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When a common hippo was born in Eastern Thailand last month, she was named by an online poll too, and christened Hom Daeng, the Thai word for “Shallot.”

The opening of Tiana’s gives the newly christened Bayou Country its centerpiece attraction.

The subjects we chewed over were almost exclusively technical topics, or history, or the sprawling, self-serving institution that Dwight Eisenhower christened the military-industrial complex.

Even his first official game in a Dodgers jersey, in spring training in late February, was christened by an opposite-field Camelback Ranch home run.

Now christened into fatherhood, Powell on Tuesday told IndieWire that next on the docket is completing his college degree while shooting his next film, “The Running Man.”