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Wednesday, May 28,1980 Tonawanda NEWS 17Titanic moviecost 1 0 times the shipBy VERNON SCOTTHOLLYWOOD (UPI) In 1912 it costEngland a piddling $4mill ion to build theTitanic , the greates t ,safest luxury liner inthe world which collidedwith an iceberg and

s a nk on i t s ma ide nvoyage.In 1980 it cost Sir LewGrade and his MarbleA r c h P r o d u c t i o n sa lmos t 10 t ime s a smuc h $30 million sofar to produce "RaiseT he T i t a n i c !" f romClive Cuss ler 's bes t-selling novel.A 3/4-inch-to-the-foot,55-foot-long, 12-foot-highT i t a n i c m o d e l c o s t$375,000 alone. Smallermode l s b rough t t i r eminiature fleet cost to$1 million.When "Rais e Th eTitanic!" ts re leasedthis July it will be oneof the most expensivefilms in history, rankingright up there with" A p o c a l y p s e N o w , "

" 1 9 4 1 " and the un-r e l e a s e d " H e a v e n ' sGate" and "The BluesB ro the rs . "T h e m o s t c o s t l yaspect of the film wasbuilding a tank $3.5million in which theTitanic could be realis t ical ly photographedunder controlled conditions at the bottom ofthe ocean.And therein lies anepic tale of movie ext ra va ga nc e .Three years ago LordGrade paid $500,000 forfilm rights to the novel.Stanley Kramer tooko v e r a s p r o d u c e r -director.Ten months into theproject , Kramer exitedWilliam Frye, a logical

choice, was appointedproducer. Frye made"Airport 1977," featuring a jetliner on thebottom of the oceanwhich is floated to thesurface.F r y e w a simmediately confrontedby the almost insurmountable problem ofdetermining where toshoot the underwaterfootage of the model ofthe ship as it is supposedly resting 12,000feet under the surfaceof the Atlantic.To begin with ,, the

Titanic model was builtand reposed at the CBSStudio Center in thesemi-arid San FernandoVa l l e y . T he ne a re s tbody of water was thetotally dry Los Angelesriverbed."Kramer had plannedto film the underseaf o o t a g e n e a r L o n gBeach or off the coast ofCatal ina ," said Frye, anurbane and art iculateman. "But we couldn' tshoot in the ocean atshallow depths becauseof the fish and plantlife.

"At 12,000 feet thereare no fish or livingplants. So we had tofind a tank big enoughto hold the model andmake it all look realis t ic ."A search of studios inHollywood and abroadwas unsuccessful.I t be c a me e v ide n tM a rb le Arc h wou ldhave to build its owntank. The British company chose Malta wherethere already was a 200by 300-foot, 5-foot deeps u r f a c e t a n k ( t oos h a l l o w f o r i t spurposes) overhangingthe Mediterranean.

M a rb le Arc h the ncons tructed a deeperround tank 350 feet ind ia m e te r , ho ld ing 9million gallons of seawater. The tank, a yearin the building, is thelargest in the world."It wa s our biggestheadache and certa inlythe most expensive element in the fi lm,"Frye said. "We sufferedde la ys due to ba dweather, salinity problems and a bad pumping system. We alsospent $150,000 on aturntable at the bottomof the tank that didn'twork. We had to write itoff."For what i t ' s worth,Marble Arch has "firstrefusal" on future useof the tank for the next10 years, in the unlikelyevent Lord Grade ismoved to make anotherunderwater movie .Frye found himselfconfronted by anotherpuzzle. How to transportthe 55-foot model fromt h e S a n F e r n a n d oValley to the Mediterranean, via the Panama

Canal, and into the tankat Malta .Although built fromthe o r ig ina l T i t a n icplans and perfect inevery detai l , the model m o r e i m p r e s s i v ethan most yachts wa snot equipped with powerto propel it a singleinch.L a s t Oc tobe r Fryecalled his friend AntonioD 'Amic o , a n I t a l i a nshipping magnate , whoa gre e d to s h ip them o d e l , a l o n g w i t hsmaller models , on thedeck of one of hisfre ighters as far asNaples . The cos t: apaltry $150,000.

