Generally, the media likes to stir up fear of sharks every summer in order to spike news ratings. The "crisis" is almost always exaggerated but in one particularly tragic case, it is all too real. A boater and his friends were off the coast of Nassau when their craft developed engine problems. Two men decided to swim to shore but were not seen again. When a tiger shark was caught soon after, the remains of one of the men were found inside. Adding irony to tragedy, it all occurred off of "Jaws Beach", so-called because the 1987 film Jaws: The Revenge was filmed there. For more click here

Cinema Retro has received the following press release from Tomahawk Press in London:

At last - the definitive biography of Charles Hawtrey! From Wes Butters, Sony award winning broadcaster and author of "Kenneth Williams Unseen", comes an extensively researched and compelling book almost fifteen years in the making, featuring scores of exclusive interviews, including Hawtrey's inner circle and surviving descendents, never-before-seen photographs, and private documents and correspondence. The result is the first definitive account of a life Hawtrey himself was keen to see evaporate into the mist of history. Years before, Hawtrey started out as a child actor in silent films, he was England's leading boy soprano and worked alongside a positive who's who of the thirties and forties. He had directed films and produced West End shows, starred in three hit TV series and was a prolific radio actor for the BBC. Yet he was never content and spent his life desperately searching for stardom and success, which, in his own deluded way of thinking, always failed to live up to expectations. Like the character we see on the screen, Hawtrey never grew up. Egged on by his mentally-ill mother, he disowned the rest of his family, embarrassed by a background that included workhouses and illegitimacy. Instead, he declared himself the son of Sir Charles Hawtrey, an illustrious theatrical actor and Noel Coward's mentor. By the time the Carry Ons got going, Hawtrey was well and truly typecast as a 'funny fella with glasses' and his bid to be taken seriously was over. He wasn't the least bit interested in his reputation or leaving a legacy, growing old disgracefully in Deal, the Kent seaside town he lived in for the last twenty years of his life: collapsing in pubs; swearing at autograph-hunting children; and, taking home teenage rent boys (one of whom set fire to Hawtrey's cottage, with Hawtrey still inside it). In 1988, doctors gave him a life or death choice to amputate both his legs. Hawtrey refused, believing a transplant of pig's veins would save him, but he died a month later. Nine people were at his funeral. Wes Butters' Radio 4 documentary on Charles Hawtrey will air in May. This long-awaited book gives the whole story!

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For those of you who have been kept awake nights trying to think of film titles that include the name of the elements, you can rest easy. Writers Nick Thomas and Dina Taarea, both academics at Auburn University in Alabama, have published an essay that incorporates those elements you used to dread studying in high school with their correlation to the movie industry. Click here to read- and be educated!