Peter Benchley, the man who scared the living bejeesus out of the US in the mid-1970s with "Jaws," is dead.

If you haven't read the book, you should. It varies from the movie in a couple of key points -- especially the fact that in the book, the Richard Dreyfuss character is banging the sheriff's wife and the Dreyfuss character dies in the end.

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