# Celebrities/VIPs/Luminaries whose names phonetically join in the middle **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912 "2018-02-16T03:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
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I see he played Jesus on Broadway? John Neville, on the other hand, got top-billed at the movies as Sherlock Holmes in one film and Baron Munchausen in another. ---
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Richard Donner directed SUPERMAN — after he directed THE OMEN, but before he directed everything from LADYHAWKE to THE GOONIES to LETHAL WEAPON I-IV. ---
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…and, so long as I’m mentioning Richard Donner and the SUPERMAN franchise, I’ll mention that Tom Mankiewicz apparently handled screenplay duties there, after he’d picked up screenplay credits for a bunch of Bond movies in the ‘70s, which explains a couple of things in retrospect. Anyway, figure he got a running start at getting his name out there on the strength of all those Academy Awards that his father won; and figure that he parlayed _that_ into getting **“My Life As a Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey Through Hollywood”** published, and so figure that he counts for purposes of this thread. ---
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Jack Kevorkian ---
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Arthur Rimbaud ---
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Jeff Friesen, NHL left winger (over 800 games), played mainly for San Jose Sharks and New Jersey Devils. ---
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Bob Backlund, who was the WWF Heavyweight Champion in 1979 and 1980 and 1981 and 1982 and 1983 — you know, before Hulk Hogan ran with that Championship in 1984 and 1985 and 1986 and 1987 and 1988. ---
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Steve Van Zandt Carole Lombard John Napier Richard Dawson Bob Barker ---
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Amber Rose ---
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The brave anti-Nazi German pastor Martin Niemöller ---
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Jack Kelly served in the Army Air Corps during WWII. You know, before MAVERICK. ---
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American actor Broderick Crawford ---
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American actor Nick Kroll ---
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Jack Kerouac ---
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Scott Turow ---
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Architect and designer Daniel Libeskind ---
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Richard Dawkins ---
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Former NYC Mayor David Dinkins ---
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Champion quarterback Jim McMahon was just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle. ---
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