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Go ahead, yuk it up. Actor Paul Giamatti has signed on to replace Sean Penn as Larry in the Farrelly brothers' new movie version of “The Three Stooges." Penn dropped out of the film earlier in the year citing personal reasons. Director Peter Farrelly recently confirmed that Giamatti had assumed Penn's role. Giamatti will join Benecio Del Toro, who will play Moe, and a yet-to-be-cast Curly. There were reports that Jim Carey was set to play Curly, and the actor's appears on the Internet Movie Database alongside that role. He was even said to be gaining weight in preparation for...

Member of the British House of Commons George Galloway told the press Monday he was planning to organize a new solidarity convoy to Gaza that would include Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Galloway was in Egypt Monday to sponsor the Lifeline 2 anti-siege convoy, which is scheduled to enter the Gaza Strip through its Rafah crossing along with 200 American solidarity activists. The MP explained that he would continue to organize solidarity convoys, calling for lifting the siege imposed on Gaza. He revealed that Israeli lobbyists had sent three requests to US Attorney General Eric Holder trying to stop the vessel,...

Famed rock-and-roll guitarist and longtime Ann Arbor resident Ronald "Ron" Asheton was found dead in his home on the city's west side this morning, police said. Asheton, 60, was an original member of The Stooges, a garage-rock band headlined by Iggy Pop and formed in Ann Arbor in 1967. His personal assistant contacted police late Monday night after being unable to reach Asheton for days, Detective Bill Stanford said. Officers went to the home on Highlake Avenue at around midnight and discovered Asheton's body on a living-room couch. He appeared to have been dead for at least several days, Stanford...

In the liberal failed state of Michigan, US Automakers and the UAW have created a monstrosity that is collapsing about them, and here comes congress with broom handles and plaster, trying to keep the creaking eyesore from caving in on us all. So the inept Washington DC pols who brought us the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle that tipped our economy over now want to show Detroit automakers the path to destruction. I think I saw this in a Three Stooges movies once. Here's the Pelosi solution: "Take taxpayer money, build electric cars nobody will buy, cut executive pay,...

THERE are the Stooges, from Ann Arbor, Mich., accidental inventors of punk, in the summer of 1970, on nationwide television. And there’s Iggy Pop, their singer: bare torso and sausage-casing jeans, silver gloves, dog collar, chipped front tooth. The song is “TV Eye,” and they have gotten wickedly good at their primitive groove — as good as they will ever get. Iggy weaves in and out of the beat: one second borne by the music, one second abstracted from it. Suddenly he does a violent knock-kneed dance and slips into the audience, gone except for his wounded-animal noises. “There goes...

The Three Stooges Take On Lansing! By G-d, she had a plan! Gov. Jennifer Granholm touted she was going to reverse the disastarous financial direction that Michigan was going in. While other states have recovered from the post Clinton era recession, Michigan has reported the worse economic health in the nation. Granholm promised to change all that and was re-elected on that promise. Over four years ago she promised we would be “Blown Away”, yet the only thing still blowing away appears to be Michigan tax payers dollars as Granholm is fast tracking a bill to raise taxes as a...

The supervisor went for a bat. The employee whipped out a weed trimmer. Another worker used a hammer to break up the fight. That's the scene St. Johns County authorities described Tuesday after a lawn service supervisor criticized one of his worker's grass-cutting skills, The Florida Times-Union reported. Lance Tywan Wamley, 26, of Hollywood, Fla., is charged with threatening several men with a 34-inch baseball bat and then hitting one man in the chest. The worker, Eric J. Torres, 23, defended himself with a weed trimmer, authorities said. Another worker, armed with a hammer, broke up the scuffle, authorities said....

Zogby Poll: Most Americans Can Name Three Stooges, But Not Three Branches of Gov't Tuesday, August 15, 2006 By Brit Hume A recent poll found that nearly three-quarters of those asked could name each of the Three Stooges — Larry, Curly and Moe — but only 42 percent were able to name the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. That's according to a new Zogby poll in which 77 percent of Americans could name two of the seven dwarfs, while just 24 percent knew two of the nine Supreme Court justices. And while 57 percent of Americans could name...

NASHVILLE — The state Republican Party on Monday demanded that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. apologize for calling the three main GOP candidates "the three stooges" at a rally last weekend. "Last time I checked, name-calling didn’t win too many elections in Tennessee," state GOP chairman Bob Davis said. "Maybe Ford’s immaturity and insulting character assassination works in Washington, D.C., but in Tennessee it doesn’t fly." The main candidates in the Republican primary are former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker and former U.S. Reps. Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary. "All three of the Republicans in the race for U.S....

'Three Stooges' Action Lands Boy in Court A 15-year-old boy who pinched and twisted the nipples of a 13-year-old has been sentenced to three days of community service for harassment. David Thumler, 15, said the "titty-twister" was just horseplay. The mother of 13-year-old Matthew Cox counters that the incident was humiliating for her son, who saw it as an assault from an older, bigger bully. "They're not friends," she said. "If he was my son's friend, it would be a different thing," said Bobby Cox. In addition to the community service, Thumler has been ordered to pay a $67...

U.S. Supreme Court says cities have broad powers to take property.

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Cheney Blasts Kerry for Allawi Comments By MARGARET STAFFORD ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney chastised Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Thursday, saying his criticism of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi showed an appalling "lack of respect." Allawi, who was in Washington on Thursday to address a joint meeting of Congress and meet with President Bush, gave a rosy portrayal of progress toward peace in his country. Shortly after he spoke, Kerry said the prime minister's assessment contradicted his own previous statements as well as the reality on the ground. Cheney said Kerry was...

Wed Nov 12, 5:40 PM ET Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, listens to Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia's, left, speech in Ramallah Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003, in which he called for an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire with Israel and a return to peace talks based on President Bush's vision for two states. Qureia issued the call at a parliament session at which he was expected to win approval for his new Cabinet. Man in the center unidentified. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A Democratic plot to boost Tom McClintock’s candidacy at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s expense has recently come to light. On paper, the recall election should be a cakewalk for California Republicans. A cursory analysis reveals a governor with an approval rating below Richard Nixon at his low point. The only serious Democrat candidate is the state’s uninspiring lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, who unquestioningly followed Governor Davis through his mishaps with the budget and energy crisis. It should be a breeze for Republicans, right? Think again. Democrats are euphoric over Tom McClintock’s intransigence in continuing his long-shot bid for governor. This allows Democrats...

Texas Democratic legislators still in Oklahoma AWOL House members, GOP leaders stick to guns in redistricting standoff05/14/2003 By GEORGE KUEMPEL and PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Neither side budged in the Red River redistricting standoff Tuesday, a second day of insults and indignation lobbed between Republicans and 51 House Democrats holed up in Oklahoma. The Democrats, who fled to shut down the House on Monday in protest of a proposed Republican redistricting plan, defended their actions in a news conference outside their haven, the Holiday Inn in Ardmore, Okla. "We have a message for Tom DeLay:...

Fourth Stooge: Unwrapping the life of the trio's comic foil By Steve Chawkins Special to The Advocate and Greenwich Time December 27, 2002 Floor-to-ceiling shelves stacked with boxes, filing cabinets packed with cross-referenced folders, rows of chronologically arranged binders: But for the movie posters on the walls, Saxon Sitka's rented office in Amarillo, Calif., looks like a corner in the fluorescent depths of a presidential library. In fact, it's a son's tribute to his departed dad: the longtime straight man for the Three Stooges. Emil Sitka died four years ago at 83. Since then, Saxon has taken charge of his...