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Michael Keaton—Real Name Michael Douglas—Wants to Ditch His Stage Name

Keaton said he chose his stage name, possibly from a phone book, decades ago.

(Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)But now, as a Hollywood legend, Keaton—whose name appears as Michael Keaton in his latest movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice —wants to return to his origins, or at least incorporate them, as he plans to be credited professionally as Michael Keaton Douglas, a combination of his stage name and his real name. In the early ’90s, Keaton addressed the topic during a 1992 stop on the Batman Returns press tour. Keaton then said of the star of films like Basic Instinct and Wall Street that when he finally met the Oscar winner, “he’s a good guy, actually.”

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