Hollywood Gothique wrote:
The whole Mafia subplot in the book was...well, I don't know what to call it, but at least it provided a motivation for why the mayor was so desperate to keep the beaches open. In the movie, the mayor is just stupid.

Hang on -- are we getting our JAWSes mixed-up again? I don't remember a Mafia sub-plot in Benchley's original novel, but I DO remember there was one in the JAWS 2 novelization.

But maybe I'M getting my memories mixed-up -- hell, it was only thirty years ago.