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Although I'm late to the topic (sorry, have been busy working on the new projects) I completely agree with Chris. Best to start them off slowly. Some of my earliest memories are of laughing hysterically while watching Laurel and Hardy on TV with my uncle. While growing up I subsisted on a steady vie...

Make that ten (10) discounted rooms. Book now -- they are going quickly! I am putting together the Abbott and Costello Rarities show which, like last year's Three Stooges Rarities, will be loaded with fantastic footage. As always, the show will contain material that even the most diehard fan has not...

<....quitely unspooling several short lengths of piano wire....>

Wow! Twenty years? Suddenly I don't feel quite so bad...

-- PG

From POVOnline: Maxine Marx, daughter of Chico, passed away in her sleep early Monday morning, September 14, at the age of 91. She was a lovely lady with a nice background in acting and in teaching acting. Maxine was always accommodating to the many Marx Brothers fans who sought her out for intervie...

Found this via Google: Frank “Junior” Coghlan, 93 Mar. 15, 1916 – Sept. 7, 2009 Frank “Junior” Coghlan , the child star actor of silent movies died peacefully in his sleep in Saugus, CA at the age of 93. Frank moved with his parents Frank and Katherine Coghlan to California as a baby. In 1920 eventu...

If you have not yet read Steve Cox and Jim Terry's book ONE FINE STOOGE: LARRY FINE'S FRIZZY LIFE IN PICTURES, do so without hesitation. This is by far one of the most thoroughly researched and beautifully executed Stooge books currently available. It is loaded with great photos and innumerable prev...

Do it, Louis! Such a tome may help conjure up new interest in El's various works. Look to McFarland for publishing.

-- PG

Fascinating to finally hear his voice! Great find, Andrew!

-- Paul E. Gierucki

Chaplin on location for The Gold Rush (1925)