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Eek. Sorry to hijack the post, but I am never going to ego-surf again (got the idea here). Number three in the list was my bankruptcy in the newspaper. :S
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1. I once had a professor in college named John Rambo. He had even been in the army in Vietnam. He didn't look like Stallone though. I've been known to say that people like him are the reason they put that disclaimer in movies.
2. My last name is very unusual. It isn't exclusive to our family, but it's very scarce. Back in the 30s, my grandfather and his brother owned a John Deere dealership called "{Last Name} Brothers". One day, my gradfather was reading an issue of the John Deere farming magazine and thought he found an error. There was an article mentioning some new technique for doing something that had been submitted by "{Last Name} Brothers". He wrote in to mention that they'd made a mistake because their dealership hadn't sent in the technique. They wrote back to say that it was the other "{Last Name} Brothers" dealership. It turns out there were two brothers in Alberta somewhere that had the same last name who also had a John Deere dealership named "{Last Name} Brothers"! My grandfather wrote to them and I think they exchanged letters until his death.
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quote:Originally posted by Rivkah Chaya: The Screen Actors' Guild won't let two members share a name, so when you see an actor who uses a middle initial, it's usually because there was already an actor with that first and last name registered. I don't know if this was the case with Michael J. Fox, though.
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Believe it or not, there was a silent film actor named Harrison Ford. He played Dimmsdale to Lillian Gish's Hester Prynne in the 1920's version of The Scarlet Letter. Had the SAG existed back then, this actor might have prevented the Star Wars actor from using his given name. Though honestly, I don't know what the SAG does with a name when the member actor dies or retires. Maybe they allow recycling after a certain number of years.
The actor who played Han Solo was credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in some of his early roles, because he couldn't show the SAG proof that the previous Harrison Ford was dead. No one really noticed when he dropped the "J".
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