The Three Stooges movie opens April 13. It’s set in contemporaneous times with impersonators for Larry, Moe and Curly.
“Skyfall” — the next Bond film — is scheduled to open in October.
Is there a connection between the silly Stooges and the suave British super spy? Why, yes, of course.
The Stooges creator and original manager was Ted Healy who was beaten to death by three men outside a Los Angeles night club in 1937. The assailants were reputedly the actor Wallace Beery, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Broccoli’s cousin Pat DiCicco.
Broccoli would go on to produce the first 16 Bond films and consult on GoldenEye before his death in 1996. His daughter Barbara has been producer of the Bond films starting with GoldenEye.
There is a Philadelphia connection as well. Stooge Larry Fine was a Philadelphian as was, well, James Bond.
At least the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming used for his fictional character.
