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Er, hellooo! Jaws has only been on the telly about 5,000 times you know.
Excuse me. Do you think I would waste a whole One To Watch telling people to view a 33-year-old movie on ITV3?
You might if it was a quiet week.
Stop carping. It might be quiet, but “still waters run deep” for the shark royal is right here in Liverpool.
Aha! You literally have missed the boat this time. That visited in June. Not the Ark Royal. I mean Jaws. The greatest great white of them all who makes bathers panic and tears them limb from limb so that their bits and bobs bob on the high tide.
A maneater with a big mouth then?
Yes, or you might be thinking of Abi Titmuss who's also in Liverpool this week.
Jaws had better not sink his teeth into one of those iron chaps on Crosby beach or he'll know it.
Do you mean Another Plaice? Do not fear, for we are talking about one Liverpool man's a remarkable homage what is regarded as the first blockbuster movie.
Ed McCormack, 43, owns one of the world’s largest collections of Jaws-related memorabilia, and he has just put it all on show at Microzine.
Big fish in a small pond?
You might say that. Ed, from Tuebrook, fell for Jaws hook, line and sinker in the hot summer of 1975. “Images started filtering through and appearing in magazines here in the UK, soon after
the movie opened in the US,” he says. “I patiently waited and finally my father took me to see the movie on the day it opened here in Liverpool at the ABC Lime Street on Boxing Day 1975.
“That fateful day changed my life.”
So Ed's still at it?
A dab hand. “My parents bought me lots of Jaws items back in the day, badges, mugs even a Jaws football,” he recalls. Unfortunately, then came what the fish-loving fanatic describes as the “wilderness years” before the net became common place. Nowadays, thanks to the web, Ed swims happily with fellow shark lovers and collectors “to finally meet, share items and of course strike up ongoing friendships”.
Has Ed got a gillfriend?
What are you angling at?
What's his prize catch, then?
A chunk off the side of the Orca. This is the vessel in the Steven Spielberg movie that was filmed off Martha's Vineyard in New England, and the setting for the seaside resort of Amity. It was given to him when he visited a Jaws festival there. Ed has also created a spoof Jaws newspaper and even produces DJ mixes based on the Jaws theme tune. At Microzine, visitors can expect to see rare posters, mugs, books and all manner of Jaws-related stuff.
Do say: "Hmmm. The shark stands in for a variety of fears—uncontrolled organic nature threatening the artificial society; big business corrupting and endangering community; disruptive sexuality threatening the disintegration of the family and traditional values—which Jaws tries to contain through the reassuring defeat of evil by representatives of the current class structure.
Don't say: It's only a fish.
Jaws exhibition, August 2-31, 2008, Microzine, 65-67 Bold Street, L1. 0151 709 7282
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I'm always out to make a few squid.
Okay don't get into a flap, some people are more Gull-ible I eggspect. Okay gotta fly.... Have I got this right?
Is this a story we should be covering in the Echo?
Whatever happened to the lovely Coral Atkins?
Turbot - don't skate on thin ice!
, oughtn't this to be under a Seal?
That any better?
Hey, if you really are the famous Angie Sammons, then you must be acquainted with the famous BBC TV regional reporter Andy Gill.
That's a whole different cuttle of fish
I thought I'd best get this one in as it seemed to be taking so long
Shouldn't that be Clare McCod-loose?
Me neither.
You were messing about in the back office? What do you mean by that exactly? This will be tomorrow's fish and chip paper
Only the small fry.
Nothing Fishy about me.
Hi folks - New here - Does anyone here collect Jaws memorabilia? I loved the film, gee even the music gets you going, but have something I want to sell to a real Jaws enthusiast., or can anyone tell me who would buy Jaws memorabiliaAll take care
That last one tipped the scales
Ok. As you were...
Shouldn't that be Clare McCod-loose?
Are you just trouting for business?
Fin.
Back to school everyone
"Admins"? What kind of a fish-related name is that?
Right. Can everyone just hang on for 1 minute?
Julian Bream says..
Could Michael Fish and Peter Tench please re-post please? We were messing about in the back office!
Shouldn't that be Clare McCod-loose?
That's just a rumour put about by the eel-vil crab-al.
No it's not, it's brill!
Eel regret it
I nearly fell off my perch when I opened up this story! The music!I thought someone had attacked my computer when the Jaws music came on.Deffo something fishy here.
I'm reeling after all this!
With a prominent Perch on the front psge! Yes I can sea it now, with picures of the micreants all in a Roe.
I think she left acting and opened a home for Tiddlers.
Indeed. He just needs the whitebait.
Shouldn't that be Clare McCod-loose?
Hey Marlin Brando, I thought you slept with the fishes?
Sorry, I'm a bit hard of herring.
Is that the same comment 4 times or am I suffering from De Shark Vous?
Fish puns? how childish i can't believe you have all taken the bait.
I'm having problems whiting now!
You know, I'm too good for this plaice...
Don't tell him, Pike!
My boss thinks I'm just frittering the afternoon away doing this.
You're both talking Pollocks.
There was a Grouper puns here, but some Dab hand's deleted them. Eel be sorry!
Only if you use a cod byline.
I thought you had moved to Whales?
This really is starting to flounder.