Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 21, 1994 TAG: 9402210007
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Ralph Lauren was Ralph Lifshitz.
Tom Cruise was Thomas Cruise Mapother IV.
Stefanie Powers was Stefania Federkiewicz.
Bo Derek was Mary Cathleen Collins.
Winona Ryder was Winona Horowitz.
Kirk Douglas was Issur Danielovitch Demsky.
Whoopi Goldberg was Caryn Johnson.
Michael Keaton was Michael Douglas.
Charlie Sheen was Carlos Irwin Estevez.
\ They're back: Remember the "Blues Brothers?" Well, they're coming back. There's going to be a new "Blues Brothers" movie, and Dan Aykroyd is casting about for the right man to co-star with him in it.
The New York Post reports that Aykroyd called John Goodman recently, offering him the part. No word yet on his answer - more than likely he's going to think hard before deciding to step into the shoes of the late John Belushi.
\ The daughter Roseanne Arnold gave up for adoption 22 years ago told ABC's "20/20" about the shock of finding out from a private investigator who her biological mother is.
"I'm a singer, so I said, `It's got to be Bette Midler. I know it's Bette Midler,"' says Brandi Brown. "And he goes, `No.' And I go, `It's Barbra Streisand.' . . . He goes, `It's Roseanne Barr.' "
by CNB