The Strange Name Movie Page #6

put my name

and my last name in it,

and then I sent it

to my future coach.

- I first

found out about Gui

when he was

playing basketball,

going to school at Northwest

College in Powell, Wyoming.

- When looking at the DVD,

especially my last name,

the coach just didn't accept.

Like it was like,

"I'm not looking at a DVD

of a guy with his name."

Like, are you kidding me?

Is this for real?

Then he watched.

He really liked my game,

and he offered me

a scholarship.

- People started to

realize that his last name

is spelled F-U-C-K.

There started to

become questions.

- They have

like the scoreboard,

and right beside,

they have like the last name

of each player with the

number showing to everybody.

So they were like,

"Um, I'm not gonna put

like your F last name."

I was like, "Come on.

Just use my last name."

- In past generations,

people who came to America

with a name that sounded

really unusual or embarrassing

in English, would

typically change it.

That has virtually disappeared

over the past 50 years.

Today, people do want

to keep their names,

keep their connection

to their heritage,

even if that name

raises some eyebrows.

- [Craig] Gui's proud

of his heritage.

He's proud of his last name.

We didn't feel it was

something we should

take away from him.

So we just felt we should

go with his full name.

- [Narrator] So what

happened when they stopped

obsessing about Gui's

name and just treated it

like anyone else's?

Whose problem was it that

it had a sexual meaning

in just one of the 6,500

spoken languages in the world?

- In the first game of

the second semester,

when they saw there

on the scoreboard

my last last name,

they were like,

"Oh, my God.

"Look at that.

They finally put it."

Like they're giving you

the pride, let's say.

- I think it's fantastic.

He's standing up

for his family line,

his bloodline.

- [Craig] All it really did was

just bring us closer together,

and knowing more

about our teammate,

our family,

and our brotherhood.

- You're too big.

[laughter]

Fookie too big.

Come on, Fookie.

- You're too skinny,

come on!

- As in so much of life,

I think we all think

the grass is greener

in terms of our own names.

Any John Jones is going

to be a little bit envious

with someone with an usual name,

and someone with a name

that they always have

to spell a dozen times

is gonna be envious

of John Jones.

- Having my last name in

North America changed my life.

It feels awesome, of course.

Like you feel important.

You feel like now

people know you.

- My father was interviewed

for a national newspaper

for schools when he was

probably six or seven years old.

Apparently, it

happened to be noticed

by someone at Disney.

Disney contacted

my grandparents

through a telegram,

and also sent a drawing

from Disney itself.

- [Donald III] It's Donald Duck

in a bed looking at a mirror

that he doesn't know in

the dark at his eyes,

and takes a gun out

and shoots the mirror,

and then turns the light

on and see that he's

shot his mirror.

I thought

it was really interesting

that it was drawn by Disney.

I thought that was really cool.

- I went into

the non-profit world

in raising money

professionally.

I found that with a name

like Smoki Bacon,

when I would talk

to the person that

would direct me

to the executive,

and I would say, you know,

"Just tell him that

Smoki Bacon is calling,"

and they would say,

"No, no, no.

"We don't want

the name of the company.

"What is your name?"

And the person that

I would be talking to

would start laughing and

plug me into the executive.

It branded me

before I realized

what branding was all about.

Now everybody is

branding everything.

And I realized,

oh, my God,

I branded myself

several decades ago

with Smoki Bacon.

- I got a letter

once in the mail,

and it was from a stadium

in Soviet Georgia.

And evidently,

the stadium had 50,000 seats,

but they clearly

meant this letter

for the other

Paul McCartney.

But a little part of me

thought it would be kind of fun

to go over there and see if

they knew the difference,

and maybe stand up

on stage and sing,

"I'm A Little Teapot,

Short and Stout,"

and see if I could

entertain the people.

Here is my handle

Here is my spout

Two notes.

Two notes.

- [loud piano note]

- That is impressive.

But obviously, if I did that,

I'd probably be in a prison

in Siberia right now.

- My husband and I were

at Woodman's in Ipswich,

and we were walking around,

and we saw Larry David,

and I looked up

and there he was,

and I went,

"Hello, Larry David.

"My name is Linda Slutsky."

The way I said

my name was really funny.

Went I'm Linda Slutsky.

I just blurted it out that way.

I don't know why.

And he just came over

like he was my best friend,

and started talking to me.

And it was really great,

because he wouldn't

stop talking,

and then they were producing,

and his assistant

kept saying,

"You have to go, Mr. David.

"You have to go."

And he wouldn't go.

He just wanted to just

keep talking to me.

- Well, my current

girlfriend likes it

because she's named

after a drink.

- All my whole life,

I always got not picked on,

but people would make jokes

and when I met Al,

it wasn't like that.

It was always about his name.

A lot of people make jokes

about both of

our names together,

'cause it's like a full meal.

He's the pasta,

I'm the juice.

When we first met,

he actually told me he had

a picture of the two of us,

and I couldn't remember

a time that he,

we'd taken a picture together.

And he actually went

to the grocery store,

and Sunny D was right next

to the al dente pasta,

so we took a picture,

and that was our first

picture together.

- You know, I think

I was pulled over

for a speeding ticket

at one time in my life,

and when I gave the license

to the officer,

he looked at it,

and he was like,

"Are you serious?"

And I said, "Yeah."

And he said, "It might

be your lucky day today.

"I might just give you a

warning because you're a Putz."

And I said, "I'll take it."

- I was glad that we

could carry the name on.

That really made me happy.

- I would hope that I could

name my son Donald Duck,

if we have children.

- And if I had a common name

of Smith, Jones, Sullivan,

I don't mean to make

fun of anybody's name,

but you know, I would probably

be a little disappointed.

- Jeff Studley,

that's a good name.

I think every male

in this movie

probably wishes

they had that name.

But then again,

you gotta deliver.

Kinda like Linda Slutsky.

You know, they're expecting

a little something

if they're out on

a date with Studley.

As opposed to going out

with Howard Schmuck.

You know, I think we're all

a product of our environment.

Absolutely

it's gonna shape you.

- Having the last name of Gay,

and experiencing that,

you know, kinda being

picked on for a little while

for a few years has

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