The Strange Name Movie Page #4

- And I'm

Donald R. Duck, Junior.

- And I'm Donald R. Duck III.

- [all] And we're the Ducks.

- You didn't get that memo.

- I didn't say that.

- And we're the

three Ducks in a row.

No?

- And we're all

the three Ducks in a row.

[laughter]

- That wasn't good.

- And we're the

three Ducks in a row.

We are the Duck family.

- I got lost in 1967 at

the Expo in Montreal, Canada.

We were going into the

United States Pavilion.

I was at the bottom of

the escalator, and my parents

ended up at the top

of the escalator,

so I got lost and I remember

contacting security,

and they asked me my name,

and I said,

"My name's Donald Duck."

And they said, "Well,

what's your father's name?"

And I said, "My father's

name is Donald Duck as well.

And I remember the one person

saying to the other one,

"I'm not saying that

over the intercom."

- When I was in school

and a youngster,

Trump was just another name.

I first became aware

of Donald J. Trump

probably in the early

to mid 1980's.

I began to be curious

about his lineage,

and so thought it would

be interesting, perhaps,

to write him a note

and let him know

that there was

another Donald Trump,

and asked if there

was any relationship.

I was the president of the

Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

We were beginning

a fundraising campaign called

Going Bald for Bucks,

so I suggested to

Mr. Trump that perhaps

he'd like to join me.

- The other Donald Trump is me,

because you're the famous one.

I've been hearing your

name for years and years.

- He was willing to do

a video that we showed

at the kickoff for this event.

- What you do in life

is more important

than what I do in life,

so I say Donald L. Trump,

which is you,

is probably more important

than Donald J. Trump.

- He was very gracious

and took it in good humor.

- I just wanna

congratulate you

on the great work

you've done,

the shaving the head thing.

Donald, I really...

I'm glad it's you

and it's not me.

- And Mr. Trump did give

quite a generous contribution

to cancer research

at Roswell Park.

- If you saw my name officially,

it'll be Harold

William Potter, Jr.

But kids are not

gonna call you Harold,

so they started

calling me Harry,

and that's been

my name ever since.

When the book first came out,

I was aware of it,

but I didn't think

too much of it because

I didn't perceive,

at that time,

what kind of phenomenon

this was going to be.

- Where I work,

you have to present

a badge to open the door.

So I'll just say,

"My name is Bond."

And then they was like, "Okay,

so what's your first name?"

James.

And they just like,

they turn around

slowly like, "Really?

"That's the coolest name ever.

"Do you say it like

that all the time?"

And I was like, "Yeah, I say

it like that all the time."

- As new students

on the first day,

you stand up

and say your name.

So here I am in the classroom.

I stand up and I said

my name is Donald Sutherland.

And I remember hearing someone

in the background chirping,

and they said, "Oh, my God,

there's the class clown."

I actually went home

and asked my parents.

Why would someone say that?

Who's Donald Sutherland?

And that's when they told me,

at that point, that it

was some famous actor.

- I did have one occasion,

trying a case in

the Federal District Court.

The judge looked

at me and she said,

"Do you realize that your name

is a fictional character?"

And, of course, I knew that,

and I said, "Yes,

Your Honor, I do."

And she then said,

"I can't look at you without

"thinking of Harry Potter."

And I laughed about it,

and thankfully, I won the case.

- When I show up

for a reservation,

they know Donald Sutherland's

not gonna be there.

Hi, I'm Donald Sutherland.

- You're Donald Sutherland?

- Yes.

But even when I show up,

they kinda still,

you can feel that.

[slight gasp]

That disappointment.

- You look different

than the movies.

- I'm a little shorter.

- A little shorter?

Did they give you

lifts in the movie?

- I would hear that

a lot from people.

Donald Sutherland?

You looked taller in MASH.

- It puts people at ease.

As soon as they know

my name, it's more comfortable.

They can relax.

Oh, you're

James Bond, you know.

Do you have any gadgets on you?

I was actually

calling a young lady,

and she wasn't home.

I think her mom

picked up the phone,

so she was like,

"Oh, so who's calling?"

I said, "James."

And she says, "James who?"

I said, "James Bond,"

so she said, "Oh, no.

"And I'm Tina Turner."

And she hung up the phone.

- Yeah, my name is

Gunther Frankenstein,

and the nickname is Guinea,

and we're in Lebanon,

New Hampshire,

and it's snowing

outside right now.

Oh, there was a lot of joking,

but because we were German,

I don't think it had anything to

do with the name Frankenstein.

Everyone in the United States

resented Germany,

and rightly so.

Because we were German, that we

were automatically the enemy.

- They had such an association

with one aspect of him,

that they couldn't see

him for who he was.

I would say, for example, since

we're talking about Germany,

it's the same thing

about the swastika.

But the swastika as a symbol

has been around for

thousands of years.

If I show you a swastika now,

you won't be able to

know the thing for itself

because of what's been

associated with it

only for the last 70 years.

- Many time, we had to

fight our way to school.

And then one time, it was

the FBI checkin' us out.

Someone probably said we

were spies or something.

Who knows?

- We make assumptions based

off of our past experiences.

Someone might hear

a name and it might

hit some type of

internal trigger for them

where they're already making

assumptions about that person

before they've even given

that person a chance

to understand who they are.

- You know, the folks

that have helped me

in my life have often

encountered the same sort of

disbelief that I encounter.

My assistant will call to

make an airplane reservation

or a restaurant reservation

and not infrequently

be met with a, "Is

that really the name?"

Or, "You're kidding."

- For three.

Donald Trump.

- I don't know how

Donald J. Trump feels about

the name, but I love

it 'cause it's my dad.

- Actually, before

we got married,

I said to her,

I said, "Don't marry me

if you do not want to name

"your first son Donald III."

And she said to me,

"Well, that's okay with me as

long as we call him Bobby."

- My name is

Donald Robert Duck III.

But I go by Bobby

'cause it differentiates

between my dad

and my grandfather.

- It was just easier.

It was just easier

to be something

other than Donald Duck,

because Donald Duck

doesn't get believed

as a name.

Can you talk like Donald Duck?

No, I cannot talk

like Donald Duck.

Never could.

- My name is Robin Williams,

and I've been living with

that name almost 21 years.

When people start to say,

"Robin Williams,

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