Jaws is an American thriller film that was released on June 20, 1975, directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel Jaws (paperback cover shown; for the film poster, see today's Picture of the Day). It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that has attacked beachgoers at his summer resort town. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures to more than 450 screens, a wide release for the time. It was extensively marketed and followed by three sequels. Regarded as a watershed in motion picture history, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster and the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars two years later; both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model. Jaws was in 2001 selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1921: British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanton_Lambert> 1959: The extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, causing 22 fishing boats to capsize and killing 35 people. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Escuminac_disaster> 1979: Bill Stewart, an American journalist, was executed by Nicaraguan Guardia forces. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stewart_%28journalist%29> 1982: The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Conference_on_the_Holocaust_and_Genocide> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: filicology: (botany, rare) The botanical study of ferns. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filicology> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Summertime, and the living is easy. Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich, and your ma is good-looking. So, hush, little baby, don't you cry. --Ira Gershwin <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ira_Gershwin> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