"First," said Frye ,"we had to get LosAngeles county and citypermiss ion to lug ourhuge model on a truckbed down the freewaysto the San Pedro docks.That was a spectacularoperation in itself."At Naples the shipwas transferred to aba rge a nd t a ke n toMalta. Altogether, ourmodel had a longervoyage than the originalTitanic ever had."F r y e w a s f u r t h e rconfronted by providinga full-size version of theT i t a n ic , s l ime y a ndrusted, for scenes (withactors aboard) after theresurfacing.

" I flew to Athenswhere there is a shipgraveyard with morethan 3,000 old vesselst ied up," he said. "Theships a re all from 12 to20 years old. We found arelic built in the 1930sand fixed it up to looklike the Titanic and thenaged it down to make itappear as if it had beenon the bottom of the seafor 68 ye a rs ."But we couldn't towit to Malta because ofthe insurance. So wehad to tow it about fivemiles out to sea everyday for our cameraboats ." T h i s p i c t u r e h a staken two years of mylife, a year and fourmonths of it in pre-production before wetu rne d a c a me ra ."I 'm already putt ingtogether another film,but I assure you, it willnot have a single frameof underwater footage."

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when it hit the rear endo f B r a d F r i s e l l e ' sMazda. When the dusthad set t led, Newmanand another driver Sam Posey were outof the running. Friselleforged on, finishingfourth. Newman wasn' thurt, but his car had ablown tire and a dam-;a g e d s u s p e n s i o ns ys te m.CALL your Classif ied Advisor forhe lp with your Ad 693-1000.Jet-setter becomes working girl

By VERNON SCOTTHOLLYWOOD (U PI ) M a r is a B e r e n s o ncame into the worldwith a gold pass.She was born to ac e l e b r a t e d f a m i l y ,wealth and social posit ion. Marisa , a brunettewith green eyes andtawny skin, also cameinto the world beautiful.Her grandmother wasE l s a S c h i a p a r e l l i ,

g r a n d e d a m e o fParis ian high chic . Herf a t h e r , R o b e r t L .B e r e n s o n , w a s apa r tne r o f Ar i s to t l eOnassis and a diplomatwho served in capitalsaround the world.From ages 5 to 15Marisa was packed offto boarding schools inS w i t z e r l a n d , I t a l y ,France, and Englandwhere she was an indiff e r e n t s t u d e n t . S h espent holidays with herparents a t a varie ty ofe mba s s i e s .Marisa and her sisterBerry (Berinthia), a tages 3 and 4 respectively, appeared on thecover of Elle , France 'sfamed women's magazine. Thereafter, shewas frequently in the

public eye, a l i t t leprincess of the "beaumonde . ""I was brought up inf a s c i n a t i n gc i r c u m s t a n c e s inEurope," Marisa saidthe other day in herBeverly Hills home.Marisa, dressed in a

plum-colored silk blouseand beige slacks, woreseveral antique goldpe nda n t s a round he rneck. Her living roomwas filled with exquisiteFrench antiques, contras t ing with a mirroredb a b y g r a n d p i a n o .Paintings crowded thewalls along with largeblow-up photographs ofM a r i s a ."As a girl I met themost interesting peoplein the world thefamous , the wealthy,the aris tocrats . Becauseof these associat ionsand my fam ily, I wasphotographed often andwrit ten about."In e f fe c t , M a r i s a

b e c a m e a c e l e b r i t yw i t h o u t h a v i n g a c c o m p l i s h e d a n y t h i n gexcept her birth. Shehad achieved virtuallynothing on her own.Marisa left school at16, following the deathof her father. She flewto New York, where shewas born but had neverreside d, to set aboutestablishing a modelingc a re e r .It didn't take long.Whe n s he wa s 17 ,M a r i s a s igne d wi thVogue magazine andsoon jetted to and fromEurope for other modeling ass ignments ."I've been completely

s e l f - s u p p o r t i n g e v e rs ince," Marissa said."During my years as amodel I took actingc la s s e s a t n igh t . Idreamed of becomingan actress . But i t wasdifficult for models tobreak through at thatitime.(Continued tomorrow)

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