Friday, March 16, 2007
Seeing Double
One of the most hilarious things in the world, in my view, is when people confide in me their resemblance to certain celebrities. They're generally vastly overreaching in terms of their view of their own attractiveness (Brad Pitt? No. Danny DeVito? Possibly.) and typically full of false modesty in their presentation ("I mean, people sometimes say I look like Julia Roberts, but I don't see it."). When I was a child and my grandmother subscribed to Soap Opera Digest, I used to flip right past the descriptions of Patch and Kayla's exploits to get to the column -- I believe it was called "Double Takes" -- in which readers sent in their photos to confirm that they were, in fact, soap star dopplegangers. To this day I have never seen a scarier, more deluded bunch.
So I am delighted to have discovered an amazing website full of professional celebrity lookalikes at www.splitting-images.com. Whether you're looking to invite Lauren Bacall to your weenie roast or have Raisa Gorbechev entertain at your bachelor party, it's your one-stop shop for blurry-looking versions of celebrities. It's really fun both in terms of its selection of "celebrities" (do they really need SEVEN Victoria Beckham's?) and it's representation thereof (I don't even know what Kylie Minogue looks like, but I'm pretty sure that's not it). Plus their Nicole Kidman looks like a tranny (okay, so that's pretty dead-on) and their Sammy Davis, Jr. appears to have been in a fire. Seriously, this is at least a full afternoon's worth of web-based hilarity.
One of the most hilarious things in the world, in my view, is when people confide in me their resemblance to certain celebrities. They're generally vastly overreaching in terms of their view of their own attractiveness (Brad Pitt? No. Danny DeVito? Possibly.) and typically full of false modesty in their presentation ("I mean, people sometimes say I look like Julia Roberts, but I don't see it."). When I was a child and my grandmother subscribed to Soap Opera Digest, I used to flip right past the descriptions of Patch and Kayla's exploits to get to the column -- I believe it was called "Double Takes" -- in which readers sent in their photos to confirm that they were, in fact, soap star dopplegangers. To this day I have never seen a scarier, more deluded bunch.
So I am delighted to have discovered an amazing website full of professional celebrity lookalikes at www.splitting-images.com. Whether you're looking to invite Lauren Bacall to your weenie roast or have Raisa Gorbechev entertain at your bachelor party, it's your one-stop shop for blurry-looking versions of celebrities. It's really fun both in terms of its selection of "celebrities" (do they really need SEVEN Victoria Beckham's?) and it's representation thereof (I don't even know what Kylie Minogue looks like, but I'm pretty sure that's not it). Plus their Nicole Kidman looks like a tranny (okay, so that's pretty dead-on) and their Sammy Davis, Jr. appears to have been in a fire. Seriously, this is at least a full afternoon's worth of web-based hilarity.
