# 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:** 16
**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:** [June 4, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/301 "2018-06-04T13:06:45Z")
Eric Cartwright (Hoss’s real name) Eleanor Rigby ---
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Making headlines today (and more tomorrow) is Gavin Newsom, who does the usual ‘celebrity’ stuff — a guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and on Stephen Colbert’s; and on _Last Call With Carson Daly_, when he isn’t a _Real Time With Bill Maher_ panelist; and he does _Good Morning America_, and _Meet The Press_, and so on — but, of course, all of that is because he used to be the Mayor of San Francisco, and then he became the Lieutenant Governor of California; and he’s now the front-runner in the race for the Governor’s Mansion, and speculation abounds as to what comes next. ---
**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 6, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/303 "2018-06-06T10:42:37Z")
Enos Slaughter scored the winning run in the 1946 World Series; and if you ask why the ten-time All-Star hadn’t managed to do the same a year earlier, it’s because, hey, WWII; and the year before that, same story; and the year before that, too; but back _before_ that, he was _already_ an All-Star who’d already picked up a World Series ring. And he later earned a third and fourth World Series ring, which helps explain why the guy who repeatedly led the league in triples is in the Hall of Fame. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/304 "2018-06-06T13:32:24Z")
First Ladies of the US edition: Louisa Adams Margaret Taylor Eleanor Roosevelt ---
**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 7, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/305 "2018-06-07T10:25:52Z")
Head of State of France: Philippe Pétain, who before WWII was a war hero and after WWII got convicted of treason and sentenced to death. ---
**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 8, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/306 "2018-06-08T11:05:53Z")
_The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute To Dar Robinson_ touted the guy who [was listed as highest paid stuntman for a single stunt to date in the 1988 Guinness Book of Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Robinson) and [broke 19 world records and set 21 “world’s firsts.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Robinson) Go look at a Steve McQueen movie, a Clint Eastwood movie, a Burt Reynolds movie, a Sylvester Stallone movie, and there he is; [Richard Donner’s dedication in the closing credits of Lethal Weapon reads, “This picture is dedicated to the memory of Dar Robinson / one of the motion picture industry’s greatest stuntmen”.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Robinson) (By the by, one of his _The Tonight Show_ appearances with Johnny Carson sparked a lawsuit of the Don’t-Try-This-At-Home variety; you can read about it [here](https://law.justia.com/cases/rhode-island/supreme-court/1982/446-a-2d-1036.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:** [June 9, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/307 "2018-06-09T12:30:12Z")
After his Emmy nomination for _I Know My First Name Is Steven_, Corin Nemec spent three years in prime time as the star of _Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_. ---
**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 10, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/308 "2018-06-10T11:33:16Z")
Olympic gold medalist Kim Mulkey, [the first person in NCAA history to win a basketball national championship as a player, assistant coach, and head coach … made NCAA history by leading the Lady Bears to a perfect 40–0 season, the most wins in college basketball history, men or women. The season culminated at the NCAA Championship game in Denver, where the Lady Bears defeated Notre Dame.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Mulkey) ---
**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 11, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/309 "2018-06-11T13:00:07Z")
Buster Keaton was **Steamboat Bill, Jr** — but Ernest Torrence was, y’know, his _dad,_ Steamboat Bill. That was kind of his thing, see: Torrence would play Moriarty in a Sherlock Holmes movie, and Captain Hook in a Peter Pan movie, and so on. And a lot of times he got billed third, after the leading man and the leading lady: that was the case in **Across To Singapore** , with Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford; same idea with how **I Cover The Waterfront** featured Claudette Colbert, and with how **Fighting Caravans** featured Gary Cooper. But for all that he got top billing in a number of flicks, and earned his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. ---
**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 12, 2018, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/310 "2018-06-12T09:59:55Z")
Lynn Nottage [was the first (and remains the only) woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice; the first in 2009 for _Ruined_, and the second in 2017 for _Sweat_.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Nottage) And those both came after the award-winning _Intimate Apparel_. ---
**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 13, 2018, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/311 "2018-06-13T10:20:22Z")
Malcolm McLaren presumably deserves mention. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/312 "2018-06-13T22:25:04Z")
Michael Learned (female actor) ---
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Putting it like that, Evalyn Knapp was so iconic a female actor as to be top-billed in _The Perils Of Pauline_, where kidnappers and shark-infested waters and various other cliffhangers await the intrepid daughter of a professor who’d researched the ancient Egyptian discovery that’s of great interest to a villainous Asian warlord! (That was before Knapp got top billing over Chick Chandler in _Three Of A Kind_, but after she got top billing over John Wayne in _His Private Secretary_. Granted, she did plenty of pictures where she got billed second to the male lead — _Confidential_ and _The Night Mayor_ and _In Old Santa Fe_ — but she got top billing in lots of other stuff, from _Air Hostess_ to _Bachelor Mother_ to _Corruption_.) (And, yes, Knapp was only third-billed in _Smart Money_; but on the one hand, that was Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, and that’s pretty great; and on the other, she could then turn around and get top billing in _Slightly Married_.) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/314 "2018-06-14T13:03:16Z")
Andrew Wodehouse (Rosemary’s Baby) ---
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Also in that one: Phil Leeds, king of the “Hey It’s That Guy” guys. Did tons of stuff in the movies and on television, with plenty of recurring roles for the latter. ---
**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 16, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/316 "2018-06-16T11:24:18Z")
Award-winning casting director Juliet Taylor has done her thing in 15 films that were up for Best Picture: she did it with The Exorcist, and Taxi Driver, and Network; and then came the year when Annie Hall was up against Julia and The Turning Point and _she’d done all three of those_; and then, after Terms of Endearment and The Mission and The Killing Fields and Hannah and Her Sisters, came the year when Working Girl was up against Dangerous Liaisons and Mississippi Burning and she’d done all three of _those_; and she then did everything from Schindler’s List to Midnight in Paris. (And the stuff she’s done that _wasn’t_ up for Best Picture? The Stepford Wives! Big! Arthur! Close Encounters Of The Third Kind! Sleepless In Seattle! The Birdcage!) ---
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Esther Ralston was a silent-movie star who got top billing in a number of films in the ’20s, with _Figures Don’t Lie_ and _The American Venus_ and _Sawdust Paradise_ and even _Half A Bride_, where second billing went to young Gary Cooper. And she kept at it with talkies in the ’30s: if it’s a comedy where Basil Rathbone is either trying to seduce an diplomat’s wife or accidentally making a play for the maid, you can bet that he only gets second billing while she’s on top; and if it’s a western with Randolph Scott — well, granted, that’s his wheelhouse and she’ll only manage to get second billing as the leading lady; but, still, that was between her top-billed roles in _Rome Express_ and _Shadows of the Orient_, y’know? ---
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3-time Olympic champ, and 4-time Wimbledon champ, Reginald Doherty. ---
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Daryle Lamonica - AFL and NFL quarterback known as “The Mad Bomber” ---
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Luke Kuechly may not have a cool nickname, but he [leads the NFL in tackles (based on press box stats) since 2012 with 818 and leads linebackers with 15 interceptions and 22 total takeaways.](https://www.panthers.com/news/luke-kuechly-ranked-12th-in-nfl-top-100) (And as that link adds, he’s just now been named “No. 12 overall on the NFL Network’s presentation of ‘The Top 100 Players of 2018.’ Kuechly is expected to be the top linebacker on the list (the top 10 overall will be revealed next Tuesday) and is in the top 20 overall for the fifth consecutive season. He’s been on the list every year he’s been eligible since being selected in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, standing as the lone linebacker on all of those six countdowns.”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=17)