Talk:Columbia Pictures

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[edit] Columbia Pictures sued by The Three Stooges

I remember reading from some page from the net that The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe sued Columbia Pictures Corporation for using their shorts on a movie without the Stooges' permission. King Shadeed 13:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Torch Lady Logo

Am I the only one who thinks the current Columbia logo looks exactly like Beverly Garland, star of numerous Columbia pictures in the 1950s? I don't think that can be a coincidence. -- BBlackmoor ^(talk) • 2007-02-11 21:40Z

[edit] Low comedy?

In the section titled "Rejection by one studio", It says, "Harry Cohn never lost a taste for low comedy, and at his insistence the studio signed The Three Stooges in 1934. Rejected by MGM (which kept straight-man Ted Healy but let the Stooges go), the Howard brothers and Larry Fine made more than 180 shorts for Columbia between 1934 and 1958."

I really object to lebeling the Three Stooges "low comedy", and the rest of their fans would too. It not only insults the Stooges and Mr. Cohn, but the Stooges' fans as well. Granted, many people over the years have considered the Stooges low grade, but that may be because they don't understand the Stooges. There was classic comic timing in everything they did and said for laughs. Their wiity verbal humor(and they had plenty of it) is often overlooked because people want to look for something to negatively criticise them for. So they say, "One of them hits another and it's supposed to be funny? That's supposed to be enough to sell them to us?" Never mind the comic timing involved and the lines before and after the blow. It's just, "Three grown men hurting each other is supposed to be funny?" What about their verbal humor and mannerisms when they weren't doing this? Bottom line, the Three Stooges are more complex than what many or most critics make them out to be.

To me, low grade humor would be toilet humor, hunor laced with sexual themes... even much or most of today's humor in movies and TV is low grade, be it just because of bad writing or rehashing or because it's performed or spoken badly. Too much catering to the youth of America/the world has never been a good thing either, for any genre. So I'm requesting a rewording here. Maybe the word "low" can be taken out and the rest could stand as it is? 68.188.166.56 18:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)