April 24, 2000 –
The TV biopic The Three Stooges, starring Michael Chiklis, Paul Ben-Victor, John Kassir, Jim Lemley, and Evan Handler, premiered on ABC TV, on this date.
The movie made use of a Sydney landmark in an innovative way. New York’s Coney Island amusement park used to have an attraction within its grounds called Luna Park. Sydney’s amusement park, Luna Park, is of similar vintage. It has a still-functioning attraction inside its grounds named Coney Island. Even though the neon-lit facades of each park’s rides are quite different, a temporary staging area was placed in front of Luna Park Sydney’s main “face” entrance for night-time filming – and the movie’s main characters appear that they are inside New York’s amusement park, performing in front of an elaborate Luna Park attraction.
The Haus of Dcaligari 