Jaws

Fifty years since its release, Jaws is still making waves. In this edition, we sink our teeth into the screams, the score and the shark called Bruce. From making history as the original blockbuster (due to the lines of cinemagoers literally circling the block) to rewiring the way humans think about the deep blue, Stephen Spielberg’s box-office baddie has a lot to answer for on top of terrorising Amity Island. Plus, we look at why real-life sharks need our protection.
More highlights in this edition:

• • Blonds really do have more fun according to Michael Cera: he’s a bespectacled bug enthusiast in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme.
  • In her Letter to My Younger Self, The Superjesus’ Sarah McLeod reveals how Michael J Fox inspired her to pick up the guitar, while Chrissy Amphlett sparked her fight for women in rock to take centre stage.
  • Sinéad Stubbins tells us how a talking goldfish inspired her to write. Her hilarious debut novel Stinkbug is the stuff of corporate nightmares.
  • Sink or swim: Jock Serong risks life and limb to follow a lobster into an underwater wonderland. Thankfully he lived to write the terrifying tale.
  • Make like Jaws and take a bite out of Katarina Meynink’s zippy, meteor-sized meatballs! Bloody Mary’s Big Balls With Fried Pickles in Tastes Like Home. Read the full recipe here.
  • Did you really have a birthday if you don’t blow out candles to a chorus of “hip-hip-hooray”? For our 29th birthday, we investigate the origins of a very Australian tradition.

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