Jaws
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Here Comes the Bite February 01, 2024
Next year, when Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, it will no doubt be hailed as the film that invented the summer blockbuster, the first classic to be directed by a Baby Boomer, the first movie to be largely shot on ...
A Tragicomedy on the Making of 'Jaws' August 11, 2023
he central conflict of The Shark Is Broken, the tragicomedy about the making of Jaws, premiering at the Golden Theatre on Thursday, does not involve man and beast so much as beastly men. Co-authored by Joseph Nixon and Ian Shaw, the 53-year-old son o...
The Cursed Outposts of America’s Empire August 10, 2023
There is a distinct literary genre associated with imperial peripheries. In Britain, it is known as Greeneland, the world of Graham Greene — those dusty forgotten outposts where morality is suspended, the political illusions of the metropole are laid...
On NBA Twitter August 07, 2023
The year is 2015; it’s July, the NBA off-season and the boiling point for media and fan speculation about potential trades. The exact verbiage of Fox sports analyst Chris Broussard’s tweet about then-Dallas Mavericks center Deandre Jordan is seared—p...
Coded to Kill August 04, 2023
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. government is poised to adopt a nationwide system for Electronic Health Records that uses the latest advances in advanced artificial intelligence to immediately identify emerging diseases and vastly improve ...
Lana Del Rey: A Great American Poet August 02, 2023
The corner lot of 100 E Ocean Boulevard is not mythic. It’s a small patch of scrubland, rubble and grass, graffitied wall panels, a couple of vertebral palms. Round the back, a parking lot, asphalt bleached and sickly under the Los Angeles sun, and a...
Bill Butler, Cinematographer on ‘Jaws’, Dies at 101 April 17, 2023
Bill Butler, the self-taught, Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose work on the landmark 1975 horror film Jaws unleashed a wave of anxiety for beachgoers that lasts to this day, has died. He would have turned 102 on Friday.Butler died Wednesday eveni...
