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Old 07-31-2003, 05:53 PM
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I am the only one who mistakes Adam Sandler and Jason Biggs?

Well?

Any other famous people you tend to mistake? (like the old Danny DeVito-Bob Hoskins, which never happened to me).
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Old 07-31-2003, 06:56 PM
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Yes, you are the only one to confuse those two

Inexplicably, I have trouble keeping Al Pacino and Robert De Niro straight.
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Old 07-31-2003, 09:36 PM
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Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston.
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Old 07-31-2003, 09:57 PM
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Pierce Brosnan and Sam Neill.
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Old 07-31-2003, 11:05 PM
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Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. Still not 100% convinced they're two different people.

Also, although I never mistake which is which, I tend to swap Emma Thompson's and Uma Thurman's names around.
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Old 07-31-2003, 11:48 PM
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Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. Can't think why.

I can tell the difference between Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. It's hairstyle. And Griffith is more appallingly screechy.

Sam Neill and Ed O'Neill.
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:00 AM
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Inexplicably, I have trouble keeping Al Pacino and Robert De Niro straight.
Wow, you may be the only one to confuse those two!
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:03 AM
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Funny, I was just thinking to myself the other day that when talkiing about movies, I have trouble differienciating Kevin Spacey and Kevin Pollack, but if I watch a movie there in, I know who's who.
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:26 AM
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I can tell the difference between Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan. It's hairstyle. And Griffith is more appallingly screechy.
Melanie Griffith is screechier than Meg Ryan in the same way Bill Gates is richer than Ted Turner.
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Old 08-01-2003, 02:41 AM
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I have a hard time telling Calista Flockhart from a broom handle.
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Old 08-01-2003, 03:07 AM
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Naw, that's easy. Calista was the one who was in Jason and the Argonauts.
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Old 08-01-2003, 09:39 AM
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Lisa Ling and Lucy Liu.

Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin...almost.
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Old 08-01-2003, 10:07 AM
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Haven't we done this before? Mine are:

Bill Pullman and Jeff Daniels

Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving
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Old 08-01-2003, 12:00 PM
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Ditto on the Pullman/Daniels confusion.

And Melanie Griffith's voice is second only to Rosie Perez in sheer annoying chalkboard-scratching agony. Yeesh.
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Old 08-05-2003, 03:28 AM
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And Melanie Griffith's voice is second only to Rosie Perez in sheer annoying chalkboard-scratching agony. Yeesh.
Didn't you miss Jennifer Tilly?
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