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Were Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy the greatest comedy duo in film history? Childlike, unimposing Stan Laurel was a Brit, the lantern-jawed, cartoon-faced son of a theater manager and an actress, born ...

Not far from L.A.'s famed Sunset Boulevard sits an old flight of stairs, remarkable in that one, it's still there, and two, it has a name: the Music Box Steps. That long, long staircase was the stage ...

Toward the end of their career, the comedic duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embarked on a UK tour with the hopes of convincing a British film company to finance their next movie, a comedic retelling ...

The temptation for headline writers everywhere, one can imagine, will be to describe the flawed but embraceable Laurel and Hardy biopic "Stan & Ollie" as "another fine mess." That one's just too easy.

There are lot of movies in theaters right now trying to grab your attention, and dollars, from big superhero spectacles and musical extravaganzas to awards darlings and wannabes. It's easy to get ...