Okay, so I’m totally convinced that Person X would tend to think individuals that belong to Ethnic Group 1 “all look alike” if and only Person X doesn’t really know many people who belong to Ethnic Group 1.
It’s like eating vegetables.
If Person X never really eats a lot of vegetables, Person X’s palette might not have the ability to distinguish the nuanced flavors of mustard greens, spinach, collard greens, cabbage, arugula, etc. Person X might think that the aforementioned “all taste the same” because, well, Person X is ignorant as in “lacking knowledge” about his or her veggies.
Random website: a Japanese American coworker showed me this website. (It was created by a man who rightfully grew irriated when stupid people claimed Asians “all look the same.”)
Okay, so here’s where I’m going with all of this …
White people.
I would never venture to say that white people all look the same or that any persons from any ethnic group all look the same. At the same time, has anyone noticed that Skeet Ulrich and Billy Crudup sure look very very similar to each other?
I keep confusing them.
You see, Houston and I are going to see the Pillowman (second date) and several friends ask me about the play.
“It’s got the guy from Scream in it,” I say. “Remember … ‘Everybody dies except for us. We get carried on to the sequel. Cuz in these days, you gotta have a sequel baby!’”
“Actually, that’s Skeet Ulrich.”
“Huh?”
“Skeet Ulrich was in Scream.”
“Who the hell is Skeet Ulrich?”
“The guy from Scream”
“Well then who the hell is Billy Crudup?”
“I don’t know, but I know the guy from Scream is Skeet Ulrich.”
“Well who’s the guy that recently dumped his girlfriend, when she was like 9-months pregnant with his child, to start dating Clare Danes? I thought that was Billy Crudup.”
“I don’t know … Did that really happen? That’s awful.”
“Yeah and I thought that was Billy Crudup; the crossover film/theater guy who was in Scream.”
“SKEET ULRICH was in Scream.”
Anway, so now that I’m confused, I consult the internet bible: Google.
Let’s begin. From the bible, we clearly know that Tom Cruise, for example, is not Johnny Depp. We know this because: (1) we’ve seen their faces enough to clearly distinguish that one doesn’t look exactly like the other and (2) if you Image Google “Tom Cruise” “Johnny Depp” you get images of both actors together in your search results.
Interestingly enough, if you Image Google “Skeet Ulrich” “Billy Crudup” you get nada … as in not a damn thing. So, really, how can we all be 100% sure that they are not the same guy?
Here’s more …
Fact #1:
Billy Crudup was in Big Fish on celluloid and in the Pillowman on Broadway.
Fact #2:
Skeet Ulrich was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Scream on celluloid as well as random off-off-Broadway stuff.
Fact #3:
Billy Crudup and Skeet Ulrich have never been in the same movie, the same play, nor the same place at the same time.
Fact #4:
Billy Crudup, after signing hundreds of autographs in Corn Palace, South Dakota, realized that the autograph-seekers all thought that he was Skeet Ulrich.
Fact#5:
Billy Crudup is Skeet Ulrich.
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You probably know this by know, but Billy Cudrup and Skeet Ulrich are in fact to different people. Skeet Ulrich did Scream, and not much after that. Billy Cudrup did Big Fish and dumpled Mary-Louise Parker for Claire Danes when she was pregnant.
I had an affair with that guy (Skeet) and was watching Beauty Stage with Billy Crudup in it while at his place. He sure would have let me known if it had been HIM in the movie.
;-)
PS: one more proof: Billy is the way better actor. Bitter? No, just honest.;-)
Skeet’s the better actor and a younger, taller, more articulate version of Johnny Depp. Crudup is a skeez.