Word: falke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Folk, has joined ranks with Bonanza and I Love Lucy reruns as one of America's top TV exports. Now shown in 75 countries, the series has just been voted Japan's most popular television show in a poll conducted by the Japanese TV Guide. Falk's international success has not come smoothly, however. When Rumania's state TV network ran out of shows, fans of the raincoated detective began to protest, and the beleaguered network cabled Universal Studios for temporary relief. Said Falk in Hollywood last week: "The Rumanian government got me to tape...
...When he is not playing the show's martini-mixing Army surgeon, Trapper John, Doc Rogers carries on with a different operation. As head of W.M. Rogers, Inc.-Managed Investments, he takes care of the financial affairs of half a dozen clients (among them Actors Peter Falk and James Caan) and deals with such financiers as Lyons and Los Angeles Industrialist Lawrence Weinberg. Insiders estimate that Rogers' company is worth several million dollars. His holdings-with Falk and others-include apartment buildings, office blocks and a 500-acre California vineyard-the largest planting of merlot grapes...
...different things that they don't mean and finally they send her away. The director's snip-of-the-ribbon style, where nothing ends, begins, or needs flourishing, gives a quiet sense of real life to things, works in a vacuum land with no echoes. So along with Peter Falk's husband you almost want to shut this woman away--stop this noise now--even though the habit or the love or the movie of living with her makes it hard and guilty...
...blue-collar wife in her tacky Los Angeles neighborhood. Cassavetes doesn't moralize about the ultimate "causes" for why Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) is, in her own words, "going whacke." But we use it encouraged by the insensitivity and aggressive self-assertion of her husband Nick (Peter Falk), by the claustrophobia created by relatives and by the family's tiny apartment, and Mabel's failure to find meaning in her life beyond her children...
...looser approach does have advantages. To bypass the restrictions a big studio would place on his work. Cassavetes garnered half of the million dollars required for Woman by mortgaging his house and borrowing from friends. Peter Falk put up the other half-million. In the sacred age of Earthquake it is rare to find an artist willing to go into debt to preserve his integrity and the independence of his actors...