Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aykroyd, 30, wild and crazy Canadian comic actor and writer (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places); and Donna Dixon, 25, actress (TV's Bosom Buddies series), who met him last year while the two were making Doctor Detroit; both for the first time; in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; on April 29. They decided to keep the wedding quiet so it would not be used as publicity for their movie...
...people are listening to what you are saying and take it seriously," he says, "but I'm uncomfortable with my person being the center of attention." He adds rather grimly that the publicity gives rise to feelings of envy among others, many of whom have toiled in the same vineyard for many more years than...
...sisters are constantly heading off raunchy stories with not-now-Dad looks flashed across the room. After years of complaining that Robert Altman's cheap white wine tasted like goat pee, he gave the director a baby goat, saying, "Here, now you have your own vineyard." In a similar mood, he once had Robert Redford's face printed on every sheet of 150 cartons of toilet paper (which, on second thought, he did not send to Redford because the two are, as Newman says, merely "close acquaintances...
...after a morning foray against the smallmouth bass of Wisconsin. The kid stuffs his face and observes: "Gee, Dad, this is the life, isn't it? Fishing and eating in saloons." A quarter of a century later he takes another tyke fishing, this time on Martha's Vineyard. "Grandpa," the boy asks, "did you grow old or were you made old?" These volumes provide the answer. He grew old gracefully and, like every other superstar, made everyone who watched him feel young...
...leagues were calling. After his debut feature film The Sugarland Express, an eccentric car-chase comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Spielberg found himself off the coast of Martha's Vineyard directing a huge cast and crew-and one wayward mechanical shark-in Jaws. A 55-day shooting schedule ballooned to 155 days; the $4 million budget soared to $8 million. Studio executives were threatening to close down the film and put "Bruce," the shark, on exhibit as part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty...