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O&E Thursday, April 7,1983
Images resemble celebrities
By Ethel 8|mmomj
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who are dead ringers for
celebrities in the entertainment world — are\putting
on their first professional show together as the Mirror Images.
George Cbukalas of Troy, is a construction worker who looks just like
Robert Blake, star of the TV series
about a colorful cop named Baretta.
He and the other Mirror Images, all
of whom share equal partnership in
.their new show-business venture,
•will perform at 9 p.m. Monday,April 18, at the" Clawson Lounge and
Supper Club at 14 Mile and Rochester r&ads in Clawson. Cover charge
Is $5", and. reservations are recommended.
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Chukalas, 44, who is Greelf, bears
an uncanny -resemble to Robert
Blake, 49, who is Italian. Not only
does he look like-the rough-hewn
movie actor, he talks like him naturally arid even moves like h.im. . .
; Having t h e same mannerisms" is
how Chukalas describes it. That's
what makes a Mirror Image special
— more, than just a facial or bodytype resemblance.
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DEBORAH 800KER/ataH photographer
Construction worker George Chukalas of Troy goes into action,
striking a pose like Robert Blake as the TV cop, Baretta. He's one
of the eight Mirror Images who have teamed up to do shows, with
skits, songs and dance?, in imitation of the famous folk they
resemble.
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In case you couldn't tell, Geryl Brandt of Southfield looks like Suzanne Sommers, Ken Ingle of
Plymouth like Neil Diamond and Doni Donlon of
Newly organized and managing
The.Mirror Images'also are Leon
exactly how tail Blake-is or how
themselves, they hope to mqke their
"MY GIRLFRIEND thought I
Jewell of Utlca, an artist at the GM
much the actor weighs, he figures
uncanny resemblances pay off.
looked like him;" Chukalas said, deTech Center, who resembles TV
the celebrity's body type must be
scribing how he got his start as.,
comedy pesonality Foster Brooks;
AT THE Birmingham office of
similar to his. He is 5-feet-5-inches
"Baretta." She applied for a ticket to
Robert Paul of East Detroit, an asthe Observer it Eccentric, Chukalas
tall and weighs 155, but because he
the WXYZ-TV show, "Kelley & Comsemby-llne worker at the Tank
pulled out a scrapbook with clippis muscular and lifts weights, he ,
pany," which was holding a celebriArsenal in Centerline, with the grin .
. ings about the Celebrity Clones, who
looks bigger.
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ty look-alike contest last year.
and good looks of Alan Alda; Johnny
have evolved into the Mirror Imag* Chukalas said he doesn't have any
Williams of Clarkston, a high school
es.
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Two hundred ordinary people.
complex about his size. "I'm an inalgebra and science teacher, whose i
resembling the famous arrived at
Among the others are Geryl
fluential person. Small people tend
students get to look at "Tom Selthe TV studio in Southfield, to comBrandt of Southfield, a homemaker,
. to be powerful people. I'm big in my
leek" all day and Rossetta Mills of
pete. Chukalas was one of the 12 . who looks like blonde glamour girl/
mind."
Detroit, a hpmemaker with the
picked from the audience to,go <jn
comedienne Suzanne^Sommers; Ken
Wearing a shorUsleeved T-shirt,
. striking appearance of Diana Ross.
the show.
Ingle of Plymouth, la truck driver
in his "Baretta" character, and with '
whom you'd swear-was really singAfterward, Chukalas and some of
Chukalas. said people have been
three big tattoos showing on his
ing superstar Neil Diamond and
.the finalists received invitations
comparing him to Robert Blake tor
arms, Chukalas looks as macho as
Doni Donlon of Plymouth,'a homefrom a California-based producer
20 years. Blake portrayed the killer
the popular hero.
maker with the madcap" styling of • In tie movie version of Truman Caand a metro-Detroit modeling ageri- •
The tattoos are real, and while
Phyllis Dlller.
cy to make special appearances.
pote'a documentary-novel "In Cold
Chukalas thinks Blake.may. have
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Schoolteacher Marlene Lloyd of
• Up to* now, their pay.has ranged
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. __^ some tattoos now, he's had his body
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Plymouth Ls not yet a Mirror image,.
"from nothing to $ 3 0 apiece,".
"Hfi (BLAKE) had psychiatric
decorations f o r a long time. Some
Chukalas said." Not long ago, the but she, too, will appear In the show v ; treatment for It (the niovle). He got
showgoe'rs have been suspicious of
at the Clawson club. Lloyd and
group appeared In a show at Center
into the part so much,"' Chukalas
Chukalas' tattoos, "they were
beautiful Linda Evans of "Dynasty"
Stage in Canton. "We did that for
said;"The Baretta character I like."
scratching me to see if they're real.
are look-alikes.
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.Although Chukalas doesn't know
They thought I-put' them on just be-
Plymouth, Phyllis Diller. They're also part of the
Mirror Images, who will be performing soon at a
Clawson club.
cause of Baretta," he said.
Chukalas doesn't always dress informally, and he carries a gun (a
cap pistol) just for his Baretta performances. He describes* himself as
a construction worker but also as "a.
businessman." .,
character Baretta that Blake plays.
Women like Baretta, Chukalas
said;'because ''he gets involved.
Women associate him with helping
someone in trouble. Women say to
me, 'I'm in love with Baretta.' They
wani autographs."
Being Mirror Images can make
these unknowns become celebrities
in their own right. "Our Tom Selleck
is starting to getpopular. I saw him
and said, 'Hey, you're Johnny Williams!'"
THE LOOK-ALIKES get deprived
of their privacy, just like the stars ,
they Imitate. You're sitting at a
table In a restaurant and, "The
limelight opens up again. It's good
for publicity, but you don't know
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whento lock it up.
. "It gets me in trouble with my
girlfriend' sometimes," Chukalas
said, explaining that they may want
to have just a quiet moment togeth?
er.
HE OWNS HIS own company,
Sparta Building Co. pf Troy. He said
he's struggling with the business because" of the economy, but having
flexible hours makes it easier for
him to do the show-business sideline.
Raised in Greektown, Chufalas
and his friends used to go to the 1st
' Precinct at liOO Beaublen, police,
headquarters In Detroit, to- work out
. and play regularly at the gym. One
of his best frelnds grew up to be on
• theylce.squad.
So, the big-city lifestyle and a policeman's lot are'not unfamiliar to
Chukalas, which niaybe helps him
along in his resemblance to the..
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