Whats the next Titanic disaster awaiting us?
We’re due for a big shock soon. There are areas that we know are dangerous, with respect to nuclear power, biological weapons, and maybe, to a certain extent, genetic research. But we utterly and completely embrace the silicon chip. We’ve let computers become a fabric of our life. We don’t yet know the long-term impact of that. History has shown that every technology brings a curse with it. The lesson of Titanic is, just don’t go so fast when you’re dealing with that much power and energy, the kinetic energy of a ship that weighs 48,000 tons. Give yourself time to turn, because that’s all they did wrong. Tell me about casting the long-retired thirties film star Gloria Stuart as Old Rose, the one living survivor of the Titanic. My casting director found her. She was sent out on a mission to find retired actresses from the Golden Age of the thirties and forties. Gloria was a leading lady for a couple of years, but she hasn’t emerged as one of our really big, memorable stars. I honestly d
