Pick the actors for Campaign '08

Make up your own playbill for Campaign '08 by matching politicians to the talent pool of actors who could portray them.

Hint: Age doesn't matter and appearance isn't everything.

1. John McCain

2. Bill Clinton

3. John Edwards

4. Mike Huckabee

5. Barack Obama

6. Hillary Rodham Clinton

7. Bill Richardson

8. Mitt Romney

9. Rudy Giuliani

10. Fred Thompson

a. Jim Nabors, Andy Griffith, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Hanks, James Woods, Philip Seymour Hoffman

b. Don Johnson, Sean Penn, Charlie Sheen, Orlando Bloom, Matthew McConaughey, Josh Hartnett, Kevin Costner, Christian Bale

c. Robert Goulet, Oprah, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Usher, Jamie Foxx

d. George Hamilton, Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Chris Noth, Kyle MacLachlan, John O'Hurley, Tim Robbins

e. Jackie Gleason, Horatio Sanz, Carlos Mencia

f. Jane Curtin, Glenn Close, Oprah, Kathleen Turner, Cybill Shepherd, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Emma Thompson

g. Steve Martin, Steve McQueen, Jason Robards, John Mahoney, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Sam Waterston, Richard Dreyfuss, Chris Cooper

h. Jack Nicholson, Stanley Tucci, James Gandolfini, William Hurt, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro

i. Fred Thompson

j. Darrell Hammond, Warren Beatty, Richard Gere, John Travolta, Michael Douglas, Alec Baldwin

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Answers:

1. (g): McCain the fair-haired fighter pilot of the 1960s bears a certain resemblance to the late McQueen in looks and swagger.

2. (j): Hammond has a head start, having impersonated Bill Clinton for years on "Saturday Night Live."

3. (b): Hartnett was one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people in 2002.

4. (a): The wise and the wiseacre from Andy of Mayberry, combined. Thornton is a fellow Arkansan.

5. (c): The late Goulet broke through in "Camelot" on Broadway in 1960, playing Lancelot. Oprah shares Chicago sensibilities.

6. (f): Duh. Oprah shares Chicago sensibilities.

7 (e): Three funny guys, including Sanz from "Saturday Night Live," and Mencia of "The Heartbreak Kid," who could easily pass for the half-Mexican, often-jovial New Mexico governor.

8. (d): MacLachlan, the cleancut (looking) actor of "Blue Velvet" and "Twin Peaks," was described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the boy next door if that boy spent lots of time alone in the basement."

9. (h): Heeeeere's Rudy.

10. (i): Duh.

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Source: Thin air.