[pepsi_junkie]

When I was a kid I read the autobiography of Moe Howard. Interesting peek into another time and place, growing up in city at the turn of the century and then the vaudeville life.

One nugget: the eye poke was actually done by Moe poking the others right above the eyeballs on the eye socket bone. So he really did poke them and occasionally he missed and hit the eyes. These guys got the hell beaten out of them on those old films.

[massgopguy]

Moe threw his last pie on the Mike Douglas Show. His hair was combed up and he was in the audience. he asked what happened to the Three Stooges. On a subsequent show a guy in the audience had a pie which he asked Moe to hit him in the face with.
Speaking of Three Little Pigskins. How about a smoking hot blond Lucille Ball as one of the Mob's Molls?

[pepsi_junkie]

Another interesting somewhat related tidbit from the old comedy days, actually before the Stooges. Buster Keaton was making a film where he was on top of a moving train and he was supposed to grab a chain from a water tower which would swing to the side and lower him to the ground. Unfortunately they didn't think this through and it was the real release from a real water tower full of water and when he grabbed it the water gushed out and slammed him down on the tracks forcefully. He hurt his neck badly and though he continued to work, he was in a lot of pain. But eventually in time it passed and he moved on. Years later he got an x-ray and his doctor asked him when he'd broken his neck.

Harold Lloyd once used the fuse on a prop bomb to light a cigarette and to his surprise the bomb blew. It had a small amount of gunpowder in it to make a smokey bang for the camera but it was enough to blow off at least one, maybe two fingers. OSHA would not approve.

[Fai Mao]

When I was 15 I wrote Larry a letter after getting his address out of a book

He was living in a home for old actors and had had a stroke and didn’t really have any family around him.

He wrote me back and we corresponded for about a year.