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Just One More Thing: Peter Falk, 1927-2011
Just One More Thing: Peter Falk, 1927-2011
Remembered: the actor who was indivisible from the role of Columbo
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Peter Falk: 'I’ve always said that Columbo was an ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes'
A few years ago I chanced upon something truly surreal. I was driving along a track in New Zealand. The way you do. There was a field on the left. In it there was a man sitting on a portable chair, a sketchpad in his lap, a pencil in his hand. Gathered in front of him, like a cluster of attentive disciples, was a tight semi-circle of cows. The man was wearing a black suit in a style popular at the end of the 19th century. The surreal bit is that, despite the grizzly beard, this was Columbo. None other than.
A few years ago I chanced upon something truly surreal. I was driving along a track in New Zealand. The way you do. There was a field on the left. In it there was a man sitting on a portable chair, a sketchpad in his lap, a pencil in his hand. Gathered in front of him, like a cluster of attentive disciples, was a tight semi-circle of cows. The man was wearing a black suit in a style popular at the end of the 19th century. The surreal bit is that, despite the grizzly beard, this was Columbo. None other than.
I think I would probably be a better actor if I hadn’t spent so much time playing Columbo
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