The front window of the gift shop Soft as a Grape in Edgartown emblazoned with references of Amity Island, the fictitious location in the film "Jaws." (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Editor's Note: This is an ...

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In 1916, five shark attacks along the New Jersey coast left four people dead and one injured. The rare inland attacks sparked panic, beach closures, and widespread media coverage. The events helped ...

The titular giant Great White shark opens its mouth in a still from the film, 'Jaws,' directed by Steven Spielberg, 1975. (Photo by Universal Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images) National Geographic has ...

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Fifty years ago, this week, people started thinking twice about taking a dip in the ocean. (SOUNDBITE OF LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & JOHN WILLIAMS' "THEME (FROM 'JAWS')") FADEL: 1975's "Jaws" scared ...

Amity Island, in the late Peter Benchley's 1974 bestseller "Jaws," appears to be a thinly-disguised Long Island. In the 1975 movie, celebrating its 50th anniversary June 20, Amity would seem to be ...

Even among the, uh, sharkiest film critics, "Jaws" is considered one of the most revered movies of all time. It was 50 years ago that the picture swam into theaters. At the time, Steven Spielberg was ...

New Jersey can justly claim "Jaws" as its own — for the following five excellent reasons. The author, director and actor all lived in New Jersey The real shark attacks that inspired 'Jaws' happened in ...

As a groundbreaking critical and commercial success that has now been around for five decades as of this year, I did not think there was anything else to learn about Jaws that I did not know already.