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. ShellBell says:

    I’m going with Doug McClure too!

  2. Maria510maria says:

    Thank goodness! I thought I was the only one who wanted to see a RHG review of Sweet Seduction.

  3. Ximena Antunez de Mayolo says:

    I actually think that Megan’s Mate looks like James Van Der Beek of Dawson’s Creek fame. I think it is the forehead that does it.

  4. defmid6 says:

    Loving Jack – that’s Angie Harmon

  5. Izzy says:

    Dude on the cover of Megan’s Mate just screams “Ridge” from The Bold and the Beautiful to me. “Rick! Don’t do this to me, Rick! Rick!”

  6. Miss_Led says:

    I agree that:
    Ali McGraw loves Jack.
    Robert Wagner is Megan’s Mate.

  7. Miss_Led says:

    Fiery Heiress Meg Fairmont is Liz Taylor at 25.

  8. Kirsten Laurie says:

    I think Mary’s Mate is David Hasselhoff… If someone said that already, well there’s like a million comments. 

  9. PamG says:

    I’m late to the game but Her Ideal Man looks like Sigourney Weaver and Val Kilmer (in Willow) to me.  Sweet Seduction is completely Liz Taylor and Tyrone Power in his Zorro incarnation. As for the other two, I was too busy momming to pay attention to pop culture during that era.

    Si?
    http://image.toutlecine.com/ph…

    How about:
    http://www.tyrone-power.com/wa…

  10. Malfaou says:

    Megan’s mate is clearly Rupert Everett…

  11. Ellielu says:

    Gypsies and pirates! What a trope mash-up—which I guess makes it a trash-up….

    And, I’m with Barb—I’m totally getting Toni Tenille for Megan’s Mate.

  12. KellyM says:

    For Megan’s Mate, I’m going with Peter Gallagher and Geena Davis.

  13. MJ Fredrick says:

    Kelly LeBrock! Totally right!

  14. Laurie says:

    Hey, Angie Harmon with short hair!  I agree w/ the others who said Harry Hamlin for the 3rd guy.

  15. Erin says:

    Megan’s Mate is Thomas Hayden Church!  You know, the guy from that one show that I used to watch.  It was really good!

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