doppelganger

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The intersection of traditional Washington and Hollywood Washington was irresistible: After Michael Douglas starred in 1995’s “An American President,” he was greeted as something like the doppelganger in chief whenever he showed up for the White House correspondents’ dinner weekend.

From Washington Post

Noesner, now retired and a consultant on the series, "calls me his doppelganger," said Shannon, adding, "It's funny because we don't look alike necessarily or even sound alike all that much."

From Salon

He's really easy to be around and he calls me his doppelganger.

From Salon

At Zankel Hall on Thursday, that spirit of repetition — oblique and constantly transforming — coursed through the third installment of the Danish String Quartet’s “Doppelgänger” project, which pairs Schubert’s late quartets with new commissions, and closes with an arrangement of a lied: in this case, “Gretchen.”

From New York Times

Before that came Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet, a relatively light work among its “Doppelgänger” siblings, and the single-movement “Quartettsatz,” as well as the world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Rituals,” a slippery but entrancing series of permutations in which a set of musical gestures are rearranged like matter.

From New York Times