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Tag Archives: Jaws
2010 Books Read
Round-up of the books I read this year, in the order in which I read them. I am nearly finished with one last book (a collection of stories by Miranda July, given to me by my sister Siobhan for my … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Andrei Tarkovsky, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Proulx, books read, Dava Sobel, David O. Selznick, David Thomson, E.M. Forster, Elia Kazan, Ellen Terry, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Ireland, Jane Langton, Jaws, Joan Blondell, John Banville, John McGahern, Mark Helprin, Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde, Peter Bogdanovich, Rebecca West, Roman Polanski, Ron Chernow, Russia, Serbia, Shakespeare, Shirley Jackson, Stefan Zweig, Sylvia Beach, Tana French, Tennessee Williams, Warren Beatty
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The Making of Jaws 2:
A couple behind-the-scenes photos. I have been laid low by the flu. This week has been very rough for me, although strangely productive as well, with me literally blackberry-ing people I need to contact for this or that project from … Continue reading
The making of “Jaws 2”: “everybody said that was a good idea”
Carl Gottlieb, screenwriter for Jaws 2 (as well as Jaws), was brought in a little bit into the game to flesh out the characters. He was flown down to Florida, where the entire 120-person company was basically sitting in a … Continue reading
Movie Monologues Part 2
5 movie monologues to remember. I so agree with his choice of Robert Shaw’s monologue in Jaws: The trio’s search for the killer shark alternates between suspense and laughs, but for one scene it stops. Quint (Robert Shaw) and Hooper … Continue reading
“the fish sensed a change in the sea’s rhythm”
I really like this article about Peter Benchley, author of Jaws who just died. A funny analysis of the book itself – and the screenplay by Benchley which came to Steven Spielberg in its first draft – with NO JOKES … Continue reading
Scariest Moment In Film
Watching some show right now on Bravo: The 100 scariest movies. I came in in the middle of it. The films listed so far: Psycho Texas Chainsaw Massacre Exorcist The Shining They have all these people commenting on why certain … Continue reading