Craig Kingsbury could have simply played himself in Jaws - or maybe he did - but Spielberg decided to have him take the role of Ben Gardner and the most famous shot of the local fisherman was something of an afterthought by the director.
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Forget the shark, Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss….the true star of Jaws will always be Pipit the black labrador retriever. We dig deep to discover her behind the scenes antics and what happened to her after the Steven Spielberg shark classic.
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Over a decade before Jaws, Roy Scheider made his big screen debut in the horror film The Curse of the Screaming Corpse. In 1890s Massachusetts, one man can make a difference.
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In the aftermath of Jaws playing in IMAX theatres, explore the impact of the Steven Spielberg film then and now and take a look at the rest of the Jaws franchise, including an exclusive behind-the-scenes take on Jaws: The Revenge.
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While Spielberg was 100% correct to change the ending for purposes of his film, I have recently re-discovered a small, quiet passage in Benchley’s Jaws, one which (I will now try to convince you) helps explain why the shark just . . . dies at the end of the novel.
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Mysterious smiling shark from the depths provokes debate
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David Mirvish is excited to bring The Shark is Broken - one of the most successful plays of the 2021-22 London season - to launch the new Mirvish Theatre season in Toronto.
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Discover how Jaws co-star Richard Dreyfuss was the first choice for Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz before Roy Scheider. It would gain the Chief Brody actor his second Oscar nomination and end up his favourite role.
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