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...most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin), and a youthful ichthyologist named Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), all theory and wisecracks. Scheider is occasionally too recessive for his own good, while Shaw is too excessive for the good of the film. Dreyfuss, however, is perfect. With a cheeky charm he manages...
...Robert Shaw, 48, had a cooler opinion of the project. "Jaws was not a novel," he says. "It was a story written by a committee, a piece of shit." He was not inclined to take the part until his late wife, Actress Mary Ure, and his secretary both had a long look at the script and urged him on. "The last time they were that enthusiastic was From Russia With Love," recalls Shaw, who played the slow-thinking, fast-moving hit man in that Bond epic. "And they were right then. So I took the part...
...Although Shaw has appeared in over two dozen movies (he was the conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes...
Incoherence approaches an absolute. It would take George Bernard Shaw to handle the resultant ironies of God, man and money. Condon merely bangs the ironies together, hoping that they will make comical sounds. Such is his rare and clangorous gift that sometimes they do. ∙John Skow
...Herbert Shaw, director of the Medical Information in the University News Office, said yesterday that although the professors had a bullhorn, they did not disturb the commencement proceedings...