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Morris Jacoby, who said he didn’t have anything to do with it and I should call Mr. Demuro in California. At Universal City, California, Mr. Demuro wasn’t there, but his office suggested that I speak to another attorney, Shel Middleman, which I did. “Does Universal Pictures still have those studio tours for the general public?” I asked. “Yes we do.” “Well, suppose I wrote in a newspaper that you had a real live sniper along that tour. And as a result of this, business dropped off. Couldn’t the studio sue my paper?” “Probably.” “Well, then the reverse is also true. A movie studio cannot cause economic hardship to a resort town without bearing the responsibility.” Shel Middleman thought about this. “If a town could sue for loss of business, then W.C. Fields would have been sued long ago. Remember his famous line? ‘I went to Philadelphia last week. But it was closed.’” “Still, if this movie is SO vivid as to scare the wits out of everybody, it should have a disclaimer on it. NO MAN-EATING SHARK HAS EVER BEEN SEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE HAMPTONS. Have you seen the film?” “No. Let me get on this, and I’ll call you back.” Three hours later, Middleman called back. He’d had a “reader” at the studio, a young woman named Camille Smith, read the script for the very reason I had called about. “The film takes place in Amity,” Middleman reported. “There are references to resorts up and down the Northeast coast from Maine to the Jersey shore. They’ve left it deliberately vague. It could be anywhere on the coast.” I asked to speak to Smith, and had her read me some of the location references in the script. “There are 300,000 people who will gladly use the Cape Cod beaches if they can’t come here,” was one quote. And there were others. “They’ve given us time. We’ve got to contact the Port Authority and the Coast Guard out at Montauk.” “If one more guest leaves for Cape Cod, I’ll sign the petition.”
“We’ve had several sightings of the shark before he came here. One was off the Jersey shore.” “If you want leaky boats, lower rates, go to the Hamptons.” In other words, if you really think about it, you can locate the film on eastern Long Island. Still, there are enough references to New York or Boston or Maine to leave the whole thing slightly vague. The studio was being very careful in avoiding any problems. So, I made a lot of telephone calls and I
accomplished nothing. The film will be out shortly, and if it terrifies people into not going into the water, so be it. Perhaps everybody will go to the Catskills. When you think about it, though, do you realize what the film The Exorcist did to the field of parapsychology? Interest boomed after the film came out. And that film scared the daylights out of everybody who saw it too. Perhaps we’ll be swamped with visitors who want to prove they can swim in the ocean.
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