Stars in Cafes

In response to a comment about the Dancing Ladies entry- yes that was Emily Mortimer at my local cafe! I checked around a bit and read that she did indeed move to my part of Brooklyn in 2006.

She looks so much like herself on screen that I kept second-guessing my keen sense of celebrity identification. That reminds me of a similar situation with Henry Fonda's character in the movie "Lady Eve." When Eve, a con artist that he met on a cruise liner, showed up at his house, he didn't believe it was her because she looked exactly the same:

If she came here with her hair dyed yellow and eyebrows different or something...But she didn't dye her hair and she didn't pretend she'd never seen me before which is the first thing that anybody'd do. She says I look familiar...If she didn't look so exactly like the other girl, I might be suspicious, but you don't understand psychology. If you wanted to pretend you were somebody else, you'd glue a muff on your chin and the dog wouldn't even bark at ya.
(I grabbed this quote from http://www.filmsite.org.)

If this teaches me anything, it is to trust my celebrity spotting instincts. Although I would much prefer some kind of useful instinct, like somehow knowing how to unlock a safe, deliver a baby, revive a cardiac patient, disarm an armed attacker, hear sharks from 3 miles away, smell E-Coli in picnic baskets, etc.