Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is bigger than a bakery truck, has skin like sandpaper, three rows of pointy white teeth and beady black eyes? Of course, it is Hollywood's newest star: a 25-ft. mechanical great white shark named Bruce...
...W.F.L. has its own woes from a scandal that surfaced recently when officials of the Philadelphia Bell and the Jacksonville Sharks confessed to hyperinflating attendance figures with a mass giveaway of tickets. Some 44,000 freebies were handed out to Shark fans for the team's first two home games. A whopping 100,000 went to Bell spectators. "The second game was on TV," explained Bell Executive Vice President Barry Leib shortly before his 48-hour suspension by League Founder-Commissioner Gary Davidson. "How would it have looked if no one was there...
...fate of British Actor Robert Shaw is not pleasant. He will shortly be chewed to death by a mechanical shark called Bruce, even as his salary is chewed up by the IRS. On location in Martha's Vineyard for the movie Jaws, Shaw is impatient with the delays that have put the film two months behind schedule; if he works more than 90 days in the U.S. he will be taxed. "We've got at least another month to go," he groaned in the longueurs between takes...
...Universal might as well pay my salary straight into the IRS." Shaw feels even worse about Bruce. The 25-foot polyurethane shark with hydraulic guts has been programmed to nip him to death -gently. But recently says Shaw, who plays the obsessed shark killer Quint, he was chasing Bruce in a fishing boat when the automated man-eater turned on his pursuers and tore a hole in the boat's underside. "My ship almost sank under me," said Shaw, adding: "What worries me is who's going to keep those mechanical teeth from sinking in too deep...
Summer School Film Series screens "The General" with Buster Keaton and "The Pool Shark," W.C. Fields' first. Sunday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m. Admission free. Science Center...