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Show DAILY C4 Porie Turner 'Sunday, August 24, 2008 HERALD : THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA The brightly lit room look like any nonde- script warehouse packed with braces and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly (200 million worth . of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck. The 5,500-piecollection contains almost everything recovered f ran the wreckage erf the RMS Titanic, which has sat2.5 miles below the surface ' of the Atlantic ocean since the boat sank on April 15, 1912. When the fine china, brine-soakshoes and water- stained sheet music aren't on tour around the world, they have a permanent home in Atlanta, the headquarters of ' Premier Exhibitions, which has guardianship over the ar. ' ce ed . ; these pieces and it really helps me to connect tothe Titanic on a personal level, said CberyL , tifacts."' Mure, director of education for ' It's like the Smithsonian Premier, as she held a teacup. ITuaJEV Photo Pimr. : LEARVAyaopialsd by ; mast remarkable could the .. be here for weeks .. One of you Leslie Cone, associate registrar PeftL and Becky Parker, registrar for Premier Exhibits, pack recoveries was a leather case of and not see everything ' said Leslie Cone, an assistant v artifacts at a warehouse in Atlanta qn AugtS. "... perfume vials, which contain oil that gives off a.sweet pdor; w. registrar with Premier, as , The process to get a piece she looted at the collection ' of delicate papers from the .1. been recovered in such good On a recent day , Cone and .. ready for exhibition is long and Any time an attraction : condition. often tedious, said registrar . Titanic. Theres just endless . another colleague carefully opens, attendance inevitably In the paper room of the Becky Parker. surprises and wonders in this is going to slide from your ' packed up items to ship to. ' . . when artifacts are recov-ere-d Wear-curcollection." sheet said music, the show. warehouse, year; opening aquarium aquarium ' from the wreckage site, About 200 piecesfrom the rency and journals bear water spokesmmi Dave Sanlucci ing white cotton gkves,they Titanic coOection will be exhib-- : Were trying to make sure , slowly picked up a pair of stains and some tears, but few they are immediately placed in tanks of salt water. The trea-surked at the Georgia Aquarium people don't feel they've seen dainty women's slippers and . other signs they were in the ' are siowlytransitioned to ocean for decades. Iii the room starting Friday, the first time. everything at the aquarium. placed them in a crate full of Ttie Titanic collection has - foam and tissue paper; The where metals are stored, an : salt free Wider and then dried the show has been at an aquar- d 'him. shoes laid iii a ; asparagus pot and a wok have overt he next few months. : helped unlock the mystery leather suitcase on the bottom some dents, holes and a vivid .Officials with Premier are behind what was once the Paper is freeze dried and then worlds largest passenger ship; of the Atlantic ocean for close green patina but look more like vacuumed to remove all salt hoping the tactic win breathe which eventually became the, new Me into the to a century, but they slill .. they were pulled out of an attic and debris. ' Some pieces take a few show and help visitors better, rathet than a ship wreck. watery grave erf 1,517 people. I have, the imprint of a foot on The collection includes ev- - .' The china still boasts the ,r months and others take up to the role the ocean has the sole; grasp " intricate rope and porthole ' two years to get ready for exhiThe tanning process for played in theirtory erf the erything from fine chjna and in.. in officials cookware to a 30,000ound leather the early 1900s bition, Parker said But Premier ship. And aquarium pattern and the iconic White exhibi--. hunk of the ships hulL ; cluded achemiicul that wards Star Lire logo-- - a flag wkh a -- is careful to not change the conhope the first ' ; off ocean microbes that would dition of the art if acts other than Iii the Atlanta warehouse thxi will bring more visitors to,, .. single large star in the middle, one of this world's largest fish where the artifacts are stored,, have normally destroyed most A green bottle still has cham- .. to stabilizethem sothey wont ' deteriorate any more, she said... ; there is a constant hum of nonmetal pieces. That chemi-"ctanks, where attendance numpagne left in it. ' I is the only reason so many bers Ijave been on a steady dethat protect metal and When look at this,! think ,We believe it tells the stay ' cline sinceit opened in 2005. paper from moisture in the air. artifacts from the Titanic have of who would be eating off of in a more accurate and compel-- ling way by conserving them, . " r' : . . , . . . es -- . bow-toppe- . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . . al . . . . . Alexander F. Remington . old friend Washington Ratsp (Larry Sloman). . THE VVASMNGTONPOST tradilionaiounding country . He doesnt have a new al--. bum and hasnt written a song WASHINC?Itf -r The 'v only thing Jews and cowboys , in decades, but he has a new .have in common is we both book. 'What Would Kinky like to wear our hats indoors," Do?, and, ever t he gracious says the rarely bareheaded .' entertainer, he .welcomes auto- Kinky Friedman, a novelist, grapheekers; I will sign anything but bad legislation, he V magazine columnist, humorist, cigar maker, animal lover, says reached by phone at his Texas gubernatorial candidate Echo Hill Ranch in Twcas. The and occasional louring country' show will feature the classic songs and stage banter he has singer. .' Friedman is coming to been honing for years; Friedtown next week by happen- man is known as a funnyman who doesn't shy away from stance: Washington is on the way to. Woodstock, wherehe repeating his best lines. ; will day wkh his old buddy Friedman first rose to ' Levon m the 1970s wkh Helni, drummer from '. the Band. Friedman will be. Kinky Fripdman and the Texas joined on stage at both venues Jewboys, styling the bands name after Bob Wills and His by longtime