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NORTH SHORE TO W E R S 8 North Shore Towers Courier n 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION n June 2015 40 • 40TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE • DID YOU KNOW? The land on which North Shore Towers is built was part of a 20,000-acre grant to Massachusetts settlers. North Shore Towers was built on the site of the former golf course of the Glen Oaks Golf Club, which was built in 1923 on 167 acres purchased from William K. Vanderbilt II’s country estate 1975 MOVIES FISH STORY The big film out of Hollywood in 1975 didn’t just take a bite out of the competition, it swallowed it whole. The prototypical summer blockbuster, Jaws shattered box offices and became the highest grossing movie in history, a distinction it would retain until the release of Star Wars two years later. Based on the bestselling Peter Benchley novel, Jaws tells the tale of a man-eating shark terrorizing the New England summer resort of Martha’s Vineyard during the height of the summer season and the denizens’ efforts to destroy the beast. With only one theatrical release—The Sugarland Express—to his name, 26-year-old fledgling director Steven Spielberg was hired to direct the pic, which was fraught with problems from the outset. A good chunk of the film’s budget was spent on a three full-size robotic sharks—named “Bruce” after Spielberg’s lawyer—that were constantly malfunctioning and barely worked more than a few seconds at a time, and the movie went into production without a script. The mechanical shark problem proved fortuitous. Without a properly working prop shark with which to film the horrific attack scenes, Spielberg was forced to take a more Hitchcockian approach, using composer John Williams score and clever camera shots to suggest the shark’s presence and its carnage, resulting in a thrilling tourde force. Williams would go on to win an Oscar for his effort and Spielberg would end up terrifying the whole country out of the water! Part of its success can also de-be attributed to its method of release. Up until then, movies were released in just one or two cities in order for studios to gauge their popularity before committing to more venues. Movies would remain in play for many months, as they took weeks, months even, before they made it to smaller towns. Not so with Jaws, which was released “wide” in 462 theaters on the same day, June 20, 1975. CRAZY GOOD While Jaws may have cleaned up at the box office, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest cleaned up at The Oscars. Directed by Miloš Foreman, the story of an anti-authoritarian criminal acting like a lunatic to spend his sentence in the relative luxury of a mental institute as opposed to the harsher climes of prison, garnered nine nominations and was only the second in motion picture history to take home all five major awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor in a Lead Role, Actress in a Lead Role and Screenplay. ,HIGHEST-GROSSING FILMS OF 1975 RANK TITLE STUDIO DOMESTIC GROSS 1 JAWS Universal Pictures 260,000,000 2 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 20th Century Fox 112,892,319 3 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST United Artists 108,981,275 4 DOG DAY AFTERNOON Warner Bros. 50,000,000 5 SHAMPOO Columbia Pictures 49,407,734 6 THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER United Artists 41,833,347 7 FUNNY LADY Columbia Pictures 39,000,000 8 THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG Walt Disney Prod. 36,853,000 9 ALOHA, BOBBY AND ROSE Columbia Pictures 35,000,000 10 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN Universal Pictures 34,673,100


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