10- COLUMBO
"Wow! Who knew that the cat burglar was an actual cat?"
I love watching 'Columbo', which is pretty obvious as I have placed it in my top ten. But I am not talking about the brilliant mysteries with the twist where you know who the murderer is, nor do I mean Peter Falk and his legendary performance as Lieutenant Columbo. No, what I mean is that I loved watching the scenerey in the show, seeing America, or more specifically Los Angeles, in the 1970's. Watching all the different fashions and the way the streets were laid out was really fascinating for me. It was like a little history lesson in which I also got thoroughly enraptured and enthralled by this superb show.
One of the other things I like about 'Columbo' is the way that he is very persistent in catching the murderer. How he never ever stops until he captures him and her by pure intelligence, stubbornness and a sense of justice. He does this by asking a lot of questions. I too like, no scratch that, I
love to ask a lot of questions. I just do. Not because I want to capture a murderer, but because I am very curious. I am curious about how people relate to each other, how they relate to me, why some people liked that movie, why that worked, why that didn't work, what i am, who i am, why i am, what you are, who you are, why you are, and a billion different other things. I think it is tbe writer in me, the writer inside me that is obsessed with people.