Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Supporting actor Fred Kelsey in a 1947 publicity photo
SUMMER 2024 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin
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- The Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles opened a Three Stooges exhibit on May 22, with exhibit items loaned by noted Stooge collectors and historians. It's planned to be open for six months.
- The Three Stooges Blu-Ray Collection will be released by Sony on July 23. Included will be 100 Columbia shorts, 28 solo shorts featuring Shemp, Besser and DeRita, the Columbia Curly Joe feature films, and the complete 24-minute THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK (1960) television pilot.
- The Three Stooges: Centennial is the latest comic book issue from publisher American Mythology, available with 5 different covers.
- Growing Up Stooge, Joan Howard Maurer's memoir cowritten with Jeff Lenburg, will see print later this year from Bear Manor Media.
- The Ambler Theater in Ambler PA will hold its annual Three Stooges Film Festival on July 31, featuring 5 of the Stooges' Columbia shorts with movie themes, and hosted by Jim Pauley.
by Brent Seguine
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Some of The Three Stooges' stunt doubles also had the opportunity to make on-screen appearances as various characters in the shorts. We take a look at the contributions of stunt and double supporting players Charlie Cross, Harold Breen, Teddy Mangean and John Kascier.
by Journal Staff
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- Alfred Paix
- Joe Palma
- Manuel Paris
- Jack Parker
- Emory Parnell
- Gloria Patrice
by Gary Lassin
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As the Stooges' career began winding down, their activities of 1968 are examined, notably their August 1968 trip to Honolulu HI to appear in the 11-day International 3-Ring Circuus at the Honolulu International Center Arena.
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Fan classified advertisements
by Gary Lassin
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Trivia Q&A
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Moe and Helen Howard at home, February 1972
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