6 replies to this topic

[Dauber]

Unusual question, I know, but let me explain why I'm asking...

My wife and I are at the Chicago-area Fest for Beatles Fans, which is held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. We kinda forgot to book our room a the Hyatt until it was too late, so we stayed at the Sofitel across the street on Saturday, and today [Sunday] we're at the Hyatt.

So....anyhoo...yesterday we went back to our room in the afternoon to deposit some stuff we bought, and as we were walking back in to the Hyatt, this guy walked past us who is a dead ringer for Horatio Sanz! After we were well out of his hearing distance, I just looked at my wife....I didn' say a word, and she laughed and said, "I KNOW!!!! ISN'T THAT FREAKIN' WEIRD?!!"

Sure enough, later on that night we saw this Horatio look-alike at a few of the Beatlefest [as it used to be called before the suits at Apple Records decided that after 30 years they were no longer going to let those in charge call it "Beatlefest"] events, in particular near a small crowd in front of the ballroom stage and armed with a digital camera, looking to get a better view of the activities.

Seriously, this guy is an exact duplicate for Horatio...and we're beginning to suspect it IS he, even though we haven't seen anybody crowd around him, ask for autographs/pictures with him, etc. When we got back to our hotel room after the evening was over, Mrs. Dauber fired up her laptop and looked up Horatio's entry on imdb.com and found that not only did he live in Chicago, but he's also roughly the same height as the guy we saw!

So....anyhoo....anybody know if he digs The Beatles? This might be the real guy!

[dixiesquare]

i dont want to sound stupid or ant thing , but who is the person you wrote about ?

[JacobSteinAFM]

Horatio Sanz is a current SNL cast member. Don't feel bad, Dixie- I remember you saying on another thread that you haven't seen SNL in years.

I think it's highly unlikely that Horatio would be in Chicago on a Saturday. IMO, he's not famous enough to have someone impersonate him. The guy you saw may have been someone that looked just like him.

I had a similar experience on a cruise a couple years ago. I remember when I was having dinner with my parents, and I just couldn't stop making note that the guy at the next table looked exactly like Jay Leno! My dad met him at a bar the next day, and it turned out that it wasn't him.

[Dauber]

Heh...the guy who was our contact with the management company who owned the apartment we had years ago was a Jay Leno look-alike, as was another guy in Chicago who recently showed me an apartment. Must be the new trend, eh?

[JacobSteinAFM]

There's even a midget Jay Leno look-alike that makes an occasional appearance on Conan O'Brien! :lol:

[bbcentral]

JacobSteinAFM said:

There's even a midget Jay Leno look-alike that makes an occasional appearance on Conan O'Brien! :lol:

Mini Jay Leno! :D

[Dauber]

Well, I got my answer: a member of Liverpool, the Beatlefest house band, said on mic, something like: "I saw Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen earlier..."

Didn't see Fred Armisen, personally...