A D.C. lawyer gets a ‘Jaws’ royalty check every month for his one-line scene
The film was shown Monday evening at the Angelika Film Center in Fairfax. Earlier that day, I called up one of the stars,What, you haven’t heard of Greg Dole? If you’ve seen “Jaws,” you’ve seen Greg. He has spent most of his working life as a D.C. lawyer, first on the Hill and then with Boeing. But in 1974, he was a 24-year-old Navy veteran living near Woods Hole, Mass., where he parked cars and waited to head off to law school at Georgetown.
best-selling novel. He ran out and bought a copy, speed-read it, then headed to the island himself. He met the local casting director,, who described a few parts, outlined a few scenarios and asked Greg what he’d say in certain situations. For example, what would he say if he was a Coast Guard sonar operator in a skiff off a crowded beach who just happened to spot a great white shark?happened to walk in just as Greg delivered the line.You know the scene.
Spielberg wrote: “Greg, Keep it up. Acting is hard. P.S. Stay away from L.A. It’s a bad place to start.”
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