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MGM gets its 'Stooges'
Variety ^
| March 25, 2009
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Posted on 03/25/2009 2:24:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81
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A movie that shouldn't be made. Howard, Fine and Howard are spinning in their graves.
To: buccaneer81
Going WO WO WO WO WO WO!!
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:26:03 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: buccaneer81
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, YGTBFKM.....
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:26:08 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: buccaneer81
Not really. LOL. They would have been the first ones to tell the actors to take the money.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:26:23 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: buccaneer81
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:26:39 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
('Cause this is nothing like we'd ever dreamt / Tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt)
To: buccaneer81
BOMBARD THE FARRELY BROTHERS! THE THREE STOOGES WERE GREAT AMERICANS WHO LAMPOONED HITLER! PENN’S FATHER LEO WAS A HITLER SUPPORTER!
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:27:00 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: buccaneer81
Sean Penn as Larry.
Poor Larry Fine.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:27:33 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: buccaneer81
S”tudio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, “
Forget about it.
To: buccaneer81
Mel Gibson would have been the perfect Moe, and he is in real life obsessed with the Stooges.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:28:20 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: buccaneer81
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:28:53 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: Nachum
They would have been the first ones to tell the actors to take the money.Man did those guys get hosed. For the 20+ years under contract to the studio, they each made $20,000 a year. Big money during the depression, but they never got a raise.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:29:39 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
(Penn) hasn't done a comedy since the 1989 laffer "We're No Angels." Could it be because he's an arrogant, unfunny, crashing bore?
Naaah.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:29:43 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
('Cause this is nothing like we'd ever dreamt / Tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt)
To: buccaneer81
I kind of doubt that. They replaced the third stooge whenever they needed to. There wasn’t much sentimentality on their part.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:29:49 PM PDT
by
Chet 99
To: buccaneer81
There was this interesting tidbit at Wikipedia:
In a 2004 New Yorker feature on the Farrelly Brothers’s attempt to write a script for a new Three Stooges movie, Peter Farrelly offered his theory of Stooge appreciation: Growing up, first you watched Curly, then Moe, and then your eyes got to Larry. Hes the reactor, the most vulnerable. Five to fourteen, Curly; fourteen to twenty-one, Moe. Anyone out of college, if youre not looking at Larry, you dont have a good brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Fine#Posthumous_fame
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:30:20 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: buccaneer81
I don’t get Carrey as Curley. My choice was Michael Chiklas, Vic Mackey on The Shield. He was on the radio in Boston a few months ago right before the final episode, and said he was speaking to the brothers about the project. Bid Stooges fan. Maybe Jim Carrey drops out.
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:33:00 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: dfwgator
Mel Gibson would have been the perfect Moe, and he is in real life obsessed with the Stooges. Jorge Garcia, (Hugo "Hurley" Reyes from "Lost") should get the Curley role.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:33:15 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: Chet 99
Actually they replaced Curly (real name Jerome) after he
suffered a disabling stroke in 1946 with Shemp (his brother
aka Samuel). Shemp died of massive heart attack in 1954
Was replaced first by Joe Besser aka Curly Joe then by
Joe De Rita for the 3 Stooges films
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:33:38 PM PDT
by
njslim
To: buccaneer81
they each made $20,000 a year. Yeah. And they had to work with lions too!
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:33:45 PM PDT
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Nachum
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To: buccaneer81
The film is a complete waste of time and will flop.
There will always be only one set of Stooges and ya just cannot really improve on perfection.
Just like the Little Rascals movie and few years ago: look-a-like casting was OK, but the movie sucked and the kids just mouthed the lines.
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posted on
03/25/2009 2:34:02 PM PDT
by
nesnah
(Expression with an attitude - http://www.polistic.com)
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