Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

from the semi-obscure octogenarian actress dept:

Antoinette Bower
Anjanette Comer

Wilfrid Brambell in The Thing would have been something to see.

Fran Lebowitz
Annie Liebovitz

In fact, I think I am only just now putting together that these are two different people, seeing the thread about the former at the top of SNA. in as much as I thought about it at all, I always thought the famous photographer happened to dabble in cultural criticism on the side.

not 100% on all fours with this thread, but I just realized that all these years I thought the members of the KLF (a group I never paid much attention to) were black, and that the people I had been picturing were actually PM Dawn

Erick and Parish making dawn are gonna rock ya

Peter Riegert/Paul Reiser

― The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:54 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dr Harold Shipman
Professor David Kelly

did not realize until this very day that David Johansen and Buster Poindexter in fact ARE the same person

In soundalike name division:

genderqueer geopolitics journo and New Yorker writer Masha Gessen
genderqueer music journo and Pitchfork writer Sasha Geffen

In non-soundalike division:

Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger (also eligible for the surprised to see he's still alive thread)

Robert Mulligan
Richard Mulligan

... brothers!

Hot, Cool & Vicious
CrazySexyCool

oh that reminds me:

CrazySexyCool
SweetSexySavage

but I actually came here to post:

Bad Bunny
Burna Boy

because both words have appeared today on different threads:

tulips
turnips

only ever for a second or two but still!

two lips on a turnip

https://i.imgur.com/0qp4Wzt.jpg

or is it a tulip bulb, hmmm?

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

Bernie Taupin (Elton John's Lyricist)
Bennie Maupin (reed man for Headhunters)

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

Homefront
Homeland
Homecoming

Three American TV series. I've only seen the third.

James Morrison
morrisp
thomp

just realized i have been mixing this one up for a while

egyptian lover
pharoahe monch

gtfo

lol

La cartera
La maleta

(I’m learning Spanish)

:)

Roald Dahl
Rudyard Kipling

I know who they are and all, but their collective works just merge into one in my mind.

Toss up who was more racist I guess

mike starr and danny aiello

I guess it's easier now that one is dead

― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Monday, February 1, 2021 8:55 PM bookmarkflaglink

xp: I don't know how to break this to you, but

― peace, man, Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:52 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol different Mike Starr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Starr_(actor)

lily james/lily collins

Yes!

Indeed!

kung pao chicken
general Tso chicken

But it doesn’t really matter because both are delicious

Gareth Thomas
Gareth Hunt

The Vaselines
The Vaccines

Surprised this one hasn't been listed:

Elliot Mazer
Elliot Roberts

omg

Toss up who was more racist I guess

Oh, Roald Dahl, no question. Kipling gets judged by his worst poem (which tbf is his own damn fault), but most of his work is anti-racist by Victorian standards. Dahl was born 50 years later and still managed to be a piece of shit.

I thought the easiest thing in the world would be finding a photo on the internet of Elliot Mazer and Elliot Roberts together, with or without Neil, but not so.

joss whedon and will wheaton - two people whose names appear on the internet a lot who don't do anything i care about.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, woensdag 27 mei 2009 15:18 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Si Spencer and Si Spurrier, apparently

Count yourself lucky that Simon Guerrier has only written two short stories in comics.

Earth
Hell

oh

Trying and failing to process the death of Si Spencer. There wasn't a week that someone didn't confuse us for each other -- always to my gain. There was no better fellow for whom to be confused.

As clever and warm-hearted a mensch as I ever knew. And a cracking quizmaster.

— Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier (@sispurrier) February 17, 2021

Journey to the end of the night
Long day’s journey into night
Dark night of the soul

Oh absolutely, esp the two first ones!

Ed Banger / Ed Hardy

Todd Solondz
Neil LaBute

Can never remember who directed what.

that's funny I mix up Solondz with Harmony Korine sometimes.

I guess he exists somewhere between Korine and LaBute in the landscape of cringy/hard-to-watch?

Steve Hilliage
Steve Hackett

Less reasonably:
Drive Like Jehu
Jeru the Damaja