For most people, there is some celebrity that people have told them they look like more often than others. Maybe that's not true. Maybe for most people, nobody ever tells them they look like a celebrity.
In any case, The Star Estimator can help! Upload a snapshot of yourself and it will spit out the three celebrities you most resemble. That's the idea, anyway.
It's an interesting excercise in face-recognition software, and blah blah blah, but more importantly, it's about celebrities and your possible quasi relationship to them, and theirs to you.
I did it three times, with three different recent pictures. Results below.
I'm drunk in this photo -- taken last year at Liz's 30th birthday party in New York -- so Nick Cage and Gary Oldman make sense. (I have no idea if they're drinkers, but they seem like total boozers.) Dreyfuss? I hear his voice on TV commercials all the time these days.
This picture is from Erik's wedding in Alaska. I have longer hair and a surprised expression, but otherwise I think the two are pretty similar. So why Alec Baldwin from like 30 years ago? Who knows.
And who the hell is uni-browed Zinedine Zidane?
Ah-ha. He is apparently a big-time French soccer player. My mother is French, so maybe it picked up on my Frenchitude.
The last photo was taken just now, specifically for this purpose. I tried to look directly straight-on into the camera as the site says to do. It's interesting that this is the only one to yield any black guys, and any Val Kilmers.
I've never been compared to any of these celebrities before. The most common one I've gotten over the years is Keifer Southerland, and for a time a while back I got a few Brad Pitts (ha!). Those are of course only the ones people told me to my face. There is of course a chance people have been saying I look like John Goodman behind my back -- he came up when I ran the second photo again.
Perhaps more research into this little tool is warranted. Who do you look like?
