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Jun 3, 2009 | The Stranger

Watching A Woman Under the Influence for the 100th Time: It's So Good

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

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Related Topix: Gena Rowlands, Home Listing, Home

Tue Jun 02, 2009

WINK-TV Fort Myers

Ailing 'Columbo' star's wife named his guardian

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.

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Related Topix: Columbo, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Pocketful of Miracles

Free Republic

Judge puts 'Columbo' actor Falk in conservatorship

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.

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Fri May 29, 2009

UPI

Falk's daughter, wife battle in court

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.

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Related Topix: Sport Movies, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Columbo, Comedy Movies, Pocketful of Miracles, Crime Movies, Family, The Princess Bride, Drama Movies, Action Movies, The Great Race, Adventure, Musical Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Thu May 28, 2009

Associated Content

Free Printable Princess Bride Coloring Pages

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

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Related Topix: The Princess Bride, Comedy Movies, Adventure, Cary Elwes, Fred Savage, Family, Kids

Fri May 08, 2009

Collider

the Princess Bride Blu-ray Review -- Peter Debruge argues why this...

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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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Princess Bride, Adventure, Fred Savage

Thu Apr 02, 2009

DVD Verdict

The Princess Bride

Our reviews of The Princess Bride and The Princess Bride: Special Edition are also available.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Princess Bride, Adventure, Comedy, The Wonder Years, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Fred Savage, Video Games, What Just Happened?

Tue Mar 31, 2009

DVD Authority

The Princess Bride

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

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, The Princess Bride, Adventure, Fred Savage, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Chris Sarandon

Thu Mar 05, 2009

Vue Weekly

DVDetective: Theme from the bottom

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 ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema

Wed Feb 25, 2009

Inner Toob

Who's Sal Columbo?

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.

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Related Topix: Columbo, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Crime Movies, Prescription: Murder, Mystery Movies

Fri Feb 20, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Attorney: Peter Falk's care is adequate

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.

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Related Topix: Drama, Comedy Movies, Pocketful of Miracles, Entertainment

Wed Feb 18, 2009

DVD Verdict

Vibes

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.

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Related Topix: Vibes, Comedy Movies, Mystery Movies, Adventure, Cyndi Lauper, Pop/Rock, Horror, Thriller, The Fly, Drama, Science Fiction Movies, Columbo, Entertainment, Television

Mon Feb 16, 2009

DailyGame

Martini Movies: Vibes DVD Giveaway

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.

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Related Topix: Vibes, Comedy Movies, Adventure, Mystery Movies, Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum

Mon Feb 09, 2009

San Diego Reader

Roommates

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.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Drama, D.B. Sweeney, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Feb 07, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

Murder mystery in Middletown

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? ...

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Related Topix: Columbo, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Middletown, NJ, Crime Movies, Prescription: Murder, Mystery Movies, Port Monmouth, NJ, Navesink, NJ

Fri Jan 23, 2009

Inner Toob

Museum Piece: "the Million Dollar Incident"

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 ...

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Tue Dec 23, 2008

Time Goes By

This Week in Elder News a " 21 December 2008

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.

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Related Topix: Gena Rowlands

Sun Dec 21, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Daughter in fight over Columbo star's Alzheimer's

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 ...

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Related Topix: Columbo, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Comedy Movies, Pocketful of Miracles, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Crime Movies, Action, Adventure, Emmy Awards

Sat Dec 20, 2008

About.com

Peter Falk's Daughter Reports Actor Has Alzheimer's Disease

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.

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Related Topix: Alzheimer's, Health, Alan Arkin

Thu Dec 18, 2008

Rotten Tomatoes

Five Favorite Films with Don Cheadle

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.

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Related Topix: Traitor, Movie Reviews

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