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President of Kiribati Wins Top Ocean Award

David Helvarg | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Climate Change, Kiribati, Un, Peter Benchley, Jaws, California, Ocean, Kiribati Climate Change, Sea Level, Green News

If you're not satisfied with how the leaders of the world's major powers including the U.S., China, India and Brazil are addressing climate change or protecting the ocean maybe you could direct their attention to Kiribati.

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Monday Night Football Switching To 2-Man Booth

AP | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Mike Tirico, Monday Night Football Espn, Ron Jaworski ESPN, Ron Jaworski, Nfl, Jaworsk Monday Night Football, Jaws, Espn, Monday Night Football, Jon Gruden, Ron Jaworski Monday Night Football, Sports News

BRISTOL, Conn. -- "Monday Night Football" is switching to a two-man booth. Analyst Ron Jaworski has signed a five-year contract extension to appear o...

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JAWS Ride To Close For Good

Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Jaws Ride, Video, Universal Orlando Jaws, Universal Orlando, Jaws, Universal-Studios-Orlando, Travel News

After scaring millions of visitors and children for 21 years, Universal Orlando is closing its much-beloved JAWS ride come January 2, the Baltimore Su...

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Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic

David Finkle | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Shampoo, Jaws, Penelope Gilliatt, Petaluma, Tillamook, Oregon, Anne Kael, Bernardo Bertolucci, California, Bobby Driscoll, William Shawn, Nashville, Steven Spielberg, James Broughton, Sam Peckinpah, Gene Siskel, Pauline Kael, Brian Kellow, The New Yorker, Cinema Guild, Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, Sight & Sound, The Partisan Review, Julie Christie, Roger Ebert, Warren Beatty, Gina James, San Francisco, Last Tango in Paris, Mystic Movie Theater, Robert Altman, Marlon Brando, Viking, Rose Kael, Books News

The only fan letter I ever wrote to a public figure -- other than to child star Bobby Driscoll when I was a child -- went to the then New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael.

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Astoria Characters: The Stand-Up Nanny

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Astoria, Jaws, Nanny, Hairspray, Syracuse University, Carolines, Syracuse, London, Jenn Wehrung, Twins, Waitress, Astoria Characters, Magic 8 Ball, Mob Wives, Sigourney Weaver, Hamptons, Goldendoodle, New York News

When performer Jenn Wehrung got tired of serving people hamburgers and fries, she put down her tray and auditioned to be a nanny. She got the part and played it perfectly for three years.

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Sharks Become Cape Cod Tourist Attraction

AOL Travel News | Posted 09.08.2011

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Weekend Agenda: Jaws, Bastille Day And The Cone Sisters

| Kevin St. John | Posted 09.08.2011

Read More: Ifc, Cone Sisters, NY Events, Cloisters, Jaws, New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Harry Potter, Governor's Island, Bastille Day, New York News

By now you've likely run out of your weekend invitations to fancy places with beaches, so it's time to take this muggy, sluggish jungle by the horns. ...

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Spielberg Honored as Game-Changer by Directors Guild

Pamela Ezell | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, David Lean, J. J. Abrams, Directors Guild, Steven Spielberg, E.T. The ExtraTerrestrial, James Cameron, Jaws, Hollywood Studios, It's a Wonderful Life, Sid Sheinberg, Shoah Foundation, Michael Apted, Dreamworks SKG, Directors Guild of America, Spielberg Super 8, George Lucas Directors Guild, Schindler's List Awards, Hollywood Directors Guild, Directing Awards, Spielberg Filmmaking, Entertainment News

Steven Spielberg sat down at the Director's Guild Saturday to talk about his career as a part of the DGA's celebration of its 75th anniversary saluting "game-changers" who have advanced the art and craft of directing.

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Jaws of Life -- The Peter Benchley Ocean Awards

David Helvarg | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Thad Allen, Obama, Washington Post, Ocean Conservation, Academy Awards, Jaws, Bush, Costa Rica, Green News

What do a high school student from LA, a scientist who studies the DNA of whales, the president of a Central American Nation, a former Coast Guard Commandant and a Washington Post reporter have in common?

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Oscar-Worthy Work: 7 Writing Tips from Your Favorite Films (PHOTOS)

Jay Douglas | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Writing Tips From Movies, African Cats, Avatar, Writing Tips, Sunset Blvd., The Adjustment Bureau, Writing, Jaws, Slidepollajax, Black Swan, Taxi Driver, Books News

The writing process is remarkably similar to filmmaking: both writers and filmmakers need to plan their work, commit their project to film or paper and edit and polish their work until it measures up as both enlightenment and entertainment.

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Swimming with the Sharks

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trim Tabs Investment, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Stock Market, Gary Wollin, Jaws, Business News

You've got to be bonkers to swim in shark-infested waters, but it's widely happening -- no, not in the movies, but in real life -- on the financial front.

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Water, Water, Everywhere

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liz Chae, Jaws, Brian Cordray, Calendar Girls, Mans Herngren, 000 Fathoms, Waterworld, Joel Douek, Planet Earth, Jeju Island, Haenyo, Kon-Tiki, Lifeboat, Water, Film, Entertainment News

What happens when a profession becomes obsolete? Or when no one wishes to carry on a tradition? A tiny community of skin divers in the Korean Strait constitutes the last generation that will earn its living underwater.

