From: bunge@myob.it   
      
   "H"  wrote in message news:cmo5ss$fsk$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...   
   >   
   >>> So you got it then.  Saw the well used by Columbus for water for the   
   >>> boat(s), & huge statue of him, and a little church .. all surrounded by   
   >>> horrible industrial factories etc.   
   >> Yus thankyou, did you throw in a shilling and make a wish?  I allus found   
   >> it amazing that when he arrived in amerkia he insisted on wearing that   
   >> grubby raincoat.   
   >   
   > No, not even a euro!  Is he still alive, Columbo?   
   Barely .... lol   
      
   Peter Falk, Born 1927 - Present   
      
   Triva Bits.   
      
   Not very tall, 5' 6" .... Cuds will no doubt chortle at that!   
      
   His wonky eye.  His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three,   
   because of cancer.   
      
   Is a Certified Public Accountant.   
      
   Falk puts damper on rumour that his trademark 'Columbo' raincoat has been   
   placed in the Smithsonian Institution: insists it's in his upstairs closet.   
      
   Columbia Studios chief, the boorish Harry Cohn, rejected Falk declaring,   
   "For the same money, I can get an actor with two eyes!"   
      
   Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out.   
   Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and   
   handed it to the umpire, telling him, "Here, I think you might need this."   
      
   His daughter Catherine Falk is a private detective in real life.   
      
   Source.   
   Bospho's-mediapedia.   
      
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