"...Of All The News Sites, In All The World, They Have To Post This Crap On Mine...."

Apparently, contemporary media's favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.

Because they seem to have a knack for presenting bones to pick.

To wit...


If you look closely, you can see the resemblance Elettra Wiedemann bears to her screen legend grandmother, the late Ingrid Bergman. The gene pool doesn't fall far from the tree in this case: Wiedemann is the daughter of Isabella Rossellini -- who also bears an uncanny resemblance to her famous, Oscar-winning mother.

Unlike Rossellini and Bergman, Wiedemann isn't an actress. (So any ideas that she could take on her grandmother's role as Ilsa in a remake of "Casablanca" are a bit pie-in-the-sky.) But that doesn't bar Wiedemann's genetic propensities from explaining her career path. You see, both of her parents met on a Calvin Klein photo shoot in the early '80s. (Rossellini has both modeled and acted.) And Wiedemann has followed in their footsteps, having graced the pages of Vogue as well as served as a spokesmodel for Lancôme.


Here's the side by side picture this yahoo on Yahoo offered up as support of similiarity.

Now, I'm no Abby Scuito, but I don't think you have to be a goth forensic scientist to see that this girl doesn't look at all like her famous grandmother.

In fact, from my side of the retinas, if you imagine the young lady with darker hair and squint just a teeny tiny, I think you'll see who I see.

Kristen Stewart.

Meanwhile, if you look at a picture of Widermann's mom, Isabella Rossellini, you'll see what everyone has always seen.

A pretty poignant resemblance to her famous mom.

Ingrid Bergman.

Admittedly, this ridiculous assertion of alikeness, the ridiculous article written about it and, in fairness, the time that I have wasted telling you about it, doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the crazy world.

But I can't help but feel the insatiable urge to round up the usual suspects when media offers up this kind of cut rate "journalism".

And yes, I understand that much of today's media is only interested in sensationalism, facts be damned.

That they are, too often, really nothing more than parasites.

Personally, I don't mind parasites.

I just object to cut rate ones.