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by Marcy McGuffie
December 20, 2005 at 1:26 p.m.
Celebrity Resemblance
Last week, I took the easy way out. In lieu of writing something I was feeling, I essentially poked fun at another website. Although I intended to get back to my roots and write a little more this week, I came across a website I feel the overwhelming need to share. My enthusiasm for this site supercedes any shameful feelings I have for stealing from another [blogger][1] and friend, Kelly. Next week, Imagine will return to its 'normal' state with a blog idea I've tossed around, but lacked the motivation to complete thus far.Oh, what a world we inhabit! Have you ever been told you resemble a certain celebrity? Have you always wondered if you resembled any? Now, one [site][2] allows curious citizens to upload a photo to be scanned. Then, using facial recognition technology, it compiles a list of celebrities with similar facial features. Fascinating! Being the complete narcissist, I could not select only one photo to upload. I ended up using five picture scans to see if the results upheld consistently. Surprisingly, results were often similar. Many of my own results were flattering-some downright insulting. And a few left me pondering: WTF?In 4 out of 5 pictures, my face bears a resemblance to Kate Winslet (ooh la la), Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Israeli model/actress, Yael Bar Zohar (um, I'll take that comparison!).Somewhat puzzling, Neve Campbell popped up in 3 of my scans. That's nice, but I don't see it! Next in line, with at least 2 out of 5 matches were, Scarlett Johansson, Shakira, Liza Minelli (oh my gawsh, do I deserve that comparison?), Judy Garland, and:Monica Lewinsky.The Monica Lewinsky comparison, disturbing in its own right, bothered me more when the random Hilary Clinton popped up after a picture scan! Well, I guess Bill would like me:not that that's worth bragging.Rounding it out, were Shania Twain, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Audrey Tautou, and Shirley Temple comparisons. There are a few more I neglect to mention because I don't want to be associated in any way with these celebs.Among the more puzzling results: [Joel's][3] favorite - Ziyi Zhang, Halle Berry, ROY ORBISON, RITCHIE VALENS, and ORLANDO BLOOM (haha:3 dudes:at least there was one attractive one thrown in there).So play away, my friends. What celebs do you resemble? [1]: http://thekel-logg.blogspot.com/ [2]: http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN [3]: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/mathis/2005/jun/15/please/
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scary_manilow (anonymous) says…
Apparently, I most resemble this page cannot be displayed. Check your links!
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Dangit...I both love and loathe technology. The thing is, the links work just fine on my 'puter. Anyone else having probs?
If so, copy and paste this:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/...
If that still doesn't work: go to
www.myheritage.com
and click on "beta center"
DavidRose (anonymous) says…
I dont have anything to take or scan a pic of myself with right now but I've been told I look like the following in the last year or so:
Willem Dafoe
Kurt Cobain
Mitch Hedburg
Death to Smoochy Ed Norton
Kill me.
OtherJoel (anonymous) says…
Dustin Hoffman and Peter Sellers. I'm saving up for a nose job. Fucking Internet.
davidryan (David Ryan) says…
Wow -- that's pretty cool.
Peter O'Toole and Omar Sherrif. Not too shabby.
Whether that accords with any reality is a different question....
squishypoet (anonymous) says…
Well, having both Judy Garland and Liza Minelli makes sense, since Liza IS Judy's daughter... so just think of it that way. :)
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
DavidRose: Thanks for sharing! I was going to suggest if people didn't have a way to get their pics up, that they just share what they've been told by others...
OtherJoel: If it's ANY consolation...I've always found young Dustin Hoffman attractive. ;) I've seen your nose...and its a mighty fine nose. Don't touch it!
davidryan: Don't ruin the illusion! Surely, it jives w/reality...
squishy: I'm starting to wonder if I'm distantly related to Judy Garland and descendants...tho, I honestly don't see the resemblance! I'd much rather be told I look like Momma Judy. As superficial as that sounds, it's not all about looks! Liza Minelli, her singing, and general craziness drives me up the wall...
Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…
OOO! Liz Taylor...
And Hugh Grant?? Ranier Maria Wilke??
I gotta use a better picture...
Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…
Hrm... Olivia Newton John, Alyson Hannigan, Audrey Tatou (I'll take that one!) Ava Gardner, katharine hepburn!!! *happy dance* Greta Garbo and Danny Kaye.
