Swoosie Kurtz
Oliver Platt
Apparently she was named after a character in “The Great Gatsby”. Her mother was an actress who appeared in Hiitchcock’s “The 39 Steps”.
Picabo Street. It makes me laugh.
Forgot to add - she’s not actually a movie start, just famous.
Uma Thurman
Very attractive woman with a very strange name.
Parker Posey.
Powers Booth.
Piper Laurie.
Tippi Hendron.
Tim Brando announces football games for CBS sports.
Oh, and I forgot -
Heddi [Harvey Korman] “That’s Hedley!” [/Harvey Korman] Lamar.
Hedy Lamarr’s real name was Hedwig Kiesler—not that unusal a name in Austria.
Lou Gehrig. The guy’s named after a disease, for pity’s sake!
[sub]Yeah, I know, I know…[/sub]
And if Marlon Wayans married him. . .
Oh, oh, oh, oh :waves hand:
Stockard Channing.
Stockard? Stockyard?
[David Letterman]
Uma…Oprah…
Oprah…Uma…
Uma…Oprah…
[/David Letterman]
Anyone seen Brad’s Pitt or Kevin’s Bacon?
Hedren.
Yes, and yes (in Playgirl and the movie Wild Things, respectively).
She took the name from Gatsby–her real name is Susan.
Rip Torn is his real name, or part of it, IIRC.
Cyd Charisse has got to be one of the worst stage names ever, IMHO.
Eliza Dushku
I suspect she had to develop the fighting skills she displayed on Buffy once the other kids learned to pronounce her last name.
Doris Day
But Step’n Fetchit is the saddest, I think.
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0275297/
JM J. Bullock has the “JM” because he is a member of the screen actor’s guild, and in the union, only one person is allowed a name. For example, one cannot be a Tom Cruise, because there is one, but one can be a T.J. Cruise.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, that is a family name, but “cruise”? Put the car in cruise, cruise!
Sandra Bullock, why does the most beautiful woman in Hollywood have the last name which resembles “cattle”?
Minnie Driver-Minnie and Driver crack me up. I’ve only known three Minnie’s, Minnie Mouse, Minnie Pearl and her.
Minnie-“Put the car in cruise, Cruise.”
Cruise-“Well, Miss driver, why don’t you…take over?”
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