Peter Falk News

H er name is Mabel Longhetti. She lives in Los Angeles in the 1970s and wears housedresses with big flowers on them.

A court has appointed the wife of US actor Peter Falk to control the affairs of the ailing "Columbo" TV star as he battles dementia, legal officials said Tuesday.

A judge placed former "Columbo" star's Peter Falk in a conservatorship Monday to ensure his daughter could occasionally visit the ailing 81-year-old actor.

Peter Falk's daughter and his wife of 30 years are fighting for conservatorship of the Hollywood icon, who suffers from dementia, court records show.

In 1987, director Rob Reiner created a funny, lovable, adventurous fairy tale called The Princess Bride .

Has there ever been a movie with a less boy-friendly title than The Princess Bride ? It's something of a miracle that the younger me - two months shy of my tenth birthday - even saw it as a kid, but as memory serves, I was there on opening weekend, and now, with all the sophistication and insight that supposedly accompanies my decade-plus of ...

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As he lays in bed home sick from school, a young boy is visited by his grandfather , who hopes to cheer up his grandson.

As the studio-backed auteur films of the 1970s climbed into the stratosphere, those delirious heights from which the whole heady shotgun wedding of art and commerce would soon come crashing down, another ...

In the 'Doctor Who' story "The Chase" from the First Doctor's "time", first the TARDIS and then a Dalek time machine materialized on the observatory deck of the Empire State Building in 1966.

A court-appointed attorney who has met with Peter Falk has issued a report stating that he believes the actor does not need to placed under a conservatorship.

Judge Brett Cullum wants to walk in the sun and have fun pretending he's Cyndi Lauper! Put your hands on our hands and feel theVIBES.

Vibes, part of Sony's Martini Movies DVD collection, psychic Sylvia Pickle and Nick Deezy are hired by a mysterious man to find an ancient treasure in South America.

A heavy-on-the-sugar recipe for an irascible but lovable old Polish baker: Peter Falk in a latex Halloween mask like something out of a Gahan Wilson cartoon.

Did you know that Peter Falk's classic "Columbo" TV character got his start in a 1967 TV movie - and that Bing Crosby had originally been discussed for the role of the brilliant sleuth in the rumpled raincoat? ...

The other program that I saw at the Paley Center of Thursday was a Jackie Gleason production for CBS called "The Million Dollar Incident". Gleason came up with the story but it was written by three others and ...

In this regular weekend feature you will find links to news items from the preceding week related to elders and aging, along with whatever else catches my fancy that I think you might like to know.

The absent-mindedness and dishevelled appearance are now tragically real as Peter Falk, who played the scatterbrained detective in the shabby mac in the Columbo crime series on TV in the 70s, is now reportedly ...

Like most people, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the name Peter Falk is the show "Columbo." He was wonderful in that, and I hold many fond childhood memories of watching him in that role.

In last August's Traitor , Don Cheadle took on the challenge of tempering a Bourne-like action hero with the moral ambiguity of real world concerns: namely, terrorism and the Muslim identity.