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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: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Is it acting if you play yourself?


41 posted on 01/05/2010 8:02:49 AM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: driftdiver
"Well thats one movie I can’t see."

Ditto that, FRiend

42 posted on 01/05/2010 8:04:39 AM PST by libs_kma (If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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To: Mopp4

“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.”

It will be very hard to recreate the Three Stooges successfully. Even the original stooges sometimes had a hard time pulling off their act, not all of their episodes were very good. But when they did get it right, it was comic genius. Larry was my favorite of the three, so I wish that someone I liked better would play that part. Nevertheless, as much as I dislike Sean Penn’s politics, I actually think he could be a good Larry, and he already has the right looks to play the part. He was really good as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, so I know he is capable of doing comedy.


43 posted on 01/05/2010 8:05:41 AM PST by Texan Tory
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To: driftdiver

Agree that I can’t see it either. I love the Stooges and now this miscreant dip-wad ruins it for me by playing one of them.


44 posted on 01/05/2010 8:05:49 AM PST by dumpthelibs (dumpthelibs)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Super! One more movie I won’t have to go and see.


45 posted on 01/05/2010 8:10:19 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Borges
Yeah, there was a fairly good one made for TV back in 2000, with Michael Chiklis as Curly.

The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)


46 posted on 01/05/2010 8:10:31 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Richard Kimball

It's a bit strange seeing them shortly before they died.
47 posted on 01/05/2010 8:21:17 AM PST by Borges
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To: ConservativeStatement

I would have gone to see it but not now, not with Penn in it.


48 posted on 01/05/2010 8:24:41 AM PST by texaschick
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To: ConservativeStatement
When did he ever *stop* playing a stooge?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

49 posted on 01/05/2010 8:35:57 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
When did he ever *stop* playing a stooge?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

50 posted on 01/05/2010 8:37:28 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I guess these three weren't available...


51 posted on 01/05/2010 8:42:01 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Bush at his worst was still better than Obama at his best.)
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To: Borges

“Have their been other feature films about the Three Stooges?”

There were some early ones done by the stooges themselves. They didn’t do so well. Their agent was crooked and they made very little money.

I think Mel Gibson tried to do one but it fell through.


52 posted on 01/05/2010 8:46:05 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Sean's too late...


53 posted on 01/05/2010 8:48:58 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: driftdiver

Not features with the Stooges but about them and their career. I know Gibson produced a TV film about them.


55 posted on 01/05/2010 8:58:50 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

I don’t know of a movie about them. I have seen a TV documentary about them.


56 posted on 01/05/2010 9:02:47 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There is probably 10 hours of REAL Stooges film available, why would anyone want to see a pathetic copy?


58 posted on 01/05/2010 9:14:06 AM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: rhombus

“We can debate Curley versus Shemp all day long”

Shemp wasn’t that funny and Curly Joe was even worse.


59 posted on 01/05/2010 10:20:47 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Borges

Yeah, Pelosi and Reid sure show their age in that pic.


60 posted on 01/05/2010 10:26:06 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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