Hollywood look-alikes

Post Number 5

Granted, the Xmas post was just a few minutes ago, but owing to the magic of the human imagination, you can believe that a chasm of time and space separate that one from this one.

Good.  Done.  Thank you.

Ever notice that there are always two stars in Hollywood who look very similar.  Like shades of the same meta-type.  Or archtype.

Latest that comes to my mind is Holly Hunter and Jodie Forster, only because I am watching Home for the Holidays.

Ever see them in the same movie?  No.

I’ve noticed this for years, and wondered how deliberate this ploy is. 

Charles Durning and M. Emmet Walsh.

David Stratharn and Jonathan Hyde.

Paul Gleason and Jerry Orbach

Dina Meyer and Sharon Stone

Edward Herrmann and Ed Begley jr

Charles Grodin and John Lithgow.
[Early in their careers, that is, when Grodin was trying to be funny and Lithgow was trying to be serious.]

James Woods

and Geoffrey Rush

When did we see these two in the same film?  Oh, um.  Never.

Judge Reinhold






and  Steve Guttenburgh.

Well, Ok, that’s a stretch.  But they've never acted together either.

Tell me that this isn’t true.

And then, there are the actors in commercials who are supposed to remind you of these archtypes…er…stars.

What I am wondering about is whether this is truly deliberate or whether it is the result of ‘The System’.  That thing that exists as if it were an actual organism, the sum greater than all its parts, the Ghost in the Machine, the Invisible Hand.  The Evil that Men do…oh, that’s different.  Sorry.

We may never know, but I say that this is the truth.

Merry Christmas, Everyone

Well, Merry Christmas.

I wrote another Blog entry, but didn't post it.  Maybe repeat the same sentiments later.  But I've been trying to get my professional website updated and its slow going, with the season and all that upon us.

And that I was looking for an interesting chapter that wasn't either an enigmatic transition that would mean nothing out of context, or didn't have some description of or reference to adult private parts.

Ho Ho HoooOOOOO!!!

this isn't a tool like an axe

Post 3

Good Lord!  They don't make it easy to make new posts.  Complained about it the last time.  Or at least they don't make it easy to find the link.

But then, it is relatively free.

Head is still buzzing from helping the technology challenged operate their devices.

There is some irony or something in the idea that we can afford to own a device that is like the Ferrari of technology but use it to go to the grocery store.

At one time I said the same about Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, when I had to design them and help people use them in a business environment.  Most people who use them use understand about 1 percent of the capability of the program itself and of that one percent understand probably about a tenth of how it works.  Someone shows them what to do and they do it.  Over and over.  So it is a tool.

But this isn't a tool like an axe, which mind you still has to be mastered and you certainly get better at it the longer you use it.  No, this is a modern thing, which has little precedent in the past.  Screwing up a spreadsheet might come back on you, but it won't put a gaping hole in your knee.

Anyone who has worked in, well, anywhere, will recognize the dynamic.  What did Mr. Jackson say?  Joe Jackson, that is..."Pretty women out walking with Gorillas down my street...if my eyes don't deceive me, there's somethin' goin' wrong around here."

Anyway, no justice, and no real credit for being the smartest one in the room.  Socially savvy, slightly sociopathic, somewhat lacking in compunction.  Don't worry, you'll go far.

These days.  Or probably always.

At the end of time, someone will be trying to corner the market in squirrel pelts, despite some smarty pants explaining that if you kill all the breeding pairs, there'll be none left for next winter.

Chao