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Pennies Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle Season 2, 1972 Picture Gallery Sandra Smith is Catherine Goodland Bradford Dillman is her alcoholic husband Tony Ray Milland is Tony's greedy Uncle Jarvis
Arlene Martel is a blonde named Gloria in The Greenhouse Jungle. In the classic "Twenty Two" episode of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone she's the phantom raven-haired nurse who says, "Room for one more, honey." The name "Gloria " is a specific link to Ray Milland's character in The Lost Weekend. As Jarvis Goodland, he has all kinds of links to the chain smoking Murder in Greenwich man with the Maryland license plate. The pool table in Goodland's house is right next to his "solarium" (greenhouse) where he raises thousand-dollar orchids. Note the ashtray on the small table with the telephone. These items (including the pool table) appear in the rainy Murder in Greenwich movie scene outside the Cove Café. It's the scene where Fuhrman drops his keys next to his car and The Maryland Man (Fuhrman calls him "Batman" in the book) gets him in his car and tells him something about Michael Skakel that sounds incriminating -- when you assume that Michael killed Martha Moxley.
This is the stuff of a Mark Fuhrman scrambled letter game using The Greenhouse Jungle episode of Columbo for the letters in words and names to be rearranged in a particular Murder in Greenwich scene. All things considered, it suggest a string of dialogue regarding a trust fund in The Greenhouse Jungle rearranged into a different string of Murder in Greenwich dialogue involving a trust fund, a brown leather jacket a blue luxury car, and the passenger side window rolled down. A greenhouse, by the way, is an auto industry design and engendering name for the the windshield, side glass, back glass, pillars and roof of a car or truck.
Ray Milland as Don Birnam and Doris Dowling as Gloria in The Lost Weekend Desperate for a bottle of rye whisky, he goes to Gloria's place at the top of a stairway and borrows money money from her. He trips on his way down and ends up in a hospital alcoholic ward. He wakes up to the sight of a feverish black man in a bed next to his. Soon a male nurse comes in, tell him where he is and why. He then dangles a set of keys in front of him and says, "Are these yours? You and the colored fellow were being undressed at the same time. They fell out of somebody's pants." Fuhrman's explanation for the coins next to Nicole Simpson's Jeep was that they fell out of O.J.'s pants when he reached for his keys.
The color of the man next to Birnam followed by the keys that dropped out of somebody's pocket makes this scene a good candidate for the scene in Murder in Greenwich where the teenage boy follows Fuhrman out of the café taunting him with a racial epithet.
Later Don suffers a horrifying bout of D.T.'s featuring a bat that flies directly at him then attacks an imaginary mouse in the wall and draws blood |
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes Café Rain Clip Murder in Greenwich Café Change Murder in Greenwich Batman's Story The Greenhouse Jungle (partial puzzle) PETER FALK AS COLUMBO THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE STARS RAY MILLAND AS JARVIS GOODLAND
FRANK COLUMBO: I’M SORRY. I DON’T QUITE
UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT TRUST FUND.
Murder in Greenwich (a
solution)
There's enough here to be sure that Mark Fuhrman used a specific exchange of dialogue between Lt. Columbo and Jarvis Goodland to set up this word game. His Murder in Greenwich book is where his use of "Batman" came from. "Fuhrbutt" is a name he called himself in the third person in another forum. Other than than, he appears to have gotten the bulk of his material for items in at least one game solution from The Greenhouse Jungle episode of Columbo. The biggest problem for us is figuring out what other names, titles and descriptive phrases he took from that show for the words and phrases in his eventual solution -- if he ever got that far with it. Above is one partial solution derived from one logical base (it has to be logical to be valid and he can't cheat without a valid excuse to count as a real accomplishment. For instance, Columbo never used his first name, it never appeared in the credits and the only thing Peter Falk was ever recorded saying about it was that he didn't have one. The correct answer is, nevertheless, Frank, and it is therefore not cheating to use it in constructing the base elements of a word game like this. The solution above, however, seems to me to h Come to think of it, a C, the L, and all three E's you need to finish off the spelling of GROVER CLEVELAND are in the COCAINE AND BLUE EYES title. The set up would probably be something like COMPOSITES or FILMS, followed by the titles COCAINE AND BLUE EYES, THE LOST WEEKEND and The Greenhouse Jungle without the PETER FALK AS COLUMBO THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE STARS RAY MILLAND AS JARVIS GOODLAND line. It's the sort of possibility that you have to test before you can claim to have gone as far as you could to fill in the Greenhouse Jungle blanks. |
None of these answers can be right if they all leave a residue of more useless letters than you had when you started looking for alternate solutions. The difficulty here is finding all of the right words to make the puzzle. A viable solution should tell you if you got it right. How about this for a Murder in Greenwich Greenhouse Puzzle... COCAINE AND BLUE EYES ...STARS ORENTHAL JAMES SIMPSON — THE LOST WEEKEND… RAY MILLAND — COLUMBO: THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE…RAY MILLAND — KIDNAPPING SCAM — FRANK COLUMBO: I’M SORRY. I DON’T QUITE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT TRUST FUND. JARVIS GOODLAND: WELL…YOU SEE…I’M CO-ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE BANK OF A TRUST FUND SET UP BY TONY’S FATHER… AND YOU, CATHERINE, SHOULD KNOW (OF ALL PEOPLE) THAT HE PUT ENOUGH STRINGS IN THERE TO PROTECT TONY FROM HIS OWN BAD HABITS – AND GRASPING WIVES. Solution… HH NJ ** 1 Grover Cleveland was the 22nd President of the United States. Robert Karnes is the detective named Grover in The Greenhouse Jungle. He was a Rod Serling anthology series alumnus like Bradford Dillman, Arlene (Sax) Martel and Peter Falk 2. The cigarette in the rye symbolizes Birnam's final break with the bottle after buying a gun to end it all when he didn't think he could. 3 Det. is the abbreviation for "detective." 4 Greg Coleman (aka Batman/The Maryland Man), is depicted in Fuhrman's movie as a chain smoker. He was killed with poisoned narcotics shortly after Michael Skakel was indicted for murder. Cocaine and heroine are odorless. They can be smoked in cigarettes without detection. This combination of drugs and others killed Greg Coleman and Bill Wasz. 5 MD is the abbreviation for Maryland
I [FYI: The idea of using all three color coded movies to dump into this Murder in Greenwich word game set-up comes from the ways they combine in and out of the video clips. You should also know that O.J.’s voiceover as Michael Brennan in Cocaine and Blue Eyes tells the audience that “Grover Cleveland’s picture is on the one thousand dollar bill.” Grover is a detective searching for a planted .32 automatic in The Greenhouse Jungle.] --Jasper |
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