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...played Mrs. Columbo. How much time did you have to spend visualizing having sex with Peter Falk...
Harry Mendelssohn (Jason Alexander) is the ultimate anticomputer nerd. He is threatening to dynamite the library where he works if its card-catalog system is replaced by PCs. Brian Dickey (Peter Falk) is the police negotiator--Columbo raised to the nth degree--trying to talk him out of anarchy. Lee Kalcheim's play, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, sets them dueling metaphorically over the fate of modern civilization. Sometimes his targets are too easy (no more Starbucks jokes, please), but he has written fine, funny parts for the edgy, earnest Alexander and canny, counterpunching Falk. And his ending...
...mouse game with the investigators, who searched his possessions and sprayed the house with Luminol, a chemical that causes blood to glow in the dark. Although he was a chemist, Barton claimed never to have heard of it but then added, "I had seen it on one episode of Columbo." The police got a positive reaction in Barton's car, on the ignition switch and a seat belt. Barton had no explanation for why there might be blood there, but he did have a challenge for them: "If there is a ton of blood in my car, why aren...
...sages and flabbergasted foils, as Matthew, as two different Caesars and even as a private in "The Longest Day." No role was beneath him, and yet none above him; he loved working, loved show business, and wasn't above hamming it up for Peter Falk in an episode of "Columbo...
...progeny Sean, Chris and Michael; in Los Angeles. After appearances on Broadway and a studio contract in the 1940s, Penn was blacklisted for supporting the Hollywood 10. He found work behind the camera, directing more than 400 hours of prime-time programming, including episodes of Kojak, St. Elsewhere and Columbo, for which he won a 1973 Emmy...