| Show Offers Flock To Laurel Hardy T Team earn B By Erskine Johnson HOLLYWOOD Stan Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy the screens screen's laugh champions of the wh who upset the never come back legend in the when 30 of their old two reel comedies popped up on television are a athe as as' as s the movie ad writers say together together to litO gether again For the f first firs i r s t time in five years they'll be on your neigh neighborhood theater screens this winter in a feature comedy Atoll K K KAnd And they're being deluged wit with h TV offers Not Making Making- a Dime They're not making a dime ou out t of their two filmed between between be be- tween 1926 1026 and 1941 and currently currently currently cur cur- riding the crest of the video channels Hal Roach made madea a outright sale of theold theold the theold old celluloid when the bo boys s 's weren't looking But while it hurts in the wallet its it's inflated their morale A CIA whole hole new generation of kids have discovered us Hardy beamed And HAnd not one kid has said Gee you guys sure have aged Laurel grinned When will they become TV regulars reg ulars now that they've been de- de mothballed and Stan has recovered recovered ered from the serious illness which put him in a Paris hospital for three months this summer Do it on Film When we VC we can do it on film Hardy whispered Laurel echoed Hardy We Ve want to get off on on- the right foot and when its it's live you ou never get of off the left foot There are arc no big casts and no big flossy production numbers in n the blueprints for new Laurel and nd Hardy comedies whether I they hey are for TV or movie theaters heaters It ClIt will be the same situation comedy Hardy made it clear with one set and no more than t two wo or three other actors in the I cast ast We Ve have to be together I Split us up and put us with other people eople and were we're gone Everything Everything Every- Every thing hing that happens to us happens i ill 11 n a little corner Laurel as usual will be super super- wising and helping write the scripts It has ws to be visual stuff he said Too many radio writers are writing radio gags for television television tele tele- vision which is a visual medium Weve been accused of being temperamental because we want to supervise our stuff Hardy let it fly Well Nell that's not true We just know what's right for us Ve We refused to do a picture for fora a certain producer at Fox He lIe called us to his office and said U Sit down boys and tell me what you dont don't like in the script We Te asked him Have you read it it U Well Vell no Ive I've been a busy man lately when we quit How can you do a movie when the producer pro ducer hasn't even read the script Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis may clown it up off stage but you'll never catch Laurel and Hardy in a mad routine unless theres there's a camera pointed at them We uVe worry about people thinking thinking thinking think think- ing were we're fresh Hardy explained explained explained ex ex- it Every time we go toa to toa a formal dinner party we see people looking at us as if to say I wonder when they're going to start throwing the butter patties pat pat- ties But we never do and I never have I We Ve started once I Laurel remembered with a grin Hardy remembered too 11 |
