Unlike you, Joe, I like the Stooges. However, as long as Jim Carrey is cast as Curly, I hope the movie never gets made.

What about Joe Besser? Who is playing him?

I didn’t know about this “Stooges” biography until reading this article, and am now anxious for it to be made. The fact that Sean Penn will not be in it makes the movie much more attractive.

I’m glad he’s out of the film, because it would have been an insult to the memory of the late, great, Larry Fine and the rest of the Stooges to have a fascist like Sean Penn in the role.

To Mary (above): I’m glad to see that someone else admires Larry like I do; but I must point out that you’ve misused the term “fascist.” Fascism, as a political ideology, is generally accepted to mean an allegiance between corporate wealth and government, as in the avowedly fascist Mussolini regime in Italy or Hitler’s right-wing regime in Germany. Penn is a self-described liberal. There’s no such thing as “liberal fascism,” notwithstanding the tile of a recent book. It’s as meaningless a term as “conservative communism.” If you want to criticize Penn’s political beliefs, fine. But extrapolating leftward from “liberal,” you’ll find terms such as “pinko,” “tree-hugger” and the newly revived “socialist,” but not “fascist.” That jack-booted monster lurks on the right.

As a fan of the three stooges I hope that something classic can be made. I am not sure of the current line up but I am sure no matter what I will watch it, if not at the movies when it hits the TV (or maybe DVD). The 3 stooges off screen life probably makes for more story line than their onscreen antics. Either way, hope to see it.