TAKE A `CURLY SHUFFLE' THROUGH STOOGE HISTORY.All right, you knuckleheads, get spiffed up for the zaniest awards show ever to hit the small screen. ``The Three Stooges Three Stooges U.S. comedy team. It was originally formed as a vaudeville team in 1923 by brothers Moe and Shemp Howard (1897–1975, 1900–55), who performed with “Ted Healy and His Stooges. Greatest Hits'' runs from 8 to 9 p.m. Thursday on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , featuring clips from some of the lunatic trio's nearly 200 short films, plus a treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure. 2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident. of home movies - most shot by head Stooge stooge n. 1. The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedian; a straight man. 2. One who allows oneself to be used for another's profit or advantage; a puppet. 3. Slang A stool pigeon. Moe Howard - including Curly's real-life wedding. Executive producer George Paige said it was his idea to stage the show, a tribute to one of the movies' greatest comedy teams, as a kind of awards show gone wrong. ``It starts with a gorgeous starlet star·let n. 1. A small star. 2. A young film actress publicized as a future star. starlet Noun a young actress who has the potential to become a star Noun 1. getting out of a limousine, slipping on a banana peel and falling on her backside,'' he said, ``and it concludes with a huge pie fight
Much of the black-and-white home-movie footage came on loan from Joan Howard Maurer, Moe's daughter, who said her father got bored with just shooting Mom and the kids waving at the camera and made up little stories for everybody to act out, Stooge-style. ``He got us all involved - even the cleaning lady, who came out chasing somebody with her broom in one movie,'' Maurer said. Paige, a Stooges fan since he was a child, said he tried for nearly three years to interest a major network in doing a prime-time Stooges retrospective before Comedy III Productions Inc., the licensing corporation formed by the Stooges' heirs, and ABC agreed to the project. He spent five weeks watching 18-minute-long Stooges shorts, selecting the funniest bits and working with host Martin Short and Little Richard Little Richard, 1935–, American musician and singer, b. Macon, Ga., as Richard Wayne Penniman. One of the first rock musicians in the 1950s, he recorded "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," and "Good Golly Miss Molly." Since then, he has turned to religion. , who will perform the ``Curly Shuffle.'' Hearing the project was in the works, stars including Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis offered to appear, but the project was assembled so fast - it had to be finished to air in the middle of the May sweeps period, when viewership is measured to determine commercial advertising rates - that the actors' schedules couldn't be cleared in time, Paige said. Live footage for the special was filmed at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, where the Three Stooges previewed their original films. |
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