A friend sent this as a MySpace bulletin the other day. I was never a big fan of the guy's, so that isn't why I am posting this. It's because of the last paragraph.

Is he going to need a bigger casket? Okay, sorry, bad joke at a time like this.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release his cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 movie, "Jaws," which was widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster. It was the first film to earn $100 million at the box office.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark that terrified millions of moviegoers.

The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Steven Spielberg's enduring classic.

Spielberg, Scheider, who played a police chief, and Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer, were absent from Jawsfest '05. Co-star Robert Shaw, who played Quint, died in 1978.

Scheider also participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

I would like to point out that this is the official Associated Press pres release about his death. The fact that they chose to end it with a paragraph about him protesting the war in Iraq says a lot. They could have said something about the other movies he has been in, any awards he has won or the roles he played over the course of his career. They could have talked about the family he leaves behind.

Instead they chose to go with a paragraph about how he participated in an anti war rally. If he had dedicated his life after Jaws to protesting war, then I could understand it. But the way it is written almost seems like that is the only other thing he did. He was in Jaws, and then he protested the war. and like I said, the fact that they chose to use that as the last paragraph of the press release says a lot.

It tells you exactly what the AP thinks about the war, and that they are trying to ram their anti-war agenda down our throats, which shouldn't be a surprise by this point.