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...short film Amblin', became the youngest director ever signed to a long-term Hollywood studio contract. At 21, he was putting Joan Crawford through the paces of a Night Gallery tale. He directed eleven episodes of various Universal series: a The Name of the Game here, a Columbo or The Psychiatrist there, displaying his tyro talent, learning the business. "TV taught me to think on my feet," he says. "You have six days to shoot 50 pages of script. TV is a well-oiled machine. Either you roll with it or it rolls over you." He rolled, all right...
...Restic found a way to use seven quarterbacks (for posterity, the list is: Cuccia, Allard, Mike Buchanan, Joe Lahti, Mark Marion, Jack Riordan, Chuck Columbo) and innumerable running backs after Scott (Missing in Action) McCabe ended the scoring with a touchdown plunge early in the fourth...
Wildmon, a fan of the old Columbo show, asserts that he is tolerant of a little televised sexuality here, a bit of violence there. "I agree to leaving some of it on. Some of it is real life and has been on since the 1960s. I'm not saying other values should not exist or that I want to try to beat them to death with a club. Life is never going to be cleansed...
...hair, Aegean-blue eyes, lissome frame) is the love interest, and more: a warrior goddess who saves Bond's life at least as often as he saves hers, and a welcome addition to this summer's gallery of can-do heroines. Topol, as the wily Greek smuggler Columbo, should be in the "Guinness Book of Word Wreckers"; he is perhaps the first performer to demonstrate the art of overacting by chewing pistachio nuts...
...Actor Peter Falk, 53, is red hot about his two co-stars in ... All the Marbles, a movie due out next summer. In it, Falk plays the fast-talking manager of two gorgeous lady wrestlers (Newcomers Vicki Frederick, 28, and Laurene Landon, 23). Not bad for a guy whose Columbo series is down for the count...