‘I’m very pleased we’ve got the same name’
July 23, 2022 6:10 AM Subscribe
Brian Cox meets Brian Cox. "The actor Brian Cox used to be irked by the success of his upstart namesake. Now, for the first time, he and Prof. Brian Cox talk science, Succession and what Shakespeare and black holes have in common." [The Guardian]
Well, reading the article it seems they kind of disagree with you on that point, ricochet!
posted by kbanas at 6:41 AM on July 23, 2022
posted by kbanas at 6:41 AM on July 23, 2022
They’ve met at least twice before: in 2020 and previously in 2014.
Looks like the “something they’ve never done before” angle that The Grauniad is playing is meeting up for “a lengthy chat.”
posted by Ranucci at 6:56 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
Looks like the “something they’ve never done before” angle that The Grauniad is playing is meeting up for “a lengthy chat.”
posted by Ranucci at 6:56 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
For other people to save you the search: the younger looking guy is the professor, the beard and grey hair guy is the actor.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:14 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Meatbomb at 7:14 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
Prof Brian Talking about music, I only discovered [American jazz pianist] Keith Jarrett quite late in life. His [1995] album La Scala is mainly improvised compositions, but ends with this astonishing version of Over the Rainbow.
Over the Rainbow(YT)
posted by Glinn at 7:39 AM on July 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
Over the Rainbow(YT)
posted by Glinn at 7:39 AM on July 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
There is someone in my hometown with the same first name and a last name that sounds like mine (but is spelled differently). We've actually been on the same restaurant waiting list more than once, which made for some amusing confusion. But neither one of us is famous in any way.
posted by tommasz at 7:58 AM on July 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by tommasz at 7:58 AM on July 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
I'd like to get all the Mich*l Anders*ns that do transportation-related writing together for a convention. I couldn't even find the other one I was looking for, but here's a couple to get you started.
https://www.sightline.org/author/michael-andersen/
https://are.berkeley.edu/~mlanderson/ARE_Website/Research.html
posted by aniola at 9:52 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
https://www.sightline.org/author/michael-andersen/
https://are.berkeley.edu/~mlanderson/ARE_Website/Research.html
posted by aniola at 9:52 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
Are you Dave Gorman?
Dave Gorman is challenged by Danny Wallace (the man who accidentally created a cult in "Join Me") to find and meet 54 other Dave Gormans.
posted by lips at 10:13 AM on July 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
Dave Gorman is challenged by Danny Wallace (the man who accidentally created a cult in "Join Me") to find and meet 54 other Dave Gormans.
posted by lips at 10:13 AM on July 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
I never understood why a new actor/celebrity would start a career using a name that's already famous. The newer Steve McQueen for example. Why?
posted by Liquidwolf at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2022
posted by Liquidwolf at 10:43 AM on July 23, 2022
I never understood why a new actor/celebrity would start a career using a name that's already famous. The newer Steve McQueen for example. Why?
"He's the one that sucks!"
posted by remembrancer at 11:19 AM on July 23, 2022 [6 favorites]
"He's the one that sucks!"
posted by remembrancer at 11:19 AM on July 23, 2022 [6 favorites]
I always thought Nick Cave and Nick Cave should meet.
posted by remembrancer at 11:23 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by remembrancer at 11:23 AM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
I never understood why a new actor/celebrity would start a career using a name that's already famous. The newer Steve McQueen for example. Why?Most people assume that they will go by their real names professionally, even if they aren't the only person with that name. Both Prof. Brian Cox and the director Steve McQueen initially came to prominence in fields that weren't related to the thing their namesake was famous for: Prof. Brian Cox was a physicist and Steve McQueen was a visual artist. Steve McQueen, whose birth name is actually Steve (not Stephen or Steven) McQueen, had no reason to think that he, an avant-garde artist, was going to be mistaken for a long-dead American film star. And by the time he was in a position to be mixed up with the Hollywood actor, he'd already won the Turner Prize (the UK's most high-profile prize for a visual artist) as Steve McQueen.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 12:02 PM on July 23, 2022 [4 favorites]
remembrancer: Nick Cave and Nick Cave have met at least once!
posted by lisa g at 2:19 PM on July 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by lisa g at 2:19 PM on July 23, 2022 [3 favorites]
Mine gets his Jaguar serviced and goes shopping for boats a lot, but can’t be bothered to get his email address right so I get all his service emails and appointment confirmations. I’ve bounced them with explanations multiple times but they keep on comin’.
posted by aesop at 3:18 PM on July 23, 2022
posted by aesop at 3:18 PM on July 23, 2022
The number of people who seem to think my email address is their email address is staggering.
posted by drfu at 4:51 PM on July 23, 2022
posted by drfu at 4:51 PM on July 23, 2022
Steve (not Stephen or Steven) McQueen, had no reason to think that he, an avant-garde artist, was going to be mistaken for a long-dead American film star. And by the time he was in a position to be mixed up with the Hollywood actor, he'd already won the Turner Prize (the UK's most high-profile prize for a visual artist) as Steve McQueen.
