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TIL in July 2016, Maurice Micklewhite offically changed his name to his stage name Michael Caine. An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name.”

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