‘Laurel and Hardy: Year Two’ includes 10 comedy shorts of varying quality, each of which runs about 20 minutes in length. Even the best are loose-limbed, ramshackle, on-the-fly efforts. Oliver Hardy ...
Starting this week and running through Mondays in the month of December, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is airing marathons of Laurel and Hardy shorts and features, including silent films and rarities ...
They dare you not to laugh. At 2 p.m. Jan. 26, Regent Square Theater in Pittsburgh is offering guests a “Laugh Challenge”: “Anyone who can sit through our matinee of Laurel and Hardy shorts without ...
The UCLA Film and Televsion Archive is spearheading a fundraising effort to fully restore Laurel and Hardy shorts and features. Many of their shorts and features are still on nitrate film, which is ...
As the American Cinematheque reels out three days of Laurel and Hardy films, improv comedian Mike McShane helps us understand their lasting appeal as "existential candy." This weekend, the American ...
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy went solo for years in silent comedies, each working variations on the comic types developed by the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Fatty Arbuckle. Then in ...
A seldom-seen Three Stooges comedy, one of the few surviving Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle feature comedies and a new print of an Oscar-winning Laurel and Hardy short are among the hot tickets at this ...
They meet every Tuesday afternoon at the famous Culver Hotel in Culver City, seated at a center table in the restaurant, engaged in lively, loud luncheon conversation. They are members of the Sons of ...
The San Diego Chapter of the Laurel and Hardy Fan Club, aka Saps at Sea, opens their 40th season on January 27 with another riotous one-night mini-festival. “I usually try to make each program a theme ...
Cleveland Orchestra performs the 23rd annual downtown concert. Pre-concert festival features local performing arts organizations. Jahja Ling conducts. The event's host is Dee Perry. Where: Public ...
Looking back now, I’m not entirely sure whether she put them on for my benefit or hers, but that’s how I was first introduced to Laurel & Hardy. At that time there were only three channels – BBC One, ...