The 1997 film by James Cameron about the tragic sinking of the massive ocean liner is also the story of a rich passenger, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet), and working-class Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), who meet despite the stringent class separation on the ship. Winslet and DiCaprio ad-libbed the scene early on in the film in which Rose thanks Jack for saving her life, and the scene in which Jack teaches her to spit was almost entirely improvised as well. The water in which Winslet and DiCaprio both spend much of the second half of the movie was from the Pacific Ocean and was incredibly cold – DiCaprio shouted "This is cold!" and Winslet gasped as they got in, both unscripted. Cameron left the reactions in the movie.
Mark Sappenfield
Editor
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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