Jaws 25 Year Later
People Magazine  6/19/00

 The sea has been so good to Roy Scheider that he lives on it.  "Look at these vistas," says the trim 67-year-old with a nod to the ocean view in front of his five-bedroom cedar-shingled house in Sagaponack, NY "And," he adds, " I don't have any problems with sharks."
 He does, however, have to deal with schools of fans who like to shout, "You're going to need a bigger boat, " after the quip Scheider improvised–which became the most famous line in the movie.  Schieder, who stays fit by running two miles a day ("rain or shine, snow, anything"), doesn't mind the Jaws fixation, despite his subsequent work in films like 1976's Marathon Man and 1979's All That Jazz.  "He always signs autographs," says his second wife, documentary filmmaker Brenda, 51 the mother of his son Christian 10, and daughter Molly 5.  (Scheider's daughter Maximillia, by his first wife, Cynthia, 61, is a 36- year- old homemaker.) The movie's secret lure? Says Scheider, who will next film the miniseries Diamond Hunters: "What no one anticipated was the universal fear of water." Christian nods solemnly, chiming in, "I knew [the movie] was totally fake. You know, you're, like, 55, 65 percent more likely to be hit by lightning than eaten by a shark.
 

 Inset photo caption: "I had to be Everyman" in Jaws, Scheider says.
 

 Main photo caption: "I do like to talk about other things once in a while" says Scheider (home with wife Brenda).
 

Written by: Kyle Smith
Reported by: Michael Fleeman and Ed Newton in Los Angeles
                   Maria Eftmiandes in Sagaponack and Bob Meadows on Martha's Vineyard

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