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United States humorist (1889-1945)

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Even if they ignored "Jaws" or other marine exploits such as "The Deep" (1977), a scintillating film based on another Benchley novel, the makers of "The Meg" would have seen the recent cliff-hanger, "Skyscraper."
Nathaniel Benchley's Red Fox and His Canoe is one of those timeless works accepted so well by Little People back when I was first teaching in California and it continued to be a favorite right to the last days I taught in Oklahoma as Osage County First Grade gathered on the rug to listen to books read to them.
Benchley and his friend deposited it there and went happily on their way.
Benchley denied the two were linked but the resemblance is uncanny.
The film, which immortalised Peter Benchley's best-selling book of the same name, will be forever remembered because of Spielberg's visual innovation and John Williams' unmistakeable soundtrack.
Overcome with guilt and plagued by the alcohol addiction that would lead to a fatal heart attack just three years later, Fitzgerald worked as a studio screenwriter for projects both notable (Gone with the Wind) and forgotten (A Yank at Oxford), surrounded by colleagues such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Humphrey Bogart.
The Telegram & Gazette feature "Then and Now'' on 941 Main St., Worcester referred to the former home of humorist Robert Benchley, his early life, graduation from Harvard, and work at Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.
What was the name of Quint's boat in Peter Benchley's novel, Jaws?
Providing a concise 15-point guideline for analyzing historical documents, university research professor Thelin aims to take the reader beyond secondary sources and into the intriguing world of primary documents dating from the colonial period to the twenty-first century on the field of higher education, with input from students as well as some popular writers (e.g., Peter Benchley and James Thurber), on subjects such as college sport reform.
Jaws (RTE 2, 9pm - 11.15pm) Thriller based on the novel by Peter Benchley about a coastal community plagued by a killer shark.
In 2011, Stone received from Wendy Benchley, the widow of Jaws author Peter Benchley, a Benchley Award for Ocean Science for his role in creating the Phoenix reserve.
First, in each of the focus examples, the humor is self-deprecating, something by which another favored-by-Hitchcock performer, Robert Benchley, might have been influenced.
Which novel by Peter Benchley was adapted for a Wimbledon title?
Perry quotes the humorous writer, Robert Benchley, who said: "Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."