Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Joe Besser in a 1930s publicity shot
SPRING 2021 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 2
- Upcoming Three Stooges (and Robonic Stooges) comic books from American Mythology
- SAN FRANCISCO (1936) with Ted Healy released on BluRay by the Warner Archive
- RRParks planning a 9th series of Three Stooges trading cards, lenticular motion cards
by Stephen Alpert
Page(s): 3, 14
The author recounts meeting Moe Howard at a 1972 UCLA event, and his subsequent Q&A correspondence with Moe.
by Ted Levitt
Page(s): 4 - 5
A discussion of books written about Three Stooges costars and crew:
- "The Gag Man: Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy" (Thomas Elrod Publ. 2015)
- "Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood: My Early Life and Career in Sound Recording at Columbia With Frank Capra and Others" (Scarecrow Press 1999)
- "A Passion For Winning: Fifty Years of Promoting Legendary People and Products" (Lighthouse Point Press 2004)
- "Smile When the Raindrops Fall: The Story of Charley Chase" (Scarecrow Press 1998)
by Journal Staff
Page(s): 6 - 11, 16
George Lloyd, Jimmy Lloyd, Marvin Loback, Alyn Lockwood, James Logan, Babe London, Jack Long, Walter Long, Ted Lorch, Evelyn Lovequist, Sam Lufkin
by Diego Puglisi
Page(s): 12 - 13
In the 1960s, Argentina's television magazines "Canal TV" and "Canal Infantil" featured Three Stooges cover caricatures and short comic book stories. A history of these comics and sample artwork is presented.
Page(s): 15
Fan classified ads
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 15
Trivia Q&A
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