Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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WINTER 1991 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
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Tentative plans for the 6th Annual Three Stooges Convention, July 17 - 19 in Trevose PA
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 1
1992 Maine Three Stooges Convention for the American Cancer Society, April 11 - 12 in Lewiston ME
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 3 - 4
- Miscellaneous Stooges sightings by fans
- Emil Sitka recovering well from a stroke suffered during filming of THE NUTTY NUT
- Commemorative plaque by Todd Bolton, dedicated at Larry's birthplace, 3rd & South Sts., Philadelphia PA
- ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT ran a tribute segment to Shemp Howard in August, narrated and produced by Leonard Maltin
- Three Stooges film festival held in Akron OH, Sept. 7 - 9, with a Saturday pie fight event
- August/September issue of Filmfax has two Stooges-related articles: an interview with BLAZING STEWARDESSES producer Sam Sherman, discussing his failed plans to have the Stooges appear in that film; and an interview with Les "Izzy" Mohr, a Columbia production manager on Jules White's staff
- TBS ran a "Three Stooges Fright Night" prime time special on November 1; plans a December 27 prime time special of features and shorts
by Gary Lassin
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Trivia questions
by Nancy Luse
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Source: Frederick (MD) Post
Profile of Jane Howard Hanky, Curly's younger daughter
by Mike Parker
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Mini-biography, and review of Gene Roth's work with The Three Stooges
by Richard Finegan
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Corrections and updates to Ted Healy's film credits, with the Stooges and solo: HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE (1934), LA FIESTA DE SANTA BARBARA (1935), SCREEN SNAPSHOTS Series 21 # 2 (1941), and projects planned at the time of his death
by Richard J. Kunkel
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Discussion of rare Stooges footage circulating on the collectors' market
by Jim Shemansky
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Rube Goldberg comments in the December 1930 issue of Photoplay imply that there was additional unreleased footage for SOUP TO NUTS
by Mike Eder
Page(s): 8 - 9
Discussion of 1940s radio appearances of Joe Besser and Joe DeRita
by Associated Press
Page(s): 10
Source: Hagerstown (MD) Herald-Mail
Profile of Stooges fan Kenneth Heath, a Baptist minister and Moe Howard impersonator
by Gary Lassin
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"Moe, Larry and Curly [with child actress Edith Fellows] in a 1937 publicity shot promoting Pillsbury's Moving Picture Machine"
by Brian Kirkpatrick
Page(s): 12
THE NEW 3 STOOGES (1965) are available on VHS from several distributors
by Gary Lassin
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Newly licensed merchandise includes t-shirts, wall/desk clock, and banks
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Fan classified advertisements
by Jim Shemansky
Page(s): 16
The Sennett and Keystone origins of pie fights
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