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Michael Keaton wants to start going by his real name, Michael Douglas… sort of


Michael Douglas' days are numbered as the only Michael Douglas in town. Michael Keaton, whose shares his birth name with the 'Wall Street' star, plans on changing his professional credit to Michael Keaton Douglas from here on out.

"I finally met Michael Douglas," Keaton told Wogan, referring to the Basic Instinct star, "he's a good guy actually." But his father Kirk was the subject of one of the studio era's most rigorous Americanization regimes, having been born Issur Danielovitch. She also opted for a name change at the outset of her career due to official SAG crediting rules.

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