Television
February, 1972
His life is a flood of urban anxieties. The walls of his high-rise apartment are wafer thin, adding neighbor noises to the already high decibel count. Open the door to the terrace--on which even cactus cannot survive--and in pour pollutants and gusts of hot air. Peter Falk is The Prisoner of Second Avenue, choked by his environment and trapped by the recession. He is the hero of Neil Simon's new comedy, one that is aimed straight at its audience's despair. To add to Falk's woes, he is fired. As...
