Um, People Magazine got their information from an interview with Demi
Moore.

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The question isn't so much what her name currently it, but what it was
> on the day she was born. On the other hand, treating IMDB and People
> Magazine as reliable sources is laughable. Where do you think they got
> their information? I have a hard time picturing them filing a FOIA for
> her birth certificate to fact-check a bit of information they almost
> certainly got (and garbled) from someone whose knowledge is certainly
> no more reliable than Demi Moore herself. Moreover, even the most
> reliable of references are notoriously horrible when it comes to
> simple biographical details (names and their spelling, dates and
> locations of birth, etc. etc.).
>
> As for Encyclopedia Britannica... It, like Wikipedia, is a tertiary
> reference work. Almost any other reference is preferable.
>
> ~Nathan
>
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