The Corn Palace at Mitchell, S. Dak., `` the world's corniest building '', has a carnival through Sept. 23 headlining the Three Stooges and Pee Wee Hunt.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

While Columbia was prolific, producing 190 Three Stooges releases, alone.

Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.

He got out of it by adding, ' who look more like the Three Stooges to me '.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

* Larry Fine ( of the Three Stooges ) and his family lived in hotels, due to his extravagant spending habits and his wife's dislike for housekeeping.

* 1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.

Rube Goldberg wrote a feature film featuring his machines and sculptures called Soup to Nuts, which was released in 1930 and starred Ted Healy and The Three Stooges.

Raimi returned to the horror genre with the seminal Evil Dead II ( which added slapstick humor to the over the top horror, showcasing his love of the Three Stooges ).

However, the first comedians to hit the screen in an army comedy were The Three Stooges as Boobs in Arms.

** Jerome " Curly Howard " Horwitz, American comedian and actor ( The Three Stooges ) ( d. 1952 )

** Larry Fine, American actor and comedian ( The Three Stooges ) ( d. 1975 )

** Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian ( The Three Stooges ) ( d. 1955 )

** Moe Howard, American comedian and actor ( The Three Stooges ) ( d. 1975 )

* November 22 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian ( The Three Stooges ) ( b. 1895 )

* May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid – 20th century best known for their numerous short subject films.

This incarnation of the team was the first to be known on film as The Three Stooges.

The Three Stooges started in 1925 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called " Ted Healy and His Stooges " ( also known as " Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen ", " Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls ", and " Ted Healy and His Racketeers ").

The moniker " Three Stooges " was never used during their tenure with Healy.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

Three short lived secessionist attempts had their own emperors: the Gallic Empire, the Britannic Empire, and the Palmyrene Empire though the latter used rex more regularly.

Three common models are ( a ) callers whose call-attempts are rejected go away and never come back, ( b ) callers whose call-attempts are rejected try again within a fairly short space of time, and ( c ) the system allows users to wait in queue until a circuit becomes available.

In the United Kingdom, Thomas Hardy wrote dozens of short stories, including " The Three Strangers " ( 1883 ), " A Mere Interlude " ( 1885 ) and " Barbara of the House of Grebe " ( 1890 ).

Householder ( Buddhism ) | Upasakas and Upasikas performing a short chanting ceremony at Three Ancestors Temple, Anhui Province, China

Based on the short story " Spurs " by Clarence Aaron " Tod " Robbins, the screenwriter of The Unholy Three, the film concerns a love triangle between a wealthy dwarf, a gold-digging aerialist, and a strongman ; a murder plot ; and the vengeance dealt out by the dwarf and his fellow circus freaks.

Through Silly Symphonies, Disney also created his most successful cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ).

In 1934, the trio – now officially christened " The Three Stooges " – signed on to appear in two-reel comedy short subjects for Columbia Pictures.

The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges, which features a series of 156 animated cartoons produced for television.

Over half a century since their last short film was released, the Three Stooges remain wildly popular with audiences.

Three miles ( 5 km ) from Hatton Top Lock the canal passes through Shrewley Tunnel, with its separate horse tunnel, and then passes Rowington village to Kingswood Junction where a short spur connects with the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

Another notable film in this period was the short rock music performance film Three Directions In Australian Pop Music ( 1972 ), which featured in-concert colour footage of three of the most significant Melbourne rock acts of the period, Spectrum, The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and Wendy Saddington.

Sullivan's last major work of the 1860s was a short oratorio, The Prodigal Son, premiered in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise.

After the success of Three Colors: Blue, Binoche took a short sabbatical during which she gave birth to her son Raphaël in September 1993.

* Cash and Carry ( film ), a 1937 Three Stooges short film

In his short story " Evidence " Asimov lets his recurring character Dr. Susan Calvin expound a moral basis behind the Three Laws.

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.

Chaplin's film followed only a few months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges, although Chaplin had been planning it for years before.

Three times during the narrative, he tells stories to his friends, and two stories are presented in the text as short stories by Gordon Lachance, complete with attribution to the magazines in which they were published.

In the biography of her father, The Story of Walt Disney ( Henry Holt, 1956 ), Diane Disney Miller explains that the first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short Three Little Pigs.

This scene has been recreated many times ; for instance, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, in The Three Stooges short Idle Roomers ( 1944 ), in The Pink Panther ( 1963 ), in the TV series Gilligan's Island (" Gilligan vs. Gilligan ", 1966 ), in the film Big Business ( 1988 ), The X-Files (" Dreamland ") and Family Guy (" Road to Germany ").