The woman who began as acerbic housewife-comedian Roseanne Barr became Roseanne Arnold during her stormy marriage to luckiest-man-in-show-biz Tom Arnold, then dropped her surname altogether is now Barr again--a concession to the fact that she's no longer famous enough for a uninym.
Yet the uninym 'Suraiya' is still evocative enough to bring back memories of a sparkling-eyed chanteuse singing a mellifluous song while clinging to a stray piece of vegetation.
When I say "Jared," you know I'm not talking about actor Jared Leto or Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond. Those guys have their constituencies, but uninym status? There's only one Jared who can make that claim: Jared the Subway guy, the innovative weight-loss adventurer, […]