# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/221 "2018-04-05T21:51:54Z")
Lewis Stone, the Oscar-nominated actor who played the hero — but of course got billed second to Boris Karloff — in THE MASK OF FU MANCHU; and who got tapped for his fair share of top-billed roles, even before he somehow managed top billing as Judge Hardy in various of the ANDY HARDY movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/222 "2018-04-06T04:28:43Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Hate to be a bad news bear again - the “uh” of Bella and the short vowel “a” of Abzug have agreed to a divorce… I’m a Midwesterner, and I say the vowels exactly the same. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/223 "2018-04-06T10:24:49Z")
Wherever we’re from, whatever our accents, can we all agree on Emmanuel Lewis? ---
**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:** [April 6, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/224 "2018-04-06T13:33:08Z")
Two of the founding members of The Legion of Super-Heroes qualify: Imra Ardeen (Saturn Girl) and Rokk Krinn (Cosmic Boy). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/225 "2018-04-06T14:45:57Z")
Brings to mind two of the X-Men — Pyotr “Peter” Rasputin, the guy who can usually take punishment long enough for his squishy teammate to come up with something flashy and spectacular; and Alex Summers, an aforementioned squishy teammate who makes use of aforementionedly spectacular and flashy powers. But if we’re supposed to stick to real-world types when it comes to the comics, I find myself wondering if two-time Eisner-winner Derek Kirk Kim’s name maybe deserves, like, a point and a half? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/226 "2018-04-06T17:32:42Z")
Which reminds me of tycoon Kirk Kerkorian. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/227 "2018-04-06T20:44:20Z")
Hey, speaking of both comics _and_ well-heeled guys with a ‘K’ name, let me note that the popularity of Frank King’s GASOLINE ALLEY strip [“escalated until it was published in over 300 daily newspapers with a daily combined readership of over 27,000,000. According to Lew Merrell, the strip and its merchandising made King a millionaire.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_King_(cartoonist)). And if you factor in the GASOLINE ALLEY movies and radio show, then suddenly the fact that King’s Highway got named after the guy makes a ton of sense. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/228 "2018-04-07T16:52:51Z")
Hall of Fame football player Bruce Smith has the NFL record for quarterback sacks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/229 "2018-04-08T11:14:26Z")
Abraham Maslow ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/230 "2018-04-09T10:53:17Z")
Sam & Dave got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before quite a lot of other acts — before The Doors, before The Mamas & The Papas, before The Jackson 5, and so on, and so on — on the strength of memorable hits like SOUL MAN and I THANK YOU and HOLD ON, I’M COMIN’. And so I figure that Sam Moore counts; even _without_ Dave, he’s belting out AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL at a presidential inauguration, or he’s putting out Grammy-nominated stuff with Eric Clapton, or whatever. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/231 "2018-04-09T13:06:45Z")
Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lechter both count. And their phonetic “S” and “L” form the initials of the most famous book written about them: Silence of the Lambs. I wonder if that was inadvertent or deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/232 "2018-04-09T15:50:42Z")
Hmm. Interesting - hadn’t thought about that. American actor Michael Landon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/233 "2018-04-09T23:45:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > American actor Michael Landon. Post #59. But how about American author and television host Hal Lindsey, who had a big enough bestseller in _The Late, Great Planet Earth_ that it wound up in movie theaters to bask in the full Documentary-Narrated-By-Orson-Welles treatment? (Quoth the NYT, it [“remains the top‐selling nonfiction book of the 70’s.”](https://mobile.nytimes.com/1979/12/30/archives/ten-years-of-best-sellers-best-sellers.html)) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/234 "2018-04-10T16:44:42Z")
Duke Kahanamoku won back-to-back Olympic gold medals as a record-breaking swimmer; but he was just as good _above_ the water as he was _in_ it, which is why people named the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship that. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/235 "2018-04-10T18:14:12Z")
Actress and model Pamela Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/236 "2018-04-10T22:18:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Actress and model Pamela Anderson. Well, look, if you’re going to bring up a big-chested blonde who ran in slow motion in Made-For-TV movies, then I’ll mention Captain America himself: Reb Brown, who on the big screen starred as YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE and on the small screen was memorably mocked by the MST3K crew for heading up SPACE MUTINY. (Didja know he got billed third in UNCOMMON VALOR, with Gene Hackman?) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/237 "2018-04-11T10:09:30Z")
Mark Curry headed up HANGIN’ WITH MR COOPER for a good five years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/238 "2018-04-12T10:25:46Z")
Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli has graced the covers of GQ and MAXIM and ESQUIRE and, of course, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT ISSUE. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/239 "2018-04-13T10:23:01Z")
Rufus Sewell has _something_ going for him — there’s a reason why he picked up a Tony nomination for his work on Broadway — but there’s a reason why he got tapped to play the antagonist to Heath Ledger, in A KNIGHT’S TALE; and then to Antonio Banderas, in THE LEGEND OF ZORRO; and why, when James Franco and Sophia Myles were cast as TRISTAN & ISOLDE, Sewell came between them as Marke. (Heck, there’s a reason why THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE of course put Sewell to work as SS Obergruppenführer John Smith; DARK CITY gave him a leading-man role, but the noir premise does a lot of _exception-that-proves-the-rule_ heavy lifting.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/240 "2018-04-14T11:06:25Z")
According to **The Sunday Times** , William Marshall was _“the best Othello of our time”_ since he was _“nobler than Tearle, more martial than Gielgud, more poetic than Valk. From his first entry, slender and magnificently tall, framed in a high Byzantine arch, clad in white samite, mystic, wonderful, a figure of Arabian romance and grace, to his last plunging of the knife into his stomach, Mr Marshall rode without faltering the play’s enormous rhetoric, and at the end the house rose to him.”_ Having said that, he’s probably more well-known for starring in **Blacula** — and, y’know, starring its sequel, **Scream Blacula Scream** (And he nearly destroyed the Enterprise on **Star Trek** , so he’s got that going for him, which is nice.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=13)