He thinks he’s special.
Frances Ethel Gumm, Archibald Leach, Norma Jean Mortenson and Marion Michael Morrison all changed their Northwestern European names for more marketable Northwestern European names when they entered the Hollywood business.
(Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne.)
Don’t forget Bernie Schwartz (Tony Curtis), Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns) Albert Einstein (Albert Brooks), Krishna Pandit Bhanji (Ben Kingsley) and lord knows how many others changed their names when they entered show business.