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O'SULLIVAN: Because she came in, and she's, you know, a 20-something year old blond woman. LILY HOLLEMAN (Comedian, Actress): I can anticipate the explosions. (Soundbite of stage play, 'All About Walken') I think the best example is probably Lily. So when they came in, I said don't worry about it. She knows him.ĬHADWICK: Some of the people in this performance have done Christopher Walken impersonations before. Unidentified Woman #2: Sometimes, when I'm driving on the road at night. And I wanted that spectrum because I knew the joke would get old, so you had to have that much variation within the show. O'SULLIVAN: Over the course of the run, we've had two Asian Walkens, three female Walkens, one African-American Walken - you know, Walkens in their twenties, Walkens in their fifties. So it gives you this variety where you're going, wow, those are all in some way or another Walken. O'SULLIVAN: You know, there's so many things to study in his physicality, his voice, the pauses, that I think different people hit on different things. Unidentified Man #4: To be or not to be.ĬHADWICK: When you say that so many people try to do it and do it well and they were all different, how could you possibly all be different and still all be doing Christopher Walken? Unidentified Man #4: I'd like to do for you Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. O'SULLIVAN: And you start to realize that it's kind of like this movement where everybody loves the attempt at impersonating him, whether they're good or not. KEVIN POLLAK (Actor): It involves my whole family. O'SULLIVAN: And Kevin Pollak did one last year in 'The Aristocrats.' KEVIN SPACEY (Actor): (As Han Solo/Christopher Walken) Chewie here tells me you're looking for passage to the Alderaan System. (Soundbite of TV show, 'Saturday Night Live') O'SULLIVAN: And then you see Kevin Spacey do it on 'Saturday Night Live.' JAY MOHR (Actor): (As Christopher Walken) Don't make me tell you again about the scootching. And it was becoming popularized by, like, Jay Mohr. PATRICK O'SULLIVAN (Writer/producer/director, 'All About Walken'): There were so many people that were good at it, but they were different. Unidentified Man #3: I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.ĬHADWICK: The show's writer, producer, director and one of the Walkens is Patrick Sullivan. Unidentified Woman #1: I tell you this, because as an artist, I think you'll understand. Gleason Theater in Hollywood is a show that is entirely an homage to Christopher Walken - seven impersonators doing scenes from movies, from 'Saturday Night Live' skits, from those Walken moments that are embedded in the culture like small jewels. Unidentified Man #2: Two little mice fell in a bucket of grease.ĬHADWICK: So 'All About Walken' at the Paul G. He's like a natural resource to be mined by comics and impersonators. He won an Oscar in 'The Deer Hunter.' He is good at the craft, but it's that stilted speech, the hipster body language, the mocking self-awareness, the blazing wattage in the bulbs behind the eye sockets. He doesn't drip movie star glamour, but there is something about the actor Christopher Walken. It's fast enough for you, old man.ĬHADWICK: He's not a leading man. One of these days these boots - well, they going to walk all over you. Unidentified Man: (Singing) Well, these boots are made for walking, and, well, that's just what they're going to do. (Soundbite of stage play, 'These Boots Were Made for Walking') And tonight there's the performance of a play called 'All About Walken.' And I've come along here to a little place, almost kind of a storefront, but it's a theater. I've just gone by Frank Sinatra and Alfred Hitchcock and James Cagney and Alex Trebek. This is the place with the sidewalk with all the stars and the names. I'm Alex Chadwick.ĬHADWICK: Hollywood Boulevard on a February evening.

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