jim
2006-04-10 02:29:39 UTC
This book is absolutely fiction in every sense. You want truth....here is
some truth, my Great Uncle was in Vaudville and new Curly very well. He has
always been up front and not exaggerated, always saying we weren't best of
friends but did remain friendly for many many years. He still has actual
photos of he and curly together also with Moe and Shemp spanning several
years in the thirties and forties and even a couple from 1951 shortly before
Curly passed on. You can see the progression in his photos as Curly had
stroke after stroke, it's painfully obvious. I made Uncle read the book and
it literally took me three weeks to convince him it wasn't something I
printed as an April Fools joke. Everything he told me about Curly when I was
a child has later been supported by books that have been published....Curly
loved dogs, loved to drink and party,had a very loving and tender
relationship with both Moe and Shemp, loved his daughters, and his true love
was his last wife Valerie. I mean my God he told me Curly's youngest
daughter's name was Janie back in the seventies before any of this stuff was
written. He has always said of all the stars he mingled with back in the day
Curly Howard was his favorite and when he finally realized I wasn't putting
him on and this book was "real" the poor old guy nearly passed on himself.
Even in his nineties he wants to strangle the author for defacing his
friend. How can anyone believe this crap??? one does not even need the
personal pictures I have access to.....look at all the other stooge
books......hundreds and hundreds of Moe, Curly, Shemp, Larry, Curly's
parents pictures. As a society have we become this STUPID that a person
could read this book and choose to believe it? if yes, then I am in a
word....HORRIFIED! I read this book and was insulted for two reasons....one
is as I have said I am lucky enough to have someone close to me who new the
man and secondly I consider Curly Howard as important a figure in
entertainment history as Elvis.....he is without a doubt the single most
popular comic figure of all time world wide and he does not deserve to be
dragged through the mud like this. How many children for the last almost
century has Curly Howard made smile and feel good????? it's countless
people. I ask for myslef, my Great Uncle Mike and all Stooge fans that Moes
daughter Joan Maurer and Curly's real daughters do something to stop this
pathetic excuse for a human being from writing anything else like this
trash.
some truth, my Great Uncle was in Vaudville and new Curly very well. He has
always been up front and not exaggerated, always saying we weren't best of
friends but did remain friendly for many many years. He still has actual
photos of he and curly together also with Moe and Shemp spanning several
years in the thirties and forties and even a couple from 1951 shortly before
Curly passed on. You can see the progression in his photos as Curly had
stroke after stroke, it's painfully obvious. I made Uncle read the book and
it literally took me three weeks to convince him it wasn't something I
printed as an April Fools joke. Everything he told me about Curly when I was
a child has later been supported by books that have been published....Curly
loved dogs, loved to drink and party,had a very loving and tender
relationship with both Moe and Shemp, loved his daughters, and his true love
was his last wife Valerie. I mean my God he told me Curly's youngest
daughter's name was Janie back in the seventies before any of this stuff was
written. He has always said of all the stars he mingled with back in the day
Curly Howard was his favorite and when he finally realized I wasn't putting
him on and this book was "real" the poor old guy nearly passed on himself.
Even in his nineties he wants to strangle the author for defacing his
friend. How can anyone believe this crap??? one does not even need the
personal pictures I have access to.....look at all the other stooge
books......hundreds and hundreds of Moe, Curly, Shemp, Larry, Curly's
parents pictures. As a society have we become this STUPID that a person
could read this book and choose to believe it? if yes, then I am in a
word....HORRIFIED! I read this book and was insulted for two reasons....one
is as I have said I am lucky enough to have someone close to me who new the
man and secondly I consider Curly Howard as important a figure in
entertainment history as Elvis.....he is without a doubt the single most
popular comic figure of all time world wide and he does not deserve to be
dragged through the mud like this. How many children for the last almost
century has Curly Howard made smile and feel good????? it's countless
people. I ask for myslef, my Great Uncle Mike and all Stooge fans that Moes
daughter Joan Maurer and Curly's real daughters do something to stop this
pathetic excuse for a human being from writing anything else like this
trash.