THE LOVE BOAT ON LAST VOYAGE.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer VALENCIA - Twenty-five years after the Love Boat set a course for adventure and our minds on a new romance, the ship that promised something for everyone - namely, lots of celebrity guests and campy plots - is on its final voyage. The Sun Princess For the Northern Yan empress, see . Sun Princess may refer to one of two cruise ships:
deck - any of various platforms built into a vessel , has been sold to a group of Italian investors - but to hoards of TV fans, it will always be ``The Love Boat.'' The Aaron Spelling-produced show set sail on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. in 1977 and provided a springboard for little-known actors like Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal and Jamie Lee Curtis  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. , while offering aging stars like Lana Turner, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Carol Channing another shot at the small screen. The 640-passenger ship set sail from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Sunday bound for Rome - the final journey for the ship that sparked the cruising industry boom still thriving today. ``Every week when the show aired, millions of people were introduced through television to the then-new idea of vacation cruising,'' said Phil Kleweno, president of Valencia-based Princess Cruises. ``I think most in our business would agree that 'The Love Boat' was responsible for beginning the modern-day growth of the cruising industry.'' The show's mix of schmaltzy schmaltz·y also schmalz·y adj. schmaltz·i·er, schmaltz·i·est Informal Of, relating to, or marked by excessive or maudlin sentimentality. See Synonyms at sentimental. love triangles, bikini-clad beauties, exotic locales and slap-stick confusion proved a hit with viewers, extending the life of the show for nearly a decade. However, the program won more than ratings: The waiting list to book passage on the Sun Princess - and a shot at appearing on the show as an extra - kept travel agents busy for years. Princess Cruises, which boasts nine ships in its fleet, said it expects to add seven more luxury liners by 2004. |
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