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When Peter Benchley wrote "Jaws," nobody imagined the unintended consequences that would follow.

OK, it wasn't quite like that scene near the end of "Jaws" where a great white shark the size of an orca crashes through the submerged cage as Richard Dreyfuss haplessly tries to stick a strychnine syringe in the monster's mouth.

"Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives." BITING The great white shark, with its serrated teeth, was thought to have evolved from the ancient megalodon.

People have long feared the mysteries of the ocean, real and imagined, but sharks have always held a special ability to scare the wits out of us.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 The closest most New Englanders will ever come to seeing a great white shark is in television reruns of the 1975 thriller, "Jaws." Shark citings by swimmers are rare, but not unknown in waters this far north, but great whites? They are something we associate with the Pacific waters off Australia - maybe Florida or the ...

"I can attest that underwater, cruising toward you out of the gloom with the confidence of the invincible, a 12ft great white looks like a locomotive with malice in mind." - Peter Benchley, author of Jaws .

You're supposed to feel guilty when you secretly like the movie version of a book better than the book itself, but in the case of Jaws - a book I read and reread long before I was allowed to see the film - I'm far more embarrassed to admit I prefer the novel.

You're supposed to feel guilty when you secretly like the movie version of a book better than the book itself, but in the case of Jaws - a book I read and reread long before I was allowed to see the film - I'm far more embarrassed to admit I prefer the novel.

Shark attacks are the stuff of nightmares, but without a complete ban on finning, sharks have more to fear from us Ever since I was a little boy, the vision has been the same: the dark water, the feel of something rising underneath me, the glint of razor-sharp white teeth, the pressure and the plume of blood as that black eye rolls over white.

Shark attacks are the stuff of nightmares, but without a complete ban on finning, sharks have more to fear from us Ever since I was a little boy, the vision has been the same: the dark water, the feel of something rising underneath me, the glint of razor-sharp white teeth, the pressure and the plume of blood as that black eye rolls over white.

Shark attacks are the stuff of nightmares, but without a complete ban on finning, sharks have more to fear from us Ever since I was a little boy, the vision has been the same: the dark water, the feel of something rising underneath me, the glint of razor-sharp white teeth, the pressure and the plume of blood as that black eye rolls over white.

Ita TMs hard to find a good audiobook for long car trips, something that both kids and adults can stand to listen to.

TV picks for Sunday night. can't miss DVR or Tivo for Discovery Channel Shark Week, Sunday night is extra special as the first night's high definition feature is "Blood In The Water," the story of the shark attacks in 1916 that inspired the book "Jaws" by Peter Benchley which eventually led to the big screen film classic from 1975.

Here are the reasons I watch the movie Jaws each summer. 1. I think it would be nice to spend a summer in Long Island at some beach town.

Terrifying patrons of death, or misunderstood creatures of the sea? Either way, it's the most exciting TV week of the summer.

Cue the ominous tubas from John Williams' "Jaws" score. Check for dorsal fins. Shark Week is back.

London, July 26 : The success of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' may have been put down to Peter Benchley's bestselling novel but the writer's brilliant horror-thriller was actually based on fact.

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The Deep This 1977 thriller from a novel by Peter Benchley, now available on Blu-ray, stars Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda where, while diving, they discover what they hope is a long lost treasure but turns out to be something comparable in value but much more volatile.

After a couple of early 1970s shows that became enormous blockbusters -- Love Story , The Godfather -- Universal's Jaws dominated the summer box office in 1975, inaugurating the trend toward massive crowd-pleasing event movies.