Covers That Make You Go, “Hey! That Looks Like…” Part Deux

Time for another round of, “Hey! That Looks Like…” where the cover models look like someone and usually it makes me insane that I can't idenitfy who it is. Familiarity is such a tease. 

Loving Jack by Nora Roberts - two people in a speed boat, and the chick looks like Angie Harmon from Law & Order

Putting aside the fact that her hair is a windswept mess while his hair is perfect (what's he got on his head, a half bottle of Dippity Do?), doesn't it look like Marv Albert is getting to second base with Angie Harmon on that cover?

 

Her Ideal Man by Ruth Wind - long haired guy with dark roots who looks exactly like Brad Pitt nuzzling the jugular of this chick who looks familiar but I can't figure out who she is.

 

Clearly her ideal man is Brad Pitt. I suspect she's not alone in that, though he needs to touch up his roots. 

She looks like someone, too. Carol Alt? It's hard to tell since she's all chin, lips and jugular.

 

 

Ok, you need to give me a hand with this one. Who does Megan's Mate look like? (I assume she's Megan. I could be wrong). Seriously, I've been staring at it for about twenty minutes straight, and I can't figure it out. I thought maybe someone I'd seen on an 80s sitcom or soap opera, but a search of the shows I used to watch yielded bupkus. 

I do love that their blazers match, though. That's adorable. Without reading the back cover, I'm guessing they are tour guides, only he's more popular because he looks like that guy. You know – that guy. So people follow him around staring at him, trying to figure out who he looks like. 

 

Now this isn't a “That Looks Like…” cover, but I've been cleaning out my office bookshelves and found this lovely cover that just combines all the old-skool wtfery so nicely. I had to share! 

Sweet Seduction by Patricia Pellicane. He's holding onto a rope on board a ship, but flowers are exploding under him, and a seagull is about to crap on his shoulder from mid-air.

 

This guy's Facebook update: “I was buckling my swash on board when flowers exploded on deck and a bird crapped on me before I could get my shirt back on. FML.”

 

The back is also awesome: 

The back cover text is insane - Gypsies! Heiresses! Honeyed mouth, insistent caresses! - plus he's about to set fire to her in the picture.

 

Her Facebook update: “Ladies, watch out. Avoid 'Sweet Wild Enchantment Man' on OKCupid. Not only did he abduct me from my family's gypsy camp, subject me to insistent caresses, call me a shameless temptress AND make me cry, he ALSO set fire to my dress and expected me not to notice! Worst first date ever.”

 

 

 

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  1. AmyP. says:

    That was my first thought too!!!  Totally Colin Farrell !!

  2. Kmgevans says:

    I’m kind of seeing Amy Yasbeck asthe cover model for Megan’s Mate. Maybe it’s the red hair.

  3. Madeline Iva says:

    If you look closely, the woman on the cover of the Nora Roberts book is clearly wearing a toupee.

  4. Madeline Iva says:

    And Megan’s Mate is Harry Hamlin from the 80’s.

  5. Barb in Maryland says:

    Book 1-Loving Jack looks like Ali McGraw and Michael Nouri to me.
    Add me to the Melanie Griffith school for Megan and I do believe Harry Hamlin, but I could go with Robert Wagner.
    As for Miss Swan-neck on the second book—my first thought was Toni Tenille (of the Captain and Tenille music group).  But Michelle Pfeiffer works as well.

  6. I think Mystery Dude looks like a skeevy Peter Gallagher.

    However what I *really* think is that Sweet Seduction was waved as RHG bait.  AND IT WORKED. 

  7. laj says:

    The first looks like the girl in Cocoon, Raquel Welch’s daughter and the guy looks like the fellow in Dharma and Greg.
    The women on the second cover looks like Fran Drescher.
    I agree with the Liz Taylor and Lauren Tewes comments.
    Harry Hamlin too.

  8. GHN says:

    The person with the orange shirt on the “Loving Jack” cover reminds me a bit of a young Michael Fox. But who is the other dude?

  9. Megan’s Mate reminds me of Robert Wagner in his heyday

  10. Whiteangil99 says:

    Megan’s Mate looks like Peter Bergman from the Young and the Restless and my Ken doll for the 1990s.

