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Florida Man Collecting One Million VHS Copies Of ‘Titanic’

Author Carla Rea
Florida Man Collecting One Million VHS Copies Of 'Titanic'

A Florida man wants to own a MILLION copies of Titanic. Nope, not kidding.

In an ABC Action News Florida news report, JD (like Jack Dawson?) says he is a big Titanic fan. He watched it over and over when he was young. So he’s trying to collect a MILLION copies of the movie Titanic  – on VHS.

He only has about 2,500 so far, so he’s asking people to send him their spare copies in the mail. Huh – who would have thought someone would want your VHS tapes. But JD does.

If you had VHS tapes, chances are pretty good that you had a copy of Titanic. JD says it was one of the top-selling tapes, “with more than 25 MILLION in circulation.” I’m sure if he’s counting the ‘in a box, in the basement’ copies, he’s spot on!

He still has a long way to go, and he jokes around about his fandom. But his dedication is real. And he claims he already has the world’s largest collection of the “Titanic” soundtrack on CD. #Goals

He’s already spent a few years collecting, and “Titanic” was a Double VHS. Which means these are taking up some serious space in his house. Obviously, he won’t get to one million copies by hitting up thrift shops, and garage sales. So he needs YOUR help, too.

He’s asking people to basically clean out their junk, and send it to him. Donate your spare copies of Titanic to him. You can mail them to him, but you will have to cover the shipping. If you’re interested in participating in the million copy Titanic madness, the address is: P.O. Box 5355, Largo, Florida, 33779.

You can also watch JD’s videos on YouTube at Titanicfan97.

Move over Rose – I’m getting on the door with you! Not a line in Titanic. But it should have been.

Carla Rea is the morning show co-host on “The Mike and Carla Morning Show" on 96.3 KKLZ, in Las Vegas. She has been working with her partner and friend Mike O'Brian for the past 25 plus years. At KKLZ for 12 years. Carla Rea is a Gracie Award winner. She started out in talk radio, "when talk radio was still fun" Rea says. Prior to, and along with doing the morning show, Carla is also a comedian. You may have seen her on Conan O'Brien, Evening at The Improv, Showtime, or several comedy clubs across the country. Carla also worked as a light feature reporter at KSNV/NBC Las Vegas, going behind the scenes at various shows, and restaurants on the Las Vegas strip. As a content creator 96.3 KKLZ, Carla writes in a sarcastic, cheeky, unapologetic way on Las Vegas, movies, TV, celebrities, and this thing we call life.

James Cameron Now Admits That Jack 'Might Have Lived' in 'Titanic'

James Cameron now concedes that Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack “might have survived” in Titanic. It’s the age-old question we’ve been asking since the blockbuster movie was released 25 years ago: Why didn’t Kate Winslet’s Rose pull Jack up onto the float with her? There was definitely enough room, right?

It’s a topic that is tackled in a new one-hour National Geographic special “Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron.” The special is set to air this weekend. Cameron took a couple of stunt actors on a series of tests to see whether or not Rose and Jack could have survived if she had pulled him out of the water. We’ll explain below.

The special airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on National Geographic and streams the next day on Hulu.

  • James Cameron enlisted help from two stunt doubles

    Actors Josh Bird and Kristine Zipfel, who were thought to be about the same height and weight as Jack and Rose, were hired for the test. Cameron notes that they doubled the time for every stage of the simulation, to make up for the fact that their water wasn’t as cold as it would have been in the Atlantic Ocean in April.

  • James Cameron made sure the elements were similar to what Jack and Rose would have experienced

  • Close monitoring was done on the actors to prevent hypothermia

    Jack would have suffered severe hypothermia after only 20 minutes, far shorter than the 2 hours it took for rescue crews to arrive. But if he was pulled onto the raft, things would’ve been different.

     

  • Both actors had to work to fit themselves onto the raft

    Kneeling didn’t work and keeping only their upper bodies on top would have given them both hypothermia quickly. They compromised and sat on the raft dipping only their lower legs into the water.

  • James Cameron makes this shocking conclusion

    “Final verdict: Jack might have lived,” Cameron said, “but there’s a lot of variables.” However, he added, “In a well-lit experiment in a test pool, we can’t possibly simulate the terror, the adrenaline, all the things that would have worked against them. Jack didn’t get to run a bunch of different experiments to see what worked the best. Jack’s survival might have come at the cost of her life.”

    Cameron says he would’ve made Rose’s raft a LOT smaller now, knowing what he knows.

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