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TIL that Lee Fierro, who played Alex Kintner’s mom in Jaws, went to a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. After seeing an “Alex Kintner Burger”, she mentioned that she played the mother in that movie. The manager who went out to meet her was none other than Jeff Voorhees, who played Alex.

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