Celebri-Twins

Fatman-in-a-hat mainstay Dom Deluise passed away yesterday. He was 75.

He was also one of those guys who looks exactly like another celebrity. In his case, he was a dead ringer (no pun intended) for Chef Paul Prudhomme, the Cajun guy who used to wheel around on a Jazzy shouting, "I guaaaaraaaantee!" Or maybe that was Justin Wilson's line. Anyway, now Paul won't be so easy to confuse with Dom Deluise, since a) Dom has left the building and b) evidently Paul has slimmed down quite a bit.

What was the deal with Dom, anyway? He was famous, but really the only things I know about him are that he was friends with Burt Reynolds and his kid was the least-sexy cast member of "21 Jump Street".

Dom and Paul are but one celebrity pair I tend to confuse with one another. Other examples include: John Fogarty and Harrison Ford, Samuel L. Jackson and Larry Fishburne and Nick Nolte and Gary Busey.

RIP, Dom.