# A different people, same name question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896 "2017-02-15T11:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/41 "2017-02-16T13:38:38Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Oh, we _really_ need a Sinbad movie starring Sinbad. As I mentioned recently in another thread, when TNT ran all the Harryhausen “Sinbad” movies in one night, many years ago, they had it hosted by actor/comedian Sinbad, dressed up in a typical “Sinbad” costume. So you almost get your wish. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/42 "2017-02-16T13:51:04Z")
Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/43 "2017-02-16T13:54:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If Paul Revere (Dick) of Paul Revere and the Raiders was still around, he could play Paul Revere. > > Heck, he already had the costume. He doesn’t have the right name, but based on his [portrait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#/media/File:J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg), Jack Black could stand in for Paul Revere any time. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/44 "2017-02-16T14:11:40Z")
What about Jerry Lewis as Jerry Lee Lewis. Sort of related trivia: In the TV movie John & Yoko, actor Mark Lyndsey was set to play John Lennon until his real full name came out: Mark Lyndsey Chapman. Since Lennon was killed by Mark (David) Chapman, the producers went with someone else. I mean, would you have John Kennedy played by Lee Harvey? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/45 "2017-02-16T14:14:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > As I mentioned recently in another thread, when TNT ran all the Harryhausen “Sinbad” movies in one night, many years ago, they had it hosted by actor/comedian Sinbad, dressed up in a typical “Sinbad” costume. So you almost get your wish. Isn’t that the origin of the “Sinbad was the genie in Shazam” thingy? People remember him dressed as Sinbad and attribute it to the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/46 "2017-02-16T14:20:31Z")
How about a remake of Midnight Cowboy with Joe Buck as Joe Buck? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/47 "2017-02-16T15:29:00Z")
I don’t think she has the chops, but Jaye P. Morgan could play the financier/banker dude. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/48 "2017-11-22T21:32:41Z")
Bump. This isn’t exactly the same thing, but I’ve (just now) been watching _The Man in the High Castle_ and have been noticing that there is someone attached to the show named Emma Frost. And [looking on the IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296491/?ref_=nv_sr_1), I see that she was a writer on a series called _The White Queen_. ([For those who don’t know why that is funny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Frost#White_Queen_of_the_Hellfire_Club).) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/49 "2017-11-22T22:08:06Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > He doesn’t have the right name, but based on his [portrait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#/media/File:J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg), Jack Black could stand in for Paul Revere any time. Fuck! That is creepy! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/50 "2017-11-23T04:54:31Z")
[George Wallace](https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTMzNjA4NDM5OTEyOTA4ODEw/george-wallace-comedianjpg.jpg) as [George Wallace](https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/87/29087/full_hd/george-wallace.jpg) would be … interesting. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/51 "2017-11-23T14:52:36Z")
Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin playing Stephen “Father of Texas” Austin. (Yes, it’s desperate.) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/52 "2017-11-24T10:34:44Z")
Brett Butler’s “Grace Under Fire” was popular when Brett Butler was a LA Dodger outfield star. But CNN’s Robin Roberts came decades after the HoF career of Phillips pitcher Robin Roberts. Cardinal outfield star Terry Moore was never mistaken for Oscar nomminee actress Terry Moore. Eva Longoiria and Evan Longoria had contemporaneous careers as actress and ball player. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/53 "2017-11-24T11:48:48Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin playing Stephen “Father of Texas” Austin. > > (Yes, it’s desperate.) Or, wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin could play either Stephen Austin or Steve Austin in a _Six Million Dollar Man_ remake. Yeah, I know that’s not his real name, but it’s the one he’s famous as. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/54 "2017-11-24T11:56:35Z")
Too late for the edit: What would be more natural than Armie Hammer playing his great-grandfather, industrialist Armand Hammer? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/55 "2017-11-24T12:14:05Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > He doesn’t have the right name, but based on his [portrait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere#/media/File:J_S_Copley_-_Paul_Revere.jpg), Jack Black could stand in for Paul Revere any time. Speaking of which, and on another tangent, in **Goosebumps** Jack Black plays R.L. Stine, the real-and-fictional author of the Goosebumps books and also (in the film) a high school English teacher. At the end of the film he greets in passing “Mr. Black”, the high school drama teacher, played by the actual R.L. Stine. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/56 "2017-11-24T13:05:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’d love to see a serious, well-done movie about the opening of Japan. I have a question. What is the opening of Japan? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/57 "2017-11-24T13:34:38Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have a question. What is the opening of Japan? [This](https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/58 "2017-11-24T14:14:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have a question. What is the opening of Japan? So many potential comedy answers, so few Suitable For Work… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/59 "2017-11-24T14:27:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > So many potential comedy answers, so few Suitable For Work… I couldn’t even begin to guess. I knew there was an 80s band named Japan, and that’s as far as I got. Opening its trade routes with America would have been low on my list of guesses. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896/60 "2017-11-24T14:47:51Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I couldn’t even begin to guess. I knew there was an 80s band named Japan, and that’s as far as I got. Opening its trade routes with America would have been low on my list of guesses. Fun fact: Stephen Sondheim wrote a musical about it called [Pacific Overtures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Overtures) (with a recent off-Broadway revival). I don’t know if the current Matthew Perry can sing but perhaps there’s an opportunity there, although the Admiral tends to be played by one of the Asian actors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-different-people-same-name-question/779896.md?page=4)