Article: QUIET, KNUCKLEHEADS! ACTION!; SOUND PIONEER AND VETERAN THREE STOOGES DIRECTOR MORE THAN A VICTIM OF SOICUMSTANCE.(L.A. LIFE)

Byline: Carol Bidwell Daily News Staff Writer

``Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.''

``Woowoowoowoowoowoo.''

You call that movie dialogue?

Why, soitenly. It is if you're dealing with three maniacs who specialize in eye-poking, roundhouse punches, triple-slaps, