Nicolas Cage Beats Me To It

October 4th, 2005 Superman 17 Comments


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It’s only because I don’t have any kids yet.

His wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage’s Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.

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17 Responses to “Nicolas Cage Beats Me To It”

  1. Ben says:
    October 4, 2005 at 3:10 am

    Actually, I think Dan Jurgens from DC beat both of you.

  2. sgb says:
    October 4, 2005 at 8:10 am

    Nice. His child had a child.

  3. Frank_D says:
    October 4, 2005 at 8:10 am

    Is that little boy going to be sorry his parents slapped him with that moniker.

    Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa were better off.

    Cage is an idiot

  4. Calling all toasters says:
    October 4, 2005 at 9:10 am

    He should have gone for all the marbles: Deathmatch
    Inasteel Cage.

  5. jrm78 says:
    October 4, 2005 at 10:10 am

    I feel sorry for the kid. I don’t think kids in the playground are going to think “superman” when they hear “kal-el”. And I’m not even taking the superman curse into consideration either.

  6. O.Y.E. says:
    October 4, 2005 at 10:10 am

    All I can say is Cage’s son had better learn how to throw (and take) a punch before he starts school.

  7. PSU94 says:
    October 4, 2005 at 10:10 am

    Ignoring the first name for a second, I’m all for a nice tribute to family when naming your kid, but at what point does Nicolas Cage feel like he’s accomplished enough that he can stop reminding people he’s related to Francis Ford Coppola?

  8. Rique says:
    October 4, 2005 at 12:10 pm

    That poor kid is going to get beat up a lot.

  9. Jay C says:
    October 4, 2005 at 1:10 pm

    PSU, Cage’s real last name is ‘Coppola.’ If you saw Fast Times At Ridgemont High, that’s how he’s credited. He changed his name to Cage in order to show that he wasn’t relying on his uncle’s name to make it in Hollywood. Since he probably never legally changed his name to Cage, his son would legally take his father’s legal surname which is Coppola.

    That doesn’t change the fact that the kids first name is totally stupid.

  10. BD says:
    October 4, 2005 at 1:10 pm

    It’s funny, because he could just as easily have gotten away with it if he’d named the kid Khalil; as in the Lebanese poet Gibran or the Padres shortstop Greene.

  11. Elayne Riggs says:
    October 4, 2005 at 2:10 pm

    Nope Ben, it wasn’t Jurgens, it was Jon Bogdanove. Kal-El Bogdanove must be somewhere in his early teens now, I wonder if he’d have any advice for Kal-El Cage…

  12. Joshua Gaines says:
    October 4, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    Bah. You guys are just jealous you didn’t think of it first.

    I’m naming all my kids after Transformers.

  13. BD says:
    October 4, 2005 at 3:10 pm

    Starscream Grimlock Gaines would never, I guarantee, get beat up on the playground.

  14. Frank_D says:
    October 4, 2005 at 6:10 pm

    But Capital Gaines would have a tough time making it across the Berkeley campus

  15. Joshua Gaines says:
    October 5, 2005 at 1:10 pm

    I was thinking Galvatron Soundwave Gaines, myself. But I dunno about Grimlock … that just seems so … arrogant.

  16. BD says:
    October 5, 2005 at 4:10 pm

    Naming your kid after a slow-witted T-Rex robot is arrogant?

    Bumblebee Slipstream Gaines, then?

  17. Joshua Gaines says:
    October 7, 2005 at 5:10 pm

    Slow-witted! I take offense at that! He had a speech impediment! So did Joseph Heller!

    Philistines!

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