# Catherine Zeta-Jones on the cover of Clue? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 19, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610 "2010-04-19T06:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/1 "2010-04-19T06:10:05Z")
I was in a store and I saw the boardgame Clue. There’s a new [cover](http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/clue-express.jpg) on the box and the model on it appears to be Catherine Zeta Jones. Is it her? Is she a new spokeswoman for Hasbro? Is she doing a promotion for some Clue-related movie or something? ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/2 "2010-04-19T06:14:58Z")
While I see the resemblance, that’s not her. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/3 "2010-04-19T06:16:26Z")
That’s most likely supposed to be Miss Scarlet, since she’s been the “hot/exotic” suspect for quite a few years now. Probably because of the associations the color red has with love, lust, and so on. And because she is (or was, before Master Detective) the only Miss among two Mrs., and you know what that means. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/4 "2010-04-19T06:52:53Z")
It means she puts out, right? Anyway, she’s too young to be Catherine Zeta-Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/5 "2010-04-19T13:06:58Z")
[A Smattering of Scarlets](http://rm7guy.co.uk/MissScarlet.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/6 "2010-04-19T16:04:36Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s most likely supposed to be Miss Scarlet, since she’s been the “hot/exotic” suspect for quite a few years now. And, of course, she’s wearing red jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/7 "2010-04-19T17:05:44Z")
In **Thudlow Boink** ’s link, _14. Clue Homicide Mansion 1991_ is wearing **green**. WTF? Also, _39. Walt Disney Tower of Terror Clue 2007_ is supposed to be Minnie, but to me looks more like a cross-dressing Mickey… ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/8 "2010-04-19T17:08:52Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > …Also, _39. Walt Disney Tower of Terror Clue 2007_ is supposed to be Minnie, but to me looks more like a cross-dressing Mickey… Doesn’t she always? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/9 "2010-04-19T17:26:44Z")
> [@Wolverine](#): > > While I see the resemblance, that’s not her. Ditto. **Thudlow** , thanks for that link. We had the 1963 cartoon version on our set growing up. Ah, memories… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/10 "2010-04-19T19:49:18Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [A Smattering of Scarlets](http://rm7guy.co.uk/MissScarlet.htm) I love websites like this, the ones that chronicle changes in common things over time. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/11 "2010-04-19T19:56:00Z")
#7 was the Miss Scarlet I grew up with. And while I appreciate the increasing racial consciousness that realizes that “Asian” doesn’t automatically equal “exotic,” is the solution to the problem really to just make everybody white again? –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/12 "2010-04-19T20:08:59Z")
Doesn’t look much like [Catherine Zeta Jones](http://www.photopumpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/catherine-zeta-jones-1.jpg) to me. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/13 "2010-04-19T20:40:04Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Doesn’t look much like [Catherine Zeta Jones](http://www.photopumpkin.com/wp-content/uploads/catherine-zeta-jones-1.jpg) to me. Really? Other than eye color, I think it’s a pretty good likeness actually. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/14 "2010-04-19T20:50:47Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Really? Other than eye color, I think it’s a pretty good likeness actually. Well if you were describing her, yes. Pretty long-haired brunette. But the face looks a lot different to me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/15 "2010-04-20T00:54:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Doesn’t look much like Catherine Zeta Jones to me. Really? Because even if it’s not Jones, the resemblance is uncanny. Compare this [picture](http://www.hollywoodmeddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/catherine-zeta-jones.jpg) to the [cover](http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/clue-express.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/16 "2010-04-20T18:32:23Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Really? Because even if it’s not Jones, the resemblance is uncanny. Compare this [picture](http://www.hollywoodmeddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/catherine-zeta-jones.jpg) to the [cover](http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/clue-express.jpg). Put me in the “looks a fair bit like her, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t her” camp. For one thing, her eyes aren’t the same colour, and I think they’re a little bigger. Her nose is a little different too. The woman on the Clue box could play her in a porno, though. I’d watch that. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/17 "2010-04-20T18:49:25Z")
I think we all agree it isn’t her; we’re just surprised that **control-z** doesn’t think they look alike. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/18 "2010-04-20T19:01:47Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I think we all agree it isn’t her; we’re just surprised that **control-z** doesn’t think they look alike. I think they do look alike “on paper”, but that they are two clearly different people when you compare facial features. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/19 "2010-04-21T00:25:01Z")
You guys were talking about the cover, and I knew the _ **exact** _ cover you meant. What I don’t agree with, is the game set up, not so much the cover. IIRC, they changed up a few of the rooms, and a few of the weapons. A Here and Now version of Clue if you will. If “Take a walk on the Boardwalk” is sacred, certainly “Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the Library” has to be as well. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610/20 "2010-04-21T06:24:11Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > The woman on the Clue box could play her in a porno, though. I’d watch that. Speaking of… the Clue box girl actually reminds me of porn star Justine Jolie, though Justine is quite a bit more pale. I think it’s the mouth that does it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catherine-zeta-jones-on-the-cover-of-clue/536610.md?page=2)