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...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...
Everyone, or so it seemed, felt the same way. At 70, the unpredictable Ukrainian-born pianist was staging another "historic return"-his first New York performance in six years and the first classical recital ever presented in the eight-year-old Metropolitan Opera House. Jackie Onassis, Peter Falk and Mikhail Baryshnikov were there. So were Conductor Herbert von Karajan and many other noted musicians like Isaac Stern, Daniel Barenboim and Eugene Istomin...
...addict knows, Kojak is a dapper detective who exudes animal charm and a street-wise sixth sense. The man whose investigative exploits led to the series, however, is no cop, and he is no well-tailored charmer. He is Reporter Selwyn Raab, 40, who looks more like rumpled Peter Falk than Telly Savalas. His tenacious reporting has brought him a dozen awards and the pleasure of seeing two victims of law-enforcement abuses walk out of prison...