Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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SUMMER 1991 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
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July 19 - 21 Convention will feature Suzanne Kaaren and Ted Healy II as guests; event details
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 1
1960s Three Stooges commercials for Aqua-Net Hairspray discovered (see pg. 14)
by Gary Lassin
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"Moe, Larry and Joe DeRita return from a shopping trip in a previously unpublished candid shot"
by Gary Lassin
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- Miscellaneous Stooges sightings by fans
- Joan Howard Maurer was a contestant on TO TELL THE TRUTH on April 30 (photo); Curly's daughter Jane may appear on a later episode
- Local TV station Stooge news
- AMC recently screened several Shemp solo feature films
- TNT recently ran the Stooges' MGM shorts with Ted Healy, and several Shemp solo Vitaphone shorts
- Columbia gag writer Maury Grashin died February 8
- Attleboro (MA) Sun Chronicle ran "Stooges, a Wacky Love Affair" featuring fan David Carter
- Jacksonville State Univ., and Kansas City's Granada Theater, recently screened Stooges film festivals
- The Paper, an upstate NY newspaper, ran an article on the Horwitz family farm in Chatham
- WLLH-AM Lowell MA featured "Three Stooges Day" during a morning drive time in May, phone interviewing Larry's sister Lyla Budnick, Convention organizer Frank Reighter, and Fan Club President Gary Lassin
- WBAL-AM Baltimore had a "Fan Club Night" interviewing fan club presidents, including Gary Lassin
by Ken Williams
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Original crossword puzzle
by Bill Cappello
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Personal and career tribute to supporting player Gino Corrado
by Richard J. Kunkel
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Discussion of editing, and censorship, in local TV presentations of The Three Stooges short subjects
by Gary Lassin
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Trivia questions
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
Page(s): 12 - 13
Complete details and itinerary of the 1991 Three Stooges Convention, July 19 - 21, Trevose PA
by Paul E. Gierucki
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The Three Stooges filmed three 60-second commercials for Aqua-Net Hairspray in the early 1960s; transcription of one commercial recently uncovered on 16mm
by Gary Lassin
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- "Moe Howard with his wife's sister, Clarice Selden and her husband, late 1930s"
- "Dr. Eddie Goursin, Ruth Brand, Judge Edward Brand, Shemp's wife Babe and Shemp celebrate the wedding of Shemp's son Mort at the family's Placida Ave. [Toluca Lake] home, early 1950s"
by Paul Fericano
Page(s): 18 - 19
Interview with Three Stooges fan Penn Jillette, comedian, musician and 1/2 of Penn & Teller
by Richard Finegan
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Discussion and review of the Shemp (solo) Vitaphone short subjects, recently presented on cable's TNT
by Gary Lassin
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- GoodTimes releases THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE on VHS
- Updated edition of The Three Stooges Scrapbook, with updated information, including Joe Besser's 1988 death
- Prints of the Al Hirschfeld Three Stooges etching, The Hidden Ball Trick, still available from George Goodstadt Inc.
- GoodTimes Vol. 3 of Stooge shorts with Shemp released with a packaging error, i.e., the wrong shorts
- Newly licensed merchandise includes t-shirts, finger puppets, dolls, PVC figurines, mugs, keychains, pencil toppers, poster, Columbia logo rubber stamp and 1992 calendar
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Fan classified advertisements
by Dave Bakke
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Source: The State Journal Register
"Why do men think The Three Stooges are funny, and women think they're merely stupid?"
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