angela lance berry was here. -- lance berry was here and we will always know her as jessica fletcher.ell me why -- >> i love doing mike hammer. i grew up with him in the 1950s. when the opportunity came along for me to do it, i was thrilled. arele think -- there stigmas attached to playing those kinds of characters. i do many other things. books.adio audio books on tape done as radio shows. i am still playing -- i love noir.ilm the wire -- film i love that whole style. tavis: you cannot beat that hat. look at that. that was one of his final words to me. where the hat. hat.ar the tavis: the costumes. put a guynistic to who was a throwback to the 1950s, putting them in a 1980s environment. i thought it was a clever thing. us connect tode them in the 1980s? >> he was an old testament guy. he was a vigilante. he was a champion of the little guy. if someone was a victim of some larger scheme, he was very much in their corner and he would do everything. -- that is oneut of the things we connect with. .e had a good sense of humor he had a poetic way of expressing himself. my dow jones was de