# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 27
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/521 "2018-12-20T23:56:35Z")
At that: Dick Calkins did other stuff after he left it behind, but [”is best known for being the first artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Calkins) > [@](#): > > [He served in World War I as an Airforce lieutenant and returned in 1919. He joined the John F. Dille Co., where, in 1929, he became the first artist to work on the new feature ‘Buck Rogers’, based on the novel by Phil Nowlan. In the same year, he also began working on ‘Skyroads’ with writer Lester J. Maitland. After Phil Nowlan’s death in 1940, Calkins did the writing and drawing on the ‘Buck Rogers’ strip until 1947, when he left due to a dispute with his employers.](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/calkins_d.htm) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/522 "2018-12-22T01:35:23Z")
Switching oeuvres by half-a-step, I’ll note that Katey Sagal’s dad Boris Sagal directed THE OMEGA MAN after years of television work — MIKE HAMMER and PETER GUNN and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. and T.H.E. CAT and tons of other work. I mean, granted, he also did plenty of _movie_ work — an Elvis Presley flick, a Charles Bronson flick, a Sophia Loren flick, you name it — but it’s all the Emmy nominations he earned that really tell the story. (RICH MAN, POOR MAN was a _classic,_ y’know?) ---
**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:** [December 22, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/523 "2018-12-22T22:28:15Z")
Xavier Roberts really got his name out there with the Cabbage Patch Kids. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/524 "2018-12-23T16:46:20Z")
Pierre Richard got leading-man work in plenty of movies that folks in America have maybe heard of. Well, maybe not “heard of”; but as close as possible. Like, even if you haven’t heard of _The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe_, you maybe saw the remake with Tom Hanks as _The Man With One Red Shoe_. Or if you never heard that Richard and Gérard Depardieu did _Les Fugitifs_, you still maybe saw Martin Short and Nick Nolte in _Three Fugitives_; Richard and Depardieu also did _La Chèvre_, which also got a Martin Short remake (with Danny Glover, that time) as well as _Les Compères_ (which got the Billy-Crystal-and-Robin-Williams treatment). Plus he did a movie that got an Antonio Banderas remake, and also did one that got a Richard Pryor remake, and that’s kind of a weird juxtaposition, there. ---
**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:** [December 24, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/525 "2018-12-24T18:35:38Z")
Since it’s Christmas Eve: Eric Christmas. Some may remember him as the Senator in **The Andromeda Strain** ; others, the Senator in **Attack of the Killer Tomatoes** ; and some may of course remember him as the Principal in **Porky’s** (and, for that matter, in **Porky’s II** ); or as the genius behind **The Philadelphia Experiment** — billed third after the leading man and the leading lady — or from **Harold and Maude** , or from **Johnny Got His Gun** , or from any one of a hundred other credits over the 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:** [December 25, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/526 "2018-12-25T18:13:00Z")
And since it’s now Christmas, I’ll mention some RANKIN/BASS productions: there’s RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, with Burl Ives; FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, with Jimmy Durante; SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN, with Fred Astaire; and plenty of other stuff too — the ‘70s animated take on THE HOBBIT, the ‘80s big-screen movie THE LAST UNICORN, and everything else from THUNDERCATS on — but really zeroing in on the holidays, from TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS with Joel Grey all the way over to THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS with Mickey Rooney. And while Jules Bass doesn’t count, Arthur Rankin presumably does. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/527 "2018-12-27T00:20:17Z")
Let me now make quick mention of how Bob Bell [“was an American announcer and actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bell_(actor)) and as a result [“was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1996.”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bell_(actor)) ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/528 "2018-12-27T23:20:22Z")
Miriam Margolyes — Professor Sprout, from the _Harry Potter_ movies — has won awards for her acting on stage, and won other awards for her acting on screen. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/529 "2018-12-29T00:13:06Z")
Different folks may remember Reed Diamond from plenty of different things: there’s his long run on HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS, and there’s his run on DOLLHOUSE and on THE MENTALIST and on AGENTS OF SHIELD and a dozen other recurring roles here and there — even if we leave aside the way that, this year, Diamond went from playing FBI Director John Forstell on DESIGNATED SURVIVOR to playing Albert Stanton, one of the new founding fathers of America, on THE PURGE. (Sizable number of movie roles, too…) ---
**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:** [December 29, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/530 "2018-12-29T22:31:39Z")
Arvydas Sabonis won Olympic gold for the Soviets in ‘88, sparking America’s reply of, _“okay, that’s enough of this; in ‘92, we’re sending Michael Jordan.”_ It also sparked an NBA career, and Hall of Fame spot, for Sabonis. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/531 "2018-12-30T23:15:52Z")
Award-winning author Joseph Finder has written a number of bestsellers, and he’s seen a number of them go the Hollywood way — namely, [this one](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Crimes) with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, and [that one](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(2013_film)) with Harrison Ford and a Hemsworth. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/532 "2018-12-31T23:09:38Z")
Horace Silver [“was one of the most popular and influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s”](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.amp.html): after working [“with some of the biggest names in jazz, Mr. Silver began leading his own group in the mid-1950s and quickly became a big name himself, celebrated for his clever compositions and his infectious, bluesy playing.”](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.amp.html) > [@The New York Times](#): > > Mr. Silver was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 1995 and received a President’s Merit Award from the Recording Academy in 2005. > > Many of his tunes became staples of the jazz repertoire — a development, he said, that surprised him. “When I wrote them,” he said in a 2003 interview for the website All About Jazz, “I would say to myself that I hope these at least withstand the test of time. I hope they don’t sound old in 10 years or something.” > > Rather than sounding dated, his compositions continued to be widely performed and recorded well into the 21st century. And while he acknowledged that “occasionally I hear an interpretation of one of my tunes that I say that they sure messed that one up,” he admitted, “For the most part I enjoy all of it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912.md?page=26)