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Summary: What a Joke!!!!!
Review: Curly is portrayed as a wife beater, a mafia kingpin and even tied into the White House and Vince Foster. Please give me a break!! He could barely walk or speak in the early 50's. What's next?? Was he an alien from Mars? I hope the author and publisher went broke publishing this rag. Looking forward to part II. "Curly and Elvis make new hit records"
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Summary: Has to be a joke.
Review: Entertaining reading? Sure. The truth? No way.
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Summary: Has to be a joke.
Review: Entertaining reading? Sure. The truth? No way.
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Summary: Is Truth REALLY Stranger than Fiction?
Review: I could not put this book down once I picked it up. I read the entire book in about 4 hours, because I COULD NOT believe what I was reading!Being a lifelong Stooge fan & having read my share of books on the Stooges, I became increasingly skeptical of the "story" as I read further into the book. With very few dates cited, it was difficult to "swallow" alot of what was written. It was an interesting version of what might or might NOT have happened. Fact or fiction? I'm still not sure.... The only reason I can't completely say "It's a bogus misrepresentation of my fave Stooge", is I'm stunned that none of the Stooge heirs have taken any legal action against the author and/or publisher. Why have they not come forward to deny this story? The Stooge heirs are not shy about being litigious and guarding anything that has to do with the Stooges - the book is written rather sketchy, only ever mentioning "he was a Stooge", barely citing any dates etc...so perhaps it was written cleverly enough to avoid any legal problems.(?) But I am still amazed that this book has been out for almost 3 years and I have not heard, nor can I find any rebut from family members & their Stooge corporate entities. Although Mario Puzo has passed on, has anyone come forward to deny the claim that Curly actually wrote "The Godfather"? These little facts are what truly make me wonder...could it be true afterall?
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Summary: Is Truth REALLY Stranger than Fiction?
Review: I could not put this book down once I picked it up. I read the entire book in about 4 hours, because I COULD NOT believe what I was reading! Being a lifelong Stooge fan & having read my share of books on the Stooges, I became increasingly skeptical of the "story" as I read further into the book. With very few dates cited, it was difficult to "swallow" alot of what was written. It was an interesting version of what might or might NOT have happened. Fact or fiction? I'm still not sure.... The only reason I can't completely say "It's a bogus misrepresentation of my fave Stooge", is I'm stunned that none of the Stooge heirs have taken any legal action against the author and/or publisher. Why have they not come forward to deny this story? The Stooge heirs are not shy about being litigious and guarding anything that has to do with the Stooges - the book is written rather sketchy, only ever mentioning "he was a Stooge", barely citing any dates etc...so perhaps it was written cleverly enough to avoid any legal problems.(?) But I am still amazed that this book has been out for almost 3 years and I have not heard, nor can I find any rebut from family members & their Stooge corporate entities. Although Mario Puzo has passed on, has anyone come forward to deny the claim that Curly actually wrote "The Godfather"? These little facts are what truly make me wonder...could it be true afterall?
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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS SERIOUSLY PRINTED?
Review: I'm sorry, but this book just can't be true. There's too much evidence about Curly Howard's life to believe any of this book. As a Three Stooges fan, and especially a Curly Howard fan, I'm outraged. After Curly had his major stroke on the set at Columbia Studios, he continued to have several series of them. He was also married at the time, with a new baby, and became paralyzed on the right side of his body. There's no way that he could've fathered anymore childern, let alone run from the mob; he could barely walk. Just the fact that everyone knows that Curly died in 1952, and that this book says he died in 1975,is a joke. There are even pictures of Mr. Howard's ACTUAL gravesite. Are we to disregard what history has presented to us because someone says, "I don't have any proof, but I'm honest. Please believe me"? Also, Curly, as well as the rest of the Howard family were not Catholic Italian. They were Lithuainian and Jewish. Curly was even Bar Mitzvah'ed, and it says so in his CERTIFIED biography, by his niece, Joan Howard Maurer. I am good friends with Ms. Maurer, and it is safe to say that she too, is outraged by the fabrication. The mere thought of Curly having mob ties is laughable, because anybody that knows about Curly's personal life can tell you that he was immature and a bit childish (sorry Curly. We still love ya though!). Although, I'll give the author credit for spinning a good yarn. As far as fiction goes, it's a good story, but to pass this piece of literature off as biographical information, I think, is an insult to Curly's real daughters. I think Curly's heirs sould take action on this.
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Summary: The Curly Falsehoods
Review: The Author of this book should be ashamed of herself for trying to make money off the great name that was Curly Howard. I hope she is sued by the families of Curly Howard and Moe Howard for writting this c**p fantasy. I having read the book, "Moe Howard and The Three Stooges" written by Moe Howard before his death in 1975 was more than a little upset to read the obvious lies and discrepancies in her book about Curly. I would of prefered a boring truth about Curly's post Three Stooges days than this garbage. If you had ever read any other book by one of the Howards or Fineburgs (actual relatives to the Stooges) you would know that this is someone just trying to make a buck off a well loved comic genius who cannot defend himself against these lies. Shame on you.
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Summary: curlys daughter Iknow her
Review: the book is true and the ones that are trying to say that it is not is the one that are not giving her relationship with her father understanding she is a good person and it was a night mare for her how some can not beleve that is beyond me thy need to live in her life and see the nightmare for thimself i do know that Vince Foster paper was stold and sold in the 90s and thar was a message on the move miracle on34 st and as far as the rest of the story i know why some wood like for outher not to read the book so if you wont to let outher tell you what to beleverin Dont read the book but you see that thy have not sued her that tell a lot HAHA HA please readit it is a good read the best i have looked at for a long time
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Summary: Pathetic Excuse
Review: The only reason I give this book one star is because I couldn't give it zero. The author is a shyster by fleecing innocent people of there money. Likewise, the author-publisher and there friends are fooling no one by submitting glowing reviews for every acurately poor one. If I can keep you from wasting your money on this worthless piece of trash I have done something good for someone today.
If you're looking for the real facts on Jerome 'Curly' Howard I highly recommend:
CURLY: AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF THE SUPERSTOOGE
by Joan Howard Mauer
MOE HOWARD AND THE 3 STOOGES
by Moe Howard
STOOGE CHRONICLES, THE
by Jerry Forrester
THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK, THE
by Jeff & Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Mauer
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Summary: Pure Unadulterated Fantasy
Review: This book had so many factual errors in it, I can't figure out how anybody can believe it. First, the author say's that "Curly" said he was once billed as Larry Fine? There was only one Larry and only one Curly and they weren't the same person. The author doesn't use a lot of dates, in my opinion to make it harder to dispute what is written. However, in part of the book she talks about the daughter being an underage stripper in 1967, and the later writes that the daughter met Walt Disney at a party. How could the daughter meet Disney in 1967 or later, when old Uncle Walt died in 1966? Are we to believe that Walt faked his death also? And why would the leader of the free world (John Kennedy) visit a rundown neighborhood just a few day's before his death? Another error that seemed glaring to me is that all the history books say Curly Howard died in 1952, however in this book, on 2 different occasions, the supposed Curly say's :Hollywood has had me dead since the late 50's or early 60's." If this were the real Curly, wouldn't he know when his supposed fake death occured? I could also touch on Hoover and the Godfather claims, but it's just more erroneous facts. A good read for those who are into conspiracy theories, but truly no help to those who are looking for a true biography on the real Curly Howard.
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