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Inaugural Thoughts

-          There’s a great picture of W and Bubba where W’s smiling wide and Clinton’s smiling, but looking at W like, “if we were alone, I’d fucking sock you in the nose.” But Clinton would use his “I feel your pain” voice.

-          W hugged Obama like Barack had just rescued him.

-          The senior

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[whitefire]

Trying to figure out what a Walken impression of Jack Nicholson would sound like it frying my little brain.

[ploaf]

You gotta figure that Walken's impressions would either be incredibly brilliant or hysterically awful. There's no in between. You'd never say, "that's not bad." The reaction would have to be "holy shit!"

[xequalsfun]

I think it would be in the same vein as Principal Skinner's impressions on the episode of the Simpsons where he is performing stand-up at an open mic...he would be Christopher Walken trying to convince you he's somebody else.

"Look. At me. I am, Jack, NICHolSON. I am...batshitcrazy. Go. LAKers. Do you, remember, when I, wastheJoker.

I know you won't believe me, but this is all 100% true

[ploaf]

What I love most about your response is that you remembered to include the fact that Walken runs, like, three to five words together sometimes, as in "batshitcrazy" or "wastheJoker." It's a detail often lost to the casual Walken fan. But does not escape the Walkennoisseur.

Case and point, my favorite Walkenism was from the stage production of the Public's production of The Seagull that Duckie got me tickets for:
"It'sso hot. Ifeellikemybrain...is...stucktomyskull." Two hours later, he topped this unique phrasing as only Walken could: by having an onstage tickle fight with Meryl Streep somewhere in Act 3 or 4.

I swear to you I am NOT making this up. You can ask James Lipton...he was sitting two rows in front of me (and wearing a denim "Inside the Actors' Studio jacket that was two sizes too small). This remains one of my favorite moments in live theatre.