# Celebrities you often mix up **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540 "2003-01-14T17:01:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/1 "2003-01-14T17:01:13Z")
I always seem to start these list type threads but I like them and they seem to get attention. I still get Jon Stewart and Ben Stiller mixed up. It’s mostly Stiller that I mistake for Stewart since I see Jon every night. But when I think of movies tht Stiller is in, Stewart comes to mind first. A friend of mine always got Pacino and De NIro mixed up. I think she went certifiably insane when she saw Godfather II because she couldn’t tell when the flashbacks were. I used to always mix up Meg Ryan/Melanie Griffith and Goldie Hawn but I got that settled finally after Griffith became a freak show. ---
**Author:** ![greyseal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@greyseal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greyseal)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/2 "2003-01-14T17:07:30Z")
I always get Bills Pullman and Paxton confused. If I see one of them, I can remember the other movies he’s been in, but it will take me a while to put the right name to the face. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/3 "2003-01-14T17:11:57Z")
Can we say authors? For some reason, I always get the _Lord of the Flies_ author William Golding mixed up with screenwriter/author William Goldman. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/4 "2003-01-14T17:20:33Z")
I used to get James Coburn and Lee Marvin confused, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/5 "2003-01-14T17:24:34Z")
You know who I mean but I actually can’t think of her name! LMAO! HELP! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/6 "2003-01-14T17:29:40Z")
For me, it’s Susan Sarandon and (ha ha! I am blanking on the other woman’s name right now! Perfect!)… Sigourney Weaver. Whew. When separated from each other, I can’t tell any of the Baldwins apart. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. They look so much alike that “Ed TV” was really a trip for me. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/7 "2003-01-14T17:42:06Z")
Ashley Judd and Charlize Thieron, although either will do. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/8 "2003-01-14T18:05:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*I used to get James Coburn and Lee Marvin confused, all the time. \*\* That’s because their the same person, along with Robert Conrad/Robert Wagner, and Tom Bosley/David Doyle (from Charlie’s Angels, where he played a character named John Bosley…coincidence?). The main people I get mixed up are Anna Nicole Smith and Hulk Hogan, but I’m usually drinking at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/9 "2003-01-14T18:17:33Z")
i get visually mixed up: Bill Pullman and Michael Douglas Bill Gates and Janet Reno (i’m not kidding!) name wise, when i hear Richard Dreyfuss, I think of the star of Empty Nest. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/10 "2003-01-14T18:32:12Z")
Leonardo DiCaprio and Charles Nelson Reilly ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/11 "2003-01-14T18:35:10Z")
> [@](#): > > always get Bills Pullman and Paxton confused Me too. I was trying to think of others when I posted but I couldn’t. On the author/movie front, I get the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies mixed up. Haven’t seen either of them. Who wrote them? J.R.R. Rowlings or something like that? Before she became a diva, I got Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek mixed up. Another one is Ally Sheedy and Jennifer Jason Leigh. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/12 "2003-01-14T18:41:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beadalin \* > \*\*For me, it’s Susan Sarandon and (ha ha! I am blanking on the other woman’s name right now! Perfect!)… Sigourney Weaver. Whew. > \*\* me too I also confuse Danny Glover and Sidney Poitier. I’m not sure why or how, but I do. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/13 "2003-01-14T18:42:30Z")
Arthur Shields and Barry Fitzgerald. But it’s a not current problem. David Doyle and Tom Bosley are easy to keep track of now since the former is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/14 "2003-01-14T18:58:54Z")
Oh yeah, **Oblong** , you just reminded me of my other constantly-confused pair, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jodie Foster. Don’t ask me why. ---
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/15 "2003-01-14T19:00:13Z")
Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott. Now, who’s the guy on The Practice again? ---
**Author:** ![AmbulanceChaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@AmbulanceChaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbulanceChaser)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/16 "2003-01-14T19:04:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ludovic \* > \*\* > name wise, when i hear Richard Dreyfuss, I think of the star of Empty Nest. \*\* Very easy to do, b/c iirc the Empty Nest dog’s name was…Dreyfuss. I think the star was Richard Mulligan…or David Leisure, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/17 "2003-01-14T19:10:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BMalion \* > \*\*Leonardo DiCaprio and Charles Nelson Reilly \*\* :dubious: Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/18 "2003-01-14T19:16:56Z")
I used to confuse Corky Pigeon and Peter Billingsley…Hell, I still did when Corky Pigeon showed up on VH-1’s “Where Are They Now: Child Stars”. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/19 "2003-01-14T19:20:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobT \* > \*\* > David Doyle and Tom Bosley are easy to keep track of now since the former is dead. \*\* So when I watch Charlie’s Angels reruns, it’ll now be Tom Bosley? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/20 "2003-01-14T19:20:36Z")
[Lara Flynn Boyle](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Boyle,+Lara+Flynn) and [Sherilyn Fenn](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fenn,+Sherilyn). All the time. I think it’s the way they roll off the tongue. Verbally speaking. Visually, [Jeff Daniels](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Daniels,+Jeff) and [Bill Pullman](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Pullman,+Bill). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540.md?page=2)