Dennis Quaid, Marrying Man
It was love and fireworks for Dennis Quaid.
In a Fourth of July to remember, the Day After Tomorrow star swapped vows Sunday with Texas real-estate agent Kimberley Buffington.
Quaid's 12-year-old son, Jack Henry Quaid, served as his father's best man, while the bride's attendant was her brother, according to Quaid's publicist, Cara Tripicchio.
Tripicchio wouldn't say where the nuptials took place. But various published reports say the couple got hitched in Montana--not, as we'd have guessed, deep in the heart of their home state of Texas.
Quaid, 50, and Buffington, 32, first met in March 2003, after a "good friend" hooked them up them at a dinner in Austin, where the actor's band was performing a gig. Sparks flew, and the twosome announced their engagement in June.
This is the third marriage for Quaid. His first, to actress P.J. Soles, ended after five years with a 1983 divorce. He then hooked up with Meg Ryan, on the set of 1987's Innerspace, the two tied the knot in 1991, and, a year later, they welcomed their only child, Jack. But their union dissolved in 2001 amid tabloid rumors of infidelity, fueled in part by Ryan's short-lived fling with her Proof of Life costar Russell Crowe.
Ryan, however, dismissed speculation that a third party was the cause of the split, later telling W magazine that her marriage to Quaid was "broken" long before that. Neither Quaid nor Ryan ever elaborated.
Quaid was a big box-office draw in the '80s thanks to such flicks as The Right Stuff, Enemy Mine, The Big Easy, D.O.A., Suspect and the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, before his career petered out in the '90s.
He rebounded with The Parent Trap, followed by Frequency, Steven Soderbergh's Oscar-winning Traffic and HBO's Emmy-nominated Dinner with Friends. In 2002, he scored critical and commercial success with The Rookie and Far from Heaven, which earned him a Golden Globe nod.
After dropping two consecutive bombs--2003's Cold Creek Manor and this spring's The Alamo--he redeemed himself as a beleaguered scientist in The Day After Tomorrow; director Roland Emmerich's disaster flick has so far raked in $175 million in domestic ticket sales.
Next up, Quaid stars in Flight of the Phoenix, a remake of the Jimmy Stewart action-adventure film about a group of people who survive a plane crash in the Mongolian desert, and Synergy, a new comedy-drama from About a Boy helmer Paul Weitz about a middle-aged ad executive faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age.





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