  11. Kate4queen says:

    Definitely Doug McLure (I had a crush on him in the Virginian)

  12. DreadPirateRachel says:

    Megan’s Mate very much reminds me of David Boreanaz of Angel and Bones.

  13. henofthewoods says:

    I see Mark Wahlberg in Megan’s Mate.
    http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com…
    http://static.tvtropes.org/pmw…
    But maybe he just looks like “American standard of male beauty”?

  14. Cathy Y. says:

    I was thinking Megan’s Mate looks like the girl from the ZZ Top video “Legs.”  Which then immediately made me feel ancient.

  15. Allmyjunk76 says:

    Megan looks Lina Geena Davis.

  16. Tania Marshall says:

    Another vote for Robert Wagner for Megan’s Mate

  17. Devon says:

    Megan’s Mate looks like David Hasslehoff to me!

  18. runswithscissors says:

    Yes!  Absolutely – there’s a picture on Michael C Hall’s wikipedia page where he has long hair … Dead! Ringer! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…

     

  19. Faellie says:

    Halle Berry is Loving Jack, Katharine Hepburn has Brad Pitt as her Ideal Man and the young Roger Moore (think The Saint) is Calhoon.

  20. Cheryl says:

    I’m another who immediately thought “Megan’s Mate” was Harry Hamlin.

    The woman on the “Loving Jack” reminded me of Amanda Bearse, who played Marcy on “Married with Children” and the woman in the second cover screams Vanessa Williams to me.

  21. Shannyn Schroeder says:

    I agree, Megan’s mate totally looks like Harry Hamlin.

  22. Sandypo says:

    Does nobody else see a young Elizabeth Taylor in the Sweet Seduction cover? And I agree, Megan’s Mate looks like a young Geena Davis and I actually was friends with her in college so I know what she looked like at 19 and that’s pretty close!

  23. Beggar1015 says:

    I agree that Her Ideal Man looks more like Colin Farrel from the side. I’m going to go crazy here and say there’s something about the woman from Loving Jack – her mouth and chin – that make me think of that Elise woman from History Detectives.

    And I’m woman enough to admit I actually read Sweet Seduction.

  24. Julie says:

    Megan’s Mate looks like Harry Hamlin to me…

  25. rebecca moe says:

    Ditto Harry Hamlin from LA Law—he came to mind right away.

  26. The woman from Her Ideal Man looks like Vanessa Williams!

  27. Cynthia D"Alba says:

    I have no new names to add but had to comment to Sarah Mayberry…You made me laugh so hard, it woke up my dogs!

  28. LaVerne Clark says:

    Definitely Dexter! I think its the heavy brow 🙂

  29. I knew she looked familiar.  I used to watch AMC in the 90s too and that is totally Brooke.  The guy in that one reminds me a bit of Tuc Watkins (David Vickers from One Life to Live) with a little Pierce Brosnan thrown in for good measure.

  30. MissMonky says:

    Oh he’s Harry Hamlin for sure!  Look at those squinty eyes and that chin. Definitely HH

  31. Susan F. says:

    For the “Ideal” cover, I see Vanessa Williams.  Harry Hamlin came to mind immediately for “Megan’s Mate.”

  32. janira Gonzalez says:

    I think “Her Ideal Man” looks like Colin Farrell.

  33. Billie says:

    The woman with Brad Pitt look like Lonnie Anderson to me.

  34. aphasia says:

    I think the first two guys are totally Matthew Mcconaughey and Chris Hemsworth, personally.

  35. PamG says:

    Yup to Liz Taylor!

  36. I think Megan’s Mate sort of looks like the guy who played Jefferson on that show.

  37. Janet Mullany says:

    The Loving Jack babe is Rita Moreno borrowed from West Side Story to give a bit of diversity.

  38. The Other Susan says:

    The FB updates made me laugh so hard I scared the dog.  Thanks, Sarah!

  39. kimi romance junkie says:

    The Brad Pitt guy is really Dustin Clare, who plays Gannicus on the Spartacus series on Starz.  Check it:

    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm19…

  40. Megan’s Mate = Rob Lowe and Melanie Griffith

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