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...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...
...through the roof come July. All Pete needs is $3,000 capital. He is without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes out to get the grubstake. This initially involves doing business with a loan shark. The pork-belly deal is delayed, so the shark sells her contract to a madam, who sells it to a couple of Mafia killers, who sell it to some cattle rustlers. As each new situation becomes increasingly preposterous, laughter is supposed to rise in proportion...
...traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs $5.95. Season series tickets are available at the Loeb...