Category Archives: Movie

“I just died in the book”

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Fogelfoot

Matt Hooper resurfaces at the end of the movie “Jaws,” having hidden in some underwater shrubbery when his anti-shark cage said goodbye and farewell. But in the book, Hooper had to die

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Drinking to our appendices: appendix

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Fogelfoot

“He was looking at his appendix scar,” Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb recently told us.

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Frank Mundus will never put on a lifejacket again

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Fogelfoot

Shark fisherman Frank Mundus, who said that his exploits inspired Peter Benchley’s Quint character, died of a heart attack last week in Honolulu.

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Jaws logs

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Fogelfoot

Two Jaws-related books any fan would find entertaining and compelling are Carl Gottlieb’s “The Jaws Log” and Nigel Andrews’ “jaws.”

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Report: "Waters" still used as annoying plural of "water"

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Fogelfoot

A shark may have been spotted off South Beach in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard (“That’s where he’s been feeding,” – Matt Hooper), according to a story in the Boston Globe, reprinted below.

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Drinking to our appendices

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Fogelfoot

Perhaps the greatest intellectual debate (aside from this one) of our age is upon us.

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Tom Cassidy concedes manhood to Brody

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Fogelfoot

Early in the morning of July 2, Brody receives a call from Deputy Hendricks that someone has washed up on the beach. He goes to investigate, and there finds Tom Cassidy, who would’ve been Chrissie Watkins’ swim partner the night … Continue reading →

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