Hollywood Stooges

So Hollywood is going to make a three stooges movie

Jim Carrey will shave his head and gain 50 pounds to play Curly. I'm having a hard time envisioning this, but Carrey is such a great comic actor I'm sure he'll have us rolling in the aisles.

In a stroke of genius, Sean Penn will play Larry. Penn has been a stooge his whole life, so he's a natural. I couldn't help recalling how the Stooges lampooned Hitler back in their heyday. I can't imagine Penn poking fun at terrorists, his hero Chavez, or the wonderful (we have no gays in Iran) President Ahmadinejad.

Finally, Benicio Del Toro will play Moe. Now that I'm looking, the facial resemblance is remarkable. This also works out well. I don't know if Del Toro is a stooge, but he just got done playing one in the 127 hour hagiography celebrating the life of campesino killer Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

This effort can only disrespect the memory of the real stooges, who in real life were not. I'm skipping it.

http://www.variety.com/VR1118001643.html