More Celebrity Look-Alikes: Elin, Ellen, Edie, Amy

“Men in general judge more from appearances  than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.” ~Niccolo Machiavelli

Not exactly breaking news, but I feel like I need to defend Ryan O’Neal. When Farrah Fawcett died, he caught some flack for hitting on his daughter Tatum O’Neal at the funeral. I felt for him. Not that I think he should be hitting on anyone at his wife’s funeral. But, face it, she forgave him tons of times for far worse infractions so who am I to judge? (In case you weren’t alive in the 70s, they were like Brangelina before we started mashing up celebrity names.)

If you missed the Tatum thing, here’s the account from Leslie Bennetts’ “Beautiful People, Ugly Choices:”

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum said when I asked her about it. “You make of it what you will.” She sighed. “It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”

One of my reoccurring fears that something as humiliating as this will happen to me because I don’t recognize people. OK, so I doubt it’ll be as bad as this. But still, passing by your mother or your best friend could be as embarrassing for a normal person.

Here’s Tatum:

Here’s the Swedish model Charlotte Lindstrom who was in the news in 2007 for trying to hire hitmen to wack men:

There’s a vague resemblance.

Speaking of Swedes, how about Elin Nordgren and Amy Smart?

Enough of resemblance that you might mistake one for the other in a crowd?

Speaking of Elin’s, how about Ellen Degeneres and Edie Falco?

Edie in her new show as Nurse Jackie:

Walking quickly past you on a busy NY street? Hugging you at your wife’s funeral when you’re distraught and in desperate need of a drink? No? Well, I’d confuse them. I might even confuse Elin and Ellen. So, I feel for Ryan. He may be a super creepy playa, but I’m here to say it could happen to the best of us.