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::[[Barış Arduç]] and [[Elçin Sangu]] played the role of partners in the Turkish romantic drama television series ''[[Kiralık Aşk]]'', and for months on end IP editors tried to make them romantic partners too here on Wikipedia.  --{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{#invoke:Redirect|main|User talk:Lambiam}}|Lambiam|{{#if:Lambiam|[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]]|[[User talk:Lambiam]]}}}} 10:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
::[[Barış Arduç]] and [[Elçin Sangu]] played the role of partners in the Turkish romantic drama television series ''[[Kiralık Aşk]]'', and for months on end IP editors tried to make them romantic partners too here on Wikipedia.  --{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{#invoke:Redirect|main|User talk:Lambiam}}|Lambiam|{{#if:Lambiam|[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]]|[[User talk:Lambiam]]}}}} 10:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
:::One of the child actresses in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[Charmian Carr]]) entitled her autobiogrpahy ''Forever Liesl'', after the character she played in the film, since she became indelibly associated with that character. In her case, the fact she played very few roles after that one helped to fuse the two personalities in the public's mind. And I also remember someone who played a famous doctor in the early days of doctor saying strangers would continually ask him for medical advice, using his character's name (it could have been [[Richard Chamberlain]], who played [[Dr. Kildare]]). So the phenonemon is quite common. [[User:Xuxl|Xuxl]] ([[User talk:Xuxl|talk]]) 13:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
:::One of the child actresses in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[Charmian Carr]]) entitled her autobiogrpahy ''Forever Liesl'', after the character she played in the film, since she became indelibly associated with that character. In her case, the fact she played very few roles after that one helped to fuse the two personalities in the public's mind. And I also remember someone who played a famous doctor in the early days of doctor saying strangers would continually ask him for medical advice, using his character's name (it could have been [[Richard Chamberlain]], who played [[Dr. Kildare]]). So the phenonemon is quite common. [[User:Xuxl|Xuxl]] ([[User talk:Xuxl|talk]]) 13:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
::::Similarly consider [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s two volumes of autobiography, ''[[I Am Not Spock]]'' and [[I Am Spock]]. --[[Special:Contributions/184.144.99.241|184.144.99.241]] ([[User talk:184.144.99.241|talk]]) 14:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
*One I can think of is [[Larry the Cable Guy]], which is the name universally used by the actor Dan Whitney. He's pretty much always called "Larry the Cable Guy", but that's a character he invented, originally used on a radio program.--[[User:Jayron32|<span style="color:#009">Jayron</span>]][[User talk:Jayron32|<b style="color:#090">''32''</b>]] 14:01, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
*One I can think of is [[Larry the Cable Guy]], which is the name universally used by the actor Dan Whitney. He's pretty much always called "Larry the Cable Guy", but that's a character he invented, originally used on a radio program.--[[User:Jayron32|<span style="color:#009">Jayron</span>]][[User talk:Jayron32|<b style="color:#090">''32''</b>]] 14:01, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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November 30

list of highest grossing Rated R movie worldwide

Where can I find a list of highest grossing Rated R movie worldwide?

Box Office Mojo gives me a list about Rated R US domestic only. Rizosome (talk) 02:21, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Every country has its own film classification standards. What you know as an R rating may be something totally different elsewhere, or may not even exist. So such a list is unlikely to exist. HiLo48 (talk) 02:25, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Per HiLo48, the MPAA only rates films for release in America, so its ratings are only applicable in America. The "R" rating is only meaningful in the U.S. There are other rating agencies (the British Board of Film Classification for the UK, for example, uses a completely different rating system. --Jayron32 11:58, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In the United Kingdom, the closest approximation of the R-rating is, I believe, the British Board of Film Classification's "15" rating (although it is not directly comparable). Unfortunately List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom does not give the rating of the films listed, but they can be found on the film articles themselves. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:42, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I got a clear idea from this single line: Every country has its own film classification standards. Rizosome (talk) 02:37, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

