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> I hope you all caught the stooge special on ABC tonight.  It was good
> watching.
>
> Larry H

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"

oh, and i hate ABC

-steve

> 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

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

In a message dated 4/25/2000 1:48:38 PM, Larry (the talented stooge) Hendry 
writes:

>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.

Well, thanks to (our) Larry, I was able to see the last hour and a bit of it. 
I do wish I'd seen more though, since I seem to remember there being five 
stooges (maybe five Howard brothers) in the vaudeville days -- maybe the 
fifth stooge's name was Leppo possibly?

Anyway, I guess I'll have to read the book.

>However, I found the show enjoyable.

Me too! Thanks Larry!
BTW, Harry Shearer had once mentioned on his radio show, that The Monkees had 
the first rock record use of a Moog -- this can't be literally true, but I 
did (do) wonder when "they" used one.

John (I'm actually only interested in the stooge content of this list, I just 
buy the modules merely to keep from being kicked off) Barlow

> Well, thanks to (our) Larry, I was able to see
> the last hour and a bit of it.  I do wish I'd seen
> more though, since I seem to remember there
> being five stooges

Yep: 
(1)Larry (the talented one), (2)Moe (the "business" guy), 
(3)Shemp, (4)Curly, Shemp again, then (5)Joe.

I got it on tape JWB.  I'll mail ya a copy.
Larry

In a message dated 4/25/2000 7:27:33 PM, Larry (the talented one -- except at 
reading, and possibly counting) writes:

>> Well, thanks to (our) Larry, I was able to see
>> the last hour and a bit of it.  I do wish I'd seen
>> more though, since I seem to remember there
>> being five stooges
>
>Yep: 
>(1)Larry (the talented one), (2)Moe (the "business" guy), 
>(3)Shemp, (4)Curly, Shemp again, then (5)Joe.
>
>I got it on tape JWB.  I'll mail ya a copy.
>Larry

There were two Joes, Joe Besser (he wouldn't take the pie in the face) and 
Curly Joe Dorita. But my question was about the vaudeville days (pre-Healy, 
maybe pre stooges and/or pre Larry Fein) I think they had five guys on stage 
in their act. I think they had a handsome straight man kinda guy like Zeppo 
Marx -- I could be wrong, of course!

JB