Word: sharked
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Rants from the director and talk-show regular: "[Ben] Affleck is right for almost every role. Trying to fly a new Superman flick? Cast Affleck ... They're making another Jaws? Affleck can play the shark...
...DANGER: SHARK CURES AHEAD
...reports of Cuban cancer patients cured by shark cartilage created a stir in 1993. But a new study of breast- and colorectal-cancer patients in the journal Cancer found that the cartilage didn't help any of them. In fact, it was so toxic, some patients dropped out of the study after a month. --By Sora Song
...weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition of a fairy tale--or one told from a different angle--validates an underlying message: that in a world full of knotty menace, someone who cares will always be there to tell us the same story...
Just when you thought it was safe to spend the summer watching reruns, Martha's Vineyard is launching its first annual Jaws Fest to lure movie buffs to the Massachusetts resort island where the shark tale was filmed. The three-day event in early June will mark the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster with an outdoor screening and appearances by Jaws novelist Peter Benchley and co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, along with displays of movie props and behind-the-scenes photographs. (Universal Studios' commemorative DVD set won't be available until later that month.) The reunion...