She looks like Eva Marie Saint**
By Dan on Feb 22, 2008 in Movies, Music, nonsense
Okay people, good debate but enough of this serious crap, it’s time for more of the fluff you’ve come to expect here at BFS.
I posted this question on a message board that I frequent and it got quite the response. So here it goes:
What celebrity or celebrities have you been told you resemble?
These have to have been suggested by other people and not the product of your own delusions. It could be that you favor this celebrity physically, or perhaps you have a similar personality to this celebrity or a character they once played. You might also add if you agree there is a resemblance or if you’ve been slandered by the comparison.
I’ll start.
- A waitress that I worked with while in high school thought I looked like Mick Jagger. I thought she looked like a cross between Pia Zadora and that violent little chick in the Art of Noise video.
- A girl in college thought I looked like Bob Geldof. I didn’t necessarily like Mondays, but shoot the whole day down?
- A fellow blogger thought I should attend the Lebowski Experience dressed as Donny (Steve Buscemi.) I read an interview with Buscemi in which he recalled reading the physical description of the goofy-looking character he would be playing in Fargo. He assumed that it would require him to spend a lot of time in makeup. He was quite disheartened when the Coens told him they didn’t think that would be necessary. Thanks, fellow blogger.
Steve Buscemi stars in Blog Free or Die, the story of an unfortunate-looking Springfield blogger.
So now it’s your turn, and be honest. If I can admit to being Buscemi-esque, then you can come clean on any less-than-flattering comparisons that you’ve heard.
As a side note, I once told the high-school aged sister of a college friend, when she was visiting campus for the weekend, that she looked like Natalie Merchant, one of the 10,000 Maniacs*. I then spent the next hour or so trying to convince the distraught girl that Ms. Merchant was pretty, in a hip and unconventional way.
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You forgot one in your own list. What about my junior year in college when you banged on the door of my Lind St. suite at 2 in the morning for a place to crash, and my friend (and unbeknownst to you, your future wife) Tammy stumbled to the door to let you in and mistook you for Essie, our favorite Quincy College maintenance man? I mean, traditional celebrity, no, but Quincy legend for sure!
Laura | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Dan
C’mon!!!! You are Jon Stewart!!! I find the resemblance uncanny.
I’ve been told I look like Molly Ringwald and Juliette Lewis and whoever Edward Burns wife is, I can’t remember her name.
nancy | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Nobody has ever said I resemble any celebrity, but I totally remember that Art of Noise video from back in the day. My brother and I were MTV (and “Night Tracks”) addicts back then, and that video was one of our favorites.
And if it was me who made the offending Buscemi comment, I apologize. I was drunk.
Anonymous Communist | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Dan – I think when Blog Free or Die is made, Gary Sinise should play you.
Apparently I am the prize-winning spitting image of John Goodman, but I’ve been told I look like Randy Quaid. Not the good Quaid, the other one. Cousin Eddie. Yeah. Oh, and also John Matuszak as Sloth Fratelli. Ladies, try to contain yourselves.
Russ | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Okay here goes–first of all, my hot husband–Dermot Mulroney is my favorite and most accurate celebrity to compare you too (yeah me!)–people please go online and see what I mean, oh good you already are.
Laura–good one about Essie. Since none of you unlucky people have laid eyes on Essie you should know he had this mysterious exotic quality about him and besides–it was just plain fun to watch him while he “fixed stuff” around campus.
I have been told I look like Patricia Heaton, Brooke Shields, Nelly Furtado and Courtney Cox(pre- Arquette)
Myheritage.com’s face recognition feature will also assist any egos since a picture I uploaded of myself compared me to Angelina Jolie and Keira Knightly–well that’s a big stretch, but I’ll take it. Laura you resemble Cameron Diaz in certain roles she’s played.(my Best Friend’s Wedding)
Mrs. Blogfree Springfield | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I was once told by a friend of a friend that I looked like James Spader. I wasn’t thrilled.
John | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Laura,
I’d forgotten about the Essie episode. I never actually saw the guy, but I did get plenty of crap for being mistaken for the maintenance man.
Nancy,
I guess that’s better than Rob Corddry.
AnCom,
It wasn’t you, but thanks for recognizing the need for an apology.
Russ,
For some reason you remind me of James Blunt.
Mrs. BFS,
I still say Juliette Binoche for you. And don’t forget that your brother said you looked like Chrissie Hynde.
John,
I would have said that you aren’t nearly as weird as James Spader, but after hearing the Glade story, I’m not so sure. And you do have a thing for videotape. Hmmm.
Thanks for commenting,
Dan
Dan | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I am hoping the brother who said that was drunk.
Mrs. Blogfree Springfield | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I look like Dave Gampriel aka. Guido
RickMonday | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
Rick,
How do you know Guido?
Dan | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
His company, M37 did some work for my business and, although he now owns BlueLeaf Lending. I actually work out of his building in Chicago. But I met him through some of my friends from Springfield who went to Quincy at the same time he did. Plus, my old roommate in Chicago went to high school with him. I am roughly his age, so I am sure you probably know some similiar folks. Hartman, O’Brien, etc….???????
RickMonday | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
Several years ago, a woman from an ad agency that I sometimes worked with told me that she thought I looked like Uma Therman. I never understood that…
Laura | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
Dan,
I used to get quite a few comparisons to Jennifer Grey (pre-nose job)…it was probably the late 80’s curly bobbed hair…it couldn’t possibly have been my own proboscis drawing those comments.
I do see a little of the Gary Sinise thing in you and also the Steve Buscemi likeness. I don’t see the Dermot Mulroney resemblance (sorry Mrs BFS.)
To Mrs BFS – you def look like Patricia Heaton and I agree with the Mr BFS about Juliette Binoche. Your brother must have been Drunk.
Sorry I missed you all tonight…
Case
CaseyMay | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
Back in the days when ER was ultra popular and I wore round glasses along with the shaved head, people were constantly telling me I looked like Anthony Edwards, a.k.a. ‘Doctor Mark Greene’ on ER, and ‘Goose’ from Top Gun. Even complete strangers would come up to me in grocery store checkout lines and on the streets of Chicago when I visited my sister to tell me this. Alas, Dr. Greene is dead and it doesn’t happen anymore.
Brian | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Brian,
Hopefully Anthony Edwards will find some work soon so you can once again sponge off his popularity.
Casey,
I can accept that I don’t look like Mulroney, but Buscemi? Really?
Thanks for commenting,
Dan
Dan | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Dan,
Only a little…just in the brow/forehead.
I also have to admit that Russ does resemble the other Quaid, a little. If he’d wear a little more polyester, then I’d be sure.
Case
CaseyMay | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
I’ve been told at times that I resemble Velma from Scooby Doo and/or Lisa Loeb. Those are the two that I hear most often.
Jodi Morgan | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
I was told that a young, drunk M.B. looked and acted like a young Jerry Lewis. Particularly to my friends with French bloodlines.
M.B. | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
MB,
You looked like the actor who played the tough kid in every ABC After School Special.
Dan | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
Someone told me I looked like Pat Benetar today. Weird
Mrs BFS | Feb 26, 2008 | Reply