NOlympics LA

I really, really, really, need your help. Someone had created a NOlympics LA as a separate article. I tried to add sources and make edits that were critical on the article but my edits and sources were no good as two users had pointed out that my edit was biased. Is there is any good sources I can find that were critical of the organization? Well, see for yourself. I need more people to be involved because the organization is known for cause a lot of controversy too. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 06:24, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This could all be reduced to a sentence or two in the LA Olympics article. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots06:39, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, anything else? SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 06:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see the issue. Of course the powerful groups lobbying for the 2028 Summer Olympics to be held in LA are critical of a group that opposes them, and they have outlets in the media. It is a fight for the public opinion. If they stop being controversial, either they have won the day, or they have given up the fight.  --Lambiam 09:23, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The "lobbying" for the 2028 Summer Olympics is over. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots17:50, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Asymmetrical calendar in football leagues

Why Serie A decided to introduce an asymmetrical calendar, similar to Premier League, where teams don't meet each other in second half in exactly same order as in first half, in this year? In any round in first half, teams meeting in this round don't even all meet each other again in same round where the two chosen teams meet in the second half. Now Bundesliga is only "Big Five" football league that still uses the system where teams meet in second half exactly same order as in first half, and only home and away designations are switched. La Liga has used the system since 2018, Ligue 1 since 2015, and Premier League since 1965. This fixture system in boring, and I have thought that Premier League should switch to use the system which Bundesliga uses (symmetrical calendar). Why La Liga and Ligue 1 also switched to asymmetrical calendar, which should not have happened? --40bus (talk) 06:46, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In the Serie A article, the change (but not the reason for it) is mentioned, and cited (reference 29) to this article in Italian. It explains why the decision was made, though I myself do not fully understand the machine translation: how's your Italian? (Mine is nonexistant) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.205.225.31 (talk) 10:54, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The claim appears to be that the asymmetrical format allows a greater freedom for scheduling matches throughout the year, in that it does not force the same match on the same day during the second half of the season. Presumably, this allows things like aligning marquee matchups on certain days at certain times to maximize things like TV viewership. --Jayron32 14:27, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
To this outsider (not really a fan of any sport), the symmetrical calendar the original poster advocates seems a much more boring set up than the one he (?) is objecting to. --Khajidha (talk) 18:07, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is easier to set up, however. For a 12 team league (for example), you would only need to set up an 11-game schedule, then just repeat the same schedule for the second half of the season, simply switching the home team and away teams. Indeed, you only need to create that schedule once, and then just run it every year, forever. That, however, would not necessarily be the best schedule for fan interest. For example, you would want to avoid having too many "rivalry" games of national interest on the same day, and might want to have certain marquee games appear on days when viewership is already likely to be high. Sports marketing is a complex business, and has only become moreso in recent decades. The old models of simplified scheduling are not necessarily the best ones for maximizing profitability. --Jayron32 18:16, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In addition to the factors mentioned above, it would seem to me that a symmetrical calendar would be extremely vunerable to the effects of postponements due to inclement weather, conflicting fixtures of cup and other competitions, and further factors that are significant influences in the calendar of, for example, the English Premier and other leagues (with which I am most familiar). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.205.225.31 (talk) 23:49, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Symmetrical calendar is my favourite fixture system, and it's easy to found out that the match is make-up of a postponed match in symmetrical calendar from the infromation that it doesn't follow the order of matches of the other half of the season, and it's also very easy to determine the original playing round of the postponed match from the anomaly in the team's schedule, where the team doesn't meet its opponent in the postponed match after the opponent which it met in the round before the date of the postponed match in other half of the season. --40bus (talk) 11:03, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, well being your favorite doesn't make money for the league. As a business, the league's first, last, and only goal is to maximize profits, and if an assymetric schedule does that better, it will do so. --Jayron32 14:11, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

