Famous Writers and Their Polar Opposite
Sitcom Characters or Actors
by Sarah Brown
Emily Dickinson: Seven of Nine, "Star Trek Voyager"
T.S. Eliot: Michael Landon, "Little House on the Prairie"
Herman Melville: Ross Geller, "Friends"
Edith Wharton: Remington Steele, "Remington Steele"
Jane Austen: Kirk Cameron, any
Oscar Wilde: Bob Saget, "Full House"
Ezra Pound: Ricky Schroeder, "Silver Spoons"
George Sand: Mr. Belvedere, "Mr. Belvedere"
Sylvia Plath: Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
Saul Bellow: Alf, in "Alf"
James Joyce: B.A. Baracus,"The A-Team"
Alice B. Toklas: Uncle Phil, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
Jack Kerouac: Mr. Roper, "Three's Company"
Ernest Hemingway: Vickie, "Small Wonder"
C.S. Lewis: Angela, "My So-Called Life"
William Faulkner: Christina Applegate, "Jesse"
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Balki Bartokomous, "Perfect Strangers"
Walt Whitman: Greg, "Dharma and Greg"
Henry James: Pacey, "Dawson's Creek"
James Fenimore Cooper: Samantha, "Sex in the City"
Zora Neale Hurston: Bailey Salinger, "Party of Five"
