I was watching an “I Love Lucy” episode today, and realized that one of my ex-girlfriends was exactly like Lucille Ball on that show. Looked and acted like her. So I actually DID love Lucy. For a while, anyway.
Other ex’s of mine have resembled:
A tall Carol Channing, but with brown hair
Jennifer Connely in “Labyrinth”
Roberta Flack
A sort of dumpier version of Shelly Long in “Cheers”
The porn star Elizabeth DelMar
Okay you know that chunky redheaded guy from “Twister” that was on the research team that Helen Hunt was on and he walked around talking about the “suck zone” a lot? He was also in Patch Adams.
My ex boyfriend looks just like him when his hair is short. Enough to give me the creeps when I saw Patch Adams.
Hmm. My first husband looked like Chris Farley SO much that people out in public would call out “Hey Chris Farley”. But he acted exactly like Chandler Bing.
My current husband looks like Ryan O’Neal in “Love Story”
My high school boyfriend looked like Michael Hutchence from INXS.
Another was Sarah McLachlan. My first crush, Kelly Ripa, long before anyone knew who Kelly was.
My main ex – broken engagement and all that – most closely resembled Meg Ryan, from her “Harry Met Sally” days. (But whose personality eventually showed itself to be more like a character from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”)
My wife has been called Tatum O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett, and the Kelly Ripa factor is in there, too. Not bad for a guy who’s been likened to Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Stipe.
Still, I can happily report having sampled a wide selection from the menu. No one should feel like I was trying to replace the previous model.
My first high school girlfriend bore a striking resemblance to Lisa Bonet from her Cosby Show days. Mmmmm, Lisa.
A much later girlfriend look like a bombshell porn star: platinum blonde, bedroom eyes, large breasts, and dangerous curves. Don’t know what she ever saw in me, but SHE was the one doing the chasin’.
I dated a guy who looked like the improbable lovechild of Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone. Another looked a lot like a young Dustin Hoffman. And yet another was a dead ringer for Mark Spitz.
My husband looks like Tim Robbins without the dimples.
My first husband looked alot like Leland Orser. When I first saw “The Bone Collector” I screamed, I thought it was my ex. One of my ex-boyfriends looked just like Chris O’Donnell and another looked like Toby Keith.
My very first serious boyfriend looked like David Carusoe from NYPD Blue (the early days). Of course, that was 26 years ago, so no one knew about Blue ('cept maybe Miss Cleo:)).
My husband is a dead ringer for Gabe Kaplan of Welcome Back Kotter fame. In fact, a couple of years ago, when they started showing Welcome Back Kotter on TV, my kids had never seen the show before. Within seconds, they said, almost in unison, “Hey, that looks like Pop!” People who have just met him will say to me, “Hey, you know who he looks like?” and I just say, “Yes, I know”. When I was younger, I was constantly told I looked like Mindy Cohn, who played Natalie on Facts of Life. Amusing, I think, that two people of such thoroughly European descent as we are should most resemble two Jewish actors.
The last ex looks just like Johnny Galecki, who played David on “Roseanne”. Seriously, in this link, he looks EXACTLY like him.
The ex before that looks exactly like Donald Sutherland, when he was in “Space Cowboys” and had the long hair.
The current boyfriend looks like a young John Goodman. He was even supposed to be a stand-in for John Goodman on the set of “The West Wing”, but it didn’t work out.
I think this only goes to show that I have no specific taste when it comes to the men I date.
I still have photos of my ex in different locales around the house - new friends, the cable guy, etc., often ask if I really know Meg Ryan. When I explain that the pics are not Ms. Ryan, but rather my ex-wife, I get quite a few “yeah - right…” looks.
Oddly enough, my ex is exactly 366 days younger than Ms. Ryan…