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Show Standard-Examiner HORIZONS Sunday, July 12, 1992 SE Doubles Local look-alikes From 1E Amongthe dozensof photographsof celebrity look-alikes received at the Standard-Examiner, we've chosen a sampling. The look-alikes range from child stars, like Macaulay Culkin, to the names of yesteryear, such as starlet Ann Sheridan. everyday Layton High graduate, he we No, Farrell responded: “You look like me, because I'm older.” Maybe, Farrell added, “One of our dads was a rounder.” He smiles at the memory. “Bnimley got quite a chuckle out of that.” For many Utahns, a quirk of nature has awarded them with the |) po & 3 same smile, hair or eyes of someKen Furniss, Ogden Sen. Robert Byrd Brandon Mattson, Layton Kurt Cameron one familiar to us through television, the movies, even politics So when the Standard-Examiner recently asked to hear from such look-alikes, the response was tremendous. From this cursory evidence, it appears Northern Utah is a virtual mirror of Hollywood. Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Matt Dillon, Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood — their likenesses can all be spotted on our streets. - ll, ¥ Melvin Marker, Ogden Jimmy Carter iXyle Burgess, Hill AFB Macaulay Culkin BrentN. Shaw, N. Ogden Ted Danson We asked Standard-Examiner staff members to look over the dozens of photographs of lookalikes. Based on that, we’ve chosen a handful of the closer matchups as proof. Matchups like Vearl Thompson, who runs a farm in West Weber. He estimates he’s heard, oh, at least a thousand times, the inquiry, | Press juar- naire, in-encommore Jon Ritchie, Roy Tony Danza Kim Berger, Roy Phil Donahue nd in kand ne al' cause : their inting es fly- ( ' || + Ss, has ‘| ' that they'd “kill to look like Madonna,” but Jorgensen saysit’s not ness immortalized in reruns of all stardust and delight to look like “Magnum, P.I.” Thompson might actually be mis- a celebrity. “Myhair’s always been exactly like hers,” says Jorgensen. “I don’t do it on purpose, because I hate being called Madonna.” Can that be so bad? Jorgensen doesn’t hesitate before answering. “Yes. Because she’s a slut.” OK, so it depends on whom you look like. For Mike Hall of Syracuse, a supervisor at Hill Air Force to find Selleck baling hay on a farm in western Weber County. There was that vacation a few Kent Squire, Roy Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) Dean Oborn, Ogden Michael Gross Mark Isakson, Mt. Green Neil Patrick Harris Uw Chuck.” As in Norris. As in “Silent Fans with such expectations ap- tight-lipped, strong-armed actor. But it could be worse, Hall ad- was wandering the halls of the mall, wearing his usual black cowboy hat. He noticed a couple of girls following him. “I turned stance tf |) Base, it can get pretty tiring answering to catcalls of “Hey, Rage” or “Missing in Action” or any other film starring this nessed by LaMont Martinez of Layton. It wasn’t long ago that he made! | ! Her friends insist she’s lucky, Brooks to be cruising the corridors of Layton Hills Mall? parently do exist — an oddity wit- “ dand | | sen projects an aura that echoes of “Oh, probably Tom Selleck,” he says, with that same hint of shy- years back to Hawaii, however. To this day, the photo albums of many a Japanese tourist hold snapshots of a tall, dark-haired, mustachioed man they’re convinced is TomSelleck. And who would expect Garth ” said ; bird identity.” If that’s the case, he was once asked, why doesn’t he drop the hat? “I ain't going to change my style,” he responded. “I was dressing like this before Garth Brooks even came out.” It's a sentiment repeated by 16year-old Tracy Jorgensen of Roy. Since those early days of seventh “grade and “Material Girl,” her excursions downschool halls haveoften been made to a chorus of “Madonna. Madonna. Madonna.” Whether it’s her cheekbones, or that chin her boyfriend Matt Thomas says “goes down into a little triangle point ball,” or her hair — “No! I don’t dye it” — JorgenMadonna. taken more often for the tall actor, Ted Danson from Garth Brooks; I want my own “Gee, do you know who you look like?” except that few fans would expect Matt Drake, Ogden told them. Suill, the fans