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June is tornado season in Kansas, and on June 22, 1958, a baseball game between the Kansas City Athletics and the Boston Red Sox person in history – 22 Awards and 59 nominations was delayed by 29 minutes due to a twister. On the same day in 1969, another tornado hit Kansas, ironically, on the date of Judy Garland’s death. Maybe the weather was remembering Judy starring as Dorothy, the young girl in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, whose house was swept away to the Land of Oz by a tornado.

JAWS June 20 marks the anniversary of the release of the movie Jaws, which debuted in 1975 on 464 screens across the continent. Follow along as Tidbits reviews the history of this blockbuster about a giant man-eating shark. • The movie’s fictional Amity Island was actually filmed on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, beginning in May, 1974. Several of the local folks were hired as extras on the movie and were paid $64 to run across the beach screaming. • Three full-size sharks, each costing about $250,000, were created for the movie. The pneumatically-powered mechanical great whites were nicknamed Bruce after director Steven Spielberg’s lawyer Bruce Ramer. • Jaws was the first major film to be shot on the ocean, which created all kinds of trouble, causing the film to drastically exceed its budget and miss its scheduled completion by 104 days. The film’s budget was set at $4 million, but the final bottom line ballooned to $9 million. Problems with the mechanical sharks contributed to a huge increase in the special effects budget. The very first day the model shark was put in the water, it sank to the bottom of the ocean. Malfunctions continued with the pneumatic hoses filling up with salt water, and corrosion of the props’ skin. • Spielberg, just 28 years old, wanted moviegoers to feel as if they were treading water, and so filmed about 25% of the movie at water level. This presented the problem of unwanted watercraft drifting into view, as well as making actors seasick much of the time. • Although the movie opened in just 464 screens, after opening with a $7 million weekend, it was expanded within to 700 theaters by July 25, and an additional 250 by August 15. (continued on next page)

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