Jaws Jumps the Shark

It's been nearly 50 years since Steven Speilberg filmed Jaws on Martha's Vineyard in 1974 followed by the release of the blockbuster movie the next summer.

Three sequels followed, many books, and warehouses of merchandise emblazoned with gnashing shark teeth and "You're going to need a bigger boat" warnings.

Now the movie about a great white shark has made it to the Great White Way – where it's billed as a comedy. The Shark Is Broken opened at the Golden Theater in August and plays through November.

Captain Quint, actor Robert Shaw's character in the movie, is performed by Ian Shaw, Robert Shaw's son and the play's author.

Jesse Green, theater critic at The New York Times, writes:

"In the end, 'The Shark Is Broken" isn't interested in argument and interpretation any more than 'Jaws' was. When Dreyfuss says the movie they're making is about the subconcious, and Scheider posits that it's about responsibility, Shaw, as always, wins by proclamation. 'It's about a shark!' he brays."

Orca-stra seats start at $99.

Easy September Day

The north shore of Martha's Vineyard – Lambert's Cove Beach and Upper Makonikey – as painted by local artist Kenneth Vincent.

Labor Day Parade

Mug Shots

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon editorialist Barry Blitt hits the nail on the head . . . again.

Chip Chop on the Block

Chip Chop, the storied Martha's Vineyard home of the late stage actress Katherine Cornell, and most recently of Diane Sawyer and her late husband Mike Nichols, has been listed for sale for $24 million by Wallace & Company Sotheby's International Realty in Edgartown.

Originally known as The Barn, Chip Chop is nestled on 20 acres along Chappaquonsett Road between Vineyard Sound and Lake Tashmoo, and its several white and black-capped chimneys have long been visible to boaters.

As reported in the Vineyard Gazette:

"I'd always hoped I'd find the summer place I wanted, a place where I coould lead a blue jean kind of life. This is it," Ms. Cornell told the Boston Sunday Globe in 1954. The famed actress who had been dubbed the First Lady of the Theatre tended gardens and flocks of chickens on her Vineyard property.

Pee-wee Herman RIP

One of a kind.

"Today, it seems to me, it's a lot more difficult to stand out," Paul Reubens said. "You know, if you want to be weird, good luck."

"I'm trying to talk on the phone!" "Scream real loud!" ~ Pee-wee Herman

"Are we there yet?"

Stirs memories of the long family drives to Maine in the 1960s.