[on casting Peter Falk in "Columbo" (1971)] We had a list of possible actors and Peter wasn't in the top five. We wanted Bing Crosby, Ernest Borgnine, Lee J. Cobb--who later played the same role in The Exorcist (1973)--until Peter got ahold of the script and said, "I must play this part!" And, luckily for us, he did.