December 2

Ties in team sports

Are there any historical reasons as to why most North American sports either forbid ties in most cases (such as in basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and lacrosse) or implement rules to make them rare (American and Canadian football), but most sports that originate in Europe and elsewhere (such as association football, cricket, both codes of rugby, field hockey, netball, korfball, kabaddi, Australian rules football, etc.) usually allow ties except for knockout tournaments and other situations where placing is needed? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:35, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Someone once said, "A tie is like kissing your sister." In older times, baseball had ties fairly often, before lights allowed continuation of games, and then rules were changed to make ties suspended games. Ties also used to happen more often in American football and the National Hockey League, before overtimes for regular-season games were developed. As to why the need to try to have a victor? Don't rule out the influence of money, i.e. wagering. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots12:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Here is an editorial by Frank Deford which makes a cogent argument as to why American sports don't have tie games; his thesis is basically that the reason why people watch sporting events is to determine which team is better, a tie denies the viewer that satisfaction. As Deford says in that article "A tie has no place in sports. It's like not finding out who is the "who" in whodunit." This article also explains some of the difference in attitudes towards ties and the historical evolution of their elimination. --Jayron32 13:00, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've always thought that the difference in presentation of results between the US and Europe was indicative of a difference in attitude towards ties. In the US, cumulative results are usually given as W-L-D (wins, losses, draws). Most European sources I've seen use W-D-L. The American attitude towards ties/draws is basically "y'all both lost". While the European viewpoint seems like "well, nobody lost". --Khajidha (talk) 13:06, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but nobody won. To sit through several hours of something for no meaningful result strikes people as a waste of their time and energy. That is, at least, the argument made by the two articles I cited above. I'm not saying that is the correct opinion to have (indeed, there is no "correct" answer here), merely that it is a common opinion to have. --Jayron32 13:17, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's interesting to ponder why Americans tend to have this kind of attitude but not Europeans or other people. Playing to a tie is frowned upon by American fans, but Europeans and others can even consider it a good thing. I'm aware that some European sports don't have ties (notably handball), but they tend to be the exception not the rule. On the other hand, East Asian baseball games can end in a tie, though that has more to do with traffic logistics than anything (since long games could make people miss their trains). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:21, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, which is why I cited the opinions of Frank Deford, undoubtedly one of the most important (if not the most important) sports writers in American history, who presents an explanation as to why. You don't have to agree with him (it is an opinion after all), but given Deford's reputation in the field, his opinion bears some weight. --Jayron32 13:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
A great article, and a great explanation, by a guy we miss every day since his passing. This is why soccer has never caught on "big time" in America. It's a niche sport at best. The fact non-Americans are fine with tied soccer games suggests they really don't care about the game. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots15:28, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In that archetypal English game - cricket - we even have two different types of drawn matches - ties, where the scores are equal and all the batters are out (very rare in the longer forms of cricket), and draws, where no winner has emerged when the contest has reached the end of its allowed time.--Phil Holmes (talk) 15:32, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Which is why cricket is especially confounding as a sport for Americans to get into... At the highest level of test cricket, you can have a single sporting event that lasts during the daylight hours of 5 full days, and at the end of it all, you can still end up with no meaningful result... Two ways to end up with no meaningful result, in fact. The American psyche seems to expect more resolution if their going to invest their limited emotional energy into being a fan of a sport... --Jayron32 15:42, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Why isn't a draw a meaningful result? It is clearly meaningful in that it shows that neither one side nor the other were vastly superior throughout the contest. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 15:45, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You're right. I'm wrong. Sorry about that. --Jayron32 15:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. And sticking with the theme of cricket, it's probably worth noting that "back in the day" we had timeless Tests which were played until a result (including a tie!) was arrived at. But we don't do that any more. Versions of cricket like ODIs and T20s are symptomatic of a results-driven shift in society as opposed to the more historical nature of enjoying the tactical battle far more than a notch in a W/L column. Some of the best football matches I've seen have ended in draws. There's nowhere near the fixation over W/L outside the States, I recall recently a college game there needing to endure nine overtimes after an already tedious regulation time affair! The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 15:57, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm deeply puzzled by the fact some Americans seem to think a draw is in some way not a meaningful result. Why is that? It's just as valid a result as a win or a loss. 86.12.79.210 (talk) 16:45, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    The reason is that it is not meaningfully different than not having played the game at all. The goal of sports is to win. No athlete or team enters a contest saying "I hope we score the exact same number of points as the other team." If one doesn't win, what's the point? There are other sorts of entertainment that don't have winners and losers. The reason one watches sports is to see who wins. If you aren't entertained by winning, watch a movie, read a book, go to an art museum. If you're denied that opportunity, it feels like you're let down. As has been cited before