# Christopher Walken
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 31, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246 "2005-05-31T18:11:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/41 "2005-06-02T04:57:31Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#):
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> Kevin Pollack also does a kick-ass Walken. I’m not sure how long he’s been doing it, however.
Pollack’s best impression, though, is his Shatner.
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/42 "2005-06-02T05:13:47Z")
Every single impression I’ve heard of Walken has sounded grating, screechy and weirdly-paced - I think I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t think he sounds anything but perfectly normal (if slightly clipped) in his speech.
That said, Kevin Pollack does some of the best impressions I’ve ever seen, but nobody can do Fred Munster as well as Brad Garrett.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/43 "2005-06-02T05:48:54Z")
I mixed Walken (or as I call him, Ronald) reading The Raven into Bela Lugosi is Dead. Now that is creepy.
Just for the record, I may have been the only schoolgirl who had a dreamy poster of him in my locker, and that was not so long ago.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/44 "2005-06-02T08:16:52Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> My brother sent me an mp3 he found _ahem_somewhere_ahem_ of Walken reading _The Raven_ by Edgar Allen Poe. Now, THAT is creepy.
Your post made me realize something - Walken is just filling the niche left by the deaths of Vincent Price and James Mason. See, Hollywood needs a prolific character actor with a unique speaking voice to play the role of urbane, slightly insane villains, and Walken fits to the T. I’m surprised I hadn’t noticed the parallel before.
Incidentally, Alan Rickman is another heir to Mason & Price.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/45 "2005-06-02T10:16:27Z")
> [@DMark](#):
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> The most annoying man alive today.
> And considering Carrot Top and Pauly Shore are both still alive, that says a lot. How people find that “funny” voice funny is truly mind-boggling.
I gotta go with the Oxyclean guy.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/46 "2005-06-02T12:51:22Z")
Weird, I saw this thread then the next day I saw the episode of The Simpson’s that was mentioned, then I fell asleep later in the evening with the TV on and woke up in time for Conan who had Kevin Pollack on who of course talked about Walken and did his impression of him. Does discussing Walken work the same as a summoning?
By the way, a nice thing about Walken, I believe I heard he’s been married to the same woman for something like 35 years. Isn’t that sweet? I wonder what his wife is like?
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/47 "2005-06-02T13:59:34Z")
**Wile E** \*
I wonder what his wife is like?\*
Didn’t you know? Christopher Walken keeps her chained up in the dungeon of his castle.
BWA-HA-HA !!!
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/48 "2005-06-02T14:24:26Z")
Years ago, I shot a Viagra spoof for Saturday Night Live. Mr. Walken appeared in the spoof. So, I got to spend a few hours in the room with him, watching him be **extremely** hilarious take, after take, after take.
Unless he is staying " in character " nonstop when the cameras are not rolling, that is indeed his speech pattern.
A quiet gentleman, he was. Softspoken with a fast wit. That day was a real treat…
Cartooniverse
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/49 "2005-06-02T14:47:41Z")
I hear Walken is also a cat lover and was either writing a book about cats or the introduction to such a book; and that he’s quite a good cook and there was talk of him getting a cooking show. With all due respect to Alton Brown and the lovely Rachael Ray, that would be the Best. Cooking show. Ever.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/50 "2005-06-02T16:08:22Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> When _doesn’t_ Walken play a scary dude?
[Sarah, Plain and Tall.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102842/) Heard Glenn Close (probably on _Fresh Air;_ is listening to that a requirement on this board?) tell of when her daughter’s class was reading the book she and Walken came to class and answered questions. To the the best of my knowledge none of the kids were permanently scarred by the experience.
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### Author:  [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/51 "2005-06-02T16:52:24Z")
I never want to actually meet any of the celebrities I admire for fear that I would be let down but I would make an exception when it comes to Walken. I have a feeling that IRL he is an amazing and polite man. Best. actor. _ever_
Is it weird that I find him attractive?
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/52 "2005-06-02T17:08:03Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> When _doesn’t_ Walken play a scary dude? (It is a good film, you’re right about that.)
_Scotland, PA_. It’s a retelling of _MacBeth_, and he plays MacDuff.
(Okay, he scares the hell out of the MacBeth character, but with obvious good reason.)
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/53 "2005-06-02T17:12:47Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#):
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> That said, Kevin Pollack does some of the best impressions I’ve ever seen, but nobody can do Fred Munster as well as Brad Garrett.
“I’m going on an aeroplane!”
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### Author:  [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/54 "2005-06-02T20:23:09Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Dennis Hopper burst into laughter when talking about Natalie Wood’s death on Letterman one night.
Geez - what was all that about? Context I’m missing? Just Hopper madness?
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/55 "2005-06-02T22:30:58Z")
> [@Superdude](#):
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> Pollack’s best impression, though, is his Shatner.
Columbo, no contest.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/56 "2005-06-02T22:41:31Z")
Don’t get me wrong, his Columbo’s great.
Okay…maybe Shatner and Columbo are 1 and 1A.
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/57 "2005-06-02T22:42:33Z")
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> I saw Gottfried on Hollywood Squares once. He was the only open square left, so they had to keep choosing him “for the win”. Question would be asked, he’d answer, they’d agree or disagree, they’d be wrong. I don’t remember who finally won the game, if anyone did, but I do remember that that ONE GAME took up the entire show. By the end of it, he was yelling out “You fool!” to the contestants because they’d gotten it wrong yet again, and everyone was laughing because, really, after 10 wrong questions in a row, it got to be pretty silly.
I actually saw that episode! A description can’t do it justice. It doesn’t help that Hollywood Squares isn’t exactly the most intellectually taxing game show on TV.
Around the same time, I saw Gilbert Gottfried on Rendez-View; which was a short-lived _Blind Date_ type dating show hosted by Greg Proops. Gilbert was hilarious once again, taking the piss out of the snobby guy who thought his date didn’t have “class”.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/58 "2005-06-02T22:48:58Z")
Whoever wondered if talking about Christopher Walken is liek a summoning…
I left work early today, and watched _Two Guys and a Girl_. That’s not why I left work early, but that’s not the point, anyway. One of the guys did a bad impersonation of Walken. When asked what he was doing, the conversation went something like this:
Guy 1: That was me doing Larry doing his Christopher Walken impersonation.
Guy 2: That was awful!
Guy 1: No. Larry’s impersonation of Walken is awful. My impersonation of Larry doing Walken is dead on.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/59 "2005-06-02T23:21:35Z")
> [@Crandolph](#):
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> Geez - what was all that about? Context I’m missing? Just Hopper madness?
Dunno. Letterman was asking him about the people he used to run around with and mentioned that Hopper was about the only one left. Hopper started naming off people and how they died, then when he got to Natalie, he said, “And Natalie. Natalie fell off a boat.” and burst out laughing. He did, however, quickly regain his composure and apologize profusely for laughing. I’ve never understood it either. I suppose that’s one of the reasons why the memory has stuck with me.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-walken/306246/60 "2005-06-02T23:40:44Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Hopper started naming off people and how they died, then when he got to Natalie, he said, “And Natalie. Natalie fell off a boat.” and burst out laughing.
Well, maybe he was thinking of that old joke:
What kind of wood doesn’t float?
Natalie.
(It was a very popular, poor taste joke shortly after her death.)
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