a loaded question

Shawn Mendes recently released his fifth album, Shawn, which features him shaggy and shirtless on the cover. Is he intentionally trying to look like John Holmes, the 1970s porn-movie superstar and one of the inspirations for Mark Wahlberg's character in Boogie Nights?

a Russian doll with a glass eye and a beard made of yarn

Natasha Lyonne's character in Russian Doll refers to herself in the Netflix series's first season as what might've happened "if Andrew Dice Clay and the little girl from Brave made a baby."

Maybe. But I think the proud parents would've been Peter Falk and the Muppets' Animal (especially if you factor in Lyonne's starring role in another streaming series, Peacock's upcoming, Columbo-esque Poker Face).

Rise, Andrew Lewis Caldwell!

If Will Arnett and Jack Black were no longer living, I'd say Andrew Lewis Caldwell was the resurrection of both. Instead, he's an actor in The Matrix: Resurrections, the recently released fourth film in the series, who looks and sounds a bit like both of them.

Or he's just a collection of ones and zeros, but I don't currently have the data to back up that claim.

Christopher Gorham is John Mulaney all grown up.

Time flies, whether you're a popular comedian or a hardworking actor who once starred in a TV series called Popular.

Who'd you get down with in '94, Will?

On The Get Down, Netflix's megabudget, disco-era series, Dizzee, played by Will Smith's son, Jaden, draws himself as an alien.

Is he actually Men in Black's Agent J as a teenager?

You're welcome for the crossover idea, Sony, since your proposed Men in Black-meets-21 Jump Street mash-up movie never got off the ground.

Like in 2012's Men in Black 3, J will travel back in time, but in the fourth installment I want him to meet The Get Down's Zeke, played by Justice Smith, and say, "Wait, are you teenage me? You look more like me than Dizzee from certain angles. Allow me to break the fourth wall here for a second: Did I sleep with a Puerto Rican woman around Thanksgiving of '94? I know 'Smith' is a common last name, but you're freakin' me out right now, Justice!"

"Highways & Sundowns"

If Hollywood ever attempts a Love & Mercy-style biopic of Gordon Lightfoot's life and career, may I suggest Chris Pratt for the singer's younger years and Bryan Cranston for the later ones?

I think I love you because you're not afraid.

Susan Dey, is that you?

look-alikes

Musician Evan Dando and actor Viggo Mortensen apparently shop at the same clothing stores once frequented by Pablo Picasso. Viggo also seemed to be co-opting Evan's early-'90s look on the cover of The New York Times Style Magazine last fall. Or was it Mike Nesmith's late-'60s look?

Here we see Tahiti 80 bassist Pedro Resende paying tribute to the late Peter Falk, but I must've missed the episode of Columbo in which Falk sported a hot pink biker cap.

Best Supporting Actor nominee Jonah Hill (Moneyball) used to look like Seinfeld and Jurassic Park supporting actor Wayne Knight ...

... but then he slimmed down. (So did Knight.) Now he looks more like Josh Lucas—who looks like Matthew McConaughey, Lucas's costar in The Lincoln Lawyer, if you ask me. My girlfriend doesn't see the resemblance between those two hunk-tors, though, so she probably won't see the resemblance between Hill and Lucas, which is admittedly more of a stretch, but I stand by my eyesight.

Finally, before Ben Folds was a famous rock star, and before Ed Helms was a star on screens both big (The Hangover) and small (The Office), they were rocking the same haircut.

George Clooney as George Washington via Abe Vigoda

I can't be the only one who sees Fish in this photo from the December 11, 2011, issue of The New York Times Magazine, right?