Pierre Boulez (composer)/Pierre Boulle (author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes)/Pierre Boileau (co-author of novels made into Diabolique,Vertigo and Eyes Without a Face)
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
john woo and john yoo
― mark s, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Adlai Stevenson and Steven Adler
― manic pixie fream girl (rip van wanko), Sunday, 9 October 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Armenia Serbia
(specifically owing to Serj Tankian, who I just discovered is actually Lebanese, rather than Armenian)
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
Born in Lebanon but of Armenian heritage. (The "-ian" ending is a common feature of Armenian surnames.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you for the clarification! The gas station man was listening to one of their albums this morning. I'm probably 12 years late, but I'm thinking about checking them out.
― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
Thomas Wolfe and Tobias Wolff.
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
I once wanted to make a crossword puzzle with
VIRGINIAWOOLFTHOMASWOLFETOBIASWOLFFNAOMIWOLF
But the symmetry was off.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/913/Focke-Wulf_FW-190F-2.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
They don't look anything alike, but for obvious reasons I'll mix up Kathy Bates and Kathy Baker--if I see either name anywhere, I'll have to stop for a couple of seconds to remember which is which.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
Kathy Bates and Kathy Burke!
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
trying to recall the canon of silent comedians, i repeatedly found myself reaching for ben nicholson when i meant ben turpin <-- this is actual senility kicking in though
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
Mike Leigh / Spike Lee.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
I've had the same Kathy Bates/Baker problem as Clemenza. I've never seen Misery, so for a long time I thought the doctor from Picket Fences plays the lead in it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Dylan McDermott Mulroney
― billy, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Skiing victim Natasha Richardson and Miranda Richardson, for me.
― Ice Old Bee (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Kenneth Lonergan and Lodge Kerrigan
― buzza, Thursday, 13 October 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
Dangerous Liaisons / Steel Magnolias
― heavy vibes at the estate sale (los blue jeans), Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
cheese and fonts
― koogs, Friday, 14 October 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Kirsty Young and Kirsty Wark.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Nicole Scherzinger / Kim Kardashian
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Kay Thompson/Kay Kendall
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Gordon Parks/Gordon Willis
Christopher Lee/Christopher Plummer
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
George OrwellOrson Welles
(think a lot of people get these mixed up).
― dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
Dangerous Liaisons \ Fatal Attraction
― dog latin, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
Chuck Wepner/Jerry Quarry
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
When people talk about Hal Hartley, I have, prior to today, thought they were talking about Hal Sparks.
― rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Gary Matthews, Garry Maddox. (At least I did in 1973.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
Classics IV's "Spooky," Classic IV's "Stormy." They're easy to tell apart when you actually hear them.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band
― pplains, Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly (they both have the dark hair and the bangs and they were in kidd-ish movies)
Andy Kindler and Andy Milonakis (only because their names are both Andy. Kindler was on a podcast & I started it thinking ugh I hate this guy and then I heard him talk and I was like, wait, that's not the guy I hate.)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
― band of uitsmijters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
I can only speak for lecherous old men: we don't mix up Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 November 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I got almost angry looks from husband when Moving In Stereo played on the radio and I started prattering about Jennifer Connelly...he cut me off and was like DUDE. YOU MEAN PHOEBE CATES.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 November 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Man, Phoebe Cates! I had a huge preteen crush on her because of the Gremlins movies, but I haven't thought of her for years! Whatever happened to her?
I had to Google image search Jennifer Connelly to get Clemenza's comment, but I think I know what he means now.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think I used to kind of-but not entirely- mix up Phoebe Cates and Jami Gertz
Angela Baddeley and Hermione Baddeley
― MrDasher, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, APPARENTLY!
(I was sorting out mum's and dad's books several months ago -- gathering them into piles from bookcases all over the house* -- and I just started boxing them up, and noticed that I had two completely piles, ostensibly an Austen and a Bronte, but each pile was an equal mix of both.)
― mark s, Sunday, 6 November 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Jane Austen/Jane Eyre
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^^Yes haha I worked out as I sorted the piles out that THAT was the actual confusion I was making, plus JA's Emma w/Emily Bronte (the Bronte pile was all three Brontes, tho obv that's minly Charlotte).
― mark s, Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
The films of Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre/Rebecca. One has Joan Fontaine, one has Laurence Olivier, one has both.
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes a Great Notion/Something Happened
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Heidi Julavits/Judith Shulevitz
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 November 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
Annie Leibovitz / Fran Lebowitz
― ...options. (Ówen P.), Sunday, 13 November 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Some of the cohorts I posted here I didn't really mix up at all at the time of posting but now upon re-reading I do mix them up. Feel like either the very act of posting somehow upset some delicate equilibrium or maybe I knew that eventually time's arrow and fortune's wheel would grind me down so that I would mix them up.
― Mayne ... Or Astro-Mayne? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
The French Kicks / Les Savy Fav
― Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Ahh. (los blue jeans), Sunday, 15 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Julian Lage/Lage Lund
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Elizabeth McGovern/Elizabeth Perkins
― Girl I want to take you to a JBR (jaymc), Friday, 20 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, that wasn't already on here?
― What We Did on Our POLLidays (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
By weird real life imitates virtual reality coincidence- or is it? - my last Mixed Up pair, Julian Lage/Lage Lund, was brought up in conversation tonight.
― The Koozebane Kronikles (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 January 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link