7/6: Sunday Morning – CBS News Watch CBS News Hosted by Mo Rocca. In our cover story, Rocca examines the history of the Statue of Liberty and how it became a beacon for immigrants. Also: Ben Mankiewicz talks with Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb about the making of “Jaws”; Robert Costa interviews…
At a dock on Martha’s Vineyard is the Orca, the boat from “Jaws.” It’s a replica, of course; the original one sank, weighed down by a five-ton man-eating shark. The guy next to the Orca, however, is the real thing. Of this Orca, Richard Dreyfuss said, “It’s too neat, by far.” Actor Richard Dreyfuss, with…
Extended interview: Richard Dreyfuss on filming “Jaws” – CBS News Watch CBS News In this web exclusive, actor Richard Dreyfuss talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about fighting for the role that would launch his career into the stratosphere: the shark expert Matt Hooper in Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws.” He also discusses the notoriously…
Inside “Jaws”: Making the film classic – CBS News Watch CBS News Fifty years ago, a monumental movie premiered that forever changed Hollywood: Steve Spielberg’s “Jaws,” adapted from Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel, which became the highest-grossing film of its time. Richard Dreyfuss returned to Martha’s Vineyard, which hosted the film production in 1974, and talked…
From the archives: “Jaws” blamed for tourist slump at North Carolina beach – CBS News Watch CBS News The Steven Spielberg film “Jaws” was doing gangbusters business in theaters once it opened in the summer of 1975, prompting fears of shark attacks among moviegoers – and terror among beach community tourist bureaus, which were convinced…
Would “Jaws,” the first blockbuster, be greenlit today? Probably not. Alissa Wilkinson, a New York Times film critic, breaks down why. [title_words_as_hashtags
