Naming names

Regarding Susan King’s article (“Gets the Goods on the Bad and Ugly,” May 16) on the extended version collector’s set of “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly”: As someone who grew up hooked on what were referred to as “spaghetti westerns” I question the author’s research on Clint Eastwood’s character, the “man with no name.” He did have a name. He was referred to as simply “Joe” in “Fistful of Dollars” and “Joe Manko” in “For a Few Dollars More.” “Blondie” was strictly his nickname given him by his partner in crime, Tuco Ramirez (Eli Wallach) in “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.”

Robert Hill

Fullerton