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[Dana Jean]

Hi Dana Jean, I agree with your Jack Cassidy assessment. He is one suave dude. I've been a Columbo fan ever since they introduced him in those mystery movies. I would have to wait about three or four weeks just to get past McMillan and Wife, Banaczek, and MacLeod, until a Columbo came back. Not that those ones were bad, but Columbo was that much better, in my opinion. His biggest strength was his intelligence and his ability to hide behind a rumpled ignorant persona while peeking out from within. I just finished season one and only vaguely remembered 2 of them.

YES! I can remember not always knowing which one of those series they were going to show that week. Who we would get? Things weren't advertised as upcoming as much back then, so it was a crap shoot. I would sit at the TV hoping and praying it was a Columbo and groaning when it was MacLeod.

 

[Notaro]

I love Columbo even though some of his cases are very weak. Back in the day I thought they were so good, but now I see the holes in the cases. But it doesn't stop me for one minute in loving Peter Falk.

Just a side tidbit, I write personal letters to people. Entertainers, celebrities, authors, shakers and movers -- and one of my first letters was to Peter Falk. Unfortunately, he did not write me back. Little did I know he was in the murky clutches of Alzheimers and died fairly soon after I sent my letter. (My kids call me the kiss of death with my letters. I have had a pretty significant bunch of letter receivers die after I wrote them.) I can't help it I write old people!

My boys ask me who I've written lately so they can keep their eyes on the news. bastids.


I love every episode with Jack Cassidy. He is satisfyingly arrogant and smarmy -- Murder by the Book, Publish or Perish, Now You See Him.

The Conspirators -- Clive Revill
Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health -- George Hamilton
Prescription: Murder -- Gene Barry
Sex and the Married Detective -- Lindsay Crouse
Murder, Smoke and Shadows -- Fisher Stevens
Negative Reaction -- Dick Van Dyke
Ashes to Ashes - Patrick McGoohan (I think he was guest killer on the most Columbos of anyone)
Columbo Goes to College -- Stephen Caffrey, Gary Hershberger
Murder A Self Portrait -- Patrick Bauchau and Fionnula Flanagan
An Exercise in Fatality -- Robert Conrad
Swan Song -- Johnny Cash
Any Old Port in the Storm -- Donald Pleasance
It's All in the Game -- Faye Dunaway

Those are my favorites I watch over and over again. Of course, I love them all, but these are ones I sit and really watch and not just have on as background noise.

What are your favorites, guys? Thoughts on the show, Peter Falk, Guest Stars?

Always loved the show, can't remember ever seeing an episode I didn't like. Peter Falk was just born for the role, I heard he wouldn't rehearse his lines, he'd just go over them once or twice just before a scene to give it a hesitant more natural feel to the delivery, it certainly worked, it lasted from 1968 to 2003. Of the guest stars I liked Robert Culp, Leonard Nimoy, Roddy McDowall, Rip Torn, William Shatner, Patrick McGoohan, Johnny Cash, Donald Pleasance, Vera Miles, the list goes on, the episode I love are just too numerous to list. My wife and I were talking about the show one day and she asked who would I like to see as Columbo in a re-make, I shot down the idea saying nobody could replace Falk. That night I mulled it over thinking if I HAD to pick someone who would it be, one name came to mind, Giovanni Ribisi....I think he could pull it off. Thoughts anyone?

 

[Dana Jean]

Always loved the show, can't remember ever seeing an episode I didn't like. Peter Falk was just born for the role, I heard he wouldn't rehearse his lines, he'd just go over them once or twice just before a scene to give it a hesitant more natural feel to the delivery, it certainly worked, it lasted from 1968 to 2003. Of the guest stars I liked Robert Culp, Leonard Nimoy, Roddy McDowall, Rip Torn, William Shatner, Patrick McGoohan, Johnny Cash, Donald Pleasance, Vera Miles, the list goes on, the episode I love are just too numerous to list. My wife and I were talking about the show one day and she asked who would I like to see as Columbo in a re-make, I shot down the idea saying nobody could replace Falk. That night I mulled it over thinking if I HAD to pick someone who would it be, one name came to mind, Giovanni Ribisi....I think he could pull it off. Thoughts anyone?

I love Roddy McDowall. I have tried to find a biography on him and there doesn't seem to be anything. He had a fascinating career. I wanted to read more about him. I think my chances of that now are very slim. I don't think anyone is going to go back and write the definitive biography on Roddy McDowall in the age of Kim Kardashian.

