In a 1929 newsreel from Coney Island, New York, future Three Stooges star Shemp Howard wrestles a grizzly bear, jumps into a pool of water and leads the crowd in a sing-along. The little guy jumping ...

It was a packed house – 1,600 people were packed into the Fillmore Room at Norton Hall (now Squire Hall) on UB’s South Campus — that showed up to listen to a tiny, nondescript, 77-year-old man talk 50 ...

With the near simultaneous appearance of “Shemp!” and “Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother,” a classic comedy maven could wonder why a biography of Harry Ritz might not have also been published. A ...