Ernest Hemingway look-alikes

A 55-year-old Texan wearing the requisite white beard and sporting a sweater won an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest - one of the highlights of a six-day annual festival honoring the late Nobel prize-winning author.

Dressed in a wool fisherman's turtleneck sweater despite 90-degree temperatures, David Douglas of Cypress bested 139 other contenders at the ''Papa'' Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, staged Saturday night at Sloppy Joe's Bar, the author's favorite watering hole.

Text: AP

Image: David Douglas, center, beams after winning the 2009 'Papa' Hemingway Look-Alike contest on July 25. (Photograph copyright AP. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited)

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