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WEEKEND STOOGEFEST

‘Three Little Pigskins’ (1934) was the fourth short comedy made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Saturday, October 20th through Thursday, October 25th, 1934 and released on Saturday, December 8th of that year (the 342nd day of the Gregorian calendar). Obviously my timing for the

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‘SLOWLY I TURN’–THE LUCY RICARDO TAKE

See yesterdays post (as well as the weekend Three Stooges offering) for more info than you could possibly ever need about the classic Vaudeville sketch commonly known as ‘Niagra Falls’ but accurately titled ‘Slowly I Turn’. We’ve seen the Stooges version, we’ve witnessed Lou Costello’s interpretation and now we come

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THE RICARDO’S IN WESTPORT, CT.

After his star turn in MGM’s ‘Don Juan’ (1956), Ricky and Lucy Ricardo left Hollywood and returned back east. Ricky now was able to open his own club (the ‘Club Babalu’) and, being good mid-century citizens, they decided to flee the city and move to suburban Westport, Connecticut. A wonderful

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‘THE LUCY SHOW’–A TITLE SEQUENCE REVIEW

Lucille Ball’s post-Desi Arnaz divorce show, ‘The Lucy Show’, ran for six seasons (1962-1968) and had five different title sequences. Was it because of dissatisfaction on the producer/stars part? Or were the title sequence creators so inventive that it seemed a shame not to keep them employed in developing further

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