Celebrity Lookalikes

Friday, July 13, 2007

Celebrity Lookalikes

Enter the name of a person into Google Images, add the keywords “lookalike” or “impersonator,” set the search type to “faces” in the advanced options, and you end up with a gallery of pro or amateur lookalikes (that is, people who make money by impersonating real stars, or people who just happen to look like a star). Here’s a sample search query:

madonna (lookalike | impersonator)

And here are some of the fake VIPs you’ll discover – to book them, you’ll pay anything from a couple of hundred bucks to several thousand per evening:

Not Madonna, but Chris America...	Not Robert De Niro...
Not Paris Hilton, and probably never been to jail...	Not Leonardo Di Caprio...
Not Sean Connery, in case anyone was fooled...	Not John Travolta...
Not Tiger Woods, but Nuradeen Karim...	Not Clark Gable...
Not Michael Moore, despite the pose, but a man named Brian...	Not Gwen Stefani, and somehow I can’t imagine she makes a lot of money as lookalike...
Not cough Shakira...	Mike Olie, not a Beatle...
Not Cher either...	And not Jimi Hendrix...
Not Reese Witherspoon, but Robin Reese...	Not George W. Bush, but Steve Bridges, who’s also impersonating Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger... check out the videos, too.
Not Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Neil Mumby...	Not Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter, but Tom Nickson... let’s hope the parents don’t push the kid to this career!