Jaws (franchise) about a great white shark terrorizing a beach resort. After various revisions and rewrites, Benchley delivered his final draft in January 1973. The title was not decided until shortly before the book went to print. Benchley says that he had spent months thinking of titles, many of which he calls "pretentious" such as "The Stillness in the Water" and "Leviathan Rising". Benchley regarded other ideas, such as "The Jaws of Death" and "The Jaws of Leviathan", as "melodramatic, weird, or pretentious." According to Benchley, the novel still did not have a title until twenty minutes before production of the book.
Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series "Saturday Night Live". The character first appeared in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film "Jaws", and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings. It was one of the most popular and imitated sketches of "SNL"'s first season. The Land Shark first appeared in a sketch entitled "Jaws II" on the Candice Bergen-hosted episode (season 1 episode 4), which originally aired on November 8, 1975. As narrated by Don Pardo (the