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Article: `WHITE SHARK' IS BENCHLEY'S PENANCE FOR CREATING `JAWS'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1994
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Byline: DEREK CATRON
You don't have to be in Greenpeace to figure out that Simon Chase, the hero in Peter Benchley's new book, ``White Shark,'' wouldn't care for his creator the man who gave the world ``Jaws.''
Chase makes his living studying sharks, great whites in particular, and he's worried that he'll never complete his dissertation because people are so scared of sharks thanks, in part, to Benchley that they kill them on sight.
Chase is a fanatic. When a couple of teens hook a great white and it becomes tangled in their line, Chase dives in and cuts the line. The freed shark swims past without so much as a nibble. Great whites never ...
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