For many years, a lot of high school and gollege age kids have been calling me Jerry Garcia.
I’ve also gotten Kenny Rogers, Leon Russell, and (especially this time of year) Santa Claus.
I’m apparently a dead ringer for Jeremy Irons, to the point that I’ve had experiences like getting preferential treatment in a restaurant, signed autographs to get people to stop bugging me, and even got a wink and some flirtation from Liza Minelli in a Vegas casino.
I would imagine that anyone that knows what George Lucas looks like probably understands that George Lucas wouldn’t be hanging around a Pittsburgh suburb. As for someone giving him grief, I don’t fear for him. He’s. . . um, kind of a difficult man to deal with.
I have had fantasies about kidnapping George Lucas and substituting my uncle, and using him to fix the crap that Lucas has done to the Star Wars franchise since Return of the Jedi.
I have been told that I look like (or at least remind people of) the following actors:
Gary Burghoff (Radar from “MASH”)
Bob Newhart
Tim Conway
Jack Nicholson
Jason Alexander
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And a cartoon character, when I was younger and had more hair on my forehead:
Hermey, from “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (the elf that wanted to be a dentist)
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I have grown my hair down to shoulder-length, for the first time since the mid-1990s. Recently, a woman told me that if my hair were white / gray, that I would look a lot like Leon Russell.
Funny, we were just talking about this over the weekend while I was back home celebrating Christmas with my family. My sister says I remind her of Harry Smith (the news guy), and my wife thinks I look like Steve Jobs. (In fact, last Halloween I grew about a four-day growth of beard and dressed up as Steve Jobs.)
Back in college (when I had more hair) I was frequently told that I looked like Steve Martin, John Cleese, and/or Jack Nicholson. I never really saw the resemblance to any of them.