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Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kevin Pollak Jokes He Was Once 'Accosted' by Peter Falk at the Grocery Store About His 'Columbo' Impression (Exclusive)
Peter Falk appreciated a good Columbo impression — at least according to actor and comedian Kevin Pollak! Pollak — who is known for his stellar impressions — recently spoke to PEOPLE exclusively while attending the premiere of the new show Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue in Culver City, Calif. During the conversation, Pollak revealed that Falk once 'accosted' him in a grocery store in order to compliment his impression of him. 'Oh, he loved it,' Pollak, 67, recalled, adding, 'After the first time I did it on The Tonight Show, I ran into him a few weeks later in the produce section at Ralphs where he accosted me in front of the produce with, 'Excuse me: How do you do that with your eye? Me, I understand, but how do you do that?' That's a quote. And we became friendly from that moment on, and he was a hero and a unicorn in every regard.' Falk, who died in 2011 at the age of 83, per The New York Times, famously had a glass eye, which became a signature trait of his detective character. Pollak went on to say that he has been 'very lucky' in that all of the people he has impersonated in his 40-year career — from William Shatner to Christopher Walken — have seemed to enjoy the experience. 'I really did people that I loved and admired as opposed to feeling the need to attack. And I've spent time with everyone from Shatner to Christopher Walken to Alan Arkin, and I just did a two-hour interview on stage in San Francisco with Albert Brooks — my ultimate comedy unicorn hero — and he loves the impression. And Peter absolutely adored it. So yeah, I've been very, very lucky.' Related: Daughter Claims Peter Falk Has Alzheimer's Pollak — who worked with 2025 Oscar nominees Demi Moore and Mikey Madison in A Few Good Men and the series Better Things, respectively — also weighed in on which actress he hopes to see take home the Academy Award for best actress this year. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! 'It's difficult for me because I played the uncle to Mikey Madison in Better Things. And so I'm a tad torn, but [...] I believe, especially now that I've seen Mikey in Anora, that there are maaaany brilliant performances ahead of her, and she's already won so many awards. So let's give the Oscar to Demi,' he concluded. Pollak went on to recall his time on set with Moore in the now-iconic 1992 military courtroom drama, which also starred Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson, noting that The Substance actress was a caretaker to everyone around her. Related: Demi Moore Recalls Studio Executive Wanted Her and Tom Cruise to Have a Sex Scene in A Few Good Men 'That movie for me was being brought up to the majors, and I was rooting for everyone in such a big way. And what I was surprised and delighted and adored Demi for what a mother hen she was to everyone, cast and crew. Just lovely.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Pollak also revealed to PEOPLE that he is a part of one of Hollywood's most delightful unofficial clubs: The Character Actors Dining Society (CADS), which also includes the likes of fellow character actors Richard Kind and Steven Weber, as well as about 10 other performers. He shared that in addition to a group chat, the crew attempts to meet up for in-person dinners once a month. 'It's a great group with great stories. It's really the heart and soul of the group — and having each other's backs,' he added. Read the original article on People
New York Times
22-02-2025
- New York Times
Weegee Pix End Up in Morgue!
Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental social critic better known as Weegee, was highly regarded for his gritty street tableaus. He began working as a freelance news photographer in New York City in the 1930s, and had an uncanny penchant for arriving at crime scenes, fires or other disasters at just the right moment, getting just the right shot with his Speed Graphic camera. (According to various accounts, it was this preternatural timing that led to his pseudonym, a phonetic spelling of Ouija, an allusion to clairvoyance.) His considerable career, which spanned decades and even brought him to Hollywood in the late 1940s for a time, inspired the writer Christopher Bonanos, an editor at New York magazine, to write a biography of Fellig that was published in 2018: 'Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous.' As Mr. Bonanos was gathering reference materials for his book, he examined a series of photographs from a collection at the International Center of Photography, taken of the interior of Weegee's New York City apartment between 1937 and the mid-1940s. They showed Weegee's bed and the wall behind it, covered with newspaper clippings. Mr. Bonanos shared his account this week with Times Insider. He scrutinized the photos of the papered wall in an attempt to identify the various clips. In one image, he could make out a page torn from The New York Post, with an article detailing the arrest of Harry Brunette, a bank robber and kidnapper. It featured a photo of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the scene of the police raid on West 102nd Street in Manhattan, where Mr. Brunette was apprehended. The Times published its own article about the arrest, on Dec. 16, 1936, and used the same photograph. Mr. Bonanos, knowing The Times keeps a physical archive of articles, photographs and other materials, contacted the Morgue (the archive's nickname) in 2017. He was curious about some Weegee photos the Morgue might have, including the one of Hoover. The Times found it, in a photo folder for Hoover, though the image was not credited to Weegee. It was labeled an Associated Press photo. According to Mr. Bonanos, it is highly unlikely that Weegee would have posted someone else's photographs on his bedroom wall. He's confident the image belongs to Weegee. The Times discovered other photographs. One, in a folder marked 'ships, disasters' was an image of the Finnish freighter Aurora, on fire in the Hudson River in 1941. In print, the photo had been credited to The New York Times. But on the back, written in pencil, the name of the photographer is clear: Arthur Fellig.