Then visual artist Steve McQueen can blame his parents I guess.
BTW there was a kid in my grade school named John Lennon ( in the early 80s ). Every teacher was like... "WTF?"
posted by Liquidwolf at 6:16 PM on July 23, 2022
Then visual artist Steve McQueen can blame his parents I guess.
BTW there was a kid in my grade school named John Lennon ( in the early 80s ). Every teacher was like... "WTF?"
posted by Liquidwolf at 6:16 PM on July 23, 2022
My dream of a prestige TV series where Bill Nye and Bill Nighy get together and solve mysteries through a combination of science and acting edges ever closer.
posted by Shepherd at 6:34 PM on July 23, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by Shepherd at 6:34 PM on July 23, 2022 [7 favorites]
It was the 2014 mashup I saw.
Not quite the same level, I know, but if the lives of loved ones hung in the balance, I could not reliably identify the filmographies of producer Bryan Fuller, producer Bryan Singer, and producer Brian Grazer.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:00 PM on July 23, 2022
Not quite the same level, I know, but if the lives of loved ones hung in the balance, I could not reliably identify the filmographies of producer Bryan Fuller, producer Bryan Singer, and producer Brian Grazer.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:00 PM on July 23, 2022
I didn't realize there were 2 Nick Caves! My local art museum has a soundsuit and I was always like, "Fuck that dude is versatile. What an interesting skillset." lol me
posted by jeoc at 7:13 PM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by jeoc at 7:13 PM on July 23, 2022 [2 favorites]
I find it sad that Albert Einstein never got to meet Albert Einstein.
posted by Omon Ra at 7:50 AM on July 24, 2022
posted by Omon Ra at 7:50 AM on July 24, 2022
I am pretty sure that I am the only one on the planet that has my real name. Therefore it is pointless for me to become either an actor or a scientist with a beard.
posted by storybored at 8:23 AM on July 24, 2022
posted by storybored at 8:23 AM on July 24, 2022
I am pretty sure that I am the only one on the planet that has my real name.
I am also pretty sure of that. What do you think the chances are that we have the same name?
posted by Sparx at 10:24 PM on July 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
I am also pretty sure of that. What do you think the chances are that we have the same name?
posted by Sparx at 10:24 PM on July 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
I, on the other hand, am cursed with multiple people having my name. First and last name are neither that common nor uncommon; yet I’m always fighting the other me’s on social media, etc for our name.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:36 PM on July 24, 2022
posted by [insert clever name here] at 10:36 PM on July 24, 2022
Filmmaker Alan Berliner got together with several other people named Alan Berliner in his film The Sweetest Sound.
I met another [Orkney Vole] when she came to get her Covid vaccine and I saw her name on the list. She and I go to the same chemist, because we've both been asked by them if we are the other Orkney Vole, and she lives on a street I used to live on (but not the same house; I was imagining all sorts of parallel universes for a minute).
Thanks to the Gmail issue where dots aren't recognised in email addresses, I am now in semi-frequent touch with several [Orkney Voles] around the world.
posted by Orkney Vole at 1:57 AM on July 25, 2022
I met another [Orkney Vole] when she came to get her Covid vaccine and I saw her name on the list. She and I go to the same chemist, because we've both been asked by them if we are the other Orkney Vole, and she lives on a street I used to live on (but not the same house; I was imagining all sorts of parallel universes for a minute).
Thanks to the Gmail issue where dots aren't recognised in email addresses, I am now in semi-frequent touch with several [Orkney Voles] around the world.
posted by Orkney Vole at 1:57 AM on July 25, 2022
They lost a chance to recreate a version of the Josh Fight!
Speaking of names, Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein. No wonder he changed his name when he started his showbiz career!
posted by indianbadger1 at 9:27 AM on July 25, 2022
Speaking of names, Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein. No wonder he changed his name when he started his showbiz career!
posted by indianbadger1 at 9:27 AM on July 25, 2022
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