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“Cool Cohl Katz Contest” Winners Picked

Dozens of readers responded to Sunday’s “Cool Cohl Katz Contest.”

The Westport stylist to the stars offered her talents — a haircut and makeup application for women, a haircut and style for men — to 3 winners of a contest she and I cooked up.

We asked 3 trivia questions about famous current or past Westport or Weston residents. All of them have been (of course!) Cohl’s clients.

Then we put all the correct answers in a (stylish) hat, and drew 3 lucky winners.

Question #1: This former Westporter started out as a stockbroker. But that’s not where they gained the most fame.

This got the most correct responses: 47. The answer is (of course) Martha Stewart. (The most popular incorrect guess: James Comey).

Congratulations to the winner: Anne Leskow.

Martha Stewart and her former husband Andy, outside their Turkey Hill home.

Question #2To prepare for his role as an emotionally destroyed soldier in a film that won him an Academy Award, this actor ate only bananas, water and rice for a month.

31 readers knew this was Christopher Walken, in “The Deer Hunter.” (Not Tom Hanks or Tom Cruise, also clients of Cohl’s.)

The winner is: Todd Pines.

Christopher Walken in “The Deer Hunter.”

Question #3This musician has co-written 14 songs on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

Incorrect guesses were led by Nile Rodgers and Ashford & Simpson. The correct answer — known by 32 readers — is Keith Richards.

I thought that was a giveaway, because I mentioned “Rolling Stone” magazine. Oh well …

The winner of that prize is: Stacey Henske.

Keef

Congratulations to all 3. Cohl will be in touch, to arrange your style session.

Didn’t win, but want to feel like a star anyway? Email cohlita@yahoo.com.

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4 Reasons To Watch Tonight’s Telecast Of “Peter Pan,” Besides The Fact That On Live TV, Anything Can Happen

  1. Westporter Kelli O’Hara plays Mrs. Darling.
  2. Weston resident Christopher Walken is Captain Hook.
  3. Staples Class of 2004 graduate Gina Rattan is associate director — as she was for the live broadcast of “Cinderella.”
  4. Staples grad Jeffrey Small is site coordinator.
Gina Rattan

Gina Rattan

(“Peter Pan” is live on NBC at 8 pm EST tonight — Thursday, December 4. Of course, you can always tape it…)

 

Christopher Walken: Funny Or Not?

Funny or Die is a website that is usually, well, funny.

“Cooking With Christopher Walken,” though, could be the least amusing of the thousands of videos, stories, jokes and picture captions on the entire site.

Basically, Richard Belzer meets Walken at Ann Sheffer and Bill Scheffler’s Westport house. They go to Stew Leonard’s, shop for chicken, go home, cook dinner, and muddle through a conversation that is supposedly a parody of a cooking show.

I did not laugh once.

Although it is certainly a very nice house.