BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.

Subject: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: GUEST,Comrac
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 05:09 AM

Just read the sad news that actor Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.

His daughter Catherine is seeking a court's approval for a conservatorship of her 81-year-old father, who she claims no longer recognizes people. A hearing has been scheduled for late January.

Falk is familiar to most audiences as the star of the television series "Columbo," for which he won four Emmys. He was also nominated twice for Academy Awards for movie roles in 1959 and 1960.

Peter lives in Beverly Hills with his wife and recently had hip surgery and requires constant care.

I always think it's sad when someone who was part of your growing up years falls to illness, it shows both they and you are getting older.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 06:00 AM

A fine actor.

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From: Will Fly
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 07:29 AM

Also guite a good artist.

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From: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 07:35 AM

Use to love his show.
Sad indeed.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 07:43 AM

He also did the fantastically funny movie "The Last Detective".

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:00 AM

Quite sad.........A fantastic life, a great actor, fine artist...................Really hate to hear this news.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:19 AM

Now that's a bloody shame!

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:21 AM

He was a fine entertainer, who made a mark. I rarely missed one of his Colombo programs throughout the years.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:18 PM

Awww. He was a favorite, and for years, seemed quite ageless. He was apparently quite young when he was Glenn Ford's sidekick in one of my favorite holiday films A Pocketful of Miracles (also starring Bette Davis and Hope Lange).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: GUEST,Comrac
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:22 PM

He was brilliant in "Anzio" with Robert Mitchum.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 12:41 PM

I remember the first time a saw Peter. He played a martial artist assassin. It might have been in an episode of tv show "The Naked City". Columbo was different in that the viewer knew who the killer was early in each episode, and then watched as Columbo put all the pieces together.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Louie Roy
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:31 PM

Any one who has direct TV can watch a Peter Falk 2004 movie on Hallmark at 6 PM called (When Angels Come To Town) I don't know but this could be the last movie he made

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From: topical tom
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 01:32 PM

More bad news. He was a consummate actor.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 08:05 PM

I remember one time he was on Johnny Carson and had been having a few drinks in the green room first. He was sloshed, but was still very good.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 09:02 PM

His movies were just great. From the stupid like "Robin and the Seven Hoods" to the humorous like Max in "The Great Race" to all those heartfelt often cranky older men/fathers/grandpas that he played in later life, Peter Falk created other characters as well drawn as Columbo ever was. The guy in "California Dolls" was just classic as was his portrayal of the bumbling but successful thief Tony Pina in "The Brink's Job. The remake of "The In-Laws" couldn't hold a candle to Peter and Alan Arkin.

I never saw Peter Falk in a bad role or doing a part that was less than his best even when poorly written and in a schlocky movie. He is a great, great, actor and certainly one of the very best of his generation.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:49 PM

This is really sad -- a horrible disease. I watched my mum did from premature Alzheimers back when they didn't have a name for it .... she was late 50s. Not pretty. My thoughts are with him and his family.

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From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 08 - 10:55 PM

You said it, Spaw. He has always been a class act and one of my favourites.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 11:53 AM

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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From: cudder
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 12:26 PM

meny a good tune played on an old fiddle good actor

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 12:45 PM

I loved watching Columbo. Those wonderful 'pauses' he used to do. An excellent actor.

Subject: RE: BS: Peter Falk has Alzheimer's disease.
From: GUEST,ARRAN
Date: 18 Dec 08 - 01:01 PM

I think that he's a grear actor, and well we hear his saying

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