Christopher Who is Running for President?
I kid you not, I mentioned that Christopher Walken was planning on running for U.S. President in 2008 [“Christopher Walken for President 2008″] and I have had three people respond with “who?”
My reponse has been “You know…that weird creepy actor?”
That apparently didn’t help.
The only movie I could remember him in off the top of my migrained brain was America’s Sweethearts and apparently I’m the only one who saw it though it was fantastically funny.
(On a side note: It’ll be interesting to see his platform once he finishes writing it though I’ll have a hard time voting for a man with no political experience to run the country.)
Update
As of August 2005, he is the subject of a hoax Presidential campaign. [“Wikipedia — Christopher Walken”]
Hmmm…it’s not even on factcheck.org yet.
Still it’s kind of funny that the actor’s been in over 100 movies and no one in my office knows who he is. 
tags: politics, humor, 2008 election
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on August 15, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Tamara said:
I hadn’t heard that, thanks for the info!
Seriously? “Christopher Who?” I can’t fathom it. Let’s see: “More Cowbell” sketch on SNL; “The Prophecy” (uber creepy movie also starring foxes Eric Stoltz — my husband’s doppleganger — and Viggo Mortensen. Although no one looks particularly foxy in this movie); ok, he’s been in a billion things but I can’t think of any more either, off the top of my head. Heh.
on August 15, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Genmay said:
Parody.. Way to get your hopes up.
http://www.genmay.com/showthread.php?t=562197&page=1&pp=15
End of story.
on August 15, 2005 at 2:52 pm
n. mallory said:
According to his bio, he’s been in over 100 movies.
on August 15, 2005 at 3:14 pm
Mark Hopkins said:
The site is a hoax. I spoke to Maura Buxbaum at ID PR, Walken’s publicist. She said that Walken “has no aspirations for public office.”
http://www.rizzn.com/2005/08/walken-for-president-2008-is-confirmed.asp