# 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:** 15
**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:** [May 16, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/281 "2018-05-16T10:26:32Z")
Joseph Fourier, as in “Joseph Fourier University” and as in “Fourier Transform” and “Fourier Analysis” and “Fourier Number” and “Fourier Series” and so on. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/282 "2018-05-17T09:51:07Z")
At that, there’s also Nobel Prize winner Otto Wallach, as in “Wallach’s rule” — and as in “Wallach degradation”, and as in “the Wallach rearrangement”. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/283 "2018-05-18T09:25:09Z")
Devin Nunes, who has been a Congressman for fifteen years and counting, is currently Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/284 "2018-05-19T09:43:14Z")
And, for a guy who’s been serving in Congress even longer than Nunes: Joe Wilson, who picked up a dose of fame or notoriety or something when he, ah, responded to President Obama during the State of the Union address. _“There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”_ Quoth Wilson: “You lie!” (Some time after that, in 2012, Wilson got re-elected with 96% of the vote.) ---
**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:** [May 20, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/285 "2018-05-20T11:40:29Z")
Nick Cave — who presumably counts in his own right — wrote lyrics referencing a line from poet Wallace Stevens, who in turn has a Wikipedia page containing what might be the most American sentence I’ve ever seen: [_“After he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955, he was offered a faculty position at Harvard but declined since it would have required him to give up his vice-presidency of The Hartford.”_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens) (For bonus points, that was also the year — well, _one_ of the years — when Stevens won the National Book Award For Poetry.) ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/286 "2018-05-21T09:32:34Z")
Despite being in his forties, boxing champ Adonis Stevenson managed this past weekend to retain the light heavyweight title he’s been defending since 2013. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/287 "2018-05-22T09:57:16Z")
He doesn’t exactly have what you’d call leading-man _looks,_ but Donal Logue manages to get leading-man _work_ when he isn’t busy in a supporting role. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/288 "2018-05-23T10:24:52Z")
Tim McGraw has seven multiplatinum albums — nine, if you count ‘greatest hits’ compilations — and has parlayed that into lots of acting credits: hosting SNL; doing memorable work in _Friday Night Lights_ and _The Blind Side_; getting billed second to Gwyneth Paltrow in _Country Strong_, and to Alison Lohman in _Flicka_; and so on. Maybe none of that will overshadow his Grammys, but it’s solid. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/289 "2018-05-24T10:39:23Z")
Happy birthday to Philip Pearlstein, who at 94 has [“paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pearlstein) Books have been written about the guy, and not just because he was Andy Warhol’s roommate back when they were doing catalog work; here’s a bit where it’s noted that Pearlstein, [“credited as the chief reviver of late 20th-century realism and its leading figure painter, is perhaps the oldest artist still producing exhibition-quality work.”](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/philip-pearlstein-artist-who-stands-the-test-of-time-david-hockney-cng7qtc97) ---
**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:** [May 25, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/290 "2018-05-25T11:07:15Z")
Eddie Eagan won gold at the Summer Olympics, and won completely unrelated gold at the Winter Olympics, and near as I can tell that makes him unique; and, near as I can tell, that’s what earned him the postage-stamp treatment, since said stamp showcases, well, (a) his face and his name, and (b) both events. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/291 "2018-05-26T11:54:06Z")
After his award-winning work on THE SOPRANOS, Matthew Weiner got all sorts of attention for triumphing with MAD MEN: he won an Emmy for writing it, and another Emmy for producing it; and then, for its second year, he won an Emmy for writing it, and another Emmy for producing it; and then, for its third year, he won an Emmy for writing it, and another Emmy for producing it… ---
**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:** [May 28, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/292 "2018-05-28T00:28:01Z")
On in a few minutes: the finale of DECEPTION, the _second_ prime-time show built around giving a starring role to Jack Cutmore-Scott — after he was Cooper Barrett, the title character on COOPER BARRETT’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING LIFE). ---
**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:** [May 28, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/293 "2018-05-28T11:05:06Z")
Nicolas Sarkozy recently had a five-year run as President of France. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/294 "2018-05-29T10:35:59Z")
Rob Bironas founded The Rob Bironas Fund after managing a number of NFL records that still stand (most field goals made in one half, and most field goals made in one game, and most field goals made in one game without missing, and most points by a kicker in one game, and most game-winning field goals in one season) but before he managed yet another NFL record that’s _also_ still standing (most consecutive games with a 40+ yard field goal). ---
**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:** [May 30, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/295 "2018-05-30T10:30:37Z")
Movie star Tim McCoy got top billing in plenty of cowboy pictures. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/296 "2018-05-31T11:57:36Z")
Jiro Ono, the award-winning chef from the award-winning _Jiro Dreams Of Sushi_. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/297 "2018-06-01T11:16:59Z")
Douglas Slocombe’s first credit on IMDB is for filming 1940’s _Lights Out_, by “covering a Goebbels rally and the burning of a synagogue, for which he was briefly arrested.” His last credit on IMDB: cinematographer on the top-grossing movie in the world, with audiences cheering Indiana Jones for standing up to Nazis. (And before _Last Crusade_ and _Temple of Doom_ he’d earned an Oscar nomination for his work on _Raiders of the Lost Ark_: the top-grossing movie in the world for its year. And he’d earned Oscar nominations before that, as part of a big fine career: having made Michael Caine look good in _The Italian Job_ the year after he did the same for Peter O’Toole in _The Lion In Winter_, for example. And he did it for Robert Redford, as _The Great Gatsby_; and for Sean Connery, as James Bond…) ---
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Marian Nixon got tons of ‘leading lady’ roles back when: getting billed second to Spencer Tracy in _Face In The Sky_; and to Will Rogers, in _Too Busy To Work_; and to Jimmy Cagney, in _Winner Take All_ — and getting top billing, over Ralph Bellamy, in _Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm_ — which goes a long way to explaining why she got a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, because, hey, leading lady to Tom Mix in a western, and to Buddy Rogers in a comedy, and to Warner Baxter in a drama? ---
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Gabriel Lippmann (who invented the Lippmann electrometer, which Wiki says was used in the first electrocardiograph; and who, per Wiki, also invented the coelostat, and also created integral photography) won a Nobel Prize for something _other_ than all of that stuff I just now relegated to parenthetical status. ---
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LA LAW was a _monster_ hit: it won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in its first season, and then got nominated again for its second; and then won three in a row for its third and its fourth and its fifth, which is when Richard Dysart picked up three Emmy nominations in a row for his performance as Leland McKenzie; and when the show’s sixth season topped out at a nomination, Dysart won one. Of course, he was already an award-winning Broadway actor before all of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=16)