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July 24, 2008

Shark Week Shenanigans in Soho

Posted at 02:21:16 PM in Events, Television
by Melanie Berliet

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Shark Week takes Soho by storm

In the latest attempt at quirky advertising stunts, New Yorkers who happened to be walking by the corner of Prince and Broadway this morning were greeted with the bizarre Shark Week promotion pictured above. As the lifeguard (and perhaps struggling model/actor) directed people to "Beware" and "Stay close to shore," his excessively-bubbly sidekick on the ground handed out shark-shaped visors to curious passersby--proving once again that it doesn't really matter what you're handing out, so long as it's free.

And in case you somehow missed it, Shark Week starts Sunday, July 27 on the Discovery channel.

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Sorry if this is off topic, but did anyone catch this release this week? Thought it might be of interest to all prehistoric fans.

ACTRESS LANA WOOD ATTACKED
BY 70 FOOT SHARK

Hollywood actress Lana Wood, who once played Plenty O’Toole opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever, was attacked by what eyewitnesses say was a Megalodon, a 70-foot, 70,000 pound prehistoric cousin of the Great White shark. The attack occurred in the waters off the coast of Monterey, California. . .in the pages of New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten’s new release MEG: Hell’s Aquarium.
Lana Wood, a former Playboy centerfold, has an extensive career in the movies, and wrote a best-selling memoir about her late sister, actress Natalie Wood, back in 1986. She contacted Steve Alten a year ago and asked him to make her a character in his new MEG book, the fourth and best story in the series.

In his review of Hell’s Aquarium, Steve Donoghue, Managing Editor of Open Letters Monthly states, “Alten writes the whole thing in hyperkinetic present tense, with turns and twists in every scene until it squeaks…there’s a scene late in the book involving a shark autopsy that any thriller-writer would give a tonsil to have thought up! The whole thing fizzes with the kind of fun delirium only the most effective giant killer shark novels dare to attempt.”

http://www.wix.com/Meg_HellsAquarium/meg


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Wow! This is great! Thanks for this wonderful post!

Hope to have another one!

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