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Christopher Walken A to Z
The Complete Guide To All Things Walken
He’s been a dancer, a baker, a lion tamer, an award-winning actor, and a Hollywood legend. But Christopher Walken has never been the subject of a comprehensive biographical reference—until now.
Here at last is a complete A-to-Z guide to this one-of-a-kind performer, featuring entries on everything from the Actors Studio (the legend...more
He’s been a dancer, a baker, a lion tamer, an award-winning actor, and a Hollywood legend. But Christopher Walken has never been the subject of a comprehensive biographical reference—until now.
Here at last is a complete A-to-Z guide to this one-of-a-kind performer, featuring entries on everything from the Actors Studio (the legend...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
August 1st 2008
by Quirk Books
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I don't think there's a good biography out there on Walken, not one he's involved with anyway. So this is just a list of A to Z Walken things that gives you a pretty hazy picture of the guy (though I doubt clarity will ever ever happen). It gave me a lot of movies to add to my "to watch" list. One quote in the end by Julian Schnabel is worth noting, and I truely hope someone says this about me one day: "He's a very private person who lives in his head. When that is interupted, it interferes with...more
Made me go back and rewatch pretty much every movie Walken's ever been in. Which, if you weren't aware, is pretty much every movie made in the last twenty years. Jeez, that guy will do anything.
Great, fun little book that compiles all sorts of facts/trivia/random thoughts/weirdness from the genius Walken.
Great, fun little book that compiles all sorts of facts/trivia/random thoughts/weirdness from the genius Walken.
Coleslaw for everyone! Walken haiku! Great book to leave lying around and pick up for reference, or just a funny couple of pages. It helps to read all the quotes out loud in Walken-voice.
"I have a fever, and the only cure, is more cowbell."
Setup like an encyclopedia, a key word or phrase is used as an entry in this collection of facts about Walken. Names, movies & places lead into various trivia about him. It was interesting, but certainly not something I read for any length of time. While waiting for a commercial break or dinner to get ready, it was fun for short intervals, though. Movies are rated using a 5 star system & I found that I pretty much agreed with them. It turned me on to a couple of movies of his that I hadn...more
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While I’d rather just read a straight-up biography or collection of interviews, this was an ok little collection of Walken stuff. I haven’t paid much attention to anything cinema since the late 90s, so I was surprised that CW has continued to make movies at such a pace.
The gold binding is a nice touch, although the last few pages, where the author tries to make Walkenisms into poetry, should have been negated at the Bad Idea point, let alone published.
The gold binding is a nice touch, although the last few pages, where the author tries to make Walkenisms into poetry, should have been negated at the Bad Idea point, let alone published.
This book was amazing in that I learned a whole bunch of cool things about Walken that I didn't know. But I found that reading the book cover to cover was disorienting because of the a to z setup of the book. So I kept getting lost chronologically and had a hard time figuring out what things in his life came in what order. It would be better to use a general reference to all things Walken than as a biography to read as a narrative.
I heart Christopher Walken with many hearts. He is a strange man, and this book does nothing to disprove that. But now I have many strange facts to go with the strange man. Did you know Christopher Walken was born in Astoria NY? I think that means we have a little bond between us.
Nov 11, 2008
Mark Desrosiers
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But why does Walken get his own encyclopedia while Dan Duryea A to Z and Thelma Ritter A to Z remain unwritten?
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Robert Schnakenberg, also known as Nguyen van Foch, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Sci-Fi Baby Names, Secret Lives of Great Authors, and The Encyclopedia Shatnerica (an A-to-Z reference about the life and career of William Shatner). Christopher Walken A-to-Z, a similarly formatted book about the actor Christopher Walken, was published in October of 2008. In May of 2008, Schnak...more
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