on the topic, a tie is like "kissing your sister". Now, I must say, I am not saying this opinion of sports is better than the alternative. That's the nature of pure opinion, there is no means to determine who is right and who is wrong, it's just personal preferences. But in terms of why people have, in the past, justified that opinion to themselves and others, this is the argument they have used (see the links I provided above). You don't need to convince me personally of anything. I stopped having opinions a long time ago; I found them not very useful in accomplishing my goals in life. But people do have that opinion and do use the justification I just laid out (again, see above for links to such sources). --Jayron32 16:54, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    The reason is that it is not meaningfully different than not having played the game at all. no that's completely incorrect. I enjoy live sports enormously and I am more than content to watch a 3–3 draw, often more so than a 1–0 win. The principal reason sports are played is for the entertainment industry. If a game is not played at all, it can't be viewed by tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of millions of people. A drawn game is absolutely different from a game that has not been played at all. To claim otherwise offers a very misguided view of the motivation of ten of millions of European (for example) football fan who witness their sides drawing on a Saturday afternoon. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 17:44, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    You're right and I am wrong. Sorry about that. --Jayron32 17:54, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    I know! These reference desks haven't gotten much better in the last few years have they? The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 17:56, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Should I mention that most Americans would find a 1-0 score pretty pathetic, too?--Khajidha (talk) 19:30, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Some of the most dramatic World Series games have had 1-0 scores. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots18:37, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    (e/c) Sometimes a draw is absolutely the right result. We have the concept of "an honourable draw", where both teams, or players, played their best and in a sporting spirit, and yet neither could overcome the other. I suppose it needs a culture of honour and sportsmanship for that to mean anything though, he said, tongue only slightly in cheek DuncanHill (talk) 17:56, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes indeed! As I said above, where I stated "I am not saying this opinion of sports is better than the alternative." The concept of the well-played tie game (or draw, depending on your dialect) is a perfectly reasonable opinion to hold on the matter. To watch a sport for the competition, the camaraderie, or to appreciate the skill involved is a valid position to take on the matter. There are certainly people who support them, see here for instance. The purpose of the reference desk is not to convince people whose position is "more right". As noted above, "We don't answer requests for opinions, predictions or debate." Instead, it is to provide references. The OP asked for references as to why one might think that a tie game was a substandard result. As I cited above, Frank Deford has written such an explanation, as a foremost authority on American sports, his writing on the matter is salient to the question the OP asked. My opinion is not relevant at all Firstly, because I am not a recognized expert in the subject, and (actually more importantly), I don't really have an opinion on the matter. I don't need convincing because this isn't the venue to be convincing. It's a venue to provide references. --Jayron32 19:33, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Well then I guess you ought to refrain from making statements like "The reason is that it is not meaningfully different than not having played the game at all." which you appear to be stating as some kind of absolute fact when, indeed, it is absolutely false. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 22:43, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    You're right and I am wrong. Sorry about that. --Jayron32 00:57, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    In the NFL, at one time, tie games were listed in the standings but did not figure into the W-L percentage. In that sense, it was as if the game hadn't been played at all. In more recent years, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots05:31, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    That's an interesting attitude. Piers Morgan often exhorts people to "have an opinion", implying that they are doing something cowardly and morally wrong by opting out. Would you say that you are firmly opposed to this point of view, or flexible on it?  Card Zero  (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    You could cut out the middle man, and ask Rambler what he thinks of Piers Morgan. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots18:36, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    People seem to have universally negative opinions of Piers Morgan, so I guess in that respect his mission has been a success. Which underlines the inevitability of opinions, even for those who'd rather avoid them.  Card Zero  (talk) 02:02, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • In Australian Football League games, draws have always been allowed. The only change came after the 2010 Grand Final between Collingwood and St Kilda, which was drawn. The fans were in an uproar, demanding extra time for an outcome. Even losing would have been better than this grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat (apologies to Teddy Roosevelt). It's like preferring to know your child has been murdered and knowing where the body was found and how they were done away with, than them just disappearing without trace forever. Trouble was, the rules in 2010 did not allow for extra time for a drawn grand final. They just had to play again the following week and hope for a result. Given the controversy, they quickly changed the rules so that in future as much extra time as necessary would be allowed until a result was obtained on the day. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Speaking of Australian sports, an interesting thing is that the NRL introduced the golden point in 2003? for normal season games. This significantly reduces (given the nature of rugby league or really most forms of rugby) but doesn't eliminate the possibility of a draw, List of National Rugby League golden point games says 14 of 133 golden point games ended in draws. While not without controversy, proposals for replacement have generally been golden try instead of golden point rather than eliminating it for regular season matches [1] [2] [3].

