http://www.waxapple.org/brad/blog/archives/4211 Brad's Musings and Meanderings Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:04:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.waxapple.org/brad/blog/archives/4211#comment-18268 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:30:48 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/brad/blog/archives/4211#comment-18268 Thanks for posting these, Brad! I just finished a piece for a forthcoming book called "Stooges Among Us." It's reminiscences by twelve of us who knew the Stooges in their sunset years. I only met Larry and Curly-Joe once each, but I have reel-to-reel tape of Larry (which is quoted directly in the piece I wrote) and Super 8 sound film of Curly-Joe. I met him at a movie convention put on by a friend of mine in September 1976. In the film, he pounds his fist on a table and says, "I don't think the Three Stooges were funny!" He then very eloquently explains why--he was a very intelligent man, and we talked about a number of things over the course of the afternoon. Joe and Ernie I got to know quite well, and I spent many happy afternoons in their little house on Biloxi Avenue in North Hollywood. Ernie was a very colorful character--like a jollier version of Thelma Ritter. Both of them were dear people. Thanks for posting these, Brad! I just finished a piece for a forthcoming book called “Stooges Among Us.” It’s reminiscences by twelve of us who knew the Stooges in their sunset years. I only met Larry and Curly-Joe once each, but I have reel-to-reel tape of Larry (which is quoted directly in the piece I wrote) and Super 8 sound film of Curly-Joe. I met him at a movie convention put on by a friend of mine in September 1976. In the film, he pounds his fist on a table and says, “I don’t think the Three Stooges were funny!” He then very eloquently explains why–he was a very intelligent man, and we talked about a number of things over the course of the afternoon. Joe and Ernie I got to know quite well, and I spent many happy afternoons in their little house on Biloxi Avenue in North Hollywood. Ernie was a very colorful character–like a jollier version of Thelma Ritter. Both of them were dear people.

]]>