bandmate Little Jewford (Jeff Shelby) and Texas Playboys. He wrote . " - -- r- . . . : ... : . . : . ' - : songs with provocative or Satirical lyrics, such as. Sold , American." "We Reserve the Right toRefuse Service to You" and Ride Em, Jewboy," But he couldn't find main- stream success in America: So he turnedta writing piystery novels starring an aritateur detective named Kinky Friedman, .: ... . . ... '. theassociateo press';' NEW YORK Stage actors love theater. Film actars see movies. Musiciara dig concerts by their fellow musicians. But TV performers just don't seem to catch miidi IV, according to an unofficial survey spanning yean of alter-- , views Ive had with them. Let me stress the not at nature of this pod: Among the scads of TY stars Ive. talked to.1 never made a point of grilling them on their TV consumptioa I don't recall how. ofe ten k came up. author. ing a But over time I started to realize (arid mari ; The characters from Fox's Family Guy, ;: Then, in 200d, he ran for governor of Texas as an indepen- animated program from left Peter, Lois, vel) that, out of everyone whodid address the issue with me, fewer than a dozen of them with Stewie on her tipi Meg, on ground, dent, using the slogan Why the Hell NotTVand received 12 perChris ahd dpg Brian, are shown. copped to being TV fans.; f :. The rest: Well, cent erf the vote; He Is seriously they don't shun just the pro- - .r thinking about running again in grains'they appear in. They don't,' watch TV; 2010. This time, though, he'd be ever heard at TiVaAnd I think k reflects the period. Or so they claim. " aDemocrat:-Why wOukl they blind themselves to the stigma that'TV has been saddled wkh since . Between truth (TV's vision of the truth, anyway, which birth a stigma TV will still be stuck wkh writing and the' '. when its convergence wkh the Wd) is fully conhustings, Friedman has been they're aU part of)? an infrequent performer. He s summated, and the term "television" is retired .; They're busy! They havetobe up early and late! Those are explanations rve still tours Europe every couple tothe same place as the wireless and gramobeen handed, 'Cof years; after a successful few phone." Besides, after spending so much time in the weeks there this summer, he is about people Who are gung-hSociety candy factory (I'm paraphrasing here) they just TV as menially challenged, hopeless nerds or playing the East Coast for the don't have a sweet tooth anymore, first time in a decade. cursed wkh too much time on their hands. ' His physical appearance ' Then TV shows reinforce thbse stereotypes. . Somestars make a rare exception tothe no-Trule. cable . Whos watch mustache, more of a TV fan than Homer Sinqson news, hat, cigar (cowboy Maybe they in mouttO looks just as it did in ; (a fat, ambition-les- s lamebrain), unless its fel- -: maybe ESPN,, who knows? Maybe theyre the 70s. So does his curly hair. sneaking a peek at the Olympics. Maybe the v low cartoon couch potato Peter Q-t- f fin wkh his' smart comedy of the moment ("The Office,. . maniac brood bn Family the reason for his nickname. He was bom Richard Friedman 63 or, before that, Seinfeld") or the fashionable A TV masterpiece regularly pegs its hero as ... drama (early in ks run. I'd often hear ER," and a lowbrow channel surfer: Behold Tony Soprayears aga n then, for a number of years. "The Sopranos"), no in front of his , Onstage, he gets into char- TV, spooring up Or maybe an admitted guilty pleasure likeThe ice cream, as, heavy-liddeacter by thickening his Texas and expressionless, he gazes at a War documentary. accent, warming the audience Amazing Race or Project Runway." anecdotes and .. Beyoixl that, k seems, they Shut their eyes to Uttle wonder if TV stars think loving TV : . up wkh r that he reuses in col- what's bn TV, at least when ks on. For them, publicly wouki harm their reputation. And ' umns from Texas Monthly and never mind the irary that they might choose apparently, watching TV is akin.to slumming; novels..' to occupy their leisure time with krftier things offputtingly exotic; or, unaccountably, none of ' their business. . than the TV programs wkh which they expect Interviewing him feels a bit - Of course, being a selective viewer isnt bad,. like being in an audience: He ustoocciqryours. ' The average American logs 4 J2 hours of TV uses all the same jokes, and But, happily, thats not the whble story. . 1 have come across a handful of TV stars who, per day, a sum that should setoff the although his tone is a bit more intimate, he rarely breaks the '. alarm.. Unabashedly, include themselves among the ; But many TV stars insist that catching up fourth walL Offstage, he calls for instance, Ricky Gervais, masses with even a program they confess to liking those reruns literary echoes." the gifted whose credits is more trouble than ks worth. They claim to He constantly references Mark' include "The Office" and "Extras. never be around a TV when that show is on the : I live a very, very normal Me," he told me Twain, often sounding Twauv . like himself. (As Friedman air, They seem to have never heard of TiVo. a couple of years ago. I walk to work. I walk Eve been hearing this kind of thing from badt from work; I'm at home at 6 oclock, in says, "Being funny is a serious TV stars since long before anybody v. my pajamas watching television." thing.) ; ; , .; . -- . . . full-tim- . . . . . . . thwork . ' bnds . Your Insurance . ' hazier Moore ' . ; . ; she said. The Titanic wreck site was first discovered iii 1985 by ' ' " oceanographer Robert Ballard., Twoyears later. Premier sub-- . sidiary RMS Titanic Inc.began the first of seven recovery , missions to the wreckage to collect artifacts. More trips are planned though.no dates have ' been set yet. r The exhibition, which runs atthe aquarium through spring 2009, first began touring in 1994 and has traveled as far away as Sweden;, France, Switzerland and Argentina Company officials say all proceeds fromthe show which has ; drawn more than 20 million vis-- . itora worldwide go back to recovery efforts. Its next stop has not yet been announced.' 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