१४ मार्च, २०१३

Pope Francis looks like...



... Ed Wynn!



A lovable face, I think. Something very sweet about it. Ed Wynn's real name was Isaiah Edwin Leopold. He made the middle name — we're told — into his whole name "to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative." You may remember him from the "Twilight Zone" episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" — about an old man who believed he would die if his clock stopped. Can you remember whether the clock stops and, if so, whether the man dies?

४६ टिप्पण्या:

अनामित म्हणाले...

Personally, I'm leaning in favor of the "Pop Pop/Pope Pope" doppelganger theory.
http://imgur.com/4rhg7GY

Bob Ellison म्हणाले...

Francis looks a little like a thin Ed Asner.

m stone म्हणाले...

Cue the stream of Catholic jokes...

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Francis seems to connect well with people. That is a talent that his critics cannot hide. It will do the Church good for their shepherd get good will from the sheep.

Strelnikov म्हणाले...

Why do all the popes look Jewish?

Strelnikov म्हणाले...

Maybe they really are the descendants of Peter.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

According to this, yes and No.

sakredkow म्हणाले...

He had a dramatic role in The Diary of Anne Frank.

sakredkow म्हणाले...

Ed Wynn. Not Francis.

Emil Blatz म्हणाले...

Since Ed Wynn and Bernie Madoff were dead-ringers, what are we saying here?

Eric the Fruit Bat म्हणाले...

In the commuter train of my mind, Ed Wynn always sits next to Jack Gilford.

I don't know why.

Rumpletweezer म्हणाले...

What about "One for the Angels," in which Ed Wynn played a pitchman who made a deal with death?

Bilwick म्हणाले...

In that photo, I can see the resemblance. The first time I saw the new pope on tv, however, I thought he resembled the architect Philip Johnson.

Bilwick म्हणाले...

In that photo, I can see the resemblance. The first time I saw the new pope on tv, however, I thought he resembled the architect Philip Johnson.

MB म्हणाले...

"I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith"

Paco Wové म्हणाले...

"about an old man who believed he would die if his clock stopped."

Let me guess: he's already dead!

Or he's having a dream while on an airplane flight where a gremlin is ripping parts out of the engine, on his way to a doctor who will operate on him to make his beautiful face hideous to match all the hideous creatures around him, but the airplane flies into this strange white cloud and when it comes out everybody's disappeared, or it's all dinosaurs or something.

SteveR म्हणाले...

"Good night Mrs Calabash, wherever you are"

John Salmon म्हणाले...

Let me guess...he's already dead!


Yup...taht's how it usually worked on TTZ. The classic "they're already dead" episode was with the delectable Inger Stevens, who looked better than 99.9% of the living women you meet. Just sayin'.

Crunchy Frog म्हणाले...

Looks more like Anthony Hopkins' ventriloquist dummy Fats from the movie "Magic".

But maybe that's just me.

edutcher म्हणाले...

If I say it, I'll get yelled at...

tiger म्हणाले...

I remember him from 'Babes in Toyland' and from an interview with his son and fellow actor Keneen Winn who said his father was a Grade 'A' POS.

Funny how it works that so many entertainers' public personna doesn't match their private lives:

Bing Crosby's kids hated him

Johnny Carson was shiatty husband (4 TIMES!) and a lousy father

Bob Hope farked any woman that gave him half a chance and was a lousy father too.

Henry Fonda was a bad dad.

And these are three that come immediately to mind. I'm positive there are many other examples.

Icepick म्हणाले...

I think he looks more like Uncle Junior from The Sopranos.

Icepick म्हणाले...

And the Uncle Junior thing has me thinking of the best line from the series:

"Cunnilingus and psychotherapy have brought us to this."

edutcher म्हणाले...

tiger said...

Henry Fonda was a bad dad.

If you're going by Peter's impressions, Easy Rider was wrong about a lot of that, it turned out.

Kensington म्हणाले...

All the liberals on Facebook tell me he looks like Evil Incarnate since he's not a gay rights activist.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Looks more like Anthony Hopkins' ventriloquist dummy Fats from the movie "Magic".