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Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna Stage Their Own Revolución

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Titanic, The Motorcycle Diaries, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Afi, 21 Grams, Gael Garcia Bernal, The Oscars, Casablanca, Ambulante, Abel, Pan's Labyrinth, Revolución, Will Ferrell, Casa De Mi Padre, Amores Perros, Diego Luna, John Malkovich, The Mexican Revolution, Canana, Cynthia Ellis, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Jaws, Babel, Skype, Leslie Hassler, Mr. Mudd, Entertainment News

To hear Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna talk about their lifelong friendship is unusual and exquisitely beautiful. They are tender and honest about their love for each other.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Adaptation, Better Than Book, Movie Better Than Book, Jaws, Fight Club, Carrie, Die Hard, Forrest Gump, High Fidelity, Slidepollajax, Book Adaptation, Books News

Late last month we showed that the tired saying, "the book is so much better than the movie," doesn't always hold true. "Sideways," "The Princess Brid...

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WATCH: 15 Movies That Are Better Than The Book

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Thin Red Line, Stephen King, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Network, John Wayne, The Devil Wears Prada, The Shining, Sideways, Facebook, John Ford, Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, The Shawshank Redemption, Book Adaptation, Election Tom Perrotta, Manchurian Candidate, Accidental Billionaires, Movie Adaptations, The Manchurian Candidate, Movie Adaptation, Jaws, The Godfather, The Searchers, Stanley Kubrick, Devil Wears Prada, Book Adaptations, Adaptations, Thin Red Line, Adaptation, Bad Book, Books News

The book is so much better than the movie. We've all said it, we've all heard it. And we all think it's always true, that the book is better than the ...

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Missing Boater Likely Found Inside Shark Off Jaws Beach

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bahamas, Jaws Movie, Missing Boater, Judson Newton, Jaws Beach, Jaws, Shark Attack, New Providence Island, Jaws the Revenge, World News

NASSAU, Bahamas — A boater who disappeared off Jaws Beach – on an island where one of the "Jaws" movies was filmed – is likely the p...

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Snug Harbor free movie nights include Jaws, Madagascar

NewYorkology | NewYorkology | Posted 05.25.2011

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Staten Island's Snug Harbor Cultural Center tonight begins its free outdoor Movies Under the Stars series with a screening of "Mamma Mia!" All...

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Gulf Residents Speak Out About Severe Sickness From Chemicals In The Gulf

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

"The health effects are the most frightening because everybody is sick and the doctors here don't know how to treat us. We are having a hard time finding doctors."

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Shark Sightings Freak Out Cape Cod Beachgoers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shark Sightings Cape Cod, Great White Sharks, Sharks, Jaws, Animals, Travel News

A slew of great white shark sightings over the past few weeks on Cape Cod has scared swimmers in the height of summer vacation time, according to Reut...

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Shift Change: The 35th Anniversary of Jaws and Shampoo Marks the Transition From New Hollywood to Blockbuster

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shampoo, Jaws, Summer Movies, Entertainment News

Jaws brought a new scale of thrill to movies. If blockbusters today were more like Jaws and less like, say, the Transformers pictures, the culture would be less ADD and shallow than it is.

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Take One for the Team, Alexi

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin, President Obama, Alexi Giannoulias, Peter Benchley, Scott Lee Cohen, U.S. Senate, Michael Jordan, Mark Kirk, Dan Hynes, Broadway Bank, Michael-Giorango, Ronnie Woo Woo Wickers, Audacity of Hope, Jaws, David Hoffman, Nba Finals, Lisa Madigan, Chicago News

Dear Alexi, You've played plenty of hoops over the years, so you of all people should know when it's time to pull yourself out of the ball game.

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The Word Man who Won Oscars

Steve Leveen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cleopatra, John O?Hara, Twentieth Century Fox, Steven Spielberg, Jaws, Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurley Brown, Oscars, Hollywood, David Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, Entertainment News

David Brown, who produced some of the most notable movies to come out of Hollywood, told me that the most important job of a producer is to pick the director, to whom he surrenders utterly. After that, it's to provide lunch.

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Horror Chick: Why Do We Like Scary Movies?

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Melissa Lafsky is a friend of mine, but she's always seemed strange to me for one reason: She loves horror movies. Loves them. Thrillers, slashers, cr...

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HuffPost Review: Paranormal Activity (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blair Witch Project, Reviews, Scott Mendelson, Jaws, Paranormal Activity, Horror, Deep Blue Sea, News, Movies, Paramount, Entertainment News

Horror films work best when you realize that you cannot trust the filmmakers. But writer/director Oren Peli crafts a low-tech chiller that almost plays too fair with the audience.

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Flights Diverted and Other Airline Security Concerns

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Hedlund Johnson, Airtran, Detroit Airport, Jaws, Homeland Security, Hawaiian Airlines, Delta, Muhammad Abu Tahir, Liberty Airport, Kurt Haskell, Muttallab, World News

It's usually wise not to let media reports distort your perception of reality, but I'm getting nervous about this apparent uptick in aviation security events.

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