"No, no, stay! Have some champagnia. I want to be your president, you see. We can talk about my campagnia..."
Posted on 08/13/2005 10:28:55 PM PDT by gr8eman
Born to immigrant parents in New York, Ronald Walken was the youngest of three boys. While his father ran the little bakery he owned, the boys' mother was a member of the Stage Mothers' Society and was always bringing the little ones to television auditions and photo shoots. Young Ronnie's first role was posing with cats for a calendar when he was three years old, and by the time he was ten, he and his brothers were enrolled in tap dancing classes and regularly performed on television variety shows. In their free time, the boys would help their father with the bakery and go to Manhattan to find little jobs on television and in the theater.
When he was fifteen, during a brief job working with a circus lion tamer, Ronnie appeared in the off-Broadway play J.B. (starring Christopher Plummer). He later graduated from the Professional Children's School and spent a year a Hofstra University on Long Island. The following spring, he and his brother Glenn were cast by their tap instructor in the off-Broadway Musical Best Foot Forward, along with a little girl from their acting lessons, Liza Minelli. For the next two and a half years Ronnie acted in musical theater, and met Georgianne Thon during a touring production of West Side Story. They later married, in 1969.
At age 22, Monique Van Vooren, who was working with Walken, decided to call him Christopher, and he stuck with it. The name first appeared on the bill for Baker Street in 1965. Chris then performed a number of dramatic roles on stage, combating extreme stage fright, and went on to win the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance of King Phillip in The Lion in Winter.
Christopher's film career began when he was 25, with minor roles in a number of films, including the Annie's suicidal brother in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Soon after, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Deer Hunter, and also starred in the critically loathed Heaven's Gate.
His career never slowed down, and Chris continued to be cast in a wide range of films, including the last MGM musical, Pennies from Heaven. Choreographed by his former tap teacher, this movie earned him glowing reviews from critics and legendary tap-dancers Fred Astaire and Gene Kelley.
Christopher Walken has acted in nearly one hundred films in his lifetime, and well over that many stage performances, encompassing every style and genre imaginable. He and his wife are happily married and working around the world. Recently, in addition to becoming one of SNL's most popular hosts, Walken has averaged nearly five movies per year, testament to his skill, dedication, and talent even at the age of sixty-two.
Now, more active than ever, Christopher Walken has realized that the state of his country is in disarray, and the politicians in charge care less for the citizens they serve and more about fattening their resumes and campaign chests. Having residences both in rural Connecticut and upper-west Manhattan, he sees that all walks of life are becoming disgruntled and apathetic towards the American government, and feels a duty, as a child of the American public, to restore the peace, prosperity, and greatness of the United States.
Are you f**kin serious????
(jaw on floor)
Good website, but needs more cowbell.
I don't know....I've always seen him as Secretary of Commerce.
...or Ambassador to Oompahpahmaumau.
Insane actors are the best.
Nicholson, Walken, Kinski [Klaus, not Natasha] being prime examples.
"No, no, stay! Have some champagnia. I want to be your president, you see. We can talk about my campagnia..."
Just what America needs - more cowbell.
09 August, 2005
Actor Christopher Walken to run as Candidate in 2008 Presidential Race For Immediate Release
New York - Early today, actor Christopher Walken, 62, held a private conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in which he announced his intentions to run for the Presidency of the United States in the 2008 Election.
Said the Queens native, “I have always been a follower of politics. My father was friends with the mayor of Schodack (NY) back in the 1940’s. We would walk the streets of Schodack and the people, they would wave to him. The children adored him. That is what I love to be, a man of respect and love.”
From a statement by Walken's agent, Toni Howard: “Mr. Walken has greatly admired the celebrities who have entered politics and he wants to be able to give a good name and reputation to the acting community as well as the political community. As for going national with this news we have not made any plans for the immediate future."
Because Mr. Walken is currently contracted for more than one film production, the Walken campaign manager Michael Hansee admitted that there would be relatively minimal publicity at this early stage. "[Mr. Walken] has a full plate right now, acting in a number of different films, and can't start any personal campaign work until these obligations are fulfilled," he commented. "We're looking to spread the word and build a little support base with our website, in preparation for a full campaign in early 2007."
The campaign website is patriotic-themed, with the tag-line "To Get America Back on Track." Hansee stated that the campaign is hoping to drum up early support through their online presence, much like Howard Dean did in the 2004 race.
He ain't MY kid!
Vote for Christopher Walken?
As Axel would say...."F**kin A"
Nominee of the Continental Party.
Is it just me or does she look TOTALLY creeped?
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ROFLMAO
There is one ingredient which Walken carries from Ronald Reagan, and that is talking up the good in America. We have alot of politicans who just want special programs and want to talk about special groups of Americans who are suffering. Frankly, I've had enough of that. And I'm pretty sure that that he won't carry more than 200,000 votes nation-wide...but it would be nice to have a candidate standing between both the Republican and Democrat...setting the moral compass right. Besides...wouldn't it grand to have this character in a debate against Hillery? He could probably tear her character up and make her weep at the podium.
VOTE FOR ME
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