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

$6 from an estate sale

 

[Spideyman]

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$6 from an estate sale

Pretty

 

[mal]

Always loved the show, can't remember ever seeing an episode I didn't like. Peter Falk was just born for the role, I heard he wouldn't rehearse his lines, he'd just go over them once or twice just before a scene to give it a hesitant more natural feel to the delivery, it certainly worked, it lasted from 1968 to 2003. Of the guest stars I liked Robert Culp, Leonard Nimoy, Roddy McDowall, Rip Torn, William Shatner, Patrick McGoohan, Johnny Cash, Donald Pleasance, Vera Miles, the list goes on, the episode I love are just too numerous to list. My wife and I were talking about the show one day and she asked who would I like to see as Columbo in a re-make, I shot down the idea saying nobody could replace Falk. That night I mulled it over thinking if I HAD to pick someone who would it be, one name came to mind, Giovanni Ribisi....I think he could pull it off. Thoughts anyone?

Howdy Notaro, I noticed that Steven Spielberg directed an episode of Columbo in the first season (I forget which one). I like your pick of Ribisi if they made a new one. I asked the wife what she thought and she said Sam Rockwell. Once I heard that I also thought that he would make a good Columbo as well, perhaps better than Ribisi, perhaps not.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I love Roddy McDowall. I have tried to find a biography on him and there doesn't seem to be anything. He had a fascinating career. I wanted to read more about him. I think my chances of that now are very slim. I don't think anyone is going to go back and write the definitive biography on Roddy McDowall in the age of Kim Kardashian.

...would this help a little?.....

 

[Dana Jean]

...would this help a little?.....

Oh brilliant! Nice little taste of a great actor. He was absolutely ruthless as Octavian in Cleopatra.

" Is that how one says it? As simply as that. Mark Antony is dead. Lord Antony is dead. The soup is hot; the soup is cold. Antony is living; Antony is dead.

Shake with terror when such words pass your lips, for fear they be untrue and Antony'd cut out your tongue for the lie! And if true, for your lifetime boast that you were honored to speak his name even in death. The dying of such a man, must be shouted, screamed! It must echo back from the corners of the universe.

"Antony is dead! Mark Antony of Rome lives no more!"

 

[Dana Jean]

...would this help a little?.....

Oh brilliant! Nice little taste of a great actor. He was absolutely ruthless as Octavian in Cleopatra.

" Is that how one says it? As simply as that. Mark Antony is dead. Lord Antony is dead. The soup is hot; the soup is cold. Antony is living; Antony is dead.

Shake with terror when such words pass your lips, for fear they be untrue and Antony'd cut out your tongue for the lie! And if true, for your lifetime boast that you were honored to speak his name even in death. The dying of such a man, must be shouted, screamed! It must echo back from the corners of the universe.

"Antony is dead! Mark Antony of Rome lives no more!"

I tried to watch that video Scott and whomever recorded it seemed to do their own cuts. I'm going to keep watching it despite that, but I'm think there was a lot more to the show than just what we get to see, dang!

And just to give visual context to the quote from Cleopatra, a great piece of acting

 

[DiO'Bolic]

The ability to beat someone senseless and call it all just fun and games.

 

[Scratch]

Not something I found but something my daughter gave me for my birthday.

 

[Scratch]

Here is something I bought at Jackson comicon, you know, the one Sheldon went to but Wheedon ditched?

You might have noticed I collect hats and unusual head gear.

 

[Tery]

 

[GNTLGNT]

....nice steampunk plague doctor Scratch and I like the shiny new ice box Tery!....

 

[Spideyman]

Here is something I bought at Jackson comicon, you know, the one Sheldon went to but Wheedon ditched?View attachment 32108

You might have noticed I collect hats and unusual head gear.

Great finds. Enjoy!

 

[Hill lover35]

The ability to beat someone senseless and call it all just fun and games.

this reminds me of a show i saw not sure if it was Canadian but it was like nija warriers but less intense and it was all over water and they used these things and other water obsticals they had to get threw to win things

 

[Hill lover35]

I got a new first edition of Joe hills strange weather sighned for $8.00 and chapters in canada. it makes me happy as i got a signed copy for $8.00 but kind of sad as his readership is not huge in Canada yet. oh well and its not auto pend either. i can fell the pen marks on the back of the page.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

A couple of fairly new cool things



First, is a Kane with face-hugger ReAction action figure!



The other is an RPS Effects Vitamin C Juice Box. It's a +27dB clean boost for guitars. Haven't used it yet as it will require a a pedalboard reconfiguration and I'm not feeling up to that task.

 

[Hill lover35]

oh if anyone is looking for some new IT chapter two hot topic has some cool things. I may get the pennywise with the i love derry on the ballon. I have alot of it and pennywise already. lol

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[king family fan]

Wow they do have alot.I have bought and ordered alot already.Lots of places getting the It 2 stuff out.