03-23-2016, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Doug Sams
I can't say if Super Dave is related to the Albert Einstein all us rocketeer types know, but his real-life brother is named Albert Einstein (and is also a comic/actor as well). As a result of the ambiguity, he uses the name Albert Brooks. IIRC, he borrowed Mel's surname for his stage name.
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It could be that he isn't related to the physicist, because Einstein (like Frankenstein--my brother-in-law Kip's paternal grandfather changed his surname from Frankenstein to Amazon) is probably a fairly common surname. (This reminds me of the late amateur astronomer Patrick Moore's tongue-in-cheek assertion that Shakespeare's plays weren't written by William Shakespeare, but by another man with the same name... :-) ) |