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• At the age of 17, Brooklyn native Allan Stewart Konigsberg legally changed his name to Heywood Allen. He used the nickname of Woody, and went on to fame as a film director, screenwriter, actor, musician, author, and comedian, bringing us the likes of Annie Hall, What’s New, Pussycat?, and Casino Royale.

• Singer Elvis Costello was born in London in 1954 as Declan Patrick McManus. Prior to his success as a performer, he worked as a data entry clerk in the office of the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company, and as a computer operator in a British bank. He took the name Costello as a tribute to his father, who was also a singer who had performed using the name Day Costello. Declan’s manager suggested combining the name Elvis with Costello.

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WHO’S THAT? (continued): • Actresses born overseas or to immigrant parents simplified their names to fit in with the Hollywood scenes, such as Swedish-born Lovisa Gustafsson, better known as Greta Garbo.

The daughter of Russian immigrants, Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko chose the much simpler Natalie Wood for her stage name.

• Not a day goes by that one of the hits by Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta isn’t on the radio. At age 20, a talent scout referred Stefani to a music producer and the couple began dating. According to the producer, he created her new name, Lady Gaga, from the British rock band Queen’s 1984 hit “Radio Ga Ga.” Although some of her performances are controversial to many, it hasn’t stopped her from achieving sales of 27 million albums.

• Dana Elaine Owens was just eight years old when she found her future name. While looking through a book of Arabic names, Dana discovered the name “Latifah,” which means “delicate and very kind” in that language. Queen Latifah released her first rap single in 1988.

• In 1966, Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien was the world’s best-selling female singer in the world. Who was she? She was the British pop singer Dusty Springfield, whose first hit in 1963 was “I Only Want to Be With You,” followed by “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” and “Son of a Preacher Man.” The nickname Dusty came about because she was a tomboy who enjoyed playing football with the boys in the street.

• From a jewel to a flower – that’s the route that Australian hip-hop artist Iggy Azalea took. Azalea, who moved to the United States to pursue her career at age 16, was born Amethyst Amelia Kelly. continued on the next page

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--Contact your veterinarian and any nearby vets to find out if Morris was brought in. If he is wearing a collar and ID tag, a kind stranger may bring him there.

--Search nearby woods and wild areas, calling Morris by name.

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• “Batman” star Michael Keaton (born Michael Douglas) changed his last name in order to prevent confusion between himself and another well-known actor named Michael Douglas. He had recently read an article about actress Diane Keaton and decided he liked the sound of it.

Ironically, Michael Douglas was the son of Kirk Douglas, whose real name was Issur Danielovitch Demsky, not Douglas at all! Kirk’s parents had emigrated from what is now Belarus, and as a child, he was known as Izzy Demsky.

He changed his name just prior to entering the U.S. Navy in World War II. • Another celebrity changed her name to avoid being confused with another. Singer Katy Perry’s given name is Katy Hudson, but there was already a Kate Hudson on the scene, the daughter of Goldie Hawn and actress who had starred in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “The Skeleton Key,” “You, Me and DuPree,” and many others. Although Katy Perry released her debut studio album under the name Katy Hudson, it was commercially unsuccessful.

Perry is her mother’s maiden name. She holds the world record for the most Twitter followers, and was the first person to gain 90 million followers. She was the highest-earning female celebrity in 2015, and her net worth is estimated at $125 million.

• English singer David Robert Jones was also concerned about being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees, and gave himself a new name, David Bowie, in tribute to the 19thcentury American frontiersman Jim Bowie, who made famous the 9.25-in-long (23.5-cm) hunting knife he carried. Jim Bowie was killed at the Alamo. continued on the page 5

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WHO’S THAT? (continued): • Frederick Austerlitz and Virginia McMath danced their way through 10 motion pictures together from 1933 to 1949 under the names of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. But they weren’t a pair in all their respective movies.

Fred made 21 others without Ginger, while she appeared in 63 films without him. At one time, Ginger Rogers was Hollywood’s highest-paid actress.

• British actress Helen Mirren, who has an Oscar, 4 Emmys, 3 Golden Globes, and a Tony to her credit, began her career in the Royal Shakespeare Company. The daughter of a Russian immigrant father and granddaughter of a Russian diplomat, she was born Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironov.

• The star of 142 films, 83 of them Westerns, John Wayne was one of the top box office stars for 30 years. Born Marion Robert Morrison, his life’s original course involved a football scholarship from the University of Southern California, but a broken collarbone suffered in a bodysurfing accident derailed those plans.

Without any funds to continue his studies in pre-law, he took a job at a film studio, and was given a few small bit parts using the name Duke Morrison. (As a child, his constant companion was his Airedale Terrier, Duke, and Marion became known as “Little Duke.”) In 1930, the Fox Studios chief suggested the name of John Wayne. It wasn’t until he was 32 years old that the Duke’s career took off when he starred in “Stagecoach.” John Wayne was a great fan of the game of chess, and frequently played the game between takes on the movie set.

• Two famous magicians/illusionists changed their names to something memorable – Ehrich Weiss became Harry Houdini, and David Kotkin uses the stage name David Copperfield.

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• The plant is part of the aconitum genus. Several species have been used to make poisonous arrows. Nomadic people in India put aconite on their arrows to hunt ibex, a species of wild goats, while native Aleuts of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands have used it for hunting whales.

• When ingested by a human, symptoms begin within an hour, with nausea and vomiting occurring almost immediately, followed by a powerful burning feeling in the limbs and abdomen, accompanied by motor weakness and numbness in the limbs. It takes just 20 ml. of aconite to kill an adult human, which usually occurs in as little as two to six hours. The toxin can cause heart arrhythmia, and paralysis of the heart and respiratory systems.

• The roots of the plant are where the highest level of poison is found. However, great care needs to be exercised when picking the leaves of the plant. Without gloves, the toxin is easily absorbed through the skin. If a person has cuts on his hands, the poison enters the bloodstream very quickly. (continued next page)

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•Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space Greek mythology tells us that the granddaughter Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” of the sun god, sorceress Medea, attempted to poison Theseus the king of Athens with a cup of wine poisoned with wolfsbane.

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• Cherilyn Sarkisian met Salvatore Bono in 1962 in a Los Angeles coffee shop. She was just 16, he was 27. Sonny was working for a record producer and the pair teamed up to sing under the name Caesar and Cleo. In 1964, they married and changed to Sonny and Cher and soon had their first hit, “Baby, Don’t Go.” Of course, their best-known hit was 1965’s “I Got You Babe.” After going their separate ways, Sonny became an actor and later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cher went solo, achieving eight Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award for her role in 1988’s “Moonstruck.”

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