I just finished watching the first 3/4ths of 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice. Quite presentable. It gives me hope someone, someday, can make a two-hour version of Jane Eyre that presents the book as a three-part epic of morality instead of a love story.
One odd thing struck me. For at least an hour I tried to think of why the actor who played Darcy was so familiar. And then it struck me, without ever having met the gentleman, he was doing a dead-on impression of a co-worker. [Co-workers name withheld. -Ed. *] Uncanny how a British actor an ocean away could mimic every gesture and glance of a computer programmer in Saint Louis. This is not to say the programmer in question is proud, or prejudiced, or less than “amiable,” just that by some coincidence a stranger has managed to impersonate him.
Then, I recalled this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen. Remember my college boyfriend, Michael D______</a>? Want to get to know him? Rent Reds and pay careful attention to Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of Eugene O’Neill. Spooky.
This is on my mind because I have heard, on two entirely independent occasions, that there is something about Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada that reminds viewers of me. Now, in my twenties and thirties I heard I physically resembled Meryl Streep, at least in the opinion of drunk men in dark bars. It was only when I laughed, evidently, and when she appeared dowdy and brunette in the Dingo Ate My Baby movie, which I am sure has a name but I already have enough IMDB links in this post. At any rate, everyone now protests I don’t look at all like Meryl (ah, I age, she doesn’t) but there’s just something about her mannerisms in The Devil Wears Prada that remind them of me.
I doubt this is a good thing. I may have to dismiss these people with a wave of my hand.
*Snort of wild self-amusement.
4 responses to “Nature to Advantage Dressed”
10 points just for saying “The Dingo Ate My Baby.”Awesome.
While watching the Canadian TV show “Slings & Arrows” I couldn’t get past the nagging feeling that I *knew* the lead actor. I kept watching him more and more closely trying to figure out how I might know him, and I even looked up his IMDB page, but I still couldn’t figure out why I had this feeling. About a week or so after finishing the S&A series, I realized that the lead actor looked incredibly like a local actor-friend of mine. So much like him that they could be brothers, I swear!
Six degrees of separation, Queen M. When I was in my 20s, complete strangers would tell me I looked like Meryl Streep. (wierd Twilight Zone music here).
I snort with you.