Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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SUMMER 1990 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
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Itinerary for the 1990 Three Stooges Convention, with scheduled guest Ethelreda Leopold
by Gary Lassin
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Three Stooges costar Harold Brauer died March 19 in LA, at age 80
by Gary Lassin
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Healy replacement Stooge Dick Hakins on February 22 at age 87
by Gary Lassin
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- Miscellaneous Stooges sightings by fans
- News wire article on Fan Club and Convention carried by newspapers around the country; LA Daily News has five articles in a pull-out section
- Philadelphia Magazine runs article in July
- News of local TV airings
- Akron (OH) Civic Center will have a Stooges film festival, Sept. 7 - 9, with pie fight scheduled as Guinness event for largest
- Shemp festival held in Donaldson, LA
- News of Cable TV airings
- Tabloid Weekly World News publishes article claiming Queen Elizabeth is a Stooge fan and mimics them
- Wax statues of Curly, Larry & Moe at The Palace of Wax, Grand Prairie TX
- The Stooges in advertisements for Hostess cakes, Sprite, and Logitech software
by Gary Lassin
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Trivia questions
by Variety
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Source: Variety
Variety Obituary for Harold Brauer
by Joe Jerrier
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Report on April's Three Stooges Convention/American Cancer Society Benefit in Lewiston ME
by Roberta Quadro
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Continued coverage of the Three Stooges Convention in Lewiston ME
by Cam Farner
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Source: Weekly World News 5/1/90
Tabloid newspaper report of a wife seeking divorce because her husband acts like the Stooges
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Source: Columbia Pictures Merchandising
List of current licensees, and their respective products, approved for Three Stooges merchandise (as of May 1990)
by Ken Williams
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Crossword puzzle
by Steve Benner
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Three Stooges poem, by "Edgar Allan Moe"
by Richard Finegan
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Analysis and review of the Three Stooges' 1945 feature film ROCKIN' IN THE ROCKIES
by Frank Reighter
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Columbia short subject filmographies
by Gary Lassin
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"A very rare early 1920s shot of Moe, Shemp and Ted Healy taken in NY, before Larry joined the act"
by Gary Lassin
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Interview with Lyla and Nate Budnick, Larry's sister and brother-in-law
by Gary Lassin
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Discussion and recommendations of hobbyist publications, for collecting Stooges gum cards, comic books, autographs, toys/games, movie posters, film and video, records, etc.
by Stephen P. Alpert
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What is the correct pronunciation of Shemp's trademark vocalization?
by Gary Lassin
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- The Lost Stooges from Turner Home Entertainment released to VHS, featuring clips from the Stooges MGM films with Ted Healy
- GoodTimes releases five volumes of short subjects, fifteen in total, to VHS
- Results of an auction held at the 1990 Convention in Maine
- Newly licensed merchandise includes Christmas ornaments, postcards, Halloween masks and a 1991 calendar
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Fan classified advertisements
by Gary Lassin
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July - September dates of note in Three Stooges history
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