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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 22:42:04 GMT
Noley Thornton (Clara Sutter on TNG) can be seen in the music video for Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". She's the twirling little girl ballerina in the "1980s" segment.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 23:39:25 GMT
That was her?
Her Wikipedia page (which leaves much to be desired) says she left acting in 1995.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 0:31:17 GMT
Yes. I've seen the call sheets.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 15:33:40 GMT
Noley's birthday is only about five days after Christmas so she wouldn't have got separate birthday presents as a child.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 17:30:12 GMT
Yeah, she would have gotten Christmas/Birthday presents.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 18:53:52 GMT
Easter and Christmas must be the worst times to be born. Also Noley Thornton was a cute child, and I'm sure is a beautiful woman, but like Cobie Smulders, is saddled with a crappy first name.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 23:40:38 GMT
Cobie is actually short for Jacoba. It's a Dutch name (she was named after a Dutch aunt, I think).
I have no idea where Noley came from though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 3:23:05 GMT
looking at the We Didn't Start the Fire music video, i wonder what the director was going for, putting Noley in that over the top ballerina outfit. What does a child ballerina have to do with a song about major events in history? Never mind that the scene is meant to be in a 1980s kitchen. Who dresses like that for the kitchen?!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 5:25:05 GMT
They were just trying to show a 1980's household.
As to why they dressed her that way, I have no idea.
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Post by Kymix on Mar 8, 2017 15:00:14 GMT
Because it's a music video, they tend to be a bit silly.
Noley herself was propably named after the surname "Nolan". Some names come from surnames. (There's nothing stopping me from naming a child McCree or Salat or Wilson even if those aren't usually first names where I live, and there's nothing stopping you from naming a child Nicolosi.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 17:30:30 GMT
That could be it. There are people with first names like Riley and MacKenzie, which are also last names (and both those names are given to males and females).
Or Noley could be a family name of some kind.
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Post by Kymix on Mar 9, 2017 13:42:41 GMT
That could be it. There are people with first names like Riley and MacKenzie, which are also last names (and both those names are given to males and females). Or Noley could be a family name of some kind. Even if it was a "family name" (a weird-ish name that is often given to children of one family) don't many of them come from maiden names of people that married in, so it could be both. Someone named Nolan propably married into the Thorton Family and had a kid named Noley Thorton I, who later ended up having a niece that was named after the aunt and was called Noley Thorton II, and it became a family name in this way, just like most of the family names of that kind. Even if she was the first Noley Thorton in the family and it was her mother to have the surname Nolan, the point still stands.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 14:17:02 GMT
Alternatively, some parents make names up or use non-names (like Blue) as names.
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Post by Kymix on Mar 9, 2017 14:34:50 GMT
Yeah. First names often come from last names (there are people downright named Nolan - not just "Noley" like the actress - as their first name) or titles (In the nineteenth century, doctors actually went by Doctor and captains went by Captain, so people named after friends that had those kind of titles, had Doctor or Captain as their first names.) but also dictionary words.
Actually, in Pokémon there was a theme of colors for the main characters, so the rival in Gen 1 (Viridian City Gym Leader in Gen 2) was named Blue (Green in the japanese version)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 17:40:54 GMT
And look at some of the names that celebs saddle their poor kids with (Apple, for example, or North).
Said kids should be able to sue said parents.
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