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Squib Report Challenge: Walken After Midnight

Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: Martin Schneider, movies, Squib Report

Martin Schneider, the man behind the admirably focused and semi-extant Between the Squibs, contributes an occasional column in which he spelunks into the Complete New Yorker archives and tells us what he’s uncovered, occasionally creating Squib Report Challenges for readers who think they know their stuff.

I was watching Blast from the Past on cable earlier today, and I got a little curious about Christopher Walken. Such a singular figure. I think I may have found the first reference in The Complete New Yorker about him. Anyone care to guess when it is? I can reveal that the index gives the wrong answer—indeed, it is off by many years.

Previously in Between the Squibs: Here's the column's debut and the second installment.

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Chris Walken was a broadway actor before
becoming a movie star. Did he appear at the
Public theatre?

AlanDecember 12, 2006

Yes, he was -- but it was not for something he did at the Public.

MartinDecember 12, 2006

What about something dance-related? Was he in a tap show? Or in a Talk of the Town or GOAT doing some avant-garde softshoe somewhere?

EmilyDecember 13, 2006

Would it have something to do with his career as a child actor? See this.

(seems an appropriate beginning for him)

carolitaDecember 13, 2006

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