Larry – The Stooge In The Middle

 

WHILE YOU ARE READING THIS on Tuesday the 27^th of January, I am typing it on the previous Saturday, the 24^th. I mention this just to avoid confusion.

I was looking at Facebook earlier this morning and I saw that today, January 24^th, is the anniversary of the death of Larry Fine of The Three Stooges. Larry was the Stooge in the middle – the man with the impossibly frizzy hair who was a trained violinist, but made his living being slapped, poked, and cream-pied. He was the outsider in what was a family act that ran for decades, from burlesque, to vaudeville, the movies and into a renaissance on television.