Micronesia, saving sharks,

is establishing sea parks.

It’s not their jaws grotesque with grins

that endangers sharks. Their fins

provoke the jihad against jaws

by predatory pescavores.

Mankind now threatens all our planet,

though for the first five days God ran it

without them, and created sharks

before First Man. I give full marks

to God for demonstrating He’s

a friend of sharks within the seas,

as of the birds which in the sky

like tiny dinosaurs still fly,

created before Chief Predators –

Mankind – evolved. The Editors

who gave us all the Bible’s laws

implied we should respect the jaws

of sharks, enjoying them at leisure.

Thank God, I say for Micronesia.

which demonstrates man’s menace is

deducible in Genesis,

where verses one twenty-six to eight

predicts a Judeophilic fate

for Jews, who like Spielbergian sharks,

will be preserved in peaceful arks,

like Noah, ensuring he didn’t become

by extinction struck quite dumb,

rescuing an undefeated team

in a noir-Netflixed shark-stressed stream.

Micronesia features the world’s first and largest regional shark sanctuaries, with Palau leading in 2009 by protecting its entire Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The sanctuary network, including the Marshall Islands and Guam, prohibits commercial shark fishing across millions of square kilometers, offering premier diving spots like Palau’s Blue Corner and Yap’s channels to see grey reef, white-tip, and black-tip sharks.

In “The Godfathers: How Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg Transformed Hollywood: A new book shows how the decline of the studios and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into critical and popular successes, “ NYT, 3/8/26,  Caryn James, reviewing  The Last Kings of Hollywood, by Paul Fischer, writes:

Francis, George and Steven — as Paul Fischer cozily refers to them throughout his book about the early careers of Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg — were young men hungry with ambitions at the start of the 1970s. Before long those dreams led to “The Godfather,” “Star Wars” and “Jaws,” transforming the landscape of movies. Sound familiar? That story really is. “The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema” creates a breezy narrative as faux-intimate as its use of first names, as hyperbolic as its title. If you’ve never heard the bedrock sagas about how Coppola feared being fired from “The Godfather” and the mechanical shark in “Jaws” malfunctioned, Fischer has written a lively introduction. But for millions of moviegoers even slightly aware of the careers of these now-revered filmmakers, who are very much alive and thriving, this narrowly focused work offers only a smattering of new details.

The story is still amazing. These three took advantage of an alchemical moment when the studios’ decline and the fresh wind of the 1960s allowed them to turn personal visions into Hollywood success. Between 1972 and 1977, Coppola transformed the pulp novel “The Godfather” into an artistic masterpiece about crime and family, Lucas created the enduring Jedi mythology of “Star Wars,” and Spielberg’s “Jaws” invented the summer blockbuster.

“Each one of us was tough,” the director Brian De Palma, who came up along with the book’s subjects, told Fischer about the rebellious attitude his generation brought to the game. “And we could outlast. Because they [the studios] don’t have any convictions.”……

Powerful though they became, Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg are hardly the final kings. A recent Hollywood Reporter article headlined “The Last King of  Hollywood,” for example, questioned whether the title would go to Ted Sarandos of Netflix or David Ellison of Paramount, both trying to buy Warner Brothers in a battle that is still playing out. That tug of war, although outside the scope of Fischer’s book, suggests how limited its perspective is and how dubious its title. There will always be a new king — or maybe queen? — as long as there’s a Hollywood, which at the moment is still, if barely, standing.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבְכׇל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכׇל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

And God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”

וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃

And God created humankind in the divine image,

creating it in the image of God—

creating them male and female.

וַיְבָ֣רֶךְ אֹתָם֮ אֱלֹהִים֒ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר לָהֶ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים פְּר֥וּ וּרְב֛וּ וּמִלְא֥וּ אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְכִבְשֻׁ֑הָ וּרְד֞וּ בִּדְגַ֤ת הַיָּם֙ וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּבְכׇל־חַיָּ֖ה הָֽרֹמֶ֥שֶׂת עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.”

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)