Fats looks like Anne Hathaway.

Geoff Matthews म्हणाले...

Sam Forstmann is an old man who thinks he will die if his grandfather clock stops ticking. He spends all of his time working on the clock, upsetting his family with his obsession. He speaks with a psychiatrist and reveals his fear. The psychiatrist advises him to sell the clock, which he does, but offers to maintain it for the new owners. Two weeks after he sells the clock, the new owners go on vacation for the weekend, so Sam cannot wind the clock. The clock stops, so he is forced to confront his fear of death (and his "spirit," informing him "It's time to go"). He chooses to stop believing in the clock's "power," declaring instead that he wants to live to see his great-grandchild grow up- so he therefore continues to live (and the "spirit" vanishes). As he tells his expectant granddaughter, "When that clock died, I was born again."

Geoff Matthews म्हणाले...

Uh, spoiler.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Jonathan Pryce with glasses!

PianoLessons म्हणाले...

When I am down and out, sometimes I You Tube Ed Wynn in "Mary Poppins" singing : I Love to Laugh".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC5r-MxvsoY

Sigh. Somehow this makes me feel good about the new Pope :-)

Thanks for making the connection.

Fandor म्हणाले...

Pope Francis is a dead ringer of S the late Sir Alec Guinness...pull up a picture of him a George Smiley or some of his later roles or publicity pics. Same look and smile...

Unknown म्हणाले...

Something about his face reminds me of my dad. Wise, yet slightly goofy. I'll bet he has a sense of humor.

Lucien म्हणाले...

SUre, it all seems like fun now, but wait until Francis I starts in with the beatification of Diego Maradonna.

Baron Zemo म्हणाले...

I don't know who he looks like but I like what he said about the conclave: "It ain't over till it's over, amigo."

MaggotAtBroad&Wall म्हणाले...

I knew yesterday when I saw him he looked like someone, but I couldn't figure out who. Then when I saw the picture with this post it came to me. It's Yogi Berra:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1421045

MaggotAtBroad&Wall म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
अनामित म्हणाले...

Aw. He looks nice. I like him.

Mr. D म्हणाले...

I think he looks a little like Phil Silvers.

DADvocate म्हणाले...

According to this song:

But it stopp'd short — never to go again —
When the old man died.


Not the other way around.

(I've seen the episode more than once but don't remember the ending. I've more important things to remember, like the words retromingent and harridan.

heyboom म्हणाले...

@Geoff Matthews

Is there a statute of limitations on spoiler alerts?

Icepick म्हणाले...

Is there a statute of limitations on spoiler alerts?

Bruce Willis's character is really dead.

Faye Dunaway is Belinda Palmer's sister AND her mother.

The killer is Anthony Perkins in drag, and his mom is a desiccated corpse.

The bird's a fake, and Bogie is going to turn Mary Astor over to the police.

Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable do NOT live happily ever after.

And the butler did it.

heyboom म्हणाले...

Thanks, Icepick. You just ruined almost 75 years of movie watching for me!

ken in tx म्हणाले...

Most people don't know who Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Henry Fonda are. Get on the geezer bus.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Most people don't know who Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Henry Fonda are. Get on the geezer bus.

Road to Vatican City!

Michael K म्हणाले...

THis is why I like Francis I more the more I learn about him.

From George Weigel:

The progressives then tried to advance Cardinal Bergoglio — who was very much part of the pro-Ratzinger coalition; who embodied “dynamic orthodoxy,” just like John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger; who had been persecuted by his more theologically and politically left-leaning Jesuit brethren after his term as Jesuit provincial in Argentina (they exiled him to northern Argentina, where he taught high-school chemistry until rescued by John Paul II and eventually made archbishop of Buenos Aires); and who was doubtless appalled by the whole exercise on his putative behalf.

SteveBrooklineMA म्हणाले...

True fans remember Ed Wynn from two Twilight Zone episodes, and they remember the endings to both.

On a related note, Twilight Zone's "lost episode" is playing on Netflix.

http://www.actionfigureuniverse.com/twilightzones05e151.html