[post_page_title]Woody Allen – Allan Stewart Konigsberg[/post_page_title]
What was the famous New York funnyman’s reason for changing his name? He said it made him sound “too Jewish.” It’s a shame that in this day and age he would still see this as an issue, and the sad thing is that he’s not the first aspiring actor to change his name for similar reasons. The good news is that Woody Allen uses far less ink on a movie poster than Allan Stewart Konigsberg.
[post_page_title]Blake Lively – Blake Ellender Brown[/post_page_title]
This rising Hollywood star avoided alliterative awfulness by changing it to something that helped describe her personality; Lively. The bad thing about alliterative names is that they are difficult to say and get tied up in the mouth too often. Also, you start sounding like a Marvel comic book character. Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Reed Richards, Stephen Strange, need I go on?