Danny Kaye??
One of these things is not like the other...
OtherJoel (anonymous) says…
OK, I had Laura Branagan on there. I've been told I have a Toby MacGuire quality when I have a haircut and a shave, and I'll take that one. However this was my wife saying it, so she might have just been trying to make me feel better about looking like Peter Sellers.
What's with the really old article on the home page about sex toy parties?
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Um Dazie...at least Hugh Grant is hot! ;) I'm still bitter 'bout Roy Orbison.
OJ: I remember reading there wouldn't be a new L.com Deadwood edition until Jan. (17th?). Me thinks they're taking a lil holiday break...maybe while the students are on break? So, they must be doing a lil recycling.
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…
Pretty fun. Here's my list
Sophia Loren 67%
Issabell Alende 66%
Charlize Theron 65%
Henry Fonda 64%
Julie Andrews 63%
Hillary Rodahm Clinton 61%
Grace Kelly 60%
Annette Benning 57%
thetom (anonymous) says…
The image I see in the mirror is way prettier than these people.
Ugly smart people:
Isaac Singer (Nobel 1978)
Fridtjof Nansen (Nobel 1922)
Emil Kocher (Nobel 1909)
Ugly other people:
Jean Chritien
John Kerry
Gregory Hines (?)
I been stopped in the street for Gene Wilder.
thetom (anonymous) says…
Wow, LL, you must be hot.
I, on the other hand, didn't score higher than 50% for anybody other than Chritien. Guess that could mean unique rather than ugly. Thats all right. I'm on my way out to the shop right now so I can trade this here 'puter with (I mean with) a sledgehammer. Just to be safe.
OJ: I'm jealous, man.
cfdxprt (anonymous) says…
Dang it, I forgot to bring in the new toy so I could take pictures of the cats and see who they look like...
Using my 3 year old scanned image I look like:
Russell Crowe
Morgan Freeman
Matt Groenig
Denzel Washington
Yves Montand
Frank Capra
Eddie Murphy
What surprises me is that the only celeb people have ever told me I look like is Quinton Tarantino, yet he doesn't make the list.
Oh and BTW Marcy, you are NOT getting a digital camera for Christmas; but you already knew that, so just act surprised when you open the box.
liz (Liz Weslander) says…
Okay, this thing is totally bogus. I most resemble Penelope Cruz? Please all who know me, feel free to laugh.
My list also included:
Anna Kournikova
Britney Spears
Keanu Reeves
and the most amusing
David Lynch.
According to my logic, this means that David Lynch and Penelope share characteristics. I just don't see it.
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…
thetom - I have high cheek bones and cat shaped eyes. That's what all those people have in common. As for your results, give me brains over beauty (especially in men) any day!!! Liz, I think it measures things (like spaces between eyes, lenghth of noses, fullness of lips, etc) to come up with the results. Thus, your eyes may resemble one person's and your mouth another's, etc. Let me know how that cat thing works out. I ran my granddaughters. Fun stuff.
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
cfdxprt: I know nothing of what you're getting me for x-mas! What're you talkin' 'bout? ;)
And I forgot to mention I came up with Denzel Washington in one of my result sets! So, if cfdxprt has the Denzel thang going on...and I've got it, me thinks we may have some lil Denzel clones running around the house someday! Never mind that both our skin tones are white as can be... :)
Haha. Yeah Liz, I think Ladylaw explained it best. My eyebrows and cheeks seem kinda consistent with Kate Winslet. But oddly enough, the picture they have of her...right next to mine, did look somewhat similar.
And thetom...ladylaw said it best...brains over beauty anyday! But, if you've been stopped in the street for Gene Wilder...I may run if I ever encounter you! He traumatized me as Willy Wonka...
hilary (anonymous) says…
How can I get :
Sophi Marceau
Orson Welles
Scarlet Johanssen
Patricia Arquette
Tom Stoppard
John Cusack
and
Meg Ryan?
bizarre
DavidRose (anonymous) says…
in order:
Ben Affleck
Freddie Mercury
Liam Neeson
Drew Barrymore
Brad Pitt
Mark Knopfler
Scarlett Johansson
Vladimir Vysotsky
Kiera Knightley!!
Ugh, and I started to see the Affleck similarities, too. Kinda glad I haven't cut my hair in months.
