I love him as The Continental”.
The role of a lifetime, LOL. The funny thing is/was, he obviously enjoyed it. Although he’s possibly a bit chagrined that it’s possible that more people remember him for that SNL skit than any single other role.
I’ve always been very fond of Christopher Walken. When he was much younger, he
was a dead ringer for my nephew Richard Callahan, Jr. who was born when I was
five.
As Richy aged, he looked more and more like Walken, and I thought that was just
totally cool. He fought in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot, and got hooked on
heroin. When he came home again, he was pretty much wrung out, rode hard, and
put away wet. Unfortunately, he died quite young, in his 50’s.
My oldest sister’s eldest son. The drugs got Richy, but COPD killed my oldest
sister. Heck, everyone in my immediate family are dead, and I’m the last Martin
standing. June, my oldest sister had COPD.
Donna died of Alzheimer’s Disease, and her greedy son took everything she had,
and he helped himself to the sale of her beautiful home and didn’t even think
about sharing with anyone.
My oldest sib, Richard, died of a malignant brain tumor, and his dear wife,
Susan was left with quite a mess. His child (now a man) Douglas, wasn’t all
that happy about Dick’s widow.
My brother Bruce died of AIDS. He was a homosexual, and he wasn’t careful about
who he “loved.”
Oddly, my brothers both passed on September 5. One in 1989, and the other in 1990.
