Farewell Peter Falk

Falk did not try to hide his prosthetic eye, using the look instead to give his characters a quizzical, odd slant, an eccentricity that was enhanced by a mild speech impediment that gave his pronunciation of some letters a breathy quality.
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1965
Falk did not try to hide his prosthetic eye, using the look instead to give his characters a quizzical, odd slant, an eccentricity that was enhanced by a mild speech impediment that gave his pronunciation of some letters a breathy quality.

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