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In the latter respect it differs from Dunkling and Gosling, who go more for real-life bearers, especially stage and screen celebrities, and from Hanks and Hodges, whose representation of historic bearers is rather restricted.
' Dunkling and Gosling and Hanks and Hodges, on the other hand, take such names back to their own origin, often in a place-name.
Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).
Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.
(As their role models Dunkling and Gosling prefer the popular actresses Susan Hayward, Susan Hampshire, and Susan Strasberg, while Hanks and Hodges instance no individual Susan at all, literary or otherwise.)