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by Blue Sullivan Cinema in America has entertained us with over a century of movie magic. Yet, during the making of some movies, equally unbelievable stories unfolded before the films ever hit the big screen. • In Steven Spielberg’s terrifying 1975 classic, “Jaws,” you don’t see much of the actual shark until very late in the film. That wasn’t just an aesthetic choice. It was due to all of the problems Spielberg and the crew had with the mechanical sharks that were used during filming. • Three different mechanical sharks were employed during the filming of “Jaws.” All were nicknamed “Bruce” after Steven Spielberg’s attorney, Bruce Ramer. • All three mechanical versions of “Bruce” proved unreliable from the beginning of the shoot. The animatronics stalled the first time one was put in the water, and the sharks sank to the seafloor several times, leaving divers scrambling to recover them. • After completing the filming of “Jaws,” the studio had so little confidence in the film that the three Bruces were dumped on the Universal back lot. No efforts were made to preserve them, and none of the three original sharks remain.

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• Most of the filming of “The Conqueror” took place in St. George, Utah. Heat during filming regularly topped 120 degrees, and, unbeknownst to the performers, not far away in Yucca Flats, Nevada, were the military testing grounds for the atomic bomb. • Eleven atomic bombs were tested in Yucca Flats during filming of “The Conqueror.” Not only were the actors and crew exposed to dusts blown over from the nuclear test site, filmmakers unknowingly shipped 60 tons of the radioactive dirt back to Los Angeles for reshoots.

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• There aren’t many films more beloved than 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland. A little known fact is that she wasn’t the child actor the screenwriters had in mind for the part. Their choice for the part wasn’t a child actor at all: W.C. Fields! • In “The Wizard of Oz,” actress Margaret Hamilton offered one of the best villains in film history — The Wicked Witch of the West. Her performance was so good, in fact, that many of her scenes were trimmed down or even removed because they were too frightening.

• On June 8, 632, in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies in the arms of Aishah, his third wife. In 610, in a cave north of Mecca, Muhammad had a vision in which he heard God command him to become the Arab prophet of the “true religion.” He began having religious revelations, which he collected as the Qur’an. • On June 5, 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard, a monetary system in which currency is backed by gold. The Great Depression of the 1930s had frightened the public into hoarding gold. Roosevelt ordered all gold coins and gold certificates in denominations of more than $100 turned in for other money. • On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway — one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II — begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own. • On June 9, 1956, one of the world’s top-selling crime novelists, Patricia Cornwell, best known for her foren-

sic pathologist character Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is born in Miami. Cornwell’s first novel, “Postmortem,” was released in 1990. • On June 7, 1962, the banking institution Credit Suisse opens the first drivethrough bank in Zurich, Switzerland. The drivethrough featured eight glass pavilions and a sensor on the ground that activated a light trail that directed drivers to the next available bay. • On June 6, 1981, more than 500 passengers are killed when their train plunges into the Baghmati River in India. The rail accident was caused by an engineer who braked too hard to keep from hitting a cow that was crossing the tracks over a bridge. Seven cars derailed into the river. • On June 10, 1979, actor Paul Newman roars into second place in the 47th 24 Hours of Le Mans, the famous sports-car endurance race held annually in Le Mans, France. In 1969, Newman starred as a racecar driver in the movie “Winning,” performing many of the high-speed scenes himself without a stunt double. © 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.

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President Barack Obama insists that he didn’t announce his support for gay marriage out of political considerations. He’s right. He did it out of self-regard. How it must have eaten away at him to be the first African-Americanpresident, yet not associate himself with what has been deemed the foremost civil-rights issue of the age. To be a progressive in favor of all things “forward,” but retrograde on marriage. To know that his stance was a transparent charade and see it treated as such by the lefty opinion makers he respects most. To watch his sloppy, unserious second-in-command get all the credit for moral courage by forthrightly endorsing gay marriage on “Meet the Press” while he clung to his artful dodge. As an act of personal catharsis, the president’s statement of support was in an appropriately first-person key: I, me and my. He had favored gay marriage back in 1996 when it was out on the fringe. He was one of the few people on the planet who flipped into opposition as gay marriage became more mainstream. For a while he invoked his faith in justifying his opposition, then he said he was “evolving,” which everyone understood to mean he would embrace gay marriage as soon as he wasn’t running for re-election anymore. The president’s willingness finally to say what he believes increased the sense among gay-marriage supporters that final victory is inevitable. History with a

