Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of Actor Jackie Gleason on Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr. goes on and on. When Gleason played a pool shark called Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), Wanderone, then known as New York Fats, was moved to sue. But the cash value of the movie's publicity made him change his mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot...
They have definitely determined that the carcass is that of a mangled basking shark, which may have died at sea and was partially eaten by other sea life as it drifted ashore...
...When I saw that it was a cartilaginous skeleton, pieced such that parts could be missing and saw the fin configurations, I thought-large shark," said Paul Sieswerda, a salt water aquarist at the New England Aquarium...
...Basking sharks have been reported in various books as having been mistaken for sea serpents on several occasions. The basking shark gets its name from its habit of staying on the surface of the water and lounging...
Unfortunately, this maneuver exposes the fish to the possibility of being hit and killed by passing ships. The shark, after rotting or being eaten as it washes in, may then be mistaken for a sea serpent. This may have been the case with Cecil, the once celebrated sea monster whose remains at last word were being unceremoniously fed to the New England Aquarium's garbage disposal...