Everyone knows about Andy Warhol's everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes principle--or at least they know the concept and that someone said it in the past. I heard a reference to it this morning on CNN about the 13-year-old kid who yawned his way through a Bush stump speech. And, while Warhol was famous for his pop art, it's really this principle he'll be famous for much longer. Such is the afterlife of the famously weird.

Nowadays, there are so many "famous" people, everyone looks like someone famous. Everyone has a celebrity doppelganger. We look at celebrities so much, it's hard not to see similarities between the famous and the regular.

I've been compared to a couple of celebrities in the past. Back when I had long hair, one of my girlfriends thought I looked like Brad Pitt (who was sporting the long-haired Kurt Cobain look for Interview With A Vampire). I think it was more that I had long hair, and she thought I was pretty. And Brad Pitt was the prettiest guy celebrity you could have thought up back then. A few years later, my hair was short and darker (my hair bleaches out, especially as it gets longer), so I was no longer Brad Pitt. I was Edward Norton. Which, when taken in context with Fight Club, makes almost perfect sense.

My fellow columnist Chris Jungle has been favorably compared to Russell Crowe (for Crowe's looks, not his penchant for fighting) over the last few years. This, however, has not helped him much with the ladies. Maybe he should try the drunken fighting thing--girls like bad boys.

Looking kind of like a celebrity isn't like being a celebrity impersonator (who tries really hard to be exactly like a celebrity in as many ways a possible--including performance). Really it's putting someone's looks in context with someone immediately identifiable to a lot of people. You can say someone looks "hot," but that doesn't mean anything specific to a regular person. If you say they look like Britney Spears, for example, most people know what this means. Of course, when they finally meet the person you are comparing to Britney, they will inevitably disagree and offer up another celebrity comparison.

One of the girls I work with looks like Naomi Watts, as well as Sarah Michelle Gellar. Which is saying a few things. One is that Naomi Watts and Sarah Michelle Gellar look similar. My opinion goes back and forth depending on how my co-worker wears her hair. Hair pulled back: Sarah Michelle Gellar. Hair down: Naomi Watts. I watched 21 Grams a few days ago and the comparisons were rather striking. The fact that Ms. Watts tends to be naked in a lot of her flicks (21 Grams is not an exception to this) leads to thoughts that would border on sexual harassment except for this: I'm not watching my co-worker naked, I'm watching Naomi Watts naked. Which is okay, I think.

Another co-worker looks a lot like an old friend of mine. I didn't realize this until I saw a film my old friend made a few years back. Now, my old friend isn't famous. She just happened to be in a rather funny indie film called Post Concussion about a guy struggling to get through a life changing accident that gave him serious head trauma. My old friend plays the potential girlfriend of the protagonist. So this isn't really a case of being a celebrity doppelganger, but since the resemblance presented itself in the same way (I was watching a film and saw the similarity) as the celebrity phenomenon, I have to count it.

Most of the time, the resemblance is merely physical. Voices are rarely the same. And with someone like Naomi Watts, who plays an American most of the time even though she's Australian, it's hard to pinpoint a vocal type. I realized just a few days ago that Jennifer Garner's voice and face were rather similar to another co-worker, but the hair and body type was completely wrong. I was watching the trailer for Garner's upcoming movie called 13 Going On 30, which looks like a girl version of Big. Even creepier, it seems to say it's OK to lust after a 13 year old, if the 13 year old is being played by a 30 year old. And a similar joke is made in the trailer for the movie. Is this like legalized pedophilia?

At a faux Irish pub chain on Friday, a girl walked in looking like she was trying really hard to look like Jennifer Lopez. Not the pre-surgery Lopez (as witnessed on "In Living Color" or in the movie Selena), but the one who showed up shaking her ass when her first CD came out. On MTV, a new series features people who are so obsessed with looking like certain celebrities, they get plastic surgery to make them look EVEN MORE like someone else.

This seems like going too far. I think it's fine to compare people to famous people (it's a point of reference, a place to start, so to speak), but why would you really want to look like someone else? Why do you want to be an impersonator? Why do people play in cover bands? And American Idol is just wrong--even though it's actually about being good at Karaoke, rather than looking like someone else. Karaoke itself is just sad--I guess because it's not nationally televised.

When it comes down to it, though, the whole celebrity doppelganger thing is just a footnote in regular people's lives. They aren't mistaken for the celebrity, they merely look similar. Sometimes people might do a double take, but usually not. It's really just party conversation.

Matt Worley recently meet a girl who looked like Hillary Duff, but, y'know, of legal age.