followed him out to his car. This 20-year-old fledgling musician has been trying for some time to break into the country music big-time — singing at weddings and such. So he was less than pleased a year or two ago when another musician rose to fame, another singer who wore the same black hat, who had the same baby cheeks and slant ofthe eye. Today, Martinez compares his singing style more to country artist Doug Stone. “I try to stay away mits. He could have looked like Pee-wee Herman. Whydo these look-alikes catch our eye? Why does even the hint of stardom grab our attention, make us gawk? around and there were about 10 people following me.” When they clamored for autographs, Martinez ders the question, raising eyebrows scrawled “Garth” on a sheet of paper. He later recanted: I’m just an John Stockton. “We'd probably like to be in their shoes,” he speculates. Dennis Gerber of Clinton ponthat are reminiscent of Jazz guard hought | ye was tk > Anna,’ | ' ovie, sht me sinct 0keswo plain the on from | =: | .> | | | 2: Bee ee Colette Holman, Hooper Ann-Margret Melanie Rollins, Ogden Alyssa milano Chuck Criger, Layton Gerald McRaney GOING OUT OF BUSINESS is, “but! ind I wa LIQUIDATION SALE ple whe ssive il} ‘e what | O%oF ee Sherry Wheelwright, Bear River Debbie Reynolds Jenny Lewis, Ogden Julia Roberts Kenny Rogers ENTIRE STOCK FABRIC & NOTIONS oeae Lois Herbert, Ogden Dexter The child is Jewish, the child’s lawyer is Jewish, and Levi is Jew- From 1E decided that anyone who said such I mean, if it were not for my own fear of what Judge Graham might do to me, I'd point out that what Mr. Reed called Ms. Os- a thing, even in private, had to be punished. “I think he’s a tremendous person,” said board president ish. 4 William Camp, “but he blew it.” And this from Superintendent that what she did about it only proved his point. And the Ms. Osmonds of the world need to be Rudy Crew, who recommendedthe even if it comes from the politically unfashionable — before they become judges themselves and nobody gives them any constructive criticism atall. A similar but more serious case of the same disease showed up a few days later in the Sacramento (Calif.) City Unified School Dis- demotion: “What has been doneis now done. This is now over.” You wonder what wonderful lives Mr. Crew and Mr. Camp havelived, never to have even privately crossed the line that was drawn after the fact behind Mr. McGee's shoes. Or, for that matter, about the wonderful lives lived by all the people who came to the school board hearing on the matter and trict, where Adolphus McGee, a 25-year employee whohad risen to demanded Mr. McGee’s punishment. a position as administrator for special education, was demoted to a teaching position and cut off at the legs financially — a $20,000 a year As Mr. McGee’s lawyer pointed out to the board, the thing he said was in some way analogous to re- cut, which is a whole lot of money for somebody who has come up through the school system — for having been overheard making “anti-Semitic” remarks at an outof-town convention, marks made everywherein politically fashionable Sacramento after the not-guilty verdicts in the beating of Rodney King came in. That a jury that had included blacks would never have come in with “not guilty.” Specifically, Mr. McGee offered It is analogous to remarks made the opinion at a Lake Tahoe workshop that a February ruling by the everywhere in politically fashionable Sacramento after the Clarence U.S. District Judge David Levi, against the school district, that a developmentally disabled 9-year- Thomas hearings. That the all- old child should be enrolled in a regular classroom was an ethnic However wrong or right those opinions may be, it doesn’t seem to methat anybodyought to have to conspiracy, Gary Martinez, S. Ogden be afraid to express them. Particu-larly in a private setting. It’s the Fourth of July as I write Bob Vila this; the democracy is 216 years old. It’s not time to undoit yet. And the school board met and mond, essentially, was a punk, and called punks once in a while — La Petite Alan Hills, formerly of Layton Randy Travis Ann Sheridan ree rye white male panel was unfair to Anita Hill. 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