Columbo (TV Series)

Étude in Black (1972)

Blythe Danner: Janice Benedict

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• Lizzy Fielding : Alex likes all that glamor, I suppose, but what have actors got to do with music?

  Janice Benedict : Mother, they're people, too.

  Lizzy Fielding : I doubt it.

• Janice Benedict : I could have stood for anything, Alex. Anything in the world, but not murder.

• Janice Benedict : How well did you know her, Alex?

  Alex Benedict : Oh, you know.

  Janice Benedict : I don't know.

  Alex Benedict : Now what is that supposed to mean?

  Janice Benedict : You know her phone number by heart.

  Alex Benedict : I know a lot of telephone numbers of people I work with by heart.

• Alex Benedict : You sound like your mother. She'd like me to go around as somber as the ghost... as august as Brahms, as fierce as Beethoven. Did you know that Brahms used to tell dirty stories? He used to have a cigar and use it... while he was conducting sometimes, in concerts. And Beethoven, he was...

  Janice Benedict : Yes, I know. You told me he was a sex maniac.

  Alex Benedict : So am I.

• Alex Benedict : Now, you're always imagining that I'm... I'm... leaping into beds all over town. I've never done that.

  Janice Benedict : Oh, Alex, don't. I know you.

  Alex Benedict : Why do all these people feel that they know me?

• Durkee : There isn't anything more you could tell us, Mrs. Benedict, about why she may have killed herself?

  Janice Benedict : I... I don't... Didn't even know her.

  Durkee : I thought perhaps your husband might have an idea.

• Janice Benedict : Do you think she was the kind of woman... men would have found attractive, for instance?

  Lizzy Fielding : Why would you ask that? What a silly question. She was a pianist, the poor dear. Something that should concern none of us.