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Sean Penn close to inking deal to star in ‘Three Stooges’
Boston Herald ^ | January 5, 2010 | Gayle Fee & Laura Raposa

Posted on 01/05/2010 7:34:29 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

This Just In: Hollywood heavy Sean Penn, who dropped out of the Farrelly Brothers’ “Three Stooges” movie during the bust-up of his marriage, is back on board to play middle Stooge Larry, Bobby Farrelly told the Track .

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: entertainment; hollywood; movies; penn; seanpenn; stooges
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To: ConservativeStatement

Maybe a few eye pokes will knock some sense into him.


21 posted on 01/05/2010 7:45:20 AM PST by albie
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To: texanyankee

ROFL!


22 posted on 01/05/2010 7:45:43 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The Three Stooges can NEVER be recreated. I wish they would quit trying. The attempt a few years back with what’s-his-name from The Commish as Curly was just awful.


23 posted on 01/05/2010 7:46:02 AM PST by Mopp4
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To: ConservativeStatement

Benicio Del Toro as Moe?


24 posted on 01/05/2010 7:46:49 AM PST by maggief
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To: driftdiver

Have their been other feature films about the Three Stooges?


25 posted on 01/05/2010 7:47:19 AM PST by Borges
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To: rhombus

This isn’t a remake. It’s an original biopic of the Stooges career.


26 posted on 01/05/2010 7:48:37 AM PST by Borges
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To: ConservativeStatement
Growing up, I loved the Stooges, but what made them work was the individual talents of the actors. The reason a few old shows survive forever is because of the individual talent of one of the actors, not because of any genius in concept or writing. The Stooges was three incompetent guys trying to do different things and getting in trouble.

When they tried to remake the Beverly Hillbillies, they couldn't find anyone who could emulate the characters of Jed, Granny or Jane Hathaway like the original actors. If they tried to redo the Munsters, they'd never find another Fred Gwynne or Al Lewis. Some actors create a character that no one else could play. Barney Fife, Fred Mertz, and Ed Norton were signature characters of specific actors. They can't be replicated.

While I wouldn't see a movie with Sean Penn in it anyway, there's no point in seeing a Three Stooges movie when Jerome Horwitz was the engine that made the original run, and he's been dead for over half a century.

27 posted on 01/05/2010 7:48:53 AM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: rhombus

A few year ago,ABC had a Three Stooges movie produced by
Mel Gibson.The movie wasn’t bad.Gibson is a big Three Stooges fan.


28 posted on 01/05/2010 7:49:05 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: ConservativeStatement

He’s been auditioning for it his whole life.


29 posted on 01/05/2010 7:49:57 AM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: rhombus
Remaking the Three Stooges has to be the worst idea - evah

oh I can think of worse:


30 posted on 01/05/2010 7:51:26 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Borges
This isn’t a remake. It’s an original biopic of the Stooges career.

I think I'll spend my $10 elsewhere.

31 posted on 01/05/2010 7:51:53 AM PST by rhombus
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To: jiggyboy

Thanks for sharing, now I have those awful images in my head. ;-)


32 posted on 01/05/2010 7:53:50 AM PST by rhombus
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To: albie
Maybe a few eye pokes will knock some sense into him.

Wise guy, eh?
33 posted on 01/05/2010 7:54:41 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sean Penn Drops Out Of ‘Three Stooges’ To Take Break From Hollywood

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/sean-penn-drops-out-of-three-stooges-to-take-break-from-hollywood/23940


34 posted on 01/05/2010 7:55:23 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Love the Stooges. Won’t go near anything with Penn in it.


35 posted on 01/05/2010 7:56:44 AM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: ConservativeStatement

No way I would watch a remake of the Three Stooges even if it was for free. No one can replace those guys and do a good job at it . They are ingrained into the brain synapses.


36 posted on 01/05/2010 7:57:08 AM PST by Renegade (You go tell my buddies)
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To: ConservativeStatement

37 posted on 01/05/2010 7:57:08 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Penn as a commie stooge? How appropriate.


38 posted on 01/05/2010 7:57:43 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

39 posted on 01/05/2010 7:59:01 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: ConservativeStatement

Will “Niagara Falls” still be the trigger word or will it be “Rush Limbaugh”?


40 posted on 01/05/2010 8:02:04 AM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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