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" Hearing Christopher Walken tell a story is one of the great joys in life, especially when it involves Marlon Brando calling Walken to tell him about a strange variety show concept he dreamed up in the late &amp;#039;90s. Last night on The Late Show, Walken explained the Godfather&amp;#039;s pitch. &amp;quot;I thought it was a joke,&amp;quot; Walken recalled of getting that phone call while on set in Nova Scotia. &amp;quot;A minute later, I picked up the phone and it was obviously him. Nobody could do him that good.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He wanted to do a musical variety show from his house,&amp;quot; Walken continued. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;d be the host and he&amp;#039;d have guests and he&amp;#039;d do numbers with them and stuff. I said, &amp;#039;Hey, I&amp;#039;m going to watch that!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Sadly, a Marlon Brando Musical Variety Hour never came to fruition, but Walken did his part in trying to help him out, and more importantly, now has this great story to tell. Watch below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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