Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

James Ellroy & Elmore Leonard

― los blue jeans, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:56 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

That is a very common one.

Yesterday I learned that Kate Mara (full name Kate Rooney Mara) and Rooney Mara (full name Patricia Rooney Mara) are two different people, and I've seen either/both of them in loads of things and considered the-two-people-I-thought-was-one-person to be an excellent actor

Kate O'Mara was also an excellent actor. She was on Dynasty as Caress Morell, also was in The Vampire Lovers (1970).

James Atlas/James Wolcott
(And I see that one blurbed the other's recent book so...)

Charles Atlas (filmmaker) / Charles Atlas (Archie Comics bodybuilder standby entrepreneur)

Funny that when I google “atlas filmmaker gay” I get The Wachowskis

The Rooney Maras are the union of two Baseball clans - the Rooneys founded the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Maras founded the New York Giants!

I always get this thread mixed up with this one:

Artists with similar names that you get mixed up

Great one.

Jed Mercurio / Jez Butterworth

Up the Academy
Up the Creek

Lee Arthur Smith (possibly should not be in the baseball HOF)
Arthur Leigh Allen (possibly the Zodiac killer)

Starship Troopers
Space Cowboys

Max Faget/Max Factor

The Amazing Rhythm Aces
The Atlanta Rhythm Section

Both of whom turned out to be shitty soft/country rock, to my disappointment.

Good one. They were slightly later and British, but I'd almost throw Ace in there.

I'd also add
Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces

Oh! I Always Get Those Three Mixed Up!

Dominic Grieve
Dominic Cummings
Dominic Raab

I witnessed my wife confusing the latter two earlier!

Dominic Raab
Broccoli Rabe
Boston Rob

Eric Newby / Eric Ambler; maybe because Newby was an ambler.

Dominic Grieve / Dominic Cummings / Dominic Raab

For me I think it is

category: Tory MPs who might be not completely evil or insane (obv still a little as Tories)
Dominic Grieve / Nick Boles / maybe Philip Lee a bit now Boles is no longer a Tory
(while Googling, surprised to learn Lee is younger than Boles, which I would not have guessed - sorry Dr Lee)

category: dangerous unelected mendacious loons
Dominic Cummings / Daniel Hannan

category: please let me never hear about these terrible embarrassing people again
Dominic Raab / Gavin Williamson

Hannan is elected btw.

Oops, you're quite right - and in the region I vote in too.

Well then.

I shall try and remember them like this:
Grieve - grim
Cummings - cunt
Raab - r*pist (probably)

Parry Sound
Perry Stern

John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer

― WmC, Friday, September 7, 2018 12:52 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Variant on this:
John Frankenheimer
John Boorman

Stephen Dubner
Steven Pinker (whom I kept remembering as Pinkner)

Paul Rudd/Paul Simms

(That one has really been persistent)

Not to be confused with

Phil Rudd
Phil Simms

Correct

Anna Kavan/Ann Quin

This is maybe linked to my confusion about literary Annes upthread, plus one write ice and the other wrote berg, and I’ve read neither

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

ONUKA / ODESZA.

Bob Lefsetz has seen the future of music and it’s a Ukrainian EDM act? Oh, wait...

Hailee Steinfeld
Shailene Woodley

Maura Tierney
Moira Kelly

I've spent 3 years or so thinking that the white-nationalist podcaster and youtuber Stefan Molyneux had created the computer game Populous, but found out today that it was Peter Molyneux (I think I was getting Stefan Molyneux mixed up with Scott Adams here as well, as in the trajectory from creating innocuous thing I liked as a kid in the 90s to reappearing circa 2016 as an insane advocate for crypto-fascism)

Marina Warner
Marina Wheeler

Just realized this one, UK electronic producers:

Rusko
Roska

I mean, c'mon

Rustie doesn't help either

Kim Stanley
Kim Hunter

80s Meryl Streep film Silkwood
80s Meryl Streep film Ironweed

i never got those muddled but i do now want to find out ironweed is silkwood's secret sequel

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.

See also:

Jane Fonda film Comes a Horseman (1978)
Jane Fonda film Electric Horseman (1979)

Anna Paquin
Anna Chlumsky

Wow I think I just scrompfed both actors into a single entity, along with Kristen Johnston

Speaking of which, I did this the other day:

3rd Rock From The Sun
30 Rock

That Ironweed Trilogy was hella hyped back in the day, with prominent pull quote from none other than Saul Bellow.