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The Stoogeum: Where all the world's a stooge

On their first date, back in 1978, Gary Lassin's future wife told him she was related to someone famous. But she wouldn't say whom.

"She was a little embarrassed," Lassin recalls. No guy would let such a challenge lie. He coaxed and cajoled and finally got it out of her: Robin was the niece of Larry Fine, one of the Three Stooges. (He's the one with the Bozo-like Brillo hair and what Lassin...

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