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Three Stooges FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses
(FAQ). This entertaining and informative study of the Three Stooges focuses on the nearly 190 two-reel short comedies the boys made at Columbia Pictures during the years 1934-59. Violent slapstick? Of course, but these comic gems are also peerlessly crafted and enthusiastically played by vaudeville veterans Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and Joe arguably the most popular and lo...more
Paperback, 394 pages
Published
September 1st 2011
by Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
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Packed like a spring-loaded boxing glove into a faux-present, "The Three Stooges FAQ" is bursting with encapsulations of every one of the Stooges' 190 (!) two-reel comedies, including breakdowns of storylines, best jokes, best violent attacks, and encyclopedically complete information on every recurring character actor, leading lady, or writer/director who ever worked with this group. I'm not the biggest Stooges fan in the world, but Hogan's book gave me a lot of interesting insight into the spa...more
I expected an FAQ to answer the Frequently Asked Questions that fans of the stooges have always wanted answered (e.g., how many injuries occurred on the set, the length of Curly's hair when he was not performing, etc.). This book mainly just summarizes the many shorts in a thematic rather than a sequential fashion. One area of interest: the sidebars honoring the many faithful character actors and actresses who also appeared in the shorts.
Hard to have grown up a boy of my era without battling with parents over the need to watch the Stooges. I got this book as a gift, and I skimmed it. It's less a true FAQ of all things Stooges, and more a digest of plots. A resource, if you need it.
Everything you wanted to know about the stooges.... and less.
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