TRACING PATH OF 'NYUK NYUK NYUKS' THROUGH TOWN.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer BURBANK - Police Sgt. Jim Pauley cruises the streets of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - peering up alleys, eyeballing stairways and checking fire escapes for clues. The gumshoe for the Philadelphia Police Department The Philadelphia Police Department is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest municipal police agencies in the United States, and the fourth largest in the country. isn't on the prowl for crooks, but for historic filming locations of America's wackiest comedy trio: 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. . ``See the building with the steps? That's where the Stooges get into the jalopy at the end of 'Termites of 1938' and blow up the car,'' said Pauley, pointing toward a Bostonian row house facade at the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Ranch in Burbank. ``I'm a natural investigator who happens to be a police sergeant.'' Pauley, a member of The Three Stooges Fan Club Inc. and the Hollywood Heritage Museum The Hollywood Heritage Museum is a "Hollywood Studio Museum" located at 2100 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA. The museum is opposite the Hollywood Bowl and is housed in the restored Lasky-DeMille Barn, which was acquired in February 1983 by Hollywood , is one of America's leading researchers on exactly where Moe, Larry, Shemp and Curly filmed their eye-poking antics. On Thursday, he will join Hollywood historians and on-camera Stooges vets in presenting ``Three Stooges Hollywood Film Locations, Then and Now,'' complete with film shorts and slides at the Hollywood Heritage Museum. The ex-vaudevillians who created a slapstick slapstick Comedy characterized by broad humour, absurd situations, and vigorous, often violent action. It took its name from a paddlelike device, probably introduced by 16th-century commedia dell'arte troupes, that produced a resounding whack when one comic actor used it to legacy are still popular more than 70 years after their first film short, ``Woman Haters.'' Moe, played by Harry Moses Howard, the ``Boss Stooge'' with his scowl and pudding-bowl haircut. Violinist Larry Fine Larry Fine may be:
The Three Stooges' images appear on T-shirts and neckties. Their 190 shorts and five feature films are still aired 'round the world. And the farcical far·ci·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to farce. 2. a. Resembling a farce; ludicrous. b. Ridiculously clumsy; absurd. far Howard and Fine team will be subject of a long-awaited feature film by the Farrelly Brothers (``Dumb and Dumber,'' ``There's Something About Mary'') slated to be shot this year. ``I think it's just wonderful,'' said actress Joan Howard Maurer, daughter of the late Moe Howard and who, at 10, played in a hopscotch scene later identified by Pauley as having been shot on Larchmont Boulevard. ``I didn't laugh in the early days - I was kind of embarrassed by it all,'' said Maurer, of Los Angeles, a big supporter of her father's legacy. ``Watching them now, I really enjoy it.'' Others who frolicked with the Stooges feel the same way. One of them is Beverly Warren, who was a 22-year-old blond bombshell from Nebraska when she won the role of a gun moll in the 1946 film ``Three Loan Wolves.'' During one scene, she drops a 9-carat ``diamond'' ring at the Stooges' pawnshop, only to watch it shatter in a spray of glass. ``I'll tell you the truth: When my agent called me to tell me about the part, I said, 'You've got to be kidding - they's slapstick, this isn't going to help my career,'' said Beverly Warren Gaard, now 82, and the pastor for Chirothesia A Way of Life Church in Sherman Oaks. ``The amazing part is, I'm more famous now than I ever was.'' Gaard, who will appear at the Heritage Museum event, described a film set in which the Stooges were all business off camera - plotting their every move, with little rehearsal for quick-and-easy takes - and all laughs with the cameras rolling. James Scott James Scott is the name of several people:
``I know every short, every movie - I can turn down the sound and recite every bit of dialogue,'' said Scott, 52, of Chicago, sidekick to the sleuth from Philly. ``They're the funniest comedy team ever - and the most popular.'' While searching for Stooges' film-shoot locations, Pauley arms himself with a map, a laptop of Three Stooges films and a keen eye for movie details poking through modern Los Angeles. In 1998, he found the holy grail of 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. sets, a 147-step stairway that foiled Stooges icemen in ``An Ache in Every Stake.'' He found the stairway, mistakenly believed to have shared double-duty in a Laurel and Hardy Laurel and Hardy, American film comedy team. The duo consisted of Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, b. Ulverson, England, whose real name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson; and Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957, b. Atlanta, Ga. film, in Silver Lake. His next case: the hill for cascading suds depicted in ``3 Little Beers.'' ``When I see a landmark where I've found the right spot, I love it. It's 'Boom - I found it!''' he said. ``I need to find that street - right now, it's on my most wanted list.'' The Philly police investigator, spokesman and patrolman has found 15 film locations in various crannies outside the Columbia Pictures lot in Hollywood and the Warner Bros. Ranch. ``I've always loved The Three Stooges, they make me laugh,'' said Pauley, 46, who writes on his discoveries for the Stooges' fan club and has a room in his house given over to Stooges memorabilia. ``They provide more laughs per minute than any other comedy team.'' Dana Bartholomew, (818) 713-3730 dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO ``Three Stooges Hollywood Film Locations, Then and Now,'' 7:30-10:30 p.m. Thursday at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, 2100 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. Tickets are $5 for members, $8 for nonmembers. CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) The erstwhile female lead and blond bombshell in the Three Stooges' flick ``Three Loan Wolves,'' Beverly Warren Gaard, 82, poses in her Sherman Oaks home beneath a portrait of herself with Moe and Curly painted by her husband. (2) Jim Pauley, a Philly detective, sleuthed his way around the Valley to hunt down locations where the Three Stooges shot films. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer (3) ``Three Loan Wolves'' was one of the Stooges' five feature films. Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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