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The legacy of “Jaws” lives forever for Wendy Benchley. Benchley, the widow of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley and an executive ...
The interview with 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley was published June 17, 2000, in the Cape Cod Times. Benchley died in 2006.
I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter ...
Fifty years after her husband's book, the matriarch of the Benchley family talks about Jaws' legacy of shark protection.
Can you name the book from its opening line? “The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” Did you guess “Jaws” ...
The cast and crew of Jaws have chronicled the countless challenges the production faced in a variety of ways over the years, ...
June 26 also features a Q&A with Wendy Benchley, wife of 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley and ocean conservation advocate, and ...
Their decades of ocean conservation work is part of a new documentary Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, celebrating the film that was the first real summer blockbuster, and preyed upon both our ...
A new documentary reveals some of the Jewish influences on a monumental film that doesn't seem Jewish on the surface.
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 12, 2006) was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley ...