'Jaws' Spawned American Carnage

The 50th anniversary of Jaws will be met with extraordinary pomp and circumstance. Special screenings in Boston will feature live orchestra music, the cellos thrumming John Williams’s two-note soundtrack of imminent horror (E-F… E-F… E-F-E-F-E-F!). In another special showing slated for Martha’s Vineyard, “Jaws on the Water”, floating viewers will once again witness the malfunctioning 26-foot-long shark — nicknamed “Bruce”, in honor of director Steven Spielberg’s lawyer — grind his mechanical teeth rather indiscriminately through flesh, bone, and ship hull.