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'Titanic' Director James Cameron Joins Effort to Plug Gulf Oil Spill
Fox 7 ^ | Wednesday, 02 Jun 2010, 8:22 AM CDT | AFP

Posted on 06/02/2010 8:10:56 AM PDT by bgill

Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron and another Canadian who built submersibles for the director's 1989 thriller "The Abyss" joined talks on Tuesday in Washington on innovative ways of capping the Gulf of Mexico oil spill... Cameron made two documentaries about the wreck of the ocean liner Titanic prior to filming his 1997 blockbuster Hollywood movie "Titanic."

He used a small fleet of specially designed remotely operated underwater vehicles and is regarded as an expert in the field.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxaustin.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avatar; bp; cinema; film; jamescameron; oil
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Hollyweird to the rescue!
1 posted on 06/02/2010 8:10:56 AM PDT by bgill
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Hey everybody, look over here!!!! I am relevant and important !!!!

On the other hand if his bankroll and ego can be leveraged to stop this, have at it. I suspect he’ll be a nuisance.


2 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:21 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (If you believe in manmade global warming, you lack the gift of reason.)
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To: bgill

This man is a director, not an oceanographer.

Perhaps he has a favorite for the Belmont stakes?

Oh that’s right, he’s not a bookie either.


3 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:22 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: bgill

Yeah he can help,James make 10 cups cream and sugar then sit in the corner.


4 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:37 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: bgill

They could sink Rosie O’Donnell to sit on the pipe while Ellen DeGeneres laps dances.


5 posted on 06/02/2010 8:13:58 AM PDT by chambley1
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To: bgill

Isn’t all he has to do is shout “CUT and WRAP”?


6 posted on 06/02/2010 8:14:06 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: bgill

And this is reported with earnestness and enthusiasm by the MFM.
Our Republic is doomed.


7 posted on 06/02/2010 8:14:36 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: bgill

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2010/06/feds-meet-with-film-director-cameron-on.html


8 posted on 06/02/2010 8:15:13 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: bgill

Oh, I feel MUCH better now.


9 posted on 06/02/2010 8:16:04 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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The Government sues and brings in Hollywood Leftards instead of working on a fix.

Screw these maggots.


10 posted on 06/02/2010 8:17:04 AM PDT by wac3rd (Prepare for the November 2010 Tsunami)
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To: bgill

Send Algore down with the blue people and make it a happy place that spews Skittles and rainbows.


11 posted on 06/02/2010 8:17:27 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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To: bgill

If Obama can get Cameron to make a movie about the spill being pluged then as far as dims’ are concerned it’s plugged!


12 posted on 06/02/2010 8:17:42 AM PDT by ontap
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Perhaps they can stick his head in the hole and plug it. It’s big enough.


13 posted on 06/02/2010 8:18:17 AM PDT by This Just In
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“I’m an expert in underwater vehicles, therefore I can cap damaged oil wells!”

About as relevant as, “I am really good at reading stuff off teleprompters, therefore I will make a really good president!”


14 posted on 06/02/2010 8:18:24 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: bgill
They really ought to call in these guys...


15 posted on 06/02/2010 8:19:13 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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16 posted on 06/02/2010 8:20:09 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: bgill

Other celebrity appointments:

1) Alan Alda/Mike Farrell on the Korean Crisis
2) Ex President Martin Sheen as super secret presidential adviser
3) George Lopez on Immigration Reform
4) Michael Moore on Heath care Reform
5) Leonardo DiCaprio on Aviation Safety because he once played Howard Hughes
6) Sean Penn on prison reform because he once played a death row inmate


17 posted on 06/02/2010 8:20:17 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Joe 6-pack

I think you’re on to something there.


18 posted on 06/02/2010 8:20:53 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: Right Wing Assault

So when there’s a looming asteroid disaster, it’s safe to assume Barry will call Bruce Willis & Ben Affleck to the rescue?


19 posted on 06/02/2010 8:21:44 AM PDT by LadyBuck (In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
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20 posted on 06/02/2010 8:22:45 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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