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Friday, July 1, 2011

Dan Aykroyd Draws Hundreds to Vodka Signing

They waited for hours, some in costume, to meet the famed actor and comedian.

They came as ghostbusters -- and one as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.  They wore t-shirts emblazoned with the image of the Blues Brothers. One woman carried a photo of her brother posing as Saturday Night Live character Fred Garvin, male prostitute. For hours Thursday, hundreds of people stood in line at the Wine & Spirits store at Crest Plaza for the opportunity to meet actor Dan Aykroyd of "Ghostbusters" and Blues Brothers" fame and to get his autograph on the clear, skull-shaped bottles of Crystal Head vodka. They got his autograph on just about everything else too -- movie posters, DVDs, action figures in his likeness and even the clothes they were wearing. Many people began arriving at the South Whitehall store about three hours …

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