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.