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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

by kphirst

There are times I've wanted to be a bartender. A people-person
with good listening skills who can mix drinks - how hard could
that be? Well ... it seems to have gotten harder.

Recently there has been an influx of new drinks and flavored
martinis. I have nothing against blue drinks topped with a
parasol, but a martini should be vodka or gin with a touch of
vermouth and an olive - no chocolate, no coffee, no banana
liqueur. Okay, maybe I wouldn't measure up as a bartender because
I can't think outside the glass.

There are other times I've wanted to be a race car driver.
Admittedly, my desire is strongest when I'm stuck in traffic; but
there are women whose desire turned into drive.

In 1979 Janet Guthrie was the first woman to race in the
Indianapolis 500. Lynn St. James raced in nine Indy 500's and was
rookie of the year in 1992. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300
in 2008.

Although many people attribute these women's success to the
feminist movement, there were more women racing before Betty
Freidan wrote "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963. In fact, in the
1950's there were six women in NASCAR racing. These were women
who didn't think poodle skirts, beehive hairstyles and cat-eye
glasses were racy enough.

Although lots of people want to be actors, some actors have
thought their birth names projected the wrong image for them.
Nicholas Coppola didn't want to ride on the coattails of his
famous uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, so he changed his name to
Nicholas Cage. Ramon Estevez thought an Irish name would be
better for him than a Latino one and he changed his name to
Martin Sheen. As for Martin Sheen's actor sons, Emilio Estevez
kept his birth name and Carlos Irwin Estevez changed his name to
Charlie Sheen.

Then there's Maurice Micklewhite. Maurice preferred the first
name Michael and picked his last name from a movie marquee for
"The Caine Mutiny". Now Michael Caine jokes that if he'd looked
in the other direction, his name would be Michael The 101
Dalmatians.

Because the Screen Actors Guild won't allow actors to have the
same name, the actor who was born Michael Douglas changed his
name to Michael Keaton. And it didn't take a genius to know that
the actor born Albert Einstein should change his name and he
changed it to Albert Brooks.

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