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Variety
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‘Titanic’ Crew Recall the Night the Set Got Drugged With PCP From Spiked Chowder: ‘Grips Are Doing Wheelies in Wheelchairs’
December 19, 2022 - Of all the crazy stories from the ... Aug. 9, 1996 on the film’s set in Halifax, Nova Scotia when craft services provided clam chowder that happened to be spiked with the drug....
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Collider
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The Greatest Mystery of 'Titanic' Is Who Spiked the Crew's Chowder With PCP
May 3, 2024 - According to Vulture, while busily ... James Cameron, along with a handful of actors and a crew of filmmakers, were unknowingly treated to a dose of PCP after their catering had been spiked with the notorious substance....
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Vulture
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25 Years Later, No One Knows Who Spiked the Titanic Chowder
December 19, 2022 - The culprit behind the ‘Titanic’ PCP incident — in which chowder laced with angel dust was served to cast and crew members, including director James Cameron and Bill Paxton — remains a mystery.
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IMDb
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‘Titanic’ Crew Recall the Night the Set Got Drugged With Pcp From Spiked Chowder: ‘Grips Are Doing Wheelies in Wheelchairs’ - IMDb
‘Titanic’ Crew Recall the Night ... Aug. 9, 1996 on the film’s set in Halifax, Nova Scotia when craft services provided clam chowder that happened to be spiked with the drug....
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Global News
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Titanic, PCP and chowder: New details about drugging on 1996 film set in Halifax revealed | Globalnews.ca
June 6, 2024 - By the time they found that the food, specifically the lobster chowder, had been contaminated with PCP, the Titanic set had moved to Mexico,” a 1999 follow-up in the report stated.
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The Guardian
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The Titanic drug poisoning: is one of the greatest mysteries in film history about to be solved? | Life and style | The Guardian
April 17, 2024 - In 1996, during the filming of Titanic, about 80 people including James Cameron and Bill Paxton ended up in hospital after some of the food on set was spiked with the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
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Snopes
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Were Cast and Crew on the Film 'Titanic' Sickened by PCP-Laced Seafood Chowder? | Snopes.com
May 1, 2019 - On 26 August 1996, the Canadian ... the Halifax regional police investigated the incident and found that someone had laced the seafood chowder with PCP:...
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Entertainment Weekly
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PCP-laced chowder derails 'Titanic' filming
September 13, 1996 - Someone had laced the lobster chowder with phencyclidine—better known as PCP or angel dust. "I didn't have any experience with drugs," says one affected crew member, Marilyn McAvoy.
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iHeart
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That Time The 'Titanic' Cast and Crew Ate PCP-Spiked Chowder - The Writers Hangout | iHeart
Ho, Ho, Ho!! Happy Holidays. On August 9, 1996, a late-night shoot of James Cameron's TITANIC suddenly broke out into chaos after crafty served the cast and crew seafood chowder. At first, everyone thought it was food poisoning from the chowder, ...
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No Film School
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When the 'Titanic' Crew Ate PCP, Or the Craziest On-Set Story You've Never Heard | No Film School
December 19, 2017 - In a recent VICE interview, Marilyn McAvoy, a set painter on the film's 1996 production, told the story of when the cast and crew of the blockbuster were poisoned with PCP—in clam chowder, no less.
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The Tired Insomniac
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The Titanic crew had their food spiked with PCP – The Tired Insomniac
February 18, 2019 - In 1996, the cast and crew of Titanic were eating clam chowder (although there have been reports it could have been another type of chowder like lobster), without realizing until afterwards that it had been spiked with PCP.
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GeekTyrant
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25 Years Later the Crew of TITANIC Remembers the Night Everyone's Dinner Was Spiked With PCP — GeekTyrant
December 27, 2022 - The Canadian investigation ramped up as Titanic spent months shooting the ambitious Kate-and-Leo flashback sequences in Rosarito, Mexico. News of the PCP debacle quickly traveled south, actor Billy Zane recalls. (“Those kids had all the fun,” he jokes.) Most of the Nova Scotia crew didn’t go on to Rosarito, but at least one craft-service operator did.
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Firstpost
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James Cameron recalls a hilarious PCP-laced incident that derailed Titanic shoot with cast and crew high on PCP – Firstpost
September 18, 2019 - Image from Twitter @historylvr... As the tale goes, on the night of 8 August, 1996, the cast and crew had just broken for a meal break, and were served catered food, which also contained the chowder....
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Boing Boing
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On the set of Titanic, someone spiked the chowder with PCP, sickening director James Cameron and dozens of others - Boing Boing
December 12, 2022 - On August 9, 1996 director James ... ill after dinner. It was initially thought to have been food poisoning from the chowder that was served but turned out that someone had spiked the food with PCP....
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Harper's BAZAAR Australia
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The wild story of 'Titanic' and the P.C.P. laced chowder
December 20, 2022 - 26 years on, we are still none the wiser as to who spiked the chowder with P.C.P on the set of James Cameron's 'Titanic'.
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LADbible
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Leonardo DiCaprio speaks about Titanic film crew being spiked with PCP for first time
2 weeks ago - Leonardo DiCaprio spoke about the incident where the cast of Titanic were spiked with PCP laced chowder while filming in Nova Scotia.
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EL PAÍS English
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The night the crew of ‘Titanic’ was drugged with angel dust in their soup | Culture | EL PAÍS English
April 19, 2024 - It was done like a party thing that got carried away.” On that same podcast, the filmmaker also addressed another theory, one that didn’t exactly make him look good: " Of course, the operating theory was that I was such a psycho maniac that [the perpetrator was] trying to get back at me, but I reject that theory out of hand for obvious reasons.” 28 years after that night, it’s hard to believe that the mystery will ever be solved. It doesn’t really matter. The night of Titanic’s spiked chowder has already become part of the history of modern cinema.
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B107.3
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“Titanic” movie crew ate food mysteriously spiked with PCP. I’m guessing that’s how Cameron came up with Avatar. | B107.3 - Lincoln's #1 At Work Station
December 22, 2022 - The website Vulture recently did an interview with a couple members of that crew. It was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Food services brought in Clam Chowder, but someone spiked it with PCP.