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"In the latest installment of Off the Cuff, Peter Travers catches up with Christopher Walken, and Christopher Walken catches up with the two most seminal characters of his career: the self-destructive Duane from Annie Hall&amp;#xA0;and the introspective Nick from The Deer Hunter. &amp;quot;Do you ever wake up worrying what has happened to the characters you&amp;apos;ve played?&amp;quot; Travers asks. Walken replies dryly,&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;No, Duane&amp;apos;s ok. He&amp;apos;s working on a fishing boat, deep-sea trawling.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nFrom there, Travers asks Walken what it&amp;apos;s like to be impersonated so frequently by so many people. &amp;quot;Everyone you know has a Chris Walken impression,&amp;quot; Travers says.\r\n&amp;quot;I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine,&amp;quot; Walken responds, &amp;quot;and when I call him, I answer. It&amp;apos;s pretty strange.&amp;quot; He&amp;apos;s no slouch with mimicry, either.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve been doing Bette Davis since I sat down here, and you didn&amp;apos;t even notice,&amp;quot; he deadpans.&amp;#xA0;\r\nPeter Travers Picks Five Great Films from Sundance 2013\r\nTravers then appeals to the air of wisdom that seems to saturate everything Walken does. &amp;quot;We think you know more about life than the rest of us. I bet you can give me three lessons in life I could take with me today,&amp;quot; Travers says.\r\n&amp;quot;Those things with me are pretty basic,&amp;quot; Walken replies. &amp;quot;Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.&amp;quot; So the Number One lesson in life is to buckle up? &amp;quot;Definitely,&amp;quot; Walken says.\r\nWalken also reveals some lesser-known facts about The Deer Hunter and Annie Hall that may make the classic films worth another rewatch. For example, it turns out Walken was just off-camera in one of The Deer Hunter&amp;apos;s pivotal scenes: his own character&amp;apos;s funeral. &amp;quot;I went and hid in the bushes, and I watched everybody being sad. I had a real day off, because they were burying me,&amp;quot; he says. Walken also points out that his name is mistakenly listed as &amp;quot;Christoph Vlaken&amp;quot; in the credits of&amp;#xA0;Annie Hall.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;My agent said, &amp;apos;What&amp;apos;s with this?&amp;apos; and they said, &amp;apos;Sorry, all the prints are made, and that&amp;apos;s it,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; he says.\r\nTravers wraps up by asking Walken about 1995&amp;apos;s Him, a play Walken wrote about what Elvis&amp;apos;s life might&amp;apos;ve been like if he hadn&amp;apos;t died. &amp;quot;That play is about celebrity. What is that about for you? How do you live with being a celebrity?&amp;quot; Travers asks. Walken insists, &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s a different thing. It was Elvis! Come on. They were chasing him down the street. He had a cape. He had a pink Cadillac.&amp;quot; Finally, while he may not be Elvis, Walken closes by belting out a glorious rendition of &amp;quot;With a Song in My Heart&amp;quot; as a send-off, and Travers chimes in as well."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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