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FEATURES Dear Annie: During the past 25 years, Youth Ser- vice America has mobilized millions of youth across the globe to do good in their communities — an estimated 16 million! These amazing kids do everything from advocating for more affordable housing to raising awareness about organ donation, from tutoring younger children to fundraising to fight cancer, and all to raise awareness and solve the problems facing the world today. To celebrate their ingenuity, ideal- ism and passion, please remind your readers that the 24th Annual Global Youth Service Day will take place April 20-22, 2012. More than 1,000 national and global partners in more than 100 countries will bring together millions of young people to strength- en their communities through the power of youth service. For more information, your readers can visit www.YSA.org and www.GYSD.org. — Sincerely, Steven A. Culbertson, President and CEO, Youth Service America Dear Steven Culbertson: Thanks so much for letting us once again mention this worthwhile project. We hope all our readers, young and old, will check out the websites you men- tion and become involved in local vol- by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar BY JOHN ANDERSON Newsday (MCT) NEW YORK — The sound of "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" will be heard across the land when "The Three Stooges" — the Farrelly brothers' long-awaited tribute to the slapstick comedy legends — opens Friday, introduc- ing the trio to a new genera- tion of knuckleheads. Although Western civiliza- tion has long been divided by certain insoluble cultural questions (Ketchup or mus- tard? Betty or Veronica? Toilet paper — over or under?), there's never really been any question about which Stooges to bring to the big screen. "You can't make the first big-screen studio movie about the Stooges," said writer-director Peter Farrel- ly, "without it being Moe, Larry and Curly." The fact is, there were a lot of Stooges, if you count everybody who got bopped, boinked and banged around since the act started in 1922. But the Farrellys are purists — of a sort: Their own Stooge-inspired oeuvre includes "Dumb & Dumb- er," "There's Something About Mary," "Me, Myself & Irene" and "Hall Pass." At the same time, in their ver- sion of "The Three Stooges," the characters have a backstory: The three brothers (it was never clear that Larry was anybody's brother) are not, for instance, dropped on the doorstep of the Sisters of Mercy orphanage. The duf- fel bag they're in is thrown from a speeding car. (Upon opening said bag, Sister Mary-Mengele, played by Larry David, gets poked in the eyes by Baby Moe.) Essentially, said Peter Farrelly, the movie's stars — Chris Diamantopoulos ("Up All Night," "24") as Moe; Sean Hayes ("Will & Grace") as Larry, and TV vet Will Sasso as Curly — are intended to be "clones" of the originals. This strate- gy presented one more obstacle to a movie that, since the mid-'90s, has been the subject of discussions that occasionally included the casting of such unlikely personages as Sean Penn Michael Martin April 14th Murphey In concert Crystal Art & Apparel, Crossroads Feed The Loft - Red Bluff, Shasta Farm - Cottonwood, Rabobank - Corning, Richfield Feed Tickets $50 - $35 - $25 available at State Theatre Info 527-3092 • 7pm Annie's Mailbox unteer programs. It's also a wonderful educational opportunity for teachers and students. Dear Annie: I am in my late 40s, married for 13 years. I was widowed early in my first marriage, and my husband is divorced with children. I knew from the start that we were from different worlds and had few common interests, but I thought that would change over time. Now I wish we had dated longer. Tuesday, April 10, 2012 – Daily News 5A Youth Service Day scheduled with. But thank you for providing a word of caution to those who rush into marriage and believe the other person will change. Dear Annie: I'd like to comment on the letter from ''Hands Tied in Michigan,'' whose husband works out of state and sometimes doesn't call when he's back from dinner with the guys. Over the past seven years, we have had little interaction. I do my thing, he does his. We haven't been intimate or even affectionate for close to a year. We haven't said ''I love you'' in for- ever. Our flame has blown out. I have tried to speak to my husband about this, and he says I am making something out of nothing. We both are still young. I want to be embraced by longing arms, say I love you and know it is reciprocated. I want to cuddle, laugh, share, talk, look into his eyes with excitement and feel wanted. I'd even love to go to the movies together and hold hands. Am I expecting too much? — Roommate Dear Roommate: You might be expecting more than your husband is capable of giving, but it's not too late to address it and figure out your best course of action. Suggest that your husband see his doctor and check his testosterone levels and other possible medical conditions. Then ask him to go with you for counseling so you can work on your communication and intimacy issues. If he refuses, go with- out him and decide what you can live