The word 'lookalike' is correct and commonly used in both written and spoken English
It refers to someone or something that closely resembles another person or thing in appearance or characteristics. Example: "The actor's lookalike was hired to play his twin brother in the movie."
If this is the counter-intuitive way the world's leading Chris de Burgh lookalike is going to carry on it may well be that in future he will declare that motor racing would be much more exciting if, instead of wheels, the cars had feet.
Highly unusually, he has a two-thirds parliamentary majority, meaning that the vast Westminster lookalike on the banks of the Danube in Budapest is a rubber stamp.
A widely known proof of concept from 2009, called sslstrip, intercepts unsecured web traffic on an open network and rewrites HTTPS links into plain HTTP or redirects them to malicious secured sites that use lookalike domain names.
But in an industry once dominated by lookalike generalists, the top firms are now pursuing very different strategies.The main variables are the size of their funds and the degree of specialisation.
Isabelle Huppert was best actress, masochistically obsessed in the film with Benoit Magimel (best actor).Best director was shared by David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", a "Twin Peaks" lookalike, and Joel Cohen's monochrome "The Man Who Wasn't There" (or "All There"?), about a barber and a 1949 blackmail-murder.
And the Nasserist dream inspired a wave of pan-Arab nationalism that helped install lookalike leaderships, with similar flags, propaganda and secret police, across much of the Arab world.
Even if they fail to behave scandalously, the tabloids manage somehow to create an aura of sexual possibility; a few years ago a popular British daily featured photographs of famous female tennis players' heads stuck on to lookalike naked bodies.The public is convinced that it is the best, and queue all night to gain admittance to the very few good tickets available on the day.
It was led by an ascetic Gandhi lookalike, Anna Hazare, who fasted to demand the creation of a l okpal (powerful ombudsman) to combat graft.
The most dangerous driver in California is not necessarily the James Dean lookalike in the red sports car with three girls, but the grandfather in the golf-cart who drifts out of the Senior Retirement Centre into the fast lane.
Hollywood has revisited this idea again and again in films such as (1953), in which giant Martians wreak havoc on the Earth; (1956), in which aliens attempt to subversively conquer humans by replacing them with lookalike "pod people"; and (1996), in which alien ships placed over strategic locations begin decimating important cities.
"I just can't get my head round that one," the follically challenged Heston Blumenthal lookalike said.
