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Posted on 12/27/2002 8:40:56 AM PST by Rodney King
Fourth Stooge: Unwrapping the life of the trio's comic foil
By Steve Chawkins
Special to The Advocate and Greenwich Time
December 27, 2002
Floor-to-ceiling shelves stacked with boxes, filing
cabinets packed with cross-referenced folders, rows of chronologically arranged binders: But for the movie posters on the walls, Saxon Sitka's rented office in Amarillo, Calif., looks like a corner in the fluorescent depths of a presidential library.
In fact, it's a son's tribute to his departed dad: the longtime straight man for the Three Stooges.
Emil Sitka died four years ago at 83. Since then, Saxon has taken charge of his father's voluminous legacy, just as Emil so stoically took pies in the face, seltzer down the pants, pliers on the nose, the slings and arrows of outrageous Stooges.."When I decided to finish his book, it was like a big weight coming off my shoulders," he says. "Now I knew what to do. My father had given me a big, positive indication. Now I had a purpose." ...(Excerpted)
(Excerpt) Read more at greenwichtime.com ...
I'm a Stooge fan over Monty Python but I wouldm't be so hasty giving out that award. Take a look at this thread:
Zot (one of an increasing number of Admin spiked disrputer threads).
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