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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Bruce, the last 'Jaws' shark, docks at the Academy Museum

detailed modeling and
work that went in to prepar-
ing for this moment, includ-
ing full scale mock-ups and
light tests to ensure that all
of Bruce's 116 teeth would
be visible to tourists.
Seeing him lifted into the
building was "such an excit-
ing moment," she said.
Kramer said they expect
Bruce to be a huge draw
for visitors, which is why
he'll be hanging in a pub-
lic area where people can
see him without having to
pay for a museum ticket.
Almost a half century after
Bruce made generations of
kids and adults scared to
get in the water, he's now
beckoning film lovers into a
museum.
"We plan on having Bruce
greet our visitors for as long
as we can keep him up
there," Kramer said. "It's a
free space and a free mo-
ment for our visitors to bring
A fiberglass replica of Bruce, the shark featured in Steven Spielberg's classic 1975 film "Jaws," is raised to a suspended position for
display at the new Academy of Museum of Motion Pictures, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. delight and hopefully in-
Associated Press spire them to learn more
about the movies, the his-
tory of visual effects and
By LINDSEY BAHR 30, 2021. business, donated him to winning architect Renzo how this prop was made."
AP Film Writer Super fans know that the the museum in 2016. Piano made sure to ac- Curious visitors can come
Bruce, the fiberglass shark "Jaws" crew started calling But Bruce wasn't quite cam- count for large-scale ob- and check out the massive
made from the "Jaws" mold, the shark Bruce after Spiel- era ready. A quarter cen- jects in his restoration of the great white, the restaurant
is ready for his close-up. The berg's lawyer Bruce Ramer. tury in the California sun, Saban Building, which was and the Spielberg Family
1,208 pound, 25-foot-long, They'll also know that the plus all the years of being originally the May Com- Gallery to see a 10-minute
45-year-old shark, famous Bruce that will greet guests re-painted at Universal had pany department store. film on the history of cin-
for being difficult to work in the museum wasn't tech- taken its toll on the poor But Bruce is their biggest ema before even commit-
with on the set of Steven nically in "Jaws." He's a rep- creature, who badly need- piece to date and every- ting to purchasing a ticket.
Spielberg's classic thriller, lica and it's the last of his ed care and attention. one soon realized that he There will also be a pub-
on Friday was hoisted up in kind. The three mechanical Nicotero, who has worked wouldn't be able to get lic programming series on
the air above the main es- Great Whites designed by on "Day of the Dead" and into the building with his fins conservation and restora-
calator of the new Acade- art director Joe Alves were "The Walking Dead," said attached. tion drawing on items from
my Museum of Motion Pic- destroyed when produc- he got into the business be- Last week Bruce was trans- the collection that have
tures in Los Angeles where tion wrapped. But once the cause of "Jaws" and volun- ported from a storage fa- been restored including
he will greet guests for the film proved to be a box of- teered for the task of bring- cility on a 70-foot flatbed the ruby slippers from "The
foreseeable future. And this fice phenomenon, a fourth ing him back to life. to the museum at Fairfax Wizard of Oz," the Aries-1B
time, he cooperated. shark was made from the "One of the great things Avenue and Wilshire Bou- from "2001: A Space Od-
It is the culmination of years original mold. For 15 years about being the Academy levard where engineers, yssey," the extra-terrestrial
of planning, including a he hung at Universal Stu- Museum of Motion Pictures construction workers and from "Alien" and, of course,
seven-month restoration by dios Hollywood as a photo is that we have access to art handlers removed two Bruce.
special effects and make- opportunity for visitors until Academy members in all panels of glass three sto- "There are so many stories
up artist Greg Nicotero. The he wound up at the Sun craft areas of the industry," ries up to get him into the that can take you places
shark is expected to be a Valley junkyard he would said Academy Museum Di- building. Once inside with just through this one ob-
major draw for the muse- call home for the next 25. rector Bill Kramer. "We can fins reattached and a final ject," Kramer said. q
um, which plans to open its Nathan Adlan, who inher- call on our members and touching up, Bruce was
doors to the public on April ited his father's junkyard other members of the film hooked onto five cables, Solution Sudoku
industry who have either each of which could hold
worked on the film that his weight if any were to
the artifact is from or know fail, and hoisted up on a
enough about the prov- truss by remote control
enance and work that had to get into position in the
been done to help us re- building's "spine" where
store it. We're in an incred- he faces East and is visible
ibly privileged position." from Fairfax.
Restoration was one thing, Shraddha Aryal, Vice Presi-
but loading Bruce into the dent of Exhibition Design
museum proved to be an- and Production, described
other ordeal. Pritzker Prize- the years of painstakingly Puzzle on Page 13