Christopher Walken INSISTS that he’s NEVER once owned a cellphone or EVEN…
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— 5 years ago(December 16, 2020 05:33 AM)a computer!!
Christopher Walken isn’t quite the weirdo he often plays onscreen. But there is one thing that’s strange, if perhaps not surprising: He’s never, ever, ever owned a cellphone. Ditto a computer. It’s the first thing he talked about with Stephen Colbert when he appeared on Monday night’s The Late Show. Of course, in another timeline, Walken would have done the interview in person. But nowadays talk shows are done virtually. And that means he had to sit in front of a webcam in his Connecticut home, possibly for the first time in his life.
“Someone had to come and set this up because I don’t have a cellphone or a computer,” Walken told Colbert. Is he luddite? Is he morally and/or ethically opposed to technology? Nope. “I just got to it too late. I think I’m right at a certain age where it just passed me by. And I never got involved in it because it would be strange to have a 10-year-old be better at it than I am.”.
It’s hard for many of us to imagine life without gizmos, but Walken maintains it’s not that hard. “The other thing is cellphones are a bit like a watch: If you need one somebody else has got it,” he said.
Walken did admit he’s been around technology. “Sometimes on a movie they’ll give me a cellphone, but it’s more so they can find me,” he said. But there’s a catch: “If I want to use it, somebody has to dial it for me.”.
The legendary Oscar-winner, who was there to promote the new Jon Hamm-Emily Blunt romance Wild Mountian Thyme — the latest from Moonstruck and Doubt (and Joe Versus the Volcano) scribe John Patrick Shanley — also showed the audience Muhammad Ali’s boxing trunks, which were framed. You can watch the video above to find out why.
“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
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Go Away Nimda! Shutdown ! — 5 years ago(December 17, 2020 01:15 AM)
You know there are many more people like Mr Walken. We reject certain technological devices. I resisted getting a smart phone for years. I didn't even want a cell phone at all for a long time or a pager. I like computers enough to want one, but still I was skeptical.
I'm surprised Mr Walken lasted this long without either. I actually feel somewhat ashamed for having a mobile phone, PC and access to the internet.
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— 5 years ago(December 17, 2020 01:47 AM)
I don't have and never had a cellphone, smartphone nor an iPhone. Also never had a tablet. Just either a desktop (as I do now typing this) or a laptop. I've used the others, but they weren't (aren't) mine.
“Call a SPADE, a SPADE; and a TRANNY, a TRANNY, or an IT!!!”.
"THAT'S SOME BAD
SHIT
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HARRY
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cryptoflovecraft — 3 years ago(May 03, 2022 01:10 PM)
I didn't "cave in" and buy a computer until the early 2000s. All in all, I could live without one and sometimes I long for the 'good old days' of the '70s and '80s when life was somewhat simpler and people weren't consumed by things like the Internet and social media.
As for cell phones, I never bothered. I still use a landline, it suits me just fine.
When everyone is looking down at their cellphones instead of what's straight ahead of them, you know something's amiss. -
Go Away Nimda! Shutdown ! — 5 years ago(December 17, 2020 01:55 AM)
Also,
The legendary Oscar-winner, who was there to promote the new Jon Hamm-Emily Blunt romance Wild Mountian Thyme — the latest from Moonstruck and Doubt (and Joe Versus the Volcano) scribe John Patrick Shanley — also showed the audience Muhammad Ali’s boxing trunks, which were framed. You can watch the video above to find out why.
I saw this advertised and almost clicked to find out more. Since Walken is in it, hell yeah! I wanna check it out. I've Emily Blunt and John Hamm a lot as well.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 
