Word: falke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always with Simon, this is a situation comedy. Mel (Peter Falk) is a 47-year-old Manhattan executive. His corporate ship is sailing the rough seas of red ink, and members of the staff are being thrown overboard. In Act I, Mel has reached the fingernail-nibbling stage. Will he go next? Equally worried colleagues arrive at the office shortly after daybreak: "They're afraid if you get there late," Mel explains, "they'll sell your desk...
Righteous Lard. A line like that never sounds like a howler on paper, but in the theater it brings the house to a roar. Which is a tribute to the palpable miracles of timing and inflection that a director like Mike Nichols and an actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically...
...another development yesterday, government attorneys said that time has run out on Federal judge W. Arthur Garrity's order that the government state whether or not they have wiretapped Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk. Garrity ordered the government to avow or disavow wiretapping before it could subpoena...
...attorneys said they may resubpoena Chomsky and Falk, but they added that, if sought, new subpoenas would contain answers to Garrity's order on the wiretapping question...
...hearing before Judge Garrity yesterday. Falk contended that his appearance before the grand jury would hinder his access in the future to confidential--though legally released--information...