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“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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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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