Some Titanic Facts-- Part 2: World's Largest Metaphor Hits Iceberg

**  A mostly bogus 10-minute newsreel circulated in movie theaters shortly after the sinking.  Much of the footage was of the Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, which had been launched a year earlier.

**  In 1953, the movie "Titanic" starring Barbara Stanwyck, Clifton Webb and Robert Wagner opened with both real and fictional characters exactly 41 years after the sinking.

**The 1955 non-fiction book by Walter Lord "A Night to Rmember" is still the best-seller on the ship. It included many interviews with survivors and a 1958 film was based on it.

**  Survivor Margaret Brown became widely known as Molly Brown after a 1960 musical and 1964 movie "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."  Kristen Iversen, author of "Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth" writes that there is no evidence that she ever referred to herself as "unsinkable."  It is believed that a Denver gossip columnist might have given her the name after Brown gave her account to another paper.

**  James Cameron's epic tale of the tragedy was released in 1997 and became the top-grossing film of all-time until his "Avatar" passed it in 2010.

**  "World's largest metaphor hits ice-berg" The Onion satirically headlined the disaster in a joke front page dated 1912.

That Funny Onion.  --Cooter