Did he change his last name? Why?

I guess to make it more mainstream, end the inevitable pronounciation and spelling errors, and avoid being asked about it in EVERY single interview.

but then again to pronounce wasilewski is not really that hard :)

"It's Joooohnny!!!"
(I'm a woman....)
http://www.youtube.com/johnnybrooch

Its not but from based on what I have witnessed Americans dont try very hard to correctly pronounce foreign names. Maybe its different elsewhere?

but they try Hayden Pannettiere (Claire in Heroes) has a "peculiar" last name and even on IMDB it says how it should be pronounced and I've noticed that Journalists try to pronounce it correctly, so they would get used to wasilewski as well...

"It's Joooohnny!!!"
(I'm a woman....)
http://www.youtube.com/johnnybrooch

Paul Thomas Wasilewski! -- beautiful name!

one of my dad's cousins, they changed their last name to make it more english.......and there are others that i know of...like ukranians have the last name if wright, tower, watson.......all changed at one point in time.....so it will always be the trend..as well as the spelling...

alot of the names have yk at the end...yet you insist on putting ick so....yup..pronounciation, spelling, the like...are always trampled on....no matter where

susan

wasilewski

ok, if that's the case where did the wesley come from....

wasil in most slavic languages, as well as greek means william...

and looking at his name.......it's not hard to pronounce...

i have tones of relatives that have a ski on the end......lol

susan

he shouldn't have had to change his name......arnold never did......

and when you get used to saying a polish name, it's not really that hard.....i know tones of polish people..and sometimes their names are easier to pronounce then english ones....lol

susan