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Post by Rat Of Steel on Jun 25, 2011 4:08:50 GMT -5
Peter Falk, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his portrayal of the raincoat-wearing, cigar smoking TV detective Columbo, died Thursday evening at his home in Beverly Hills, CA; he was 83. Though an exact cause of death was not released by his family, it had been known that Falk was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. (Full article can be read on the IMDB website by clicking here.)
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Post by rookie on Jun 25, 2011 13:43:44 GMT -5
No! That really sucks!
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Post by MaybeNever on Jun 25, 2011 13:47:49 GMT -5
That's sad. I was hoping I'd get to see him in just one more thing.
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Post by nickiknack on Jun 25, 2011 15:43:33 GMT -5
Heard that last night, RIP Columbo...
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Post by nickiknack on Jun 25, 2011 15:45:40 GMT -5
RIP Columbo...you'll be missed
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jul 28, 2011 2:27:59 GMT -5
I will always remember him as Max Meen, the second most evil man in the world, evil assistant to Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon), the most evil man in the world - in The Great Race (1965).
A talent that will be sorely missed.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jul 28, 2011 3:09:33 GMT -5
I will always remember him as Max Meen, the second most evil man in the world, evil assistant to Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon), the most evil man in the world - in The Great Race (1965). A talent that will be sorely missed. "Push the button, Max!"
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jul 28, 2011 8:47:36 GMT -5
I will always remember him as Max Meen, the second most evil man in the world, evil assistant to Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon), the most evil man in the world - in The Great Race (1965). A talent that will be sorely missed. "Push the button, Max!" Precisely!
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Post by shadowpanther on Jul 28, 2011 13:46:02 GMT -5
But now who will read The Princess Bride to me when I'm bedridden and ill?
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Post by lighthorseman on Jul 28, 2011 13:56:09 GMT -5
I learnt to fence because of that movie. I could never get my teeth to do that thing that the Great Leslie gets his to do, though.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jul 28, 2011 13:56:52 GMT -5
But now who will read The Princess Bride to me when I'm bedridden and ill? Yer sick, I'll yumour yer(sic)
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Post by terri on Jul 28, 2011 19:08:26 GMT -5
Oh yeah, "The Great Race," a flick that I loved when I was a kid (which inspired the Wacky Races cartoon).... I learned that it won an Oscar for sound effects by Treg Brown, provider of looney sounds for WB cartoons...
Anyway, what made "Columbo" stand out from other mystery shows was that you knew "whodunit" - you saw the murder and how it was planned - the payoff lay in how Columbo would find out. (The '40s-50s radio series "The Whistler" had a similar gimmick.)
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Post by Jack Bauer on Aug 4, 2011 2:08:52 GMT -5
I remember seeing the Columbo Peugeot parked in a row of vehicles in the Universal Studios (Ca) back lot. It seemed sad...
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