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Anyone here been told they have a famous twin? (Original Post) Callmecrazy Feb 2013 OP
Judy Collins In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #1
Marie Osmond. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #2
The Blob whistler162 Feb 2013 #3
George Carlin HarveyDarkey Feb 2013 #4
If you remember Foster Brooks. Graybeard Feb 2013 #5
I do remember Foster Brooks... Callmecrazy Feb 2013 #6
I could remember him too. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #7
when I was in college MuseRider Feb 2013 #8
Jason Statham... Player_One Feb 2013 #9
interesting In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #14
Oh lordy,.....call me...n/t monmouth3 Feb 2013 #18
Ha ha ha! Somebody just compared me to him too! progressoid Feb 2013 #21
Drool. a la izquierda Feb 2013 #25
The biggest similarity is the receding hairline. progressoid Feb 2013 #30
Hey! timdog44 Feb 2013 #28
yum In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #34
Tommy Chong Gorp Feb 2013 #10
When I was in my teens I was told I looked like Glenn Ford aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2013 #11
Funny... Callmecrazy Feb 2013 #12
Whole bunch of them, actually... pipi_k Feb 2013 #13
Daniel Fadcliffe sakabatou Feb 2013 #15
Chris Cooper lame54 Feb 2013 #16
That is pretty awesome! MuseRider Feb 2013 #24
Bonnie Bedelia when I was young. Still Blue in PDX Feb 2013 #17
Kiefer Sutherland Ron Obvious Feb 2013 #19
Bun E Carlos from Cheap Trick Cheap_Trick Feb 2013 #20
When I was late teens/early twenties kurtzapril4 Feb 2013 #22
Hillary Clinton... CherokeeDem Feb 2013 #23
No. I frequently remind people Moondog Feb 2013 #26
Winona Ryder... a la izquierda Feb 2013 #27
The 'Robot' on Lost in Space. Purveyor Feb 2013 #29
Raquel Welch LeftInTX Feb 2013 #31
Alec Baldwin Generic Brad Feb 2013 #32
for years people have told my daughter she looks like anne hathaway orleans Feb 2013 #33
Peter Graves ... Scuba Feb 2013 #35
Simon Cowell Jokerman Feb 2013 #36
Willie Nelson BarbaRosa Feb 2013 #37
Then your LWolf Feb 2013 #38
No, but my mom did. LWolf Feb 2013 #39
Nope. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #40
This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Feb 2013 #41
A couple of people pipi_k Feb 2013 #42
When I was a kid laundry_queen Feb 2013 #43
I know what you mean... Callmecrazy Feb 2013 #44

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)
5. If you remember Foster Brooks.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:12 PM
Feb 2013

Foster Brooks was a bearded comedian quite a few years ago who did a "drunk" routine. I met some people who golfed with him and they said it was doppelganger time when they saw me.

MuseRider

(34,108 posts)
8. when I was in college
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:22 PM
Feb 2013

I was a dead ringer for Diane Keaton back in the Annie Hall and before days. People told me that all the time. Not at all now.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
11. When I was in my teens I was told I looked like Glenn Ford
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:33 PM
Feb 2013

and then in my 20s when I was playing jazz guitar my musician friends told me I looked like Chick Corea. Since Glenn Ford and Chick Corea look nothing alike, I wonder if people were just goofing on me. One of my cousins was told he looked like Steve McQueen or his character Josh Randall (which was impossible since he had dark curly hair and a dark brown olive complexion) and another cousin from a different aunt also was very dark and was told he looked like David Carradine of Kung Fu. In the 80s, I worked for a boss and everyone goofed on him telling him he looked like Clint Eastwood (he looked like a milquetoast) and no one ever told him of the joke (we would even whistle the theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly when he would pull up in his car in the morning).

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
13. Whole bunch of them, actually...
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:38 PM
Feb 2013

From the age of 15 to about 25 or so, people said I looked like either Bridgette Bardot or Elke Sommer (when my hair was lighter). I think I looked more like Michelle Phillips (Mamas and Papas).

Then in my 30s it was Sally Field (dark hair)

Then people said I looked like Geena Davis. And in my 40s it was that actress with the blonde hair on "Third Rock From the Sun".

Now (at 60) I'm pretty sure I look like Rosie O'Donnell with longer (waist length) hair.

I guess I just have one of those mutating faces






 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
20. Bun E Carlos from Cheap Trick
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 05:53 PM
Feb 2013

Peter David (comic book writer and novelist)
back in the day Michael Anthony (Van Halen)

CherokeeDem

(3,709 posts)
23. Hillary Clinton...
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:29 PM
Feb 2013

mostly the hair I think, when she had short hair and so did I, but a tiny resemblence...

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
26. No. I frequently remind people
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:35 PM
Feb 2013

of someone, but they can never quite put their finger on whom.

And I prefer it that way. So I am more than okay with that.

orleans

(34,051 posts)
33. for years people have told my daughter she looks like anne hathaway
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 04:25 AM
Feb 2013

(i'm not the only one who thinks my kid is beautiful)

Jokerman

(3,518 posts)
36. Simon Cowell
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 09:31 AM
Feb 2013

The first few times it happened I had never heard of him, my wife had to show me a picture.

I've had kids yell out "Simon" in a restaurant just to see if I would turn around.

Usually happens when my hair is short but I've been letting it grow out lately (and it's turning gray) so it hasn't happened as much recently.

BarbaRosa

(2,684 posts)
37. Willie Nelson
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 09:51 AM
Feb 2013

For years people have made comments about it. I've taken to calling it "Willied", as in I got Willied today. Sometimes I'll start quietly singing 'On the Road Again' just to play along. My BIL and SIL saw Willie in Tuscon and both commented on it.

GoCubsGo

(32,083 posts)
40. Nope.
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 10:30 AM
Feb 2013

Once, I was told that I resembled a younger Julie Kavner. If that resemblance is there, it's very slight. I Otherwise, I don't look a bit like anyone who is famous.

Response to Callmecrazy (Original post)

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
42. A couple of people
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 11:44 AM
Feb 2013

have included family members, so I will too...

I have a photo of my mom from when she was about 19 (in 1953) where she looks like a Caucasian version of Rosa Parks.

My dad...I have a photo of him in his Army dress uniform (1944, maybe) where he looks like he could be Elvis Presley's twin brother.



laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
43. When I was a kid
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 11:46 AM
Feb 2013

my friends said I looked an awful lot like Soleil Moon Frye aka Punky Brewster. In fact, they are the ones who encouraged me to watch the show. "omg, you look so much like her you HAVE to see the show!!" Well, whaddya know, I DID look like her. After that I was obsessed for a few years, LOL. Drove my parents nuts trying to wear Punky Brewster clothing and pigtails every day...

Now I don't look like her at ALLL. I'd have to lose about 130lbs first.

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