Palaver

 Even though Tiger Woods is now in free fall, and even falling out with his longtime caddy and girls he once ‘knew’ not offering him solace, did you know Woods is quarter Chinese, a quarter Thai, a quarter African American, one eighth Native American, and one eighth Dutch? He refers to his ethnic make-up as ‘calabinasian’ — coined from Caucasian, Black, American Indian, and Asian. And did you also know that Jennifer Aniston was born Jennifer Anastassakis, Marilyn Monroe was Norma Jean Mortenson, Whoopi Goldberg was Caryn Elaine Johnson, and Tom Cruise as Thomas Mapother IV and Kirk Douglas was tongue-twister Issur Danielovitch Demsky?