Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Keith F. Lynch
> Don Aitken filted:
>> How come nobody mentions the Marx Brothers? Their films *are*
>> better than any other film comedy, ever.
> Better than most, but you can't make the "ever" claim as long as you
> can find Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd....r
Or the Three Stooges.
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.
Hatunen
<k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> Don Aitken filted:
>>> How come nobody mentions the Marx Brothers? Their films *are*
>>> better than any other film comedy, ever.
>
>> Better than most, but you can't make the "ever" claim as long as you
>> can find Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd....r
>
>Or the Three Stooges.
Even as a child, when Three Stooges comedies accompanied many
kids' fifteen cent Saturday matinees, I never cared much for
their overly-broad humor. I still don't, but I am amazed by the
proficiency and timing of their slapstick. I've sometimes
wondered how long they rehearsed these scenes.
--
************* DAVE HATUNEN (hat...@cox.net) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
Keith F. Lynch
> Even as a child, when Three Stooges comedies accompanied many
> kids' fifteen cent Saturday matinees, I never cared much for
> their overly-broad humor. I still don't, but I am amazed by
> the proficiency and timing of their slapstick.
I've re-watched plenty of what I enjoyed as a child. Most of it
doesn't hold up at all well, to put it mildly. The Three Stooges is
an exception; I enjoy it now more than ever. I just wish Columbia
would release *all* the shorts, and do so in a format where I don't
have to repurchase several copies of the same shorts.
> I've sometimes wondered how long they rehearsed these scenes.
Some of them were spontaneous, according to Moe's autobiography.
R H Draney
>
>I've re-watched plenty of what I enjoyed as a child. Most of it
>doesn't hold up at all well, to put it mildly. The Three Stooges is
>an exception; I enjoy it now more than ever. I just wish Columbia
>would release *all* the shorts, and do so in a format where I don't
>have to repurchase several copies of the same shorts.
Sony's doing them, twenty or so to a volume, in chronological order...I just
picked up volume seven on Black Friday which takes me up to 1954...I figure two
more sets to go unless they're going to release the later features as well....r
--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?
Charles Wm. Dimmick
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:13:57 +0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
> <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>
>> R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>> Don Aitken filted:
>>>> How come nobody mentions the Marx Brothers? Their films *are*
>>>> better than any other film comedy, ever.
>>> Better than most, but you can't make the "ever" claim as long as you
>>> can find Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd....r
>> Or the Three Stooges.
>
> Even as a child, when Three Stooges comedies accompanied many
> kids' fifteen cent Saturday matinees, I never cared much for
> their overly-broad humor. I still don't, but I am amazed by the
> proficiency and timing of their slapstick. I've sometimes
> wondered how long they rehearsed these scenes.
>
skates...at the Radio City IceCapades, circa 1948.
Charles
Keith F. Lynch
> Before I ever saw the Three Stooges in a movie I saw them perform on
> skates...at the Radio City IceCapades, circa 1948.
Cool (npi). I didn't know they could skate. It's sometimes hard to
remember that they weren't really clumsy oafs, but just played them.
You're obviously a lot older than me. Though I do remember it took me
a while, when I was a kid, to realize that the Columbia shorts were old.
But those shorts were less than half their current age then.
William December Starr
Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> said:
> Even as a child, when Three Stooges comedies accompanied many
> kids' fifteen cent Saturday matinees, I never cared much for
> their overly-broad humor. I still don't, but I am amazed by the
> proficiency and timing of their slapstick. I've sometimes
> wondered how long they rehearsed these scenes.
I recall seeing an article (in TV Guide, before it completely
imploded?) contemporaneous with a tv-movie biography of the Three
Stooges<1> in which Michael Chilkis, who played Curly, commented on
how _hard_ it was to recreate some of their routines.
*1: The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214698/>
-- wds
R H Draney
Chiklis and company were, of course, working with the handicap of having to
*recreate* routines that someone else had already done...the Howards just had to
make them funny without the added restriction of making them look like something
that was already in existence....r
Keith F. Lynch
> of having to *recreate* routines that someone else had already
> done...the Howards just had to make them funny without the added
> restriction of making them look like something that was already in
> existence....r
Good point. But don't say "the Howards" when you mean "the Stooges."
The Stooges weren't the Stooges without Larry Fine.
R H Draney
>
>R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> Chiklis and company were, of course, working with the handicap
>> of having to *recreate* routines that someone else had already
>> done...the Howards just had to make them funny without the added
>> restriction of making them look like something that was already in
>> existence....r
>
>Good point. But don't say "the Howards" when you mean "the Stooges."
>The Stooges weren't the Stooges without Larry Fine.
As far as I'm concerned, they weren't the Stooges with Besser or DeRita,
either....r