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...great minds like Mr. Willson's [March 23], the fan magazines would be forced to print stories like the following...
...Henry Willson's renaming of Hollywood stars-Rock, Tab, etc.-the climax will come when he brings forth Stark Naked...
...Henry Willson notwithstanding, I think Rip Torn is a real and substantive name for an actor, and always will...
...Colton. No one had ever heard of him before, and no one has heard of him since. But he has at least taken his minor place in an ancient rite of Hollywood. Moreover, Morelli was restyled by one of the wizard name changers now practicing the craft-Agent Henry Willson, the man who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming, Francis McGowan into Rory Calhoun, Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, Robert Moseley into Guy Madison, and-his great mind wandering from the New Jersey Palisades to the Strait of Gibraltar-Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson...
Since it is axiomatic in show business that the name is rewritten before the teeth are capped, hundreds of literary types like Willson have, over the years, flung into the air a confetti storm of phony names that have settled lightly but meaningfully on the American culture...