LIFESTYLE37 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2014 Chinese firm to build replica of Titanic

Chinese firm plans to spend $165 moted or inherited in the east,” he said. million building a full-scale replica The replica will also recreate the Aof the Titanic-the doomed luxury experience of what it felt like when the liner which sank more than a century luxury liner collided with the iceberg, ago-as the main attraction for a theme Xinhua reported, though it gave no park, reports said yesterday. The original details of how the deadly collision would and supposedly unsinkable luxury pas- be replicated. Construction of the ship, senger liner struck an iceberg and went which is 270 meters (885 feet) long, is down in the North Atlantic in 1912, expected to be completed in two years killing more than 1,500 people. and will be based on designs of the The famous ship is a subject of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic, which immense fascination for many in China, was in service from 1911 to 1935, the particularly after the 1997 release of SCMP reported. “We already have com- James Cameron’s film on the liner’s plete design drawings, including a large doomed voyage starring Kate Winslet ballroom and premium first class rooms,” and Leonardo DiCaprio. Little known Su said in the Xinhua interview. Chinese energy company Seven Star Seven Star are not the only group Energy Investment said the replica, with dreams of recreating the Titanic. which is expected to cost 1 billion yuan Flamboyant Australian tycoon Clive ($165 million), will be the main attrac- Palmer previously unveiled a plan last tion for a planned theme park located year to build a sea-worthy replica of the (From left) Tiffany Boone, Jessica Stroup, Sam Underwood, Valorie Curry, Connie Nielson, James Purefoy, Kevin Bacon, and creator Kevin Sichuan, a landlocked province famous Titanic which is scheduled to make its Williamson are seen during the panel for “The Following” at the FOX Winter 2014 TCA at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. The two stars of for its spicy food. first Atlantic crossing in 2016. Palmer’s Fox’s creepy thriller “The Following” admit that their show gives them nightmares. — AP The replica will be docked perma- “Titanic II” will feature modern modifica- nently on a river, the South China tions-including many more lifeboats Morning Post reported. “When the than the original-but will try to remain Titanic was about to sink, the greatest as true as possible to the famous liner. extent of human spirit and responsibility The violin played by the Titanic’s band- was shown and that spirit goes beyond master as the ship sank beneath the Stars of ‘The Following’ borders and it is eternal,” Seven Star chief waves sold at auction for £900,000 executive Su Shaojun said in an inter- ($1.45 million, 1.06 million euros) in view with the state-run Xinhua news October, smashing the previous agency. “We chose to rebuild the Titanic £220,000 record for memorabilia from in China so that such spirit can be pro- the doomed liner. —AFP admit to nightmares

nyone who gets nightmares from Fox’s “Anybody who celebrates death and finds great a violent incident on a subway by a character in a creepy thriller “The Following” isn’t alone. beauty in it, absolutely, there are some fretful creepy mask. AThe two stars say it happens to them, too. nights.” “I don’t want it to be gore for the sake of gore,” Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy both said Jessica Stroup, who plays a police officer, said Williamson said. “It is to push the story forward Monday they take work home with them some- there was something so disturbing that happens and to make you gasp, to scare you. “I don’t really times. Bacon plays former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, to her character this season that it was hard to see it as gory,” he said. “I guess it’s subjective. I like who’s on the trail of a sadistic serial killer played shake. She can sleep soundly, but she’s looking at a little violence.” The veteran Bacon, who’s had so by Purefoy in the series, which attracted atten- her surroundings more carefully while awake, many roles in his career that it inspired its own tion for violence in its debut season but also had she said. Series creator Kevin Williamson, the parlor game, said there’s something special strong ratings. “The Following” returns for its sec- man behind the “Scream” movies, said he finds about this one. “The connection I feel to the fans ond season on Sunday. “He’s so profoundly dark,” the second season less violent than the first, at of this show is probably deeper than anything Purefoy said of his character, Joe Carroll. least by his standards. The first episode contains that I’ve experienced in my career,” he said. — AP Seth MacFarlane brings his love of science to TV

