Dead Celeb Soulmate
My friend Eve and I have had, for years, a game we call “My Dead Boyfriend.” They can change (identities, that is) but the short version is: unlike real men, they can’t break your heart, cheat on you, fight, take your money, or disagree. They never protest, and if your real relationship comes to an end, they’re right back, because they’re dead! Another great thing about “My Dead Boyfriend,” is that you can choose what era your dead boyfriend is from. For example, My Dead Boyfriend has, for years, been William Holden. Not Golden-Boy-young-years Holden, nor Network-haggard-Holden, but sexy, 1960s Euro-living Holden, when he made forgettable movies like ‘Paris When it Sizzles’ and had an affair with Capucine. Eve’s Dead Boyfriend was Vernon Castle (well, she was writing a book about the Castles) but I’m not sure if he’s still “The One.”
Anyway, it seems like the Biography Channel has heard about My Dead Boyfriend, because a friend sent me ‘Your Dead Celebrity Soulmate,’ from their site. You fill out a fun little quiz and voila! It generates three profiles for you. How fun!
Hmm, I’ve done it twice and I’ve gotten the same three: Leonardo DaVinci, Edgar Allan Poe, and Rudolf Valentino.
“vini_veggie-vinci“’s fill-in-the-blank-section: “Youth and beauty is sexy. Engineering a system by which one can deliver running water through an estate is sexier.” Celebrity he most resembles? Willie Nelson.
“Raven” says the celebrity he most resembles is “Harry Dean Stanton,” and that “madness is sexy, but melancholia is sexier.”
“Delicious Shiek” claims he was “the Brad Pitt of his day!” and he has an Irish Wolfhound named Centaur Pendragon and a Doberman named Kabar.
Ay-yi-yi! No William Holden in sight.
Monkey biz w/Bill.
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I’d like to go out for a nosh with Thelma Ritter.
Comment by Jim-Jim — August 13, 2007 @ 11:11 am
I got Lucrezia Borgia, Agatha Christie, and Frida. These ladies are too yummy to choose just one.
Comment by Brian — August 13, 2007 @ 11:23 am
Mata Hari. Catherine The Great. Cleopatra.
Yum.
Comment by actor212 — August 13, 2007 @ 11:25 am
Ha Ha Ha! Thats great.
Mine was Billy the Kid.
Comment by Kitty — August 13, 2007 @ 11:45 am
Mine was, is, and always will be… Gene Kelly…
And that website’s suggestions were ARSE!
Comment by Sheils — August 13, 2007 @ 12:46 pm
I’ve always had a major chubby for Mary Todd Lincoln.
Comment by Tim Simmons — August 13, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
That was fun!! I got Vincent Van Gogh!!
Comment by Molly — August 13, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
Leonardo DaVinci and Van Gogh for me. (My gawd…imagine the angst!)
Comment by Serena James — August 13, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
I was rejected by Vincent Van Gough, he thinks I am “too fun” I think he is jealous of my color sense.
Comment by Popsiclestick — August 13, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
HA! Valentino, Billy the Kid and Da Vinci! TWO Italians! Damn, I wish I got the Divine Edgar!
Comment by mavis — August 14, 2007 @ 6:16 am
I fail to see how this could be remotely accurate. I’d be more than happy with Joe Strummer, Cary Grant or Sherlock Holmes…instead I got Leonardo Da Vinci, naturally I admire his work, but he does little or nothing to turn me on….Edgar Allen Poe, who I’m naturally very interested in, but as it happens, I have my own little cloud of doom and gloom as a real time mate, and frankly enough is enough of that…..Henry the 8th….Hardly, although, I was intrigued by the offer of his former wifes wardrobes….but otherwise, what a slob….and certainly not for me!
Comment by Jan — August 14, 2007 @ 7:15 am
Hmmm. I got da Vinci, Henry VIII, and Van Gogh.
I was hoping for Vernon Castle, Lowell Sherman, or John Gilbert . . .
Comment by Eve — August 14, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
I got Billy the Kid, Henry the VIII, and Pancho Villa??????!!!!!!
Comment by Wiggy — August 16, 2007 @ 5:18 am
[...] From “Paris When It Sizzles” - my favorite Bill Holden* era. *aka “my dead boyfriend.” [...]
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