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Gay Marriage Is Not Inevitable

practically synonymous with gay marriage. Although this smug confidence will envelope President Obama as he campaigns in such lucrative precincts as George Clooney’s living room, it badly overstates gay marriage’s prospects. History is littered with the wreckage of causes pronounced inevitable by all right-thinking people. The failed Equal Rights Amendment looked inevitable when it passed Congress in 1972 and immediately 30 states ratified it. Opposition to abortion that was supposed to inevitably wither away is as robust as ever. The forces favoring gun control seemed unstoppably on the march when Congress passed the Brady Bill and the assaultweapons ban in the 1990s, but there are more protections for gun rights now than two decades ago. Gay marriage’s inevitability hasn’t been evident to the voters in 31 states who have written into their constitutions that marriage is between a man and a woman. The latest is North Carolina, where 61 percent of voters embraced the traditional definition of marriage in a referendum. North Carolina isn’t Mississippi. President Obama won North Carolina in 2008, and Democrats are holding their convention there. Nationwide, no referendum simply upholding traditional marriage has ever lost, and even in Maine, voters in 2009 reversed a gaymarriage law passed by the legislature. There’s no doubt that supporters of gay marriage have made progress, but they shouldn’t congratulate themselves yet. Their cause is still subject to events, such as President Obama’s fate this fall. If the president’s newly frank support for gay marriage costs him crucial swing states, his coming-out party will be seen — inevitably — as more a setback to the cause than a watershed. Rich Lowry is editor of the

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Peter Bergman stars as “Jack” on “The Young and The Restless” Will. Stefano gained new respect for being a patriot. Wait to See: Rafe and Carrie realize they can’t be together. Gabi hires someone to be her stalker. GENERAL HOSPITAL Connie admitted that she framed Sonny for the murder of Starr’s husband and daughter. Jason told Elizabeth that he wasn’t sure he could raise Franco’s baby as his own. Dante reported to a crime scene only to find Lulu there first. Michael and Starr had a chance encounter at the police station. Molly

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Do you read your Explanation of Benefits forms when they come in the mail? They could contain information that you need to know. The Explanation of Benefits gives the latest update on your Medicare payment status. Whenever a claim for services is filed, the information is sent to you. That’s your opportunity to verify whether the information is correct, especially the dollar amounts. Here are the things you need to note: Total Charges: These are the amounts the doctor (or hospital, if you were a patient) wants to charge. Approved Amount (which also could be called Medicare Approved or Allowed Amount): This is the dollar amount that Medicare allows your doctor to charge. Patient Responsibility: This is your portion of the bill that Medicare allows, based on your policy’s percentage. If the math is correct, so far so good, but there are other places errors could be evident. • Spelling of your name

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*** DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My husband and I have started walking every evening. It’s our way of staying in shape. I like it. My husband actually listens to what I have to say when we walk. There is one thorn in my side, however. My husband insists that I don’t walk correctly, and he is constantly giving me ways to change my walking style. It’s extremely irritating. I have been walking the way I walk since I was an infant. Is there really a special way to do so? — R.C. ANSWER: Most people develop a walk natural for them, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Some general pointers about the proper walking style are worth incorporating into your walking pattern. Keep your head erect with eyes focused about 20 feet in front of you. Your arms should be bent at the elbow. When the right foot hits the ground, the left arm should be in front of your body, and vice versa when your left foot hits the ground. The heel of the foot should strike the ground first, and the liftoff should come from the toes. Older people tend to shorten their walking stride in an attempt to keep both feet always on the ground. This gives them more balance and stability. They should try to take a little longer stride and use their arms for balance and stability as I described above.

