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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 287240" data-attributes="member: 23">That could be the case. It made me think of musical titles like Rhapsody In Blue, and also conjured up mental images of a Rorschach test. Nice observation, and that&#039;s very true now you mention it. Which makes the title even more mysterious. Perhaps it&#039;s a reference to Columbo&#039;s changing hair colour!! Speaking of which...Yes and no. He did indeed have his brown hair in the Faye Dunaway episode, but he&#039;d had grey hair for at least a couple of episodes before that one. I forgot to comment about that as I watched as I thought it was a little curious that he&#039;d gone back to the brown.Perhaps my mind was running away with me, but I found myself wondering if Peter Falk was trying to make himself look younger to impress Faye Dunaway. That would be ironic as I think he looks far better with the grey. Absolutely agreed on all counts. I took it as Shatner&#039;s concession to a character role, but I&#039;d be interested to know a little more about that choice. Absolutely. I think that previous form is obliquely referenced in dialogue as well. When Chase tells Columbo that gay men are known for behaving strangely (or words to that effect), Columbo replies that he wouldn&#039;t know because he always seems to end up investigating wives killing husbands or husbands killing wives. He could have added the words &quot;white&quot;, &quot;rich&quot; and &quot;able bodied&quot; as well, and that sums up the vast majority of the people with whom he&#039;s interacted. As you said, it&#039;s nice that there are at least some concessions to rectifying this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 287240, member: 23"] That could be the case. It made me think of musical titles like[I] Rhapsody In Blue,[/I] and also conjured up mental images of a Rorschach test. Nice observation, and that's very true now you mention it. Which makes the title even more mysterious. Perhaps it's a reference to Columbo's changing hair colour!! Speaking of which... Yes and no. He did indeed have his brown hair in the Faye Dunaway episode, but he'd had grey hair for at least a couple of episodes before that one. I forgot to comment about that as I watched as I thought it was a little curious that he'd gone back to the brown. Perhaps my mind was running away with me, but I found myself wondering if Peter Falk was trying to make himself look younger to impress Faye Dunaway. That would be ironic as I think he looks far better with the grey. Absolutely agreed on all counts. I took it as Shatner's concession to a character role, but I'd be interested to know a little more about that choice. Absolutely. I think that previous form is obliquely referenced in dialogue as well. When Chase tells Columbo that gay men are known for behaving strangely (or words to that effect), Columbo replies that he wouldn't know because he always seems to end up investigating wives killing husbands or husbands killing wives. He could have added the words "white", "rich" and "able bodied" as well, and that sums up the vast majority of the people with whom he's interacted. As you said, it's nice that there are at least some concessions to rectifying this. [/QUOTE]

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