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December132006

Walken Away With the Answer to the Squib Report Challenge

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As you know, yesterday Martin “Between the Squibs” Schneider posed a tricky trivia question presented by The Complete New Yorker. Luckily, he also has the solution. Read on.

It’s time for the answer to yesterday’s Christopher Walken challenge. John Lindsay was the mayor, LBJ was the president, and one of the Talk of the Town items was about Schrafft’s. A different world. The date was March 12, 1966. The issue included a review of a new play, The Lion in Winter. The critic, John McCarten, called a certain Christopher Walken “persuasive” as Philip of France. Walken would later win the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising male actor. Unbeknownst to the voters of the Clarence Derwent Award, this citation would eventually lead to a spike in demands for increased quantities of cowbell.

If you go by the search archive, the first mention of Walken happened in 1992—twenty-six years off! Well, nobody said it was perfect.

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