Walking to the NQ office in the cool, metallic, askant sunshine of an autumn morning, thinking, always, of story possibilities and ideas for illustrations (and you should see the fabulous 1970s album covers Wayne Tucker has provided to run with his article on NL music), I thought, of course, of Orca (1977). This film, which as everyone knows was not an imitation of Jaws, because it was about a killer whale, not a killer shark, was filmed in Petty Harbour. Wayne Johnston wrote an hilarious piece on being an extra on the set, and the complete pandemonium at the local premiere. (I couldn't link to that piece, but here's another, just to give you a shot of Johnston's fine, wry humour.) Orcas were much in the news recently for their attacks on minke whales. These were thought to be rare, but several such lethal encounters were filmed; perhaps just a matter of witnesses being in the right place at the right time, though, as CBC's On the Go host Ted Blades says, it's hard to get away with anything if you're a killer whale.
(Image: mblog.hu.)
P.S. If you missed Andy Jones' four-night-run of To The Wall, he's staging it this Thursday, 6:30pm, in the Reid Theatre, MUN Campus.
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