Charles Columbo Prints

Tick-tock: A watched 'Clock'

For 24 hours, starting last Friday in 16 hours, The Museum of Fine Art intended Christian Marclay "Clock,''a video made up of thousands of clips in the history of film and television, each clip containing an indication - per piece or verbal reference - real time that testing takes place. The dazzling work by Marclay, a Massachusetts College of Art grad, won a Golden Lion in Venice this year's Biennale and the AMF on October 10. At the opening, the writers of the Globe, in turn, joined the Museum of spectators. Here's what we saw.SEBASTIAN SMEE

The determination is important, and it is, I guess, like life: The clock, ho hum, is still running down. But what makes "The Horloge''tant great is the freedom of Marclay carved for himself - and by extension, us - in this system cruel and inevitable. His overflowing with editing in mind, the exuberance, grief, rest and stay.

Some of them are obvious: a grandfather clock struck the ground. More often, however, it is beautifully subtle: A guy who sells knockoff watches absently uses one of them to beat the time on a railing of the bridge. A pretender, just before 5:00 p.m., Tells a young shop girl, "I'll be back at 6. I have something to dire''-content is not as glimpsed deferred.

'Columbo' Star Peter Falk Dies at 83 | TheWrap TV

"Columbo" star Peter Falk died Thursday in his Beverly Hills home, according to a statement released by his family. He was 83. 

No cause of death was given, but the veteran character actor had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

The gravelly voiced Falk was best known for his portrayal of the trenchcoat-wearing detective on the long-running "Columbo."

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He received four Emmy awards for his starring role on the series, and his perpetual squint, the result of the loss of an eye, and idiosyncratic delivery made Falk both a television icon and a favorite figure to imitate for comics.  The series ran from 1971-78 on NBC and launched several later television movies that aired on ABC. 

Falk was also a key member of iconoclastic filmmaker John Cassavetes' regular ensemble, starring in such independent film classics as "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) and "Husbands" (1970). In his collaborations with Cassavetes' Falk often portrayed hard drinking, blue-collar figures, whose brutish exteriors mask bruised egos and surprisingly tender sides. 

Preferring smoother faced and voiced actors, Hollywood failed to provide Falk with the kind of meaty roles that he enjoyed throughout his work with Cassavetes. However, he was frequently in demand, usually appearing as the heavy in gangster films such as "Murder Inc." (1960) or the comic foil in film parodies such as "Murder By Death" (1976). 

Falk received two Oscar nominations for his work in "Murder Inc." and Frank Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961). 

Largely wasted in big-budget pileups such as "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) and "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (1964), Falk's most memorable comedic role was in the action-comedy "The In-Laws" (1979). As a risk-taking CIA agent who drags a mild mannered dentist into various misadventures before their children get married, Falk's gruff persona was paired brilliantly with an extremely neurotic Alan Arkin. The chemistry they enjoyed was noticeably absent in Hollywood's laugh-lacking 2003 remake with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks.

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