Posted on 04/16/2006 11:03:18 AM PDT by mathprof
IT'S a measure of what we have come to expect from celebrities to consider that if Henry Fonda were alive and having children today, it would seem as likely for him to name his daughter, say, Hanoi, as simply to call her Jane.
It seems almost unimaginable for any 21st-century movie star to send his children out among the Hollywood elite equipped with ordinary names like Michael, Eric, Joel and Peter, as Kirk Douglas once did.
This point was driven home again last week, when Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband, Chris Martin, the frontman of the band Coldplay, named their newborn son Moses. It was an unlikely enough name for a baby boy born in 2006, but perhaps less startling than the much discussed (and mocked) handle his sister, Apple, born two years ago, will carry through life.
Not that a name like Apple Martin stands out among celebrity children anymore. The director Peter Farrelly plucked that very name for his daughter before Apple Martin came along. Even that name seems drab compared with Hollywood baby names like Pilot Inspektor, cooked up by Jason Lee, the star of "My Name Is Earl," or Banjo, the inspiration of the "Six Feet Under" star Rachel Griffiths, or Moxie CrimeFighter, a name chosen last year by the comedian and magician Penn Jillette for his daughter.[snip]
Some therapists said the celebrity impulse to foist odd names on their children amounts to simple narcissism by the parents, and the resulting status comes at the child's expense. The children, after all, are the ones who will have to raise their hands every time a teacher calls out "Coco" or "Eulala."
"It's like having a mini me," said a clinical psychologist in Los Angeles. "The child is a part of them, not an individual. It's an appendage."
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He's an adult now.
I'm not going to post how it's spelled, I might get kicked off for talking dirty!
Amen! what is wrong with interesting names.
Tuesday by the way is really a cute name.
People gave my daughter and her husband crap when they named their son Israel.
My, and NC KERR's, older brother, Dan (aka "Sauce" of "Nymph Records"), an ultra liberal, who is 31 years old and still travels the nation as a hippie with a music career that just won't take off (view his profile at (caution!): http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=13180816 ), named his daughter Atari Tuesday Kerr.
Some "old" names are on revival. Hannah, Abigail, Phoebe and Jacob happen to be very popular now. I would've thought Angelina would be popular by now.
It became a running joke/game, so Bogart contributed "Dungg Heep", Tony Curtis liked "Ben Dover", some columnist penned "Wyatt Trash"...
Angelina would be popular except that, for the most part, lesbos don't have children.
I think Moxie would be a cute name for a dog, cat, rabbit or bird but I just can't see it for a kid.
You might like the names chosen by a earlier prominent member of Texas society. Mr. Hogg named his two daughters Ima and Ura. His family was sufficiently prominent that nobody made fun of the girls.
Now days, he'd be called a grunting, snorting, male chauvinist pig by some feminazi.
The DA in the Perry Mason stories was Hamilton Burger. I don't think anyone on the TV series ever called him anything but Hamilton, but in the books he sometimes went by his nickname, "Ham."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606343/posts
Very lively discussion on the topic, particularly within black communities.
Is the Martin girl's middle name Pie?
Hardly any parents would do that to their child, not just feminists.
Straight guys don't like her?
Straight guys aren't going to tell their straight wives they want to name her Angelina, are they? Seems to me there'd be repercussions :-P About as likely as wifey naming a son Antonio.
You have to wonder if she'll see the humor and appreciate the magic when she's older.
My mother hated her (old Saxon) name all her life. I can't say that I blame her.
I love the name she and my father gave me. I'm lucky.
LeMongello and O'Rangello
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