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Stan and ollie5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() We should feel disappointed when things go right. Their personae are not yet fixed (Hardy, though heavy, is far too poised a gent to be a heavy), and their joint career has yet to bloom, but already they seem bound to the principle that human error, in its infinite variety, is the most natural thing in the world. For a moment, they’re together, cheek to cheek, and, as with all good slapstick, the motion is hard to describe but easy to watch. ![]() In “The Lucky Dog,” released in 1921, Oliver Hardy, in the role of a thief who has just grabbed a fistful of cash at gunpoint, tucks it into the back pocket of his pants or, rather, by mistake, into the pants of a complete stranger, played by Stan Laurel, who is bending over and facing the other way. It seems only proper that when Laurel met Hardy for the first time, on film, the meeting should have been not face to face but butt to butt.
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