Howard's friend and contemporary Benjamin Francis Leftwich, however, is taking a different path.

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Instead of a standard biopic that might explain how a 1930's vaudeville act called the Three Stooges -- brothers Moe and Curly Howard and their friend Larry Fine -- made their Hollywood mark with nearly 200 short films that featured the boys slapping, poking and punching each other senseless, the Farrellys decided to hit the 2012 multiplex with a trio of Stooges shorts set in the present.

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After Madoff made the invitation a second time, Wilpon happened to have lunch with an old friend named Howard Squadron.

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Society chairman Howard Parkin said he was a "great friend, a master of his topic and a true icon".

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Johnson, talking about a BBC Two documentary, dismissed his sacking by The Times, and by Michael Howard, and agreeing to supply the address of a journalist whom a friend wished to 'beat up' as unfair representations.

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