3 Stooges Download

[Yvone Samiento]

If there was something ironic about a lot of privileged suburbankids in the 1950s enthralled by the antics of a trio of vaudevillecomics who drew most of their material from the Great Depression ofthe 1930s, it never occurred to us.

The Stooges act just the way women fear their worst nightmareblind date would act. For some reason women don't find this funny.Possibly because they feel that they have, in fact, dated one ormore stooges in their lives.

Guys like the Stooges for the same reason kids do. The Stoogesact the way that kids want to, or that we would have done if we hadbeen able to lock our parents in the basement and extort schoolexcuse notes from them as the price of food and water.

Now, more than half a century after they were made, the Stoogesshorts are getting a new lease on life on American Movie Classicson, sure enough, Saturday mornings. Have their baby-boomer fansoutgrown them? Will they give up two hours of precious quality-timewith their families to watch 60-year-old slapstick?