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...that it's a bad show - more about that in a minute). There's no cutting-edge science, no fancy camera work, no how-did-they-think-of-that hook. Every week, Jane goes out, talks to people, observes details and solves uncomplicated cases the same way Columbo did 35 years ago. We've seen this a million times before on television...
...Deep Throat - whose $25,000 budget was covered by Louis "Butchie" Peraino, the son of a made man in New York City's Columbo mob family - went on to earn tens of millions of dollars. Maybe more: the 2005 documentary Inside Deep Throat puts the take at an extremely improbable $600 million. Anyway, it was quite a haul. One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh...
...them in a book? Burrell, looking more confident than he had the day before, said the pressure of the inquest and the intensity of Mansfield's questioning had confused him. (With his quick-fire interrogation and his reedy, disdainful tone, Mansfield is a cross between TV detective Columbo and Harry Potter's Professor Severus Snape.) "I didn't know what I would be asked," the former butler said. "I thought it would be easier than it is. Quite frankly, it's been horrid...
...difference here is that the President does die. Fictionally! For all its trappings of realism, the Range movie is essentially a traditional murder mystery with political overtones. And now, Columbo-like, I'm going to reveal the killer's identity. If you don't want to know - and don't want the explanation of why it makes dramatic and historical sense - stop reading...
...several defendants, including the strapmaker, and won $1 million. The facts, according to the lawyers' group: ten athletes competed in a televised stunt race, each with a 400-lb. refrigerator strapped to his back; each received a written contract guaranteeing that the equipment had been tested for safety. Franco Columbo, a world-champion body builder, did fall and suffered total knee displacement that required extensive surgery. At the trial, testimony showed that the equipment had never been tested on anyone of Columbo's size while running (he is 5 ft. 7 in., much smaller than anyone else in the race...