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A Video Essay To Be Buried in the Back with the Grocery Ads
My children love video essays so I thought I would make one. Maybe an hour of writing and recording while traffic piled upon more traffic outside and the world went to hell by the sound of it, and a further … Continue reading
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Tagged amityville horror, david byrne, dune, Fogelfoot, frank herbert, hannah arendt, paul atreides, peter benchley, richard nixon, steve miller, video essay
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“I just died in the book”
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
Frank Mundus will never put on a lifejacket again
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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Tagged inspiration, passages, peter benchley, quint
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