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There are times Ive 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 wouldnt measure up as a bartender because I cant think outside the glass. There are other times Ive wanted to be a race car driver. Admittedly, my desire is strongest when Im 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 500s and was rookie of the year in 1992. Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300 in 2008. Although many people attribute these womens success to the feminist movement, there were more women racing before Betty Freidan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963. In fact, in the 1950s there were six women in NASCAR racing. These were women who didnt 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 didnt 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 Sheens actor sons, Emilio Estevez kept his birth name and Carlos Irwin Estevez changed his name to Charlie Sheen. Then theres 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 hed looked in the other direction, his name would be Michael The 101 Dalmatians. Because the Screen Actors Guild wont allow actors to have the same name, the actor who was born Michael Douglas changed his name to Michael Keaton. And it didnt 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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