Any fans of Abbott and Costello?

SifuPhil said:
"Royalties", you mean?

As it happened they were too afraid to go up against Roy Cohn, the owner of Columbia and a man with many Mob connections, so they settled for re-negotiating their contracts every year, most of the time for raises of a few dollars.

The 3 Stooges were a complicated case. They set up the Comedy III corporation in 1958 to protect their "brand" but Columbia still owned all the rights to their TV shows and movies. The boys' families began to squabble over how to divvy up the money and it all started falling apart.

While the brothers all passed at fairly young ages, I'm not sure that I would say they were destitute - they were more than comfortable, although certainly not as wealthy as they should have been.

Earl Benjamin, the stepson of "Curly" Joe DeRita, and his brother Robert stepped in in 1999-2000, made peace among the heirs and began battling to secure the rights to all the merchandising of the 3 Stooges - coffee mugs, fake driver's licenses, posters, etc.
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Thanks for this info Phil, how interesting. Yes, I know sometimes the "story" gets construed. I had a boss in Alabama that actually had collected thing to do with the 3 Stooges, he was a true fan;)
 
He'd probably enjoy The Stoogeum in Ambler, PA (about a half-hour north of Philadelphia) - it's a 10,000-SF building with over 100,000 pieces of Stooges memorabilia. stooges.gif
 

Gael said:
OK, have to speak up about one of my favorite comedy duos; mainly because I loved Jerry Lewis, a great clown.
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Oh metoo Gae! Two of his movies I are my faves, Cinderfella, and The Nutty Professor. I never watched the remake of NP because I just love the original too much;)
 
nwlady said:
That's amazing, were they from PA? Oh you found smilies of them, LOL! Excellent!! They were quite a team weren't they:)
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No, they were good little Jewish boys from Brooklyn. ;)

It's just that this one guy was such a super-fan of theirs that one day he just decided to start showing off his collection. His website design leaves a bit to be desired but you can tell he's a die-hard Stooge!

The Stoogeum
 
SifuPhil said:
No, they were good little Jewish boys from Brooklyn. ;)

It's just that this one guy was such a super-fan of theirs that one day he just decided to start showing off his collection. His website design leaves a bit to be desired but you can tell he's a die-hard Stooge!

The Stoogeum
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Yes, he managed to get some info up, but I would have liked to seen just a few of the exhibits (photos of) just to get some idea;) what all he has:) Makes sense though that maybe he is counting on "curiosity" getting folks to actually come there;)
 

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