I asked actor Mark Ruffalo about his desire to portray Columbo, and you won’t believe what he did next!

Remember how I told you that Mark Ruffalo was here in Detroit to help draw attention to the fact that several hundreds of the City’s most poor were now without water, and how, if I got the chance, I’d ask him about his statement yesterday concerning his desire to play Columbo? Well, as it turns out, I had an opportunity, and, good to my word, I followed though. Here we are discussing it.

I’d like to say we had an awesome conversation about Columbo, why he’d be well suited for the part, and what, if anything, he’d change about the character if he were given an opportunity to do it, but none of that really happened. Given the seriousness of the matter at hand, and the fact that he was walking past me to get to the podium, where he’d be addressing one thousand or more people on this humanitarian crisis in Detroit, I’m not all that surprised that I didn’t get much back in the way of a response. I was just happy that I had the nerve to keep my word and ask him… and that he didn’t seem terribly annoyed by the untimely distraction from far left field. At least I don’t think he was too annoyed, as he kind of laughed, as if to say, “I’m not scared of you, or offended, but you really don’t expect for me to talk about this right now, do you?”

I should note that a much more serious post about this afternoon’s protest will be coming shortly.

[This post is dedicated to Peter Falk. I only talked with him a few times, but he was a hell of a guy.]