“Jaws,” which hit theaters 50 years ago next Friday, is known for making many splashes. It was the first hit for a 27-year-old Steven Spielberg, the man who’d go on to become one of Hollywood’s ...

Looking back, I guess the timing of my parents taking us three kids on vacation to the beaches of Wildwood, N.J. for a week could have been better. It was early Summer 1975 and we had just seen the ...