19th Nov 2004
Celebrities I Look Like
Apparently I have “one of those faces.” Not one of those faces that looks like someone you know, but one of those faces that looks like someone you’ve seen on the big or small screen. I am told all the time that I look like a celebrity. The strange thing is, it’s never the same celebrity. I don’t know what to make of it.
Some people look a lot like a particular celebrity and get used to hearing it. In Boston last year, I started to ask a woman working at a hotel, “Has anyone every told you…” but she cut me off with a “Yessssss” before I could finish (Helen Hunt; dead ringer). Nick Johnson of the tech company Revenue Science tells me he gets Jeff Bezos a lot. Lindsay acknowledges she gets Kirsten Dunst often. There an exec at my company that looks quite a lot like this guy.
But with me, I don’t think it’s ever the same person twice. Is that odd? I’ve asked other people about this, and several tell me no one ever tells them they look like a celebrity. For a long time, I’ve been meaning to start a list of all the folks I get, but I always forget and then I can’t remember half or more of the candidates. So, there’s no time like the present. Just got a new one today, which reminded me. The rest are all those I can remember from over the years, but there have been many more. I’ll update this from time to time as the need arises.
I’m not saying I agree with any of these (and, believe me, they’re not all flattering); I’m just reporting it like I hear it:
UPDATE:
This just in:
- Jeff Goldblum
- Josh Groban (whoever he is)
- Josh Cooke (ditto)
- Inspector Gadget (this, I believe, had more to do with my rain outfit than my face, or so I hope)
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