and Robert De Niro. "We'd meet with big From my male point of view, I'd say her husband is going out to topless bars with the guys, maybe even hav- ing sex with the strippers after hours. Obviously, he can't call home to ''The Wife'' if he's with a young girl who thinks he's not married, nor can he answer his cellphone in the topless bar, because his wife would hear the loud music in the background. The wife should hire a private Both genetics and stress play role in going gray DEAR DOCTOR K: I am a 43-year-old woman whose hair has gone quite gray in the past year. I've had a fair- ly stressful year, and since the change in my hair felt quite sudden, I'm wondering if stress could have caused it. If not, what else might be the culprit? It's easy to assume that stress causes gray hair, because there appears to be evidence all around us. Take President Barack Obama as an example. DEAR READER: investigator to follow her husband around each evening after he gets off of work. One full week ought to reveal whether he is partying more than he should be. — A Man Who Knows in New York Dear Male: Your cynical scenario is, of course, one possibility, but we hope there are more benign reasons behind the lack of phone calls. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. The Farrellys' 'Three Stooges' finally hits the big screen movie stars," Farrelly said, "and they'd say, 'I want to do my take on Larry.' And we'd say 'Uh, no ... we want you to do Larry as Larry, copy his every mannerism, his nasal voice, his Philadelphia accent,' and they didn't like that. It was daunting for an actor. We kept losing our people." And the studios simply didn't get it. "They didn't see how to bring characters who made films 70 years ago into a present-day setting," he said. "And there was some bad luck, too: The project was at MGM, and MGM went bankrupt. It's been delayed for a lot of reasons." One of the problems with getting anybody to green- light a Stooge project was that the late-inning Stooge features weren't very good. Actually, they were awful. "Snow White and the Three Stooges." "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules." "The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze." As Curly might have said, "Woo-woo-woo-woo!" "Studios would say, 'Did- MCT photo n't they try feature films? And they didn't work,'" Far- relly said. "But the movies they did at the end weren't well-written. The guys were too old to do the slapstick stuff. They're not good. But it's not fair: It would be like putting Willie Mays at the plate today and saying, 'He's not as good as I heard he was.'" involves the boys trying to save their childhood orphan- age (the "Blues Brothers" connection ends there, Far- relly said). The nuns are played by the likes of Jane Lynch, Jennifer Hudson, Kate Upton and, as men- tioned, Larry David. The "aesthetic," so to speak, seems to be pure Stooge: violence and comedy. "First and foremost, we wanted to please hard-core Stooges fans," Farrelly said. "We fig- ured if we did that, every- thing else would fall into place." For all the hilarity, the real-life Three Stooges story is one tinged with sadness. In addition to the debilitat- "The Three Stooges" ing sicknesses that plagued the group, they were never aware of how popular they were: Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn always talked down their popularity to keep them from demand- ing more money, while at the same time using the Stooges' box-office clout to extort theater owners into booking inferior Columbia films. "You know what makes me mad?" Farrelly said. "These guys online who complain that it's a sacrilege that we'd be making a Stooges film. What's a sacri- lege is that a lot of kids don't know about them at all, and that they never got their due. They never got the first-class treatment they deserved. They weren't Laurel and Hardy, they weren't the Marx Brothers. They were second-rate. Yet to us they were the funniest. And they influenced us the most." MOE, LARRY AND SEVERAL OTHERS In 1922, Moe Howard (nee Harry Moses Horwitz) and his older brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) joined a vaudeville act that would become known as Ted Healy and His Stooges (or, sometimes, Ted Healy and His Southern Gentle- men or Ted Healy and His Racketeers). Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) joined in 1925. In 1930, they made their first feature, "Soup to Nuts," and while neither the movie nor Healy was well- received, the Stooges were. But Healy was apparent- providential moment for the history of American screen comedy, he was replaced — by the youngest Howard brother, Jerome Lester Hor- witz, aka Curly. Though the boys would- n't completely separate from Healy until 1934, the trio in its "classic" formation — Moe, Larry and Curly _— went on to become one of the most popular screen attractions of the '30s and '40s, almost exclusively in the arena of comedy shorts (they made a total of 190 at Columbia Pictures but were in only five features in that time). stroke in 1946, Shemp rejoined the act. When Shemp died of a heart attack in 1955, the act's unfinished films were completed using some Shemp clips and an actor named Joe Palma (shot only from the back). Come- dian Joe Besser then joined the group, but the Stooges were unceremoniously dumped by Columbia in 1957, after 24 years of ser- vice. Television, however, had When Curly suffered a ly a difficult customer, and Shemp — who would later appear in such non-Stooge classics as W.C. Fields' "The Bank Dick" _ got fed up and left the act in 1932. 