lookalikes: Don Schlitten and Mathieu Amalric

[AllenLowe]

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Edited April 21, 2011 by AllenLowe

[brownie]

Mathieu says: 'Allen, you need to change your eyeglasses!'

[brownie]

try this one; add or subtract a mustache -

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...and a lot of imagination!

[JSngry]

That's Chick Corea w/o his glasses, right?

[Larry Kart]

I think he looks a bit like Catherine Deneuve, who did memorably play his mother in Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale."

[JSngry]

That's Chick Corea w/o his glasses, right?

you're getting warmer -

Chick Corea wearing contacts?

[jlhoots]

Looks like a young Roman Polanski to me.

[JSngry]

Chick Corea wearing a young Roman Polanski? The other way around?

Where does Don Schlitten enter into this anyway? There's a distinct lack of exclamation points!!!

[JSngry]

Don Schlitten is Chick Corea's brother? I've long suspected as much.

[AllenLowe]

anybody out there? Now, I haven't laid eyes on Don since about 1976 - but that's what he looked like then - these guys could be twins (Don and Amalric, I mean).

it's driving me nuts because it's so clear, but I searched all over the internet and there's only that one stupid pic of Schlitten - must be another somewhere - anybody out there have one?

[JSngry]

Here's one of his brother:

[Quasimado]

Jesus, you asked for this Allen, and JSngry's on a roll ...

Q

[JSngry]

Ok, here is Don Schlitten:

And here is his brother, Chick Corea:

Mystery solved!

[AllenLowe]

not sure it's so much a roll as it is a downhill spiral....

[JSngry]

Chick still does some good work, so "downhill spiral" might be a bit rash, but yeah, he'd definitely done better if Don Schlitten had been producing him all these years, I do believe, if for no reason than that there would be more exclamation marks.

Then again, Schlitten's put all his money in the Mathuey Amalric basket, and who can blame him? Producing movies is a much more sure investment than is producing jazz records, especially when it's your brother.

[AllenLowe]

Schlitten = Amalric

[JSngry]

Exactly. W/O Schlitten's massive financial backing of his films, where would Amalric be today? I doubt he's have all those endorsement deals, that's for sure.

OTOH, you gotta wonder about a guy who won't invest a dime in his own brother's recordings. Then again, family matters get complicated. Or maybe it's the other way around, maybe Chick ain't down with La Cinéma Francais & don't want his brother's stinkin' money, thank you beaucoup!

Stuff happens, ya' know.

[AllenLowe]

my wife just came over (and she generally thinks I'm crazy so she's pretty objective here) and I showed her both pics -

and she said: "They look exactly alike."

Edited April 21, 2011 by AllenLowe

[JSngry]

And they do!

Chick & Don side by side

photo taken by Chick's French nephew Matt Almanac