‘Three Stooges’ Revival Promises New Slapfights For N’yuk-Starved America

The Farrelly Brothers’ long-delayed dream of a Three Stooges revival may yet come true at MGM, which announced Monday it had green-lit the project for a 2009 release. It’s a stunning milestone correcting the project’s inertia at Warner Brothers, where execs were said to have balked at the introduction of the brothers’ trademark scrotum-zippering sight gags to the more conventional eye-gouging hallmarks of Larry, Moe and Curly’s ’30s-era shorts. But that was then, and this — despite the lingering questions of cast (Crowe as Moe?), storyline and whether or not MGM remembers how to produce films — is now.