# With each passing year Robert Smith looks more and more like Elizabeth Taylor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766 "2004-07-06T10:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/1 "2004-07-06T10:38:01Z")
[Robert Smith](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0876-sam/Events/0876-sam/taylore1.iza?path=pgallery&path_key=Taylor,%20Elizabeth%20(I)) . . . [Elizabeth Taylor](http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/image?image=3&imageSize=large&id=5396383&start=0&range=4&pageid=rs.PhotosGalleryImage&pageregion=mainRegion) Come to think of it, I’ve never actually seen the two of them at the same place at the same time. I wonder . . . . :eek: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/2 "2004-07-06T11:53:02Z")
God, that’s uncanny! Ummmm – who’s Robert Smith? ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/3 "2004-07-06T12:01:12Z")
He’s the lead singer, and quiet possibly the only remaining original member, of 80s goth rockers [the Cure](http://www.thecure.com/). ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/4 "2004-07-06T12:13:32Z")
Ya know you got those pictures backwards, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/5 "2004-07-06T12:37:22Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > Ya know you got those pictures backwards, right? 😃 I just double checked. Still not sure, but I _think_ I got it right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/6 "2004-07-06T14:00:54Z")
BWUAHAHAAH. LOL. This thread made my morning 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/7 "2004-07-06T14:01:56Z")
Anyone ever notice the [Steven Tyler](http://www.steven-tyler.net/)/[Joanna Lumley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525921/) connection? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/8 "2004-07-06T14:57:30Z")
I think it must be the lipstick. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/9 "2004-07-06T16:49:38Z")
Looks like Robert has “Cured” his meloncholy with liberal doses of ice cream, chocolate and Krispy Kremes. ---
**Author:** ![Chunky\_Bum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Chunky\_Bum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chunky_Bum)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/10 "2004-07-06T17:03:04Z")
LOL! That’s what happens when you don’t comb your hair or take off your mascara in 20+ years! ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/11 "2004-07-06T20:07:27Z")
Hmm, from the sounds of it, we may have the beginnings of another Michael Jackson on our hands. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/12 "2004-07-06T20:34:01Z")
Must be something with the name. [This chap’s](http://www.classicbands.com/images/wolfman.jpg) name was originally “Robert Smith,” and the resemblance extends even to him. ---
**Author:** ![slu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-each-passing-year-robert-smith-looks-more-and-more-like-elizabeth-taylor/253766/13 "2004-07-06T20:44:40Z")
Oh and The Cure sucks. I just had to say it. He gave an interview somewhere recently and he came off like a dick…and his music is really terrible. The only CD I have ever thrown in the trash was a Cure CD. It was the best decision I ever made.