ABC's "documentary" TV Movies seem to play pretty fast and loose with the
facts - witness the Beach Boys one from a couple months ago, where they had
to include a disclaimer before the second part, since living people were
being seriously slandered and history was subjected to some extremely
revisionist bludgeoning (I could go on for hours about historical
inaccuracies and extreme bias in it, but it was still good fun to watch!).
Unfortunately, I missed the Stooges movie, even though I ∗have∗ read at
least one biography (nominally Larry's, but it obviously covered all of
them to some degree) that would probably make it easy to see where facts
were distorted.
Of course, the worst things about the Beach Boys movie were: no mention of
Paul Tanner's ribbon controller (used for "I Just Wasn't Made For These
Times", "Good Vibrations" and "Wild Honey"), and it ended before getting to
1977's 'Beach Boys Love You' LP, which features lots of cool/cheesy/goofy
Minimoog tones all over it ... (too bad the Beach Boys never had Paul
Beaver play on one of their records, like the Monkees did!)
-Doug
ceres@...At 03:53 PM 04/25/2000 -0500, "J. Larry Hendry" <
jlarryh@...> wrote:
>> From: velure <velure@...>
>> i was not very impressed with it. i turned it off
>> about 45 minutes into it. they seemed to have
>> confused a few stooge facts and distorted the
>> events to suit the "movie"
>
>Well, I think you missed the best parts then. However, I have no doubt
>that facts were distorted to suit the movie. That seems to be common place
>these days. I don't know enough of the real facts to agree or dispute.
>However, I found the show enjoyable.
>
>Larry (the talented stooge) Hendry