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Hendrick Over the Hump Rick Hendrick was an automobile dealer with an interest in racing. Now he is among the nation’s leaders as a car dealer and second all-time as a NASCAR owner. Jimmie Johnson’s victory in the Southern 500 was the 200th for Hendrick Motorsports. In NASCAR annals, only Petty Enterprises has won more. Its total of 268 victories was achieved mostly due to Richard and Lee Petty. The Hendrick worksheet is a bit top-heavy, too, with Jeff Gordon (85 wins) and Johnson (56) far ahead of the pack, but 15 drivers have won races under the Hendrick banner. The team’s four drivers now are Johnson, Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne. Sixteen races passed between Nos. 199 and 200, with Johnson winning on both ends. No. 199 was at Kansas Speedway in October 2011. “I didn’t think it was ever going to happen,” Hendrick

quipped. “I thought we were going to haul those (commemorative) hats around forever. Oh, I’m just so proud of these guys. I want to thank all the fans and all of the drivers over the years (like) Geoff Bodine and Tim Richmond, and all the guys that made this thing happen. When we got to 199, we got stuck.” Hendrick Motorsports has

gave Hendrick his first victory at Martinsville Speedway in April of that year. Twenty-one crew chiefs have led Hendrick drivers to wins, led by Chad Knaus with 54 and Ray Evernham with 47. Johnson’s latest victory was Hendrick Motorsports’ 14th at Darlington Raceway. Afterwards, Johnson said of

wouldn’t have won a bunch of these now if it wasn’t for his vision and (sponsor) Lowe’s coming on board to believe in me in the beginning. I wouldn’t be here today to contribute to these great wins. But, in typical Rick Hendrick fashion he said, ‘We got 200. Now let’s go get 250,’ so we didn’t even savor it.”

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When you were a kid, aside from not getting enough cake, the worst thing that could happen to you at a birthday party was to be kicked out of the game. According to my mother, my toddler player’s profile shows that I led the league in penalty minutes. “Oh, we used to dread taking you to parties,” she says often, but particularly during family gatherings. “You never wanted to leave. We’d take you to the amusement park and you’d be so cute until it was time to go. You threw such a fit your father had to hold you in the air because you were kicking and screaming so hard. People would look at us, thinking ‘What are they doing to that kid?’” And what about the birthday party games? “Forget it. You never played nice.” My parents would negotiate with me. “OK ... this is the last ride,” they’d say, promising me a cookie if I was amenable to their demands. But all the partially hydrogenated palm oil in the world couldn’t pry me off the spinning teacups. When it was my birthday, I distinctly remember trying my own negotiating tactics. “Mom ... because it’s my birthday, I get to stay in the game even if I lose, right?” Like any parent subjected to a withering barrage of nonsensical questions, she said something along the lines of “Yeah ... whatever,” but I intended to take that to the bank. So, naturally,

when my card was punched during “Simon Says” at my birthday party, I called in the pre-negotiated “stay in the game, right?” card. One look from my mom and I could see it was no dice. So, yeah, I cried a little. Well ... actually, according to one of the more extensive photo shoots my parents took during my early years, I cried a lot. However, after years of therapy, I can finally say to myself — with conviction — that losing the game was not what bothered me the most. No, what bugged me was how this guy Simon apparently had his hooks into my mother and, by extension, the rest of the kids at my party. I wasn’t weeping over losing the game or not getting enough cake, I was upset because I couldn’t stand to see the people I loved just drop everything because some guy named Simon commanded us from afar to touch our head, shoulders, knees and toes. Decades later, I am watching the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils square off in the Eastern Conference Finals as my own young son tries to negotiate for cookies. He tries to block my view of the screen at one point, and I smile because I’m a sucker for nostalgia, and I can’t help but laugh and think: Remember when Sean Avery was in the NHL? Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City.

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