Lousy names for fame

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#1Lousy names for fame
Posted: 4/22/18 at 5:11pm

It still takes me 30 seconds to remember Neil Patrick Harris' name.


Stephanatic

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#2Lousy names for fame
Posted: 4/24/18 at 3:57pm

I find it has more to do with my age than the name of the celebrity.  The older I get, the more I'm like, "You know...that guy...in that movie...with the woman from that TV show we always watch?  We like the show, but hated the movie, but thought she was funny in it?  YOU KNOW WHO I MEAN!"


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#3Lousy names for fame
Posted: 4/27/18 at 11:56pm

True age matters, I think maybe it has something to do with people with three names, my mind is lazy.  I'm trying to think of the guy who played Gabe for a while, he's a big star, no idea.


Stephanatic

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#4Lousy names for fame
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:02am

I struggle with 3 names period.  It's particularly challenging for me to remember the names of men who hyphenate their and their wives' last names these days like a few colleagues.  However, for some reason I have no problem recalling any mono-named z-lister.  I remember watching a Project Runway finale a few years ago and going "wow, there's Zendaya", long before she was known  worldwide as a fashion plate.  Brian D'Arcy James and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are two names that almost never stick with me but I still remember Vivica Fox billed as Vivica A. Fox.


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MichelleCraig
#5Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/9/18 at 5:38pm

Jason Robert Brown... I even had to just Google it to make sure I was getting it correct in this post.

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Posted: 5/11/18 at 2:28am

Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise etc sure got it right with their 'stage name'.

If I were heading into the entertainment industry I sure wouldn't use my difficult to say last name--I would want something easy to pronounce/remember and look great up in lights !

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#7Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/15/18 at 9:08am

Hey, the name Saoirse Ronan didn’t stop her from getting an Oscar nomination. But I did feel badly that the majority or all her interviews were about “Saoirse, like inertia!” and games like making her pronounce other oddly spelled/pronounced Irish names. I don’t mind names that are different. What’s lousy is people having to change names to convenience the public.

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dramamama611
#8Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/16/18 at 9:34am

Nobody HAS to, it's a choice.  


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#9Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/20/18 at 10:05pm

Childish Gambino

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#10Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 4:34pm

What is the name of the guy who has been in everything, like Shrek, N2N, a hundred other things?  Just saw him on TV, what's his name?  Brian D'Arcy James, sorry.

 


Stephanatic

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South Florida
#11Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 4:38pm

Norbert Leo Butz is a little easier to remember but.....

 


Stephanatic

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#12Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 4:47pm

Dick Armey was a bad name to have as a politician opposed to gays in the military?

UncleCharlie
#13Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 5:28pm

South Florida said: "What is the name of the guy who has been in everything, like Shrek, N2N, a hundred other things? Just saw him on TV, what's his name? Brian D'Arcy James, sorry.

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What's hard to remember about Brian D'Arcy James? By your own comment, casting directors don't seem to have any trouble remembering his name. His career in TV and film is taking off but he should change his name cause you have, as you yourself put it, a lazy mind?

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#14Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 6:52pm

yes


Stephanatic

UncleCharlie
#15Lousy names for fame
Posted: 5/25/18 at 8:49pm

Cool, we'll let him know. Any suggestions on what you WOULD be able to remember? It would suck if he had to change his name twice.

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Posted: 5/27/18 at 1:42am

I'd go for Brian D'Arcy.

and to be saddled through life with a Jnr after your name--what an ego[or laziness] of the Father.

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