Sideshow: Even Obama finds all those 'Game of Thrones' names hard
Bronn, Benjen, Beric . . . Do you find the names of characters in Game of Thrones a bit difficult to pronounce? Do you have trouble remembering them? I mean, who is Daario as opposed to Dagmer, Davos, or Dareon? How about Edd, Eddard, and Gared? Most of us would be loath to admit we're not hip to the intricacies of HBO's adaptation of the R.R. Martin epic.
Bronn, Benjen, Beric . . .
Do you find the names of characters in Game of Thrones a bit difficult to pronounce? Do you have trouble remembering them? I mean, who is Daario as opposed to Dagmer, Davos, or Dareon? How about Edd, Eddard, and Gared? Most of us would be loath to admit we're not hip to the intricacies of HBO's adaptation of the R.R. Martin epic.
Not President Obama. He's not afraid to admit he has trouble with those outlandish monikers.
"The problem . . . is that I don't remember the names of any of the characters," he tells GQ. "I remember the characters, so when I watch it, I know exactly what's going on. . . . [But] the only one I remember is Jon Snow, because I can pronounce Jon Snow."
Burt Reynolds & Garbo
One night in 1957, Burt Reynolds was charmed by a "mature, beautiful woman . . . [with a] low, whiskey voice." She tried to pick him up, but the actor, who was barely 21, begged off.
Then he found out her name was Greta Garbo.
"I should've written her a note and said I was foolish," Reynolds, 79, tells USA Today, "because I would've given anything for a second chance."
Reynolds' drops some choice tidbits about his life in Hollywood in his memoir, But Enough About Me.
Everyone's a critic . . .
"I was looking forward to it enormously," former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan tells HitFix of Daniel Craig's latest Bond outing, Spectre. But, he says, "I thought it was too long. The story was kind of weak - it could have been condensed. It kind of went on too long. It really did." Brosnan, 61, added, "But Daniel, in the fourth go-round, has ownership of it. He had a nice looseness to him. . . . He's a mighty warrior."
Julia Roberts loves love
Julia Roberts, whose 1990 mega-hit, Pretty Woman, helped redefine the romcom, says she still adores the genre.
"People say, 'Oh she's against romantic comedies' - I'm not, I love them," Roberts tells the New York Times.
Roberts, 48, whose romcom credits include Runaway Bride and Notting Hill, says she tries to hold out for the better comedies.
"I've been fortunate enough to be in some really good ones, so the bar for me is really high," says the star, who won an Oscar for the drama Erin Brockovich. Roberts is publicizing her very serious new flick, The Secret in Their Eyes.
'SNL''s holiday gift
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will host the Dec. 19 Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live.
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