(From left) Mitchell Cannold, executive producer Sinead Morrissey Brannon Braga, host Neil DeGrasse Tyson, executive producer Seth N Ireland’s Morrissey MacFarlane, and writer Ann Druyan participate on a panel for “Cosmos” wins Eliot poetry prize at the FOX Winter 2014 TCA, on orthern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey language, her book is as many-angled and Monday, Jan 13, won Britain’s prestigious TS Eliot any-angled as its title suggests,” prize jury 2014. —AP Nprize on Monday for “Parallax”, a col- chairman Ian Duhig said. lection that explores the nature of reality Born in 1972 in County Armagh, tewie likes science. Seth MacFarlane, cre- on Fox. It will also air on the National suggested to “Cosmos” host Neil deGrasse Tyson and includes a poem inspired by watching Morrissey is the author of five poetry col- ator of “Family Guy” and voice of Stewie on Geographic Channel. Best known for his profane that the show should be pitched to Fox to gar- a film while giving birth. Morrissey, who is lections: “There Was Fire in Vancouver” Sthe animated Fox show, is bringing his love animated series and Oscar-hosting duties last ner a broader audience. “I was pleasantly greet- the first poet laureate of Belfast and had (1996); “Between Here and There” (2002); of space exploration to television. He’s the exec- year, MacFarlane’s head has been in the stars ed with enthusiasm, and I didn’t have to stop been shortlisted for the prize on three pre- “The State of the Prisons” (2005); “Through utive producer of “Cosmos: A Spacetime since he first saw Carl Sagan’s original “Cosmos: doing Stewie or anything,” MacFarlane told the vious occasions, will receive an award of the Square Window” (2009) and “Parallax” Odyssey,” a 13-part series that will debut March 9 A Personal Voyage” as a youngster. MacFarlane Television Critics Association on Monday. — AP 15,000 pounds ($24,600). (2013). One of the poems in her latest vol- “I’m so delighted, it’s a dream come ume took its title from, and was in part true,” she said after the prize was inspired by watching, the 1946 David Niven announced at a ceremony held at London’s film “A Matter of Life and Death”, in which Hertford House, the home of the Wallace an aviator who is about to die in a crash ‘24’ returns in May with Collection of art. Morrissey, whose winning escapes death because of an error on the collection examines the difference part of the guide sent to take him to the between perception and reality, said she afterlife. had no explanation for why Northern She said the idea for the poem had 12-episode run on Fox Ireland, also the birthplace of late Nobel come to her when she saw the film while Prize winner Seamus Heaney, was a fertile she was in labor having her first child. “The breeding ground for poets. coincidence of it being about life and ack Bauer is back, and he’s on the run in “I think there is something distinctive death while I was in that situation was too London. Kiefer Sutherland returns as the about Northern Ireland and I think the poet- great an opportunity to pass up,” she said. Jintrepid counter-terrorist in a 12-episode ry tradition from that very small place with The TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, named for the run of “24: Live Another Day,” debuting with a that very small population is extraordinary. author of “The Waste Land” and “The Love two-hour show May 5 on Fox. It will take up its Why that is, I don’t know,” she said. There Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, was inaugurated regular one-hour slot starting May 12. “I’m was some sense beforehand that Morrissey in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book about as anxious and wound up as I’ve been in might take the prize this year after her pre- Society’s 40th birthday and honor its a long time,” Sutherland said Monday at the vious appearances on the short list. The founding poet. Eliot was born in St Louis, Television Critics Association winter meeting. judges were glowing in their praise of her Missouri, but became a naturalized British He returns to a character he played for eight work. “Politically, historically and personally citizen and was awarded the Nobel Prize in seasons, from 2001 to 2010. “There’s a great ambitious, expressed in beautifully turned Literature in 1948. — Reuters impetus for all of us to create something new with the show,” Sutherland said. The show will be set and shot in London and retain the real-time format with split screens and interwoven story lines. It picks up four Jackson family loses bid years after the events of “24’s” final season, with Bauer now a fugitive being hunted by the CIA. “Things will be blowing up - cars, double deck- for wrongful death trial er buses, things like that,” said Sutherland, who was born in London. “I’m sure we’ll be hated by he family of late pop star Michael of Pop.” Jackson family attorneys could a large portion of London for snarling up their Jackson on Monday lost its bid for a send their appeal to a higher state court. traffic here and there, and for that I apologize in Tnew trial against concert promoter Katherine Jackson, 83, and the singer’s advance.” Also back from the original series are AEG Live, which had been cleared of liabili- three children Prince Michael, Paris and Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver and William ty in the singer’s death. Los Angeles Blanket, sued AEG Live over Jackson’s 2009 Devane. Several newcomers have joined the Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos death at age 50 in Los Angeles from an cast, including Oscar nominee Judy Davis and ruled that Jackson’s mother and children overdose of the powerful anesthetic Yvonne Strahovski of “Dexter.” did not have standing for a re-trial after propofol administered by Murray. Rajskub, who plays Chloe, said she closely their attorneys argued last month that jury The wrongful death lawsuit claimed the followed Internet speculation about the series instructions were confusing and not wide concert promoter had acted negligently return and waited eagerly to find out whether enough in scope. A jury in October cleared by hiring Murray as Jackson’s personal she’d be included. “I have a lot of people who privately held AEG Live, the organizer of physician, but a jury concluded Murray refuse to call me anyone but Chloe,” she said. “I Jackson’s ill-fated 50 “This Is It” comeback was sufficiently qualified for his job. never thought ‘24’ would come back and in this shows in London, of negligently hiring car- Murray was convicted of involuntary format.” A potential “24” movie has been diologist Conrad Murray as Jackson’s per- manslaughter in 2011 for Jackson’s death bandied about, too. “If this ends up rebooting sonal physician. and served half of his 4-year sentence in a the show or causing a film to be made, so be it,” The verdict came after a sensational Los Angeles prison. He was released in Sutherland said, adding any script for a movie five-month trial that offered a glimpse into October under a California state plan to version would be “very, very different.” “The film the private life and final days of the “King reduce prison overcrowding. — Reuters is sort of an ongoing situation,” he said. — AP