November 21, 2005
 Separated at Birth?
Filed in All About Moi

I was eating lunch one day at a Carl's Jr. near Universal Studios in Southern California. Two polite young men approached as I was attempting to emulate the commercials by getting the condiments all over the table, floor and, of course, my pants. One of the teenagers asked respectfully, "Excuse me, sir . . . but are you (gulp) George Lucas?"Mike_212m_1

However much I wanted to tell them "Shhhh" and to please sit down before the whole place recognized me, I couldn't find it in my heart to deceive these potential young filmmakers.

"If I was George Lucas . . . (I paused for dramatic effect) . . . would I be eating at Carl's Jr. ?"

They both agreed I had an excellent point, apologized for bothering me and moved on.

That evening I went online and checked out a recent pic of Mr. Moneybags Lucas. I did note some resemblance in the eyes, brows, mustache, beard and facial structure. And my graying hair of late had grown a bit wild and ragged. Sure, it was not out of the realm of possibility that some nubile young lady wearing Coke bottle glasses might, in a very dark room, during a solar eclipse, ask the direction of my casting couch.

Still . . . I had to put this to the test.

That's when I discovered the My Heritage site with its patented face recognition software. Apparently, all you needed to do is upload a picture of yourself and the software will analyze your facial features and match you with one of over 2,400 celebrities in their database who you most closely resemble.

I figured if the computer accidentally slipped past Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt without spitting one of them out as my perfect double I would actually be able to see how Mr. Lucas and I stacked up against each other in The Battle of the Good Lookin' Middle Aged Dudes.

The process took about two minutes. You see a graphical interface working on the uploaded pic. Then you see a line by line analysis from the bottom up. Finally my celebrity likeness was ready. And I was not at all surprised to find myself the spitting image of . . . Greek singer Nana Mouskouri. T9158_102_128_1Well, of course! How could I have missed it? Except for the glasses, the hairline, her perfect bone structure and complexion she and I could literally have been separated just outside the womb. Wow!

Just to test and make sure this uncanny software did not merely provide a fluke, I had The Teenager upload a picture of my middle daughter, The Eleven Year Old. Sure enough, this angel with the natural Maybelline eyelashes, sweet smile and long brownish hair was matched with none other than Charlie Chaplain in his famous Tramp makeup.

Well folks, you really have to get on over there and try the software out for yourselves. You never know . . .  you might secretly be related to Yoda.

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