Show Business: Introducing Bruce

What is bigger than a bakery truck, has skin like sandpaper, three rows of pointy white teeth and beady black eyes? Of course, it is Hollywood's newest star: a 25-ft. mechanical great white shark named Bruce.

Bruce was born, or built, to play the title role in the film version of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, about a beach resort beset by a rampaging shark. The producers would like to keep their star under wraps. "It's like The Exorcist, " says Director Steven Spielberg. "If everybody knew that that kid was really vomiting pea...

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