Pet Peeve with Howard Stern re: Ryan O'Neal's son's name.

[Mike 03]

Howard is a bright guy, but sometimes he is like a broken record. He has blind spots. Lately, whenever the names Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal or their son Redmond O'Neal come up (as they are almost weekly, for obvious reasons), he goes into a rant about how pompous they were to name their son Redmond, so he would sound like "royalty," blah-blah, broken clock...

Doesn't anybody with some cinematic literacy dare to inform him that the boy is named after the character Ryan O'Neal played in Stanley Kubrick's film "Barry Lyndon"?

If he understands this, and has his gripes with naming a son after the name of a character "dad" played in one of the most highly-respected, brilliant films in the history of cinema, okay. But he at least should figure this out.

The name didn't come out of thin air.

HOWARD: It's Barry-fucking-Lyndon!

I've emailed the show, but they get so many emails don't even read them, I'm sure.

Rant over.

ON EDIT:

For people who have not seen Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon," Ryan O'Neal plays Barry Redmond, who only becomes Barry Lyndon after he marries Lady Lyndon (the beautiful Lady Lyndon, I might add, who he procedes to destroy).

It's an amazing film.