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7.30.2007

 

The photo test

Here's the danger when we start talking about movie stars and how much people do or don't look like them: I don't know squat about movie stars. I can watch a movie and by the time I'm walking out of the theater cannot tell you the names of the actors in them. So when The Hill said Molly Gray looks like Kelly McGillis, that registers nothing with me. Yes, I saw "Top Gun." No, I don't remember anyone who was in it besides Tom Cruise (or was it Tom Hanks) . When you have this kind of celebrity-disability like I do, you generally stay as far away from any such discussions as you can get.
So it wasn't until my husband suggested Molly Gray looked nothing like Kelly McGillis that I even thought to question it. Not to belabor this admittedly non-essential item, but here's the evidence (which also allowed me to practice putting photos into blog items):
Kelly McGillis:

Molly Gray:



It's not like you'd mistake one for the other. I mean, they part their hair on different sides. But then again I'm no expert.


- Terri Hallenbeck




Comments:
How about talking about something a little less icky?

Molly's attractive. Let's move on already.
 
I'm glad our pols in Washington have so much free time on their hands.

Perhaps some of them can muck out my barn while they're at it.
 
The pols aren't responsible for this crap. It's the media.

And the junk-media-consumers.
 
Who does Terri Hallenbeck resemble?

I don't think it's an appropriate question.

I don't think it's an appropriate topic.

Write about something real, would ya?
 
Looks like Chloe Seviwhateverthe hellitis.
 
"The pols aren't responsible for this crap. It's the media."

It's a little more complicated than that. I don't like the dumb-down priorities of the US media, either, but no one forced any of these pols and staffers to be interviewed and have their pictures taken for this feature. Why did they agree to do it?
 
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