Re: What profession or occupation has Columbo not addressed?
Michael I loved your idea about the administrator and the faking of the standardized tests...my son is in high school and I understand what you mean.
And Mark....I would love love love to read your script!!
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I think arms dealers were profiled in Conspirators.
I used to be in accounting, that's been covered in Sky High I.Q.
It would have to be a more lucrative profession, since that's the usual Columbo scheme. So I guess lingerie models would fit in. Wonder if they'll do a spoof of the Victoria's Secrets catalogue?
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I always thought a cartoonist would have been a good idea. Sort of like a Jim Davis type who did "Garfield" with a similar type character that just happened to be a Bassett Hound. Or maybe take it a step further like a Walt Disney type character who built a cartoon character into a theme park.
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Oh, yes, a cartoonist is a must. Charles Schulz, Chester Gould, Jim Davis, et al rake, or raked, in the money with a back hoe. Plenty of room for professional jealousy, plagiarism, etc. Or maybe the creator of a famous comic book character like a man of steel or a crawling arachnid fellow.
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yeah, I think the cartoonist angle is a great one--plenty of material there. Many of us have followed the controversies of Trudeau's Doonesberry or Marlette's politcal cartoons.
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The political cartoonist could have the angle of a cartoonist seemingly knowing more than what he reads in the newspapers about a politcal boss--and getting murdered for it. Clues could be in his final cartoon.
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Good choice I think. What could a story line be? Pilot kills wife and uses his complex flight schedule to claim he was elsewhere? And Columbo's fear of heights could be used well, too.
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As a former daily newspaper reporter, I've always felt a police beat reporter would be perfect -- he or she could shadow Columbo, get the tidbits the cops aren't supposed to release, and even manipulate coverage to cover his or her tracks.