Last
time we did this, some of you might have felt that my comparison of David
Foster Wallace to the Karate Kid was a little forced. Well, just try to tell me
I’m stretching with this one. Young DFW and a young Ben Affleck:
Dark
hair, slim face, deep-set eyes, how about Joyce Carol Oates and "The Shining"-era Shelly Duvall?
Or
Hermann Hesse and the Nazi from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? (Insert your own Arian race joke here):
And
for an interesting twist, how about a writer that looks like another writer? I
give you Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner (cross reference with William
Faulkner and Dashiell Hammett). The only discernible difference between them is that one uses mustache wax, and the other uses a Flowbee:
Finally,
this will be seen as unkind, but I can only call them like I see them. I think
an aging Isak Dinesen, AKA Karen Blixen, is a dead ringer for Margaret
Hamilton, AKA the Wicked Witch of the West:
I’ll
get you, my pretty... at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
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