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Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes was a summer resident of Martha's Vineyard.

Late anchorman Walter Cronkite was a prominent summer resident as well.

Other regularly appearing celebrities include film writer / director Spike Lee, attorney Alan Dershowitz, comedians Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, politico Vernon Jordan, and television news reporters Diane Sawyer, former Ambassador and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Luers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Despite popular perceptions of the Vineyard as " Hollywood East ", the island is very low-key and quiet ; celebrities go to the Vineyard to enjoy the atmosphere, and not to be seen.

Locals tend to be protective of celebrity privacy, though recent coverage of celebrity sightings ( most notably in the two local newspapers on the Island ) has begun to erode that respect for privacy through more frequent reporting on celebrity sightings and famous visitors.

Vineyard social life often occurs in private, down country roads, and not in the small towns, only two of which even sell alcohol ( Oak Bluffs and Edgartown ).