Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

john woo and john yoo

Adlai Stevenson and Steven Adler

Armenia
Serbia

(specifically owing to Serj Tankian, who I just discovered is actually Lebanese, rather than Armenian)

Born in Lebanon but of Armenian heritage. (The "-ian" ending is a common feature of Armenian surnames.)

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.

Thomas Wolfe and Tobias Wolff.

I once wanted to make a crossword puzzle with

VIRGINIAWOOLF
THOMASWOLFE
TOBIASWOLFF
NAOMIWOLF

But the symmetry was off.

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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.

Kathy Bates and Kathy Burke!

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

Mike Leigh / Spike Lee.

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.

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

Dylan McDermott Mulroney

Patricia Richardson / Patricia Clarkson / the woman who died after skiing into a tree.

Skiing victim Natasha Richardson and Miranda Richardson, for me.

Kenneth Lonergan and Lodge Kerrigan

Dangerous Liaisons / Steel Magnolias

cheese and fonts

Kirsty Young and Kirsty Wark.

Nicole Scherzinger / Kim Kardashian

Kay Thompson/Kay Kendall

Gordon Parks/Gordon Willis

Christopher Lee/Christopher Plummer

George Orwell
Orson Welles

(think a lot of people get these mixed up).

Dangerous Liaisons \ Fatal Attraction

Chuck Wepner/Jerry Quarry

When people talk about Hal Hartley, I have, prior to today, thought they were talking about Hal Sparks.

Gary Matthews, Garry Maddox. (At least I did in 1973.)

Classics IV's "Spooky," Classic IV's "Stormy." They're easy to tell apart when you actually hear them.

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

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.)

Atlanta Rhythm Section and the Townsend Sanford Band

I can only speak for lecherous old men: we don't mix up Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Connelly.

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.

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.

I think I used to kind of-but not entirely- mix up Phoebe Cates and Jami Gertz

Angela Baddeley and Hermione Baddeley

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.)

Jane Austen/Jane Eyre

^^^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).

The films of Wuthering Heights/Jane Eyre/Rebecca. One has Joan Fontaine, one has Laurence Olivier, one has both.

Sometimes a Great Notion/Something Happened

Heidi Julavits/Judith Shulevitz

Annie Leibovitz / Fran Lebowitz

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.

The French Kicks / Les Savy Fav

Julian Lage/Lage Lund

Elizabeth McGovern/Elizabeth Perkins

Wow, that wasn't already on here?

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.

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