# Celebrities you often mix up

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/81 "2003-01-18T00:53:27Z")

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I like to think that Frank Zappa didn’t actually die, he just chose to remain disguised full-time as Leon Redbone.

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**Author:** ![Keweenaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Keweenaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keweenaw)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/82 "2003-01-18T02:35:14Z")

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My wife is convinced that [John Lithgow](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lithgow,%20John) and [Edward Herrmann](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Herrmann,%20Edward) are the same person.

For me its

[Selma Blair](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blair,%20Selma) and [Liv Tyler](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Tyler,+Liv)

mostly from Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions

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**Author:** ![Keweenaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Keweenaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keweenaw)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/83 "2003-01-18T02:42:50Z")

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My wife is convinced that [John Lithgow](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lithgow,%20John) and [Edward Herrmann](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Herrmann,%20Edward) are the same person.

For me its

[Selma Blair](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Blair,%20Selma) and [Liv Tyler](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Tyler,+Liv)

mostly from Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions

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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/84 "2003-01-18T06:37:57Z")

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[Chris Klein](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Klein,%20Chris) and [Keanu Reeves](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=1022&photo=reeves_keanu&path=pgallery&path_key=Reeves,+Keanu). Tell me they don’t look alike.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-often-mix-up/148540/85 "2003-01-18T13:59:35Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by IrishFold \*  
> \*\*if I’m channel-surfing and suddenly  
> see one of these women talking  
> to a talk show host, I don’t know  
> whether I’m watching and listening  
> to Chita Riviera or Rita Moreno. \*\*

\*\* Forbidden Broadway \*\* did a great spoof over which one played the best “Anita” in \*\* West Side Story \*\* (to the tune of "America). It’s on Volume 2 if you want to hear it.

My name is Chita and not Rita.  
Liza likes Chita but not Rita.  
Why won’t the Union boycott Rita.  
I wouldn’t mind if you shot Rita.

I never could keep straight which one was Benny Andersson and which one was Bjorn Ulvaeus in ABBA. And the older they get, the more alike they look.

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