Roy Scheider was nominated for The French Connection and All That Jazz, the second playing a version of Bob Fosse working himself to death.
Jaws gives him Brody, and the line about needing a bigger boat was improvised and repeated across the shoot as a joke about the production’s own problems before it entered the film. He was an amateur boxer with a broken nose to prove it.
Lorraine GaryJaws (1975) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The mechanical shark did not work, the schedule ran three times over, and the failure produced the technique. Spielberg was twenty-seven and had to build suspense out of everything…
Charles CioffiKlute (1971) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The film is called Klute and it is not about Klute. Jane Fonda won the Academy Award for a performance built out of therapy sessions and a tape recorder,…
Ann ReinkingBob Fosse's 1979 autobiographical musical about his own self-destruction. Roy Scheider as the Fosse stand-in.
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