I’m on a business trip. I check in after dark, and I’m hungry, so I grab a sandwich in the hotel bar, and there’s a guy at the bar wearing sunglasses and watching the playoffs. You can’t not notice this guy, and, finally, the young woman behind the counter goes:
“Has anyone ever told you look like Jack Nicholson?”
It definitely isn’t Jack Nicholson, and he doesn’t really look like Jack Nicholson, but he looks like a guy who’s maybe trying to look like Jack Nicholson. Another hotel employee comes over.
“You’re standing next to someone famous! Don’t you think he looks like Jack Nicholson?”
“Jack” says something I can’t hear. I think he’s doing a Jack Nicholson impression. Whatever he says, the woman behind the bar laughs. Then, another guy walks up and climbs onto the stool next to “Jack.” This guy’s striking, too, but in a different way. He’s maybe 5 feet tall and rumpled-looking, with wild black hair.
The woman behind the counter says to him, “You’re sitting next to someone famous! Don’t you think he looks like Jack Nicholson? Hey, you look someone, too. You know, that guy who was in that movie?”
She means Danny DeVito. He kind of looked like Danny DeVito — not in the face, so much, but sort of overall. Specifically, the character he played years ago on “Taxi.”
So, on a random night at a random hotel, “Jack Nicholson” is hanging out with “Danny DeVito,” watching the playoffs, and I’m eating a sandwich, and I wonder, do these guys know each other? Is there some kind of celebrity-lookalike convention at the hotel that I don’t know about? Is this the cast of a dinner-theater production of “Hoffa”?
The young woman behind the counter keeps stopping passersby and telling them how much the first guy looks like Jack Nicholson and how much the other guy looks like that guy who was in that movie, oh, you know, that movie?
I can’t tell if “Jack” and “Danny” are enjoying the attention, but they apparently don’t mind, because they don’t leave.
I finish my sandwich and head up to the room. This is weird.
Haha I like this, well written!
Thanks.
Funny! I would be annoyed at that girl. Of course, I’m not one to draw attention to myself, like wearing sunglasses inside a darkish bar.
She wouldn’t stop talking about it! That’s what was so funny. She was genuinely excited to see a couple of guys who sort of looked like a couple of famous guys.
We think alike. (I’m sorry if that alarms you.) As I read this, I imagined they were playing a game or making someone’s birthday wish come true or something. Did you notice anyone who sort of looked like Ashton Kutcher?
If someone’s birthday wish is to run into someone who sort of looks like Jack Nicholson and that guy who was in that movie, then she needs to start dreaming bigger.
I was thinking it was a guy’s wish to be mistaken for Jack Nicholson. I don’t understand that, either.
Ok, you almost made me spew liquid out of my nose with that comment. It’s just water, but still…
Excuse me, aren’t you Todd Pack?
No, but I play him on TV.
Hotel bar experiences tend to be weird!
That’s one of things we really ought to tell graduating high school seniors.
Oh my god . . . . I can’t believe you were in the same bar with a woman who thought two random men looked just like Jack Nicholson and what’s his face!!! Wow, this is uncanny.
My vote is for celebrity look alike contest. Or Halloween party?
I was really hoping for a dinner-theater production of Hoffa. (Nicholason starred in the movie; DeVito co-starred and directed.)
I am regularlly told I sound like Garrison Keillor when I talk. The other night at Whole Foods in Seattle the clerks all gatherd to hear me say “Well it’s been a quiet week in Everett, my hometown. You betcha, Everett Washington, gateway to Seattle!”
Wouldn’t you have been surprised if “Jack” had told the woman behind the counter “You can’t handle the truth!”
I leave Monday on business I will now be looking for “famous” people while in the lounge.
If you see any, be sure to tell everyone else in the lounge about it!
And maybe I’ll see my antics profiled on WordPress.