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Revived, in a sense, the Stooges — now with Joe "Curly-Joe" DeRita in the third-Stooge position — regrouped for some dis- tinctly unmemorable feature films. Dr. K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. Compare photos of Obama taken before he ran for president to more recent pictures. You'll notice a dis- tinct difference. His hair used to be consistently dark brown. Now, there are areas of gray dotting the land- scape. Is the stress of run- ning a country to blame? Each hair in your head keeps the color it has. If a single strand of hair starts out brown (or red or black or blond), it is never going to turn gray. If a hair is not gray, no amount of stress can turn that hair gray. If you have a head of brown hair, and then experience the greatest possible stress, your brown hair won't turn gray just like that. shed at about three times the rate it normally does. The hair grows back, so the con- dition doesn't cause balding. But if you're middle-aged and your hair is falling out and regenerating more quickly because of stress, it's possible that the hair that grows in will be gray instead of its original color. For example, it seems to me that our last two presi- dents have turned gray pret- ty fast, maybe faster than they would have if they had not shouldered the burdens of the presidency. affect your hair color. It does so by influencing the color of new hairs. Each hair is produced by a single hair follicle. Hairs on the scalp typically live two to five years. When a person's old brown hair dies, the hair fol- licle that produced the old hair now starts producing a new hair. After we reach age 35, the new hairs produced by a hair follicle tend to lose But stress definitely can Genetics also influences whether and when you turn gray. In fact, it's probably a stronger cause of graying hair than stress. Look at past generations of your family. This will give you a better indication of when or if you'll go gray than your cur- rent stress levels. We have more informa- tion on aging in our Special Health Report, "Living Bet- ter, Living Longer: The Secrets of Healthy Aging." You can find out more about it at my website. Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Go to his website to send questions and get additional inf or mation: www.AskDoctorK.com. Mike Wallace passes away 5 months after Andy Rooney Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died. First it was Andy Rooney, the cantankerous commentator who died last November, a month after delivering the last of his show-closing essays. Late Saturday night, it was Mike Wallace, the hard-charging interviewer who frequently led "60 Minutes" and gave it journalistic heft with a showman's flair. Rooney made it to age NEW YORK (AP) — 92. Wallace beat him by a year, although he spent the latter stage of his life in the New Canaan, Conn., care facility where he died. "More than anyone else He was well aware that his reputation arrived at an interview before he did, said Jeff Fager, CBS News chair- man and Wallace's long- time producer at "60 Min- utes." he was responsible for the continuing success of '60 Minutes,' "veteran corre- spondent Morley Safer, a longtime colleague and fre- quent competitor of Wal- lace's in chasing after big stories, said on Sunday's show. "We are all in his debt." extended tribute to Wallace next Sunday. Wallace had such a fear- some reputation as an inter- viewer that "Mike Wallace is here to see you" were among the most dreaded words a newsmaker could hear. Wallace didn't just interview people. He inter- rogated them. He cross- examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them pitiless- ly. 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Slowed by a triple bypass later that month and the ravages of time on a once-sharp mind, he retired from public life. During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, Wal- lace asked Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini — then a feared figure — what he thought about being called "a lunatic" by Egyptian Presi- dent Anwar Sadat. Khomei- ni answered by predicting Sadat's assassination. Late in his career, he "He loved it," Fager said interviewed Russian Presi- dent Vladimir Putin, and challenged him: "This isn't a real democracy, come on!" Red Bluff Garden Club Invites you to attend their May 4 & 5, 2012 Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Annual Standard Flower Show "Fun & Flowers from the 50s" Home Arts Bldg., Tehama District Fairgrounds For Information or to enter call 527-9403 Huge Plant Sale Classic Car Show Kid's Flower Planting Activity stress affect hair color? First, by causing hairs to fall out — to die young. 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