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...gulping $150 million for its makers, the movie Jaws is spattering finny largesse all over the pop landscape. Shark teeth, selling for as much as $100 apiece unmounted, have bitten off a sizable hunk of the gimcrackery market in the form of necklaces, earrings and bracelets; Boston's New England Aquarium even sells small molars for 25? each. Fishing-gear dealers report a surging demand for the extra-heavy rigs-ranging in price from $200 to $1,000-that are needed to land the beasts on beach or boat. Shark-hunting clubs are booming...
...ultimate shudder, rumored to be offered by a West Coast travel agency, is a $4,000 shark special to Australia that climaxes when the tourist is lowered into the ocean in a steel cage, which then is supposedly attacked by a slavering great white...
When Jawsmania subsides, however, it may leave a welcome and lasting legacy on U.S. shores. Largely as a result of the book and the film, shark meat is slowly but steadily finding a place on the dinner table. The toothsome steaks still are often sold to the unsuspecting under such fishy pseudonyms as "steakfish," "grayfish" and "whitefish"; the idea of dining on shark has traditionally been about as attractive to many Americans as eating fried tarantula or sting ray in aspic. But enterprising fish dealers and restaurateurs have found that they can overcome this revulsion by getting people...
...chest in the shark's horrific gullet, the victim screams bright gouts of blood as the great beast drags him down to a hideous quietus...
JAWS. The great white shark brought in $150 million, promoted a lot of jokes about ocean swimming and made, not incidentally, a vastly entertaining thriller directed by Steven Spielberg...