Word: falke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbo crimes are solved, but one is also committed: the waste of Peter Falk's great talent on such an inane project...
...Your story on Peter Falk [Nov. 26] brought back memories of the days we served together in the Connecticut budget division: Peter reporting to work on a bitter winter morning with his pajama top on beneath his overcoat (he had been studying his lines until the wee hours of the morning). Peter gamely trying to develop an interest in computer systems...
...work, Falk is an obsessive perfectionist, "a tenacious worker capable of wanting to repeat a take 200 times to get it right," says Ben Gazzara. That tenacity led to some bitter arguments with Levinson and Link in the beginning, but when the writer team reminded Falk of those blowups recently, he protested. "Those were just getting-acquainted fights." In private, Falk is noticeably more even-tempered. "Nothing really touches his equanimity," says Lee Grant. "You could explode a bomb next to him, and he would just look at it with extreme interest." His wife describes...
Trendy Pendulum. How long it will take him to decide to leave Columbo is, therefore, anybody's guess. Falk has characterized the shuffling little detective so completely that his moves are now almost completely predictable, with the kind of sameness that is anathema to an actor of Falk's ability. Falk's contract has three years to run, and those around him do not expect him to remain longer. "I'm not tired of Columbo yet," he says. "But I'm getting close...
...Year of the Cop (year of the pig?) turns out to be just another swing of the old trendy pendulum that in other years brought spates of westerns and spies to similar prominence. "I don't think the trend's going to last very long," Falk says. "All it needs is for another hit to come along in another area and then there'll be a lot of shows in that area. Anyway, to me the big dividing line is between the ocean of crap cliche and the small amount of quality." Wherever the pendulum may swing...