorer, a submersible operator?
regards
Tarn Stephanos |
J. Tagliere
Member
Username: tagliere
Post Number: 48
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 3:54 pm: |
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Lewis Abernathy is a friend of Cameron's. Apparently, they met on a diving trip a very long time ago and Cameron continued diving with him for years. He is actually a writer/director of low-budget schlock sci-fi type stuff. His first acting gig was Titanic |
Trent Pheifer
Member
Username: titanic85
Post Number: 338
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 3:59 pm: |
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Hey Tarn,
"Louis Bodine is actually Lewis Abernathy, James Cameron's best friend. Lewis, as a joke, wrote a screenplay about Titanic for James for his birthday. Lewis, whom is a known "rivet-counter" and at one time was the youngest member of the Titanic Historical Society, thought that a "good" movie needed to be made of Titanic. He never believed that James would take to the idea though. James then wrote the screenplay for Titanic, and wrote in Bodine to represent Abernathy. After numerous screenings, James discovered that Abernathy was the only man who could play the part. Abernathy also helped James recreate the Titanic accurately as possible."
That is a quote from this site--http://www.back-to-titanic.com/film/bts/facts/distant.shtml -Back to The Titanic
I could not get the link to work, sorry!
Hope that helps a bit.
-Trent |
Trent Pheifer
Member
Username: titanic85
Post Number: 339
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 4:00 pm: |
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J. Tagliere,
Woops, sorry I had not seen that you had posted about it!
-Trent |
Michael H. Standart
Moderator
Username: mstandart
Post Number: 5989
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2003 - 4:46 am: |
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Try this
http://www.back-to-titanic.com/film/bts/facts/distant.shtml -
Trent, do you have both the "Enable HTML code in message" and the "Automatically activate URLs in message" boxes checked below?
Cordially,
Michael H. Standart
Equal Opportunity Curmudgeon
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Trent Pheifer
Member
Username: titanic85
Post Number: 342
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 3:48 am: |
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Hey Mike,
Thank you for pointing that out. I believe that must have been my problem. I have it now! Thanks!
-Trent |
