Hollywood and infact the "oyinbos" are known fore the quick way they get married and leave marriages, albeit some of them have respected the bans of marriage and have been in it for more than 20 years!!! They include:
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Dustin Hoffman/Lisa Gottsegen |
- Dustin Hoffman/Lisa Gottsegen
29 years
Oct.12, 1980
Although
Hoffman, 73, has said that marriage seems strange to him, hes done a
pretty good job at making it work. Theres something unnatural about
marriage, he said in an interview. These two people are not going to be
the same people in a few years. Luckily, though, the Academy
Award-winning actor and his wife Lisa Gottsegen, have gone through their
changes together as they raised their four children: Jacob, Rebecca,
Maxwell and Lydia. Besides being an attorney, Gottsegen launched a
successful skin-care line in 2007. The trick, Hoffman has said, is to
live your own life while sharing your space.
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Meryl Streep/Don Gummer |
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32 years
September 15, 1978
She
seems perfect in every other way, so why shouldnt Meryl Streep have one
of the most enduring marriages in the entertainment industry? And
Streep, 61, isnt the only talented one in the family. Gummer is a
respected sculptor whose work is part of museum collections around the
world. They have three children: Mamie and Grace, who are actresses; and
Louisa. Streep attributes the longevity of the marriage to a deep
understanding between her and Gummer, 63, of whats important in life:
"My husband understands the compulsion to create things. With somebody
who had a regular job, I think it might have been harder... I think you
have to have somebody as a partner who shares what you value."
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Jeff Bridges/Susan Geston
33 years1977
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After
Bridges, 60, won an Oscar earlier this year for his portrayal of a
broken-down country singer in Crazy Heart, he gave a shout-out to his
wife, Susan Geston, and its safe to assume that a fair number of in the
audience wouldnt recognize either her or her name. One of the
lowest-profile figures in Hollywood, Geston, the daughter of a
professional couple from Fargo, North Dakota, was working as a waitress
on a ranch when she met Bridges while he was filming Rancho Deluxe. In
one of the very few times Bridges has talked about his wife, he said it
took just a week for him to fall in love with her. I had a feeling of
being at homea soothing feeling of being where I belonged, he said. In
marriage, no one can ask for more than that.
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Ron Howard/Cheryl Alley
35 years June 7, 1975 |
Director Ron Howard (Cocoon, Apollo 13, The DaVinci Code) got his start
in show business by playing the archetypal small-town American boy,
Opie,on The Andy Griffith Show. And offscreen, his life seems just as
innocent. Howard, 56, married his high-school sweetheart (who else?) on
June 7, 1975, and theyve been together ever since. Asked what he thinks
his greatest achievement is, Howard said in 2006, Forty-eight years of
steady employment in television and film, while preserving a rich family
life. Ron and Cheryl, 56, have four kids: Bryce Dallas, twins Jocelyn
Carlyle and Paige Carlyle and son Reed Cross. Howard has said the
children were named for the place they were conceived: Bryce in Dallas;
the twins in Manhattans Carlyle Hotel; and Reed --well, they just gave
him the name Cross because Volvo didnt work.
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Sissy Spacek/Jack Fisk
36 years April 12, 1974 |
Although
shes an Academy Award winner (for her portrayal of singer Loretta Lynn
in Coal Miners Daughter), Spacek, 60, has never followed the typical
Hollywood path. Beginning with an uncredited role in an Andy Warhol
movie, she made a name for herself in independent cinema; it was on the
set of one of those movies (Badlands) that she met her future husband,
art director Jack Fisk, now 64. After she starred in some classic movies
(including the terrifying Carrie), Spacek decided to take some time off
to focus on her family. She stayed away from the industry for four
years. Maybe its that willingness to put her family first thats kept her
and Fisk together for nearly four decades. They have two daughters,
Schuyler and Madison Fisk, and live on a horse ranch in Virginia
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Christopher Plummer/Elaine Taylor
39 years October 2, 1970
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Although
hes best known for the role of Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of
Music, the Canadian native, 80, has had a long, distinguished career in
theater and the movies. He met Elaine Taylor, an actress, on the set of
the farce Lock Up Your Daughters in 1969. In his autobiography In Spite
of Myself, Plummer wrote of how empty and despondent he felt at being
separated from her. Taylor, now 66, said shed date him if he cut down on
the booze. The two were married a year later.
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Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards
41 years 1969 |
The
actress and the director met, the way many couples do, at work the1970
movie Darling Lili, in which Andrews played a German spy in World War
I. Although the film wasnt a big hit, it began a personal and
professional relationship thats grown richer over the years. Andrews,
best known for her role as the sprightly Maria in The Sound of Music,
starred in several Edwards films that included the gender-bending
Victor/Victoria and the satirical S.O.B. Andrews, 74, and Edwards, 88,
have five children. As for the secret of their marital success,
flexibility seems to be key: Julie once said, All love shifts and
changes. I dont know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
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Martin Sheen/Janet Templeton
48 years Dec. 23, 1961 |
Sheen,
70, best known recently for his portrayal of President Josiah Bartlet
on The West Wing, came from a traveling family. One of ten children, he
was the first to be born in the United States, and he married a girl
from his hometown, Dayton, Ohio. Sheen and the former Janet Templeton,
64, have four children-- actors Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, Ramon
and Reneeand three grandchildren.
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Alan Alda/Arlene Weiss
53 years March 15, 1957
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Alda,
74, best known for his role as the sardonic physician Hawkeye Pierce in
the legendary television series M*A*S*H*, and his wife, Arlene, 77,
have both come a long way from the Bronx. Typically, theyve never made a
big deal of it. Alda, whos won five Emmys and six Golden Globes, doesnt
make it a habit to talk about his personal life hed rather focus on
his liberal Democratic and feminist views. Weiss, even quieter, is an
accomplished clarinetist who once played with the Houston Symphony
Orchestra. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
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Kirk Douglas/Anne Buydens
56 years May 29, 1954
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Like
everything else about Kirk Douglas, his marriage is incredibly
long-lasting. At 93, hes been married to his wife, Anne Buydens, for 56
years. The marriage is Douglass second; his most famous son, Michael
Douglas, was born during his fathers first marriage. Douglas and Buydens
met in 1953, when she was a publicist for his movie Act of Love.
Although Douglas was engaged at the time to actress Pier Angeli, he and
Buydens eloped to Las Vegas. In 2004, they renewed their vows before 300
guests, including Nancy Reagan. As part of the traditional Jewish
ceremony, Kirk cracked a glass wrapped in linen, an act symbolizing both
the joy and difficulty of life. He wasnt strong enough to stomp on it,
but in typical fashion he made it work: He used his cane.
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