Yet Another Stooges Convention!

Three Stooges co-stars highlight annual convention in Fort Washington
Published: Monday, May 02, 2011
By Mike Morsch
Executive Editor

I look forward to seeing what chunks of his previous Three Stooges stories he will vomit back up for us to enjoy. Column highlights:

The 2011 Three Stooges Fan Club Meeting featured two of those co-stars — Adrian Booth Brian and Sally Starr — who greeted fans and signed autographs as part of the annual knuckleheadfest Saturday and Sunday, which also included events at the Stoogeum, a Smithsonian-quality museum in nearby Spring House, owned and operated by Gary Lassin.

2009 Article - "Gary also is owner and curator of the Stoogeum, a museum of his personal collection of Stooges memorabilia in Springhouse..."

2010 Article - "Gary Lassin... curator of the fabulous Stoogeum museum in Spring House..."

Wow, the Stoogeum has gone from "a museum" to a "fabulous... museum" to "a Smithsonian-quality museum"! How does Mr. Lassin afford all those upgrades?

Philadelphia fans will remember “Our gal Sal” Sally Starr...

... No.

The Stooges actually appeared on her show during its run. Because of that exposure to a new generation, Starr was among those credited with helping revive the careers of The Three Stooges — which had waned in the late 1950s — to the point that the boys offered her a part in their 1965 feature-length film, “The Outlaws is Coming,” which also starred Adam West, who would go on in 1966 to play the lead role in the campy television series “Batman.”

That's right, folks - from "because" to "Batman," that's all one sentence. Try reading it all in one breath.

Starr said she first met the Stooges in the early to mid-1960s when they performed at the Latin Casino, a Philadelphia-area nightclub just across the river in Cherry Hill, N.J. Among the big names to appear at “The Latin” in those days were Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Tom Jones, The Supremes, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Darin, among others.

Why do we have to get this unnecessary extra info? Adam West was also in a movie, Tom Jones performed at the same club... Maybe in more skilled hands these tidbits would add flavor to a story, but here they're obviously just space-consuming filler.

At age 93, Adrian Booth Brian is one of the oldest-living Stooges co-stars... Booth Brian said that with the release of “You Natzy Spy!” in 1940, she and the Stooges became the first to satirize Adolph Hitler, “ahead of Charlie Chaplin and everybody else.”

“The Great Dictator,” starring Chaplin, was released in October 1940 and is considered Chaplin’s first true talking picture and was his most commercially successfully film.

Again, why is this information here??? Come on, Borsch, these are the Three Stooges! Talk about pie fights and "nyuks" and knuckleheads!

As for the Stooges, Booth Brian said she enjoyed every minute working with them.

“Moe was kind of the brains. Larry was just very sweet,” she said. “They weren’t very much different off camera than they were on camera. But they were very nice to me.”

... The end. Frankly, I was anticipating more. There is a video attached to this story, by the way. It's 1:30 long, and features plenty of classic Borsch slow-pans and awkward close-ups. It concludes with him filming somebody's license plate because it reads "STOOGES," like a vanity license plate is an Earth-shattering discovery.