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Help[Opinions] Re: What Would you Name Twin Girls / Twin Boys From The "Funky Clunky" Name List?
in reply to a message by Dianatiger
I like a lot of the names on the list. Most are fairly unpopular, but definitely not hideous. I don't think all of the names are all that funky, except that they are less common right now and that would make people pause to take them in. I'm not sure how Christine is funky. But, some of the names *are* funky, and I like it!
I've actually had quite a few of these on my mind lately, like Cecile, which I was pondering just a few days ago, and I've polled many of them recently as middle names and first names.
GG
Freda Bernadette & Zelda Cecile
GB
Vera Thirza & Quentin Percival
BB
Roland Ambrose & Giles Eugene
Ambiguous
Leslie Patience & Augustine Mercy
The names are a bit more definitely split along traditional gender lines.
I've actually had quite a few of these on my mind lately, like Cecile, which I was pondering just a few days ago, and I've polled many of them recently as middle names and first names.
GG
Freda Bernadette & Zelda Cecile
GB
Vera Thirza & Quentin Percival
BB
Roland Ambrose & Giles Eugene
Ambiguous
Leslie Patience & Augustine Mercy
The names are a bit more definitely split along traditional gender lines.
This message was edited 6/15/2025, 7:58 AM
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I'm not particularly into Vera and Quinton ordinarily but right as I read that combo I was thinking how very much it came across to me like an old Hollywood sibset from one of the Golden Age movies. Perhaps the two twins of a Starlet in a movie about fading youth 😅😂 idk. It just conjured a very specific image up.
First - thank you!
Second - Your comment reminds me of the old Hollywood movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
From IMDB:
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
It's an amazing movie especially because the two leads had a famous feud and wanted to claw each other's eyes out in real life too. In the movie their names are Jane and Blanche. There's a lot of great quotable lines in the movie, and it hits on the themes you just mentioned.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/fullcredits/#cast?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Second - Your comment reminds me of the old Hollywood movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
From IMDB:
A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.
It's an amazing movie especially because the two leads had a famous feud and wanted to claw each other's eyes out in real life too. In the movie their names are Jane and Blanche. There's a lot of great quotable lines in the movie, and it hits on the themes you just mentioned.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/fullcredits/#cast?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
This message was edited 6/15/2025, 12:42 PM
Oh for sure! I never watched that one but I saw an analysis on it at some point. Some of my favorite YouTube videos to watch are film analysis ones. I love movies. I wanted to minor in film studies for my undergrad degree but my advisor told me not to because it doesn't have enough to do with my field lol. I regret listening to her, but I did take several film classes for various electives. I was thinking whatever happened to Baby Jane too but also Sunset Boulevard if you are familiar with that one. And maybe the actress has some flavors of Auntie Mame. I feel like the twins would be her adolescent or young adult children to represent the different views of Aging actresses in Hollywood. Maybe one of them wants her to retire and move away with them to another part of the country, and maybe one of the other twin represents conforming to the older role standards of things like motherly characters. Idk. What should we name our Starlet in this movie Justina?
This message was edited 6/15/2025, 1:08 PM
I wrote out this whole thing, and then my computer glitched and it got deleted!
I've read a few of the books that the movie Auntie Mame is based on. I've never seen Sunset Blvd straight through. The first two actresses that came to mind to play the part of the aging starlet in a modern version of this movie plot were Demi Moore and Julianne Moore, but I'm not sure if they're too old at this point.
Regardless of the aging starlet's age, something inspired by Old Hollywood, but with a modern twist.
Then I was thinking of Kim Basinger when she played a Veronica Lake inspired character in L.A. Confidential.
So... how about Veronica Opal Hayes, with nickname Vera. "Vera, the Jewel of Hollywood" (with a nod to Rita Hayworth), or maybe just Veronica Haze - but maybe that's too close to Veronica Mars.
What would you name her?
I've read a few of the books that the movie Auntie Mame is based on. I've never seen Sunset Blvd straight through. The first two actresses that came to mind to play the part of the aging starlet in a modern version of this movie plot were Demi Moore and Julianne Moore, but I'm not sure if they're too old at this point.
Regardless of the aging starlet's age, something inspired by Old Hollywood, but with a modern twist.
Then I was thinking of Kim Basinger when she played a Veronica Lake inspired character in L.A. Confidential.
So... how about Veronica Opal Hayes, with nickname Vera. "Vera, the Jewel of Hollywood" (with a nod to Rita Hayworth), or maybe just Veronica Haze - but maybe that's too close to Veronica Mars.
What would you name her?
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