Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Larry Fine, THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962) publicity photo
SPRING 2000 - Editor: Gary Lassin
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 2
Trivia questions
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 3
- Cast for the ABC-TV movie biography has been announced
- The 2000 Three Stooges Fan Club Meeting is scheduled for May 6 - 7
- AMC will air The Three Stooges every Saturday and Sunday morning 8AM - 10AM Eastern
- Curly Howard is featured in the Dairy Council's "Got Milk?" advertising campaign
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 3
The Fan Club has created an online Yahoo newsgroup for members
by Brent Seguine
Page(s): 3
Several Stooges and related films included in AFI's "Funniest Comedies" nominations of 500 films; 100 to be chosen
by Gary Lassin and Frank Reighter
Page(s): 4
Sally Starr of THE OUTLAWS IS COMING (1965) will be the special guest at the 2000 Fan Club Meeting; complete meeting details and itinerary
by Saxon Sitka
Page(s): 5
Emil's son recounts his experience at the 1999 Fan Club Meeting
by Bill Cappello
Page(s): 6
Life and career overview of the Stooges' HALF-WIT'S HOLIDAY (1947) costar
by Brent Seguine
Page(s): 7, cont. on 14
Overview of Clyde Bruckman's work at Columbia, and with The Three Stooges
by Richard Finegan
Page(s): 8
Identification, analysis and credits of music heard in The Three Stooges shorts of 1944 - 1945
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 9
- "Joe Besser outside his home, 1974"
- "Larry Fine at the Motion Picture Country Home, 1974"
- "On the set of POP GOES THE EASEL, the Stooges try to bring to life a painting by artist Joe Coscio, 1935"
by Ed Shifres
Page(s): 10 - 11, cont. on 14
Tom Kennedy, Dorothy Kent, Charles Knight, Fred Kohler, Henry Kulky, "K" minor players
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 12, cont. on 14
Updates and additions to the Three Stooges, and solo, discography published in Journal # 48
by Gary Lassin
Page(s): 13
Three Stooges Discography, including:
Title, release date, label & release #, format (LP, 45, 33-1/3) and additional commentary information
by Paul Elias
Page(s): 14
Source: San Francisco Recorder
US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) rejects C3's appeal/claim that use of a momentary clip of DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936) in New Line's THE LONG KISS GOODBYE (1996) constituted Trademark infringement
Page(s): 15
Fan classified advertisements
by Mary K. Feeney
Page(s): 16
Source: The Hartford Courant
The columnist explores a psychologist's claim that men are all variations of Moe, Larry or Curly.
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