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Post by Drooperdoo on Jan 2, 2006 14:31:12 GMT -5
Italian-American character-actor Vincent Schiavelli recently died.  How come nobody ever noticed that he bore a scary resemblance to black song-and-dance man Gregory Hines?  P.S.--Find your own "celebrity-double" by submitting your photo to this new website: www.play-analogia.com/cgi-bin/index/u/ |
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Post by aroundtheworld on Jan 2, 2006 14:58:11 GMT -5
lol. I noticed that, too. Hines was a polished guy and a dancer so that was probably why.
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Post by aroundtheworld on Jan 2, 2006 15:08:09 GMT -5
Also, Snoop Dogg the rapper looks exactly like Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys Band.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Jan 2, 2006 15:37:00 GMT -5
Josh noticed this hilarious interracial double of actor Raul Julia. It was from a previous thread on Dominican singers. It's the guy in the upper right of the picture.   I thought that the other brother looked like that girl from the movie Dodgeball, who was supposed to be a mannish Eastern European lady-athlete:   |
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Post by Josh on Jan 2, 2006 17:29:16 GMT -5
Haha yes, racial doubles. Sorry that I still haven't sent you the picture of the Norwegian/Scottish/Irish science teacher at my school. When I am able to scan it, I'll post it here.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Jan 2, 2006 18:05:35 GMT -5
That site claimed I resembled either Bill (Chet) Paxton & Chris Klein...
Vincent Schiavelli ,big time character actor,shame he died..I liked his role in "Ghost",which was later ripped off in the Matrix sequel films.
A little slight trivial correction though,he was Sicilian,but it makes very little difference.
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Post by tonynatuzzi on Jan 2, 2006 18:11:24 GMT -5
Was he in other mainstream movies besides Ghost.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Jan 2, 2006 18:17:18 GMT -5
Loads of them..Clockwork Orange and Batman Returns to name 2 more off hand.
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Post by Drooperdoo on Jan 2, 2006 19:10:35 GMT -5
He was also in Academy-awar-winning films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and cult classics like Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
Crimson Guard,
You're right. He's Sicilian, not Italian. Schiavelli even lived in Sicily. He moved back with all the money he made in Hollywood.
Regarding the distinction between Sicilians and Italians, you're just being modest: I'm sure you know just how big a blunder it was for me to call him Italian and are being gentlemanly. In actual fact, the Sicilian language is radically different from Italian. I just read up on it on Wikipedia. I had no idea that Sicilian had more in common with Western Romance languages [like French and Spanish] than it did with Central Romance languages like Italian.
Sicilians are to Italians what Catalans are to Castilians. In fact, reading the Wikipedia article makes me think that Sicilians might be even further-removed. I already knew that Sicilians ended everything with "u," instead of "o". But I had no idea that they had they transliterated the double-L sound with two d's. In Italian the "gli" has the same value as the Catalan double-L; in Sicilian it's written using two d's. So the Italian word for handsome "bello" is written in Sicilian "beddu".
I mean, that's just one example--but Sicilian has a thousand others just like it.
We outsiders show our ignorance when we assume that, because they are united with Italy politically, that they're identical culturally or linguistically to their neighbors from the north.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Jan 2, 2006 19:24:52 GMT -5
LOL Droop! You might be right!  Sicilian also shares similarities with Romanian Language as they end in -u-,exactly the same you where talkign about up their. Sicilian was the common and original lingua-franca of Italy prior to them changing it to Tuckan later on during Dante's day. Sicilian is probably the oldest and purest mixing of Latin-Greek-Punic. |
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Post by blueskygod on Jan 2, 2006 19:33:21 GMT -5
did u know that abel xavier looks a bit like chewbaka
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Post by Mike the Jedi on Jan 2, 2006 19:39:14 GMT -5
did u know that abel xavier looks a bit like chewbaka lol  *wookiee bark* |
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Post by Crimson Guard on Jan 2, 2006 19:56:31 GMT -5
Droop ," One Flew Over the Cuckoo's " movie with the other half Sicilian Jack Nickolson was the one I meant up their, not a "A Clockwork Orange" . I always confuse those 2 for some odd reason.
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Post by blueskygod on Jan 2, 2006 19:59:14 GMT -5
oh god i triggered a star wars discussion. star wars sucks, except for the one with jabba the hut
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Post by blueskygod on Jan 2, 2006 19:59:48 GMT -5
where we first see him anyway where jabba has belly dancers in that main hall at his palace
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