Last night, I watched a few minutes of a program that featured an Unsolved Mysteries-type crime scene dramatization. The police were showing photographs of their suspect to a clerk in a hardware store, trying to determine what the suspect had purchased earlier that day. I thought the photograph looked a little strange, a little too glossy, a little too professional. Not at all like a borrowed family photo or a police mug shot. And then I realized: it was the head shot of the actor playing the suspect, the one he probably sent the casting director that landed him the part.

I don’t know, I just found that amusing. I was reminded of stories of America’s Most Wanted actors being mistaken for the criminals they were hired to portray.