    Super Rugby Aotearoa and Super Rugby AU both tried some golden variation [4], not without controversy [5] [6] although this didn't make it into Super Rugby Trans-Tasman. I couldn't find any talk about them in the planned Super Rugby Pacific so no idea if they will continue.

    Also in reference to a point above, while 40/50 over matches have basically eliminated draws, AFAIK ties are often still allowed in non championship matches albeit fairly rare. But many/most? 20 over matches do use the Super Over even in pool or series matches.

    When it comes to non championship matches, I'm not convinced these development are so much about spectators needing a result or being disappointed in tied games. I mean I'm sure it's a factor but I suspect a far bigger factor is the related issue that results aside, these additions lead to what many spectators see as a thrilling spectacle at the end even if it's not be entirely fair to either side. That's why they don't always bother to guarantee some result. Our article on the golden point does mention a comment in relation to the NRL of a TV viewership spike during the golden point.

    Nil Einne (talk) 22:09, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In the UK we had the Football pools, where people could win large amounts of money by correctly predicting which matches would end in a draw. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 11:08, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

December 4

Captain Nicholl's first name

What's the first name of Captain Nicholl of Jules Verne's From Earth To Moon? I seem to recall he had a similarly outrageous name like Impey Barbicane but can't remember what it was. 46.188.171.123 (talk) 06:38, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In the English translation of From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon available on Project Gutenberg, a CTRL-F seach on "Nicholl" through the whole text finds him only referred to as "Captain Nicholl", "The Captain", "Nicholl" and, in a single presumed error, "Colonel Nicholl". {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.208.90.66 (talk) 08:23, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I checked the French text and can confirm that no first name is ever given. Various sites about the book also only call him "Captain" Nicholl. Xuxl (talk) 17:46, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Impey Barbicane is the name of another character in the the book. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 11:01, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
He's apparently named after geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, whose name was given to a lunar crater. [7]. Xuxl (talk) 17:46, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The crater was named in 1935, seventy years after Verne wrote the novel. While the two Impeys share a given name, it is not clear that the fictional Impey was named specifically after the geologist; other than the name, the two have little in common.  --Lambiam 09:58, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
But Murcheson was a leading geologist, lauded in France not long prior to the scientifically literate Verne writing the novel. Do we have any other plausible candidate(s) for the source, bearing in mind that Impey is usually a (rather uncommon) surname, and very rarely used as a forename? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.208.90.66 (talk) 08:06, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Stuyvesant Nicholl, in From the Earth to the Moon (film).  Card Zero  (talk) 16:53, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also Victor Barbicane in the movie. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

December 6

Is it common for actors to be nicknamed after their roles?

I rarely ever follow celebrities, but it seems almost inevitable that people would start nicknaming actors after the characters that they play — perhaps there are more than a few real people who are in the habit of referring to Mark Hamill as ‘Luke’, for example. I can’t confidently say for myself that I remember witnessing this phenomenon more than once, though. —(((Romanophile))) (contributions) 22:24, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that that can be considered a nickname, more of a weak grasp of reality for some folks. See "From Lena Headey to Milo Ventimiglia: TV Actors Who Have Been Confused for Their Characters" and "Actors Who Get Mistaken for Their Characters in Real Life". William Powell and Myrna Loy played a husband and wife in all of their films together, so some of their fans thought they were married in real life. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:18, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Barış Arduç and Elçin Sangu played the role of partners in the Turkish romantic drama television series Kiralık Aşk, and for months on end IP editors tried to make them romantic partners too here on Wikipedia.  --Lambiam 10:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
One of the child actresses in The Sound of Music (Charmian Carr) entitled her autobiogrpahy Forever Liesl, after the character she played in the film, since she became indelibly associated with that character. In her case, the fact she played very few roles after that one helped to fuse the two personalities in the public's mind. And I also remember someone who played a famous doctor in the early days of doctor saying strangers would continually ask him for medical advice, using his character's name (it could have been Richard Chamberlain, who played Dr. Kildare). So the phenonemon is quite common. Xuxl (talk) 13:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Similarly consider Leonard Nimoy's two volumes of autobiography, I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock. --184.144.99.241 (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

December 7