Feb. 14th, 2006

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From IMDB.com :
'Jaws' Author Dies
Jaws author Peter Benchley died in his Princeton, New Jersey home on Saturday night. He was 65. The writer, whose 1974 best-selling novel was adapted into Steven Spielberg's movie blockbusters, died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and a fatal scarring of the lungs, his widow Wendy confirmed. Despite his novel turning sharks into objects of fear for millions of people around the world, the author was a long-time campaigner for the conservation of the sea creatures. Wendy says, "Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he no more took responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia." Benchley is survived by three children and five grandchildren.

What I remember most is what me and my sister fondly recall as a "dad story." Dad stories range from the absolutely bizarre (he worked with the last victim of the Bubonic plague; he contracted it when his wife threw a dead squirrel at him wile on vacation in the islands after learning he was having an affair) to the funny (his swearing date, a girl he went out with who declared loudly after realizing that they'd walked into the movie theater just a moment too late, "Aw shit! We missed the fuckin' Donald Duck!").

The Peter Bencley story is more of a quite, coincidence type dealies. So it goes that my dad was in an elevator in the Newsweek building (where he worked as an assisstant editor in my youth) and a man that he vaguely recognized as being somewhat of a local celebrity stepped in. The man next to him shook his hand with a smile and congratulated him on selling the movie rights to his new book for such a good deal. The new arrival said something about a young director taking it on and that he was pleased with the script. Well, I don't need to tell you who it was or how it turned out, I'm sure!

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