Style Invitational Week 963: The overlap dance: ‘Before & After’ names

Elton John Wayne: Star of “The Queen Berets.” (Bob Staake)

Roseanne Boleyn: Queen who kept talking after being beheaded. (David Genser)

Tom Daschle Hammett: Author of “The Maltese Donkey.” (Stephen Dudzik)

If you’re a fan of “Wheel of Fortune” or “Jeopardy!” you know this construction as Before & After — it’s a portmanteau combining two names that have a common element. And if you’re a pathetically obsessed Invitational fan, you’ll remember the second and third examples above Week 287, in 1998 (though you don’t have to have much memory to be familiar with their writers — they’re still household names in the Invite). This week: Send us a Before & After “person” whose name combines two people’s names, real or fictional (okay, you can use animals’ names, too), and describe the person in a funny way. The central element doesn’t have to be spelled exactly right in both names if the entry is otherwise fabulous (see the third example above; the author’s name is Dashiell). But both people’s names have to be present in the combination, even if misspelled.

Winner gets the Inker, the official Style Invitational trophy. Second place receives the actual Wonder Woman get-up worn in the 2007 film “Loveless in Los Angeles,” in which a struggling actress wears the costume on Hollywood Boulevard; a documentary on such people, “The Ambassadors of Hollywood” (also by Archie Gips, brother of Loser Mike Gips), screens at the Avalon in Northwest Washington on Sunday night.

Other runners-up win their choice of a coveted Style Invitational Loser T-shirt or yearned-for Loser Mug. Honorable mentions get a lusted-after Loser magnet. First Offenders get a tree-shaped air “freshener” (FirStink for their first ink). E-mail entries to losers@washpost.com or fax to 202-334-4312. Deadline is Monday, March 26; results published April 15 (online April 13). No more than 25 entries per entrant per week. Include “Week 963” in your e-mail subject line or it might be ignored as spam. Include your real name, postal address and phone number with your entry. See contest rules and guidelines at washingtonpost.com/styleinvitational. The revised title for next week is by Kevin Dopart; the subhead for this week’s honorable mentions is by Judy Blanchard. Join the Style Invitational Devotees on Facebook at on.fb.me/invdev.

Report from Week 959

in which we asked you to move a TV program from one network to another and describe the result:

The winner of the Inker

“The Amazing Race” moves to Fox News and becomes a show that chronicles the many adversities white people have overcome throughout history. (Kurt Stahl, Frederick, Md.)

2. Winner of the book “Whose Hair,” in which you guess same from pictures of faceless heads: If the Daytona 500 were on the Home Shopping Network, the race would be run in four easy monthly portions of 125 miles each. (Rick Haynes, Boynton Beach, Fla.)

3. Wizards games move to Comedy Central: Home games would now be filmed in front of a live audience. (Ben Aronin, Arlington, Va.)

4. “Antiques Roadshow” moves to MTV: The appraisers inspect relics from the 1990s. (Michael Weiner, North Potomac, Md., a First Offender)