Hear ye hear ye.. Count your blessings Attention be given.
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Hollywood Boulevard’s surreal starred sidewalks, Sid Grauman’s Chinese lobby finger printed into profiles in the "cement mixer cement mixer" posterity, ranking absurdity with those natural wonders that grace our continent.
Grand Canyon Petrified Forest Niagara Falls. Yosemite Redwoods, Hoover Dam Yellowstone.
Old man of the mountain.
To say the Three Stooges are such a phenomena in cinema? Curses says the Major .
Beholden to the Marx brothers(Groucho, Chico, Harpo) across the basin. MGM’s Culver City . Santa Monica Boulevard’s 20th Century Fox’s Ritz brothers. Walt Disney’s "Fantasia" of Mickey&Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck (Burbank) raging war on pretensions
The rich and famous were but a glitch in social networking amidst unemployment lines and the homeless..
How can you beat the system? Running away to join the circus. Jumping on the next freight box car, going nowhere. Sharing space with hobos as Joel McCrea .. "Sullivan Travels"
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Bath Beach’s Moe Larry and Shemp Howard mimicked the ordinance forgiving absurdity as they punched their cross country tickets on the Union Pacific to L.A’s terminal annex
Pies in those smog free skies, non existent freeways. Ah to live again, breathing fresh air off the Pacific Ocean and the Venice laden muscle beach.
Meanwhile Columbia Studios, the working man’s labored dream, was gasping, their arrears into a Harry Cohn bipolar bankruptcy, his despair onto Sicilian born Frank Capra of the barrio and Cal Tech, to shore up his flim flam gamble.
Didn’t Max Arno or Sam Briskin, even tend an offer to that Boys #2, tennis steady, from Tilden High and LIU, brother Joel, sorting out fan mail on Gower Gulch’s turf.
V trio were given a tentative 7 year deal in their mad capped adaptation of the Marx Ritz brothers across town.
Auditioned, screen tested by Arno , the unholy
Could their own Beatle (Liverpool) flavor capture the post depression fan base of Capra...."It happened one night""Lost Horizon""Mr. Deeds goes to town" "Meet John Doe""Mr Smith goes to Washington""It’s a wonderful life"
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Moe Howard’s children: daughter Joan and son Paul, will make their assessing statement on Charles Osgood’s Sunday morning CBS show April 15 at 10:30.
Their presence lends an authenticity to our own cross country migration to Venice in 1939. Being bitten by the movie theater bug, lighting up Wilshire and Pico Boulevard two&three feature, if you mussed up your hai at the "mo tickee no laundry" cashier..
Our own escape from those grim soup lines across town..
The Three Stooges
"deja vu" ridicule, mirrowing the Keystone Cops Laurel&Hardy W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin’s "Modern Times"
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Holed up in Toluca Lake, Moe’s energetic lunacy on life’s absurdities, belied the Howard’s
own legacy and survival into "the field of dreams".
What it was like to live out those personas, the screaming antics and madcaps, will be given a reality check, come Sunday ten thirty a.m, channel 2's Charles Osgood..
The city that never sleeps, April 11, 2012. surfaced amidst that reality, their butt making but an antidote into the
