One More Thing... or Maybe Not
I Guess There Won't Be Just One More Thing...
(Kudos to Mike Burger for continuing the theme)
Or
One Last Thing... *THUD*
(Mark, also variating on the theme)
Or
Gee Mr. Rosenberg, I Hate To Bother You...
(Monty, earning points for personalization)
Peter Falk, the adult equivalent of those meddling kids as Lt. Columbo, has died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83. Today, he’d be relegated to the USA Network and be paired with a perky blonde by-the-book partner who grudgingly comes to respect his unorthodox ways. But on his own in his rumpled raincoat, perpetually misplaced matches to light his signature cigar, faraway look as a result of the glass eye that replaced one removed at age 3 due to a cancerous tumor, and endless stories about Mrs. Colombo and the rest of his family, Columbo became a TV icon as he lulled criminal masterminds into complacency with compliments and apologies for troubling them before asking that one last question that sends the house of cards tumbling. Before sending special guest stars to the big house, Falk had been nominated for two Oscars for playing mob figures in 1960’s Murder, Inc. and then in Frank Capra’s last film, 1961’s Pocketful of Miracles. No award nominations accompanied his mob turns in Cookie, Shark Tale and Corky Romano. He also had a well established stage career, appearing in original productions of works by Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon and Arthur Miller. Other roles included the all-star Agatha Christie parody Murder by Death, as the unhinged ex-CIA spook opposite Alan Arkin in The In-Laws, and the grandfather in The Princess Bride, in which he reprised his “where did I put that” pat-down while looking for his glasses.
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