DavidRose (anonymous) says…
...and I got sum batteries for my digital camera and took a pic of myself today. In order:
Jim Morrison
Shakira
Ayumi Hamasaki
Edward Norton
Dennis Quaid
Ville Valo
Johnny Depp
Kate Winslet
Gillian Anderson
Lise Meitner
mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says…
How weird. I don't look like anybody. I got "No Matches". I dunno, I think that's kind of cool.
Trey, however, looks like Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Linus Torvald (he was uber-stoked about that one) and Julia Roberts, among others.
Joel (Joel Mathis) says…
James Coburn is my top match. Cuz I'm a tough mofo, just like him.
My No. 2 match: Robert Redford.
God, I'm sexy.
thetom (anonymous) says…
OK, I'm making my list of associations for people on da blogs:
These 4 are influenced by pics I've seen -
Marcy is Shania Twain (Smokin)
Scary Underscore Manilow is Humphrey Bogart (fuck you, purty man)
mitzibel is Misty Nuckolls (soon to be celebrity)
Joel is Joel Mathis (celebrity)
The rest I have no idea what you look like, but this is your avatar in my mind:
OtherJoel is Dustin Hoffman
DavidRyan is Omar Sharif
Dazie is Audrey Tatou
LadyLaw is Sophia Loren (high cheeks and cateyes and all)
Cfd is Russell Crowe
Hilary is Meg Ryan (actually already was)
Liz iz Britney Spears (why not)
DavidRose is Freddie Mercury (who will who will rock you)
OtherJoel (anonymous) says…
YOUNG Dustin Hoffman, thank you very much.
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Ego boost! I *heart* thetom!
And, I shall belt Shania Twain tunes for the remainder of the day...heaven help those within hearing distance.
thetom: your celeb identity= Vincent D'Onofrio (wowza)
jochan (Jocelyn Craft) says…
Oh, this is FUNNY:
In order of appearance:
Nigel Short (huh?)
Christina Ricci (don't see it, but I'll take it)
Katie Holmes (wha? No thanks)
Kirsten Dunst
Audrey Hepburn (I'll take that too)
Preity Zinta (don't know her, but she's pretty)
Halle Berry
Kristen Nygaard (what? I look like an old Danish guy?)
Winona Ryder
-and-
Jeff Goldblum (??!!??!)
Did another pic, got almost completely different results:
Shania Twain
Sharon Stone
Audrey Tautou
Shirley Temple
Halle Berry (again!)
Enya
Rex Stout (?)
Matt LeBlanc (whoa!)
Fridtjof Nansen (again with the Scandinavians)
Jennifer Connelly
Wow. Not once did I get the usual three: Julia Roberts, Claire Danes or (my personal favorite) Joan Cusack.
Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…
Jocelyn- I was totally going to say Joan Cusack. *grin*
mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says…
So ladylaw and I have run about two dozen pictures of my own hot self through that gyp site, and have only got a hit on ONE, which said I look like Chris Evert, some really hot Indian movie star, and a bunch of old or dead Slavic dudes. So apparently I most resemble a sultry blonde tennis-playing corpse?
beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Jocelyn--Joan Cusack, eh? I love both John and Joan!
Misty--LMAO, you sultry blonde-tennis playing corpse...that's insane! Last night, I had trouble accepting that you weren't getting any hits, so I used a picture Dazie had taken of us at bowling and none of us in the group shot came up with any matches...
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…
Trust me, I ran every digital picture I possess of Misty (and that's a lot) and got only one to work. I even tried the one she has on the lawerence.com blog. The results from that one photo were ..errrr... sort of disturbing. She mostly resembles dead Slavic men (according to this site) and a couple of hot Asian looking chicks. Given her gene pool, that's probably accurate. But surely someone more well-known and current has existed before her? Or maybe not.
Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…
Misty reminds me of Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club. Except with blue hair.
Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…
oh - and boobs. :)
mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says…
It's official. I'm a fucking freak. We need to email them and tell them that they need to add more Irish-German-Jewish-Chinese-Creek hybrid celebrities to their database or we're going to sue ;)
ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…
OR you can become famous and be added to the list as the first or your kind!!!
mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says…
Omigod, Dazie, that's the nicest thing anybody's said about me all week, I think!!!