Shemp Howard interview

[Siam_Sam]

I asked around today and came up with a more recent e-mail address for Trink and his wife’s cellphone number. (Trink doesn’t carry a cellphone himself.) I sent those to the OP in another PM, but he’s still not logged on again, so I also e-mailed him.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: Oh, and Geoff, in case you see this before you try calling, I forgot to mention that I didn’t include her name because no one seems to know her name. But that’s the number everyone calls if they need to get in touch with him. I guess just “Mrs. Trink” will do if she answers.

[Harvey_The_Heavy]

@Siam_Sam

I scanned through that Stickman interview with Trink again but somehow missed the Three Stooges reference. And now I’m wondering if that really was Shemp he was talking about, because Trink says he first arrived in Thailand in 1962, but Shemp died in 1955.

Trink must be remembering something he did before he arrived in Thailand. Shemp really did have a reputation as a walking encyclopedia of comedy, so I’m pretty sure that’s who he’s talking about. And like Xema said, the idea of Shemp travelling to the Far East is highly unlikely, given that he had phobias for just about everything.

[Siam_Sam]

@Harvey_The_Heavy

Trink must be remembering something he did before he arrived in Thailand. Shemp really did have a reputation as a walking encyclopedia of comedy, so I’m pretty sure that’s who he’s talking about. And like Xema said, the idea of Shemp travelling to the Far East is highly unlikely, given that he had phobias for just about everything.

Yes, but Shemp died in 1955, when Trink was just 24. I don’t think he had gotten around to interviewing anyone yet. Trink was in Korea for the Korean War, and he’d been a social worker in NYC (a job he loathed). I don’t think his newspaper career even started until he arrived in Thailand in 1962.

EDIT: No, I guess he had worked in journalism in East and South Asia before hitting Thailand. But I still think that was all after 1955.

[bup]

@Harvey_The_Heavy

Trink must be remembering something he did before he arrived in Thailand. Shemp really did have a reputation as a walking encyclopedia of comedy

Moe had a surprisingly intellectual perspective on comedy, too, and I could easily see an interview with him being described that way.

[handsomeharry]

@Derleth

Anyone who completely ignores Wikipedia doesn’t know how research works: You use it to find other sources, or at least a basic direction for further research. Believe it or not, simply being used in Wikipedia doesn’t make a source invalid.

Tell my professor, not me.

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@handsomeharry

Tell my professor, not me.

From what you’ve said, your professor wouldn’t have disagreed with Darleth at all.

[Keeve]

@handsomeharry

Tell my professor, not me.

I think that the point is this: Suppose Wikipedia says something, and gives a particular article in Time magazine as its source, and you look up that article, and it has exactly the information you wanted. You can easily quote Time magazine as your source; your professor will NOT object to this on the grounds that Wikipedia is not credible.

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@Keeve

I think that the point is this: Suppose Wikipedia says something, and gives a particular article in Time magazine as its source, and you look up that article, and it has exactly the information you wanted. You can easily quote Time magazine as your source; your professor will NOT object to this on the grounds that Wikipedia is not credible.

I thik his initial point was more this: “When you’re trying to track somebody down, nobody gives a rip about scholarly sources.”

[handsomeharry]

@Labrador_Deceiver

I thik his initial point was more this: “When you’re trying to track somebody down, nobody gives a rip about scholarly sources.”

True, I’m aware of all of the arguments/points. However, I only mentioned it to my prof and got a load dumped on my head, when just not counting it as a source, in the final reckoning, would have sufficed.
Needless to say, my whole point is perhaps OP was gunshy about the Wikipedia thing, etc…