Lookalikes and so forth

Phil Donahue looks like the dad from Family Circus. There, I said it.

Donald Trump, are you the father of Owen Wilson? Seriously, look at those two.

Emile Hirsch, do you want to be Jack Black?

I am that guy who looks at you and thinks of someone else you look like. My wife will almost always disagree. Like, you look like this other person...not a carbon copy. I could say anyone looks like any other person on earth and it would be accurate: head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. If I said someone looked like a different creature, there might be more of a stretch...but I would obviously be dealing in caricature. (Yes, Whoopi Goldberg looks like the Predator.)

This is always related to celebrities. Rarely do I see someone and think, you look like my cousin Bill (who is a good looking guy...and there was that one guy I was in a play with once that looked like my cousin Bill, but that was one person in the history of my life). I think of the small and big screens. With this comes the problem of growing up and not being completely aware of who is who...or knowing that actors exist beyond their characters.

Number one celebrity confusion for me was Patrick Swayze and Kurt Russell. I'm lead to believe this is fairly common. I could not tell them apart. Number two would be Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, not that they look alike...but their names tripped me up. I heard their names all of the time, but I think the only movie I saw with either of them growing up was Dick Tracy (my favorite movie as a kid) with Al Pacino as "Big Boy" Caprice.

Which leads me to: Shirley MacLaine and Shari Lewis.

Give a kid a break!

Anyway, I just had to put that out there. I would love to know of any lookalikes or confusing pairs that others might have had (or have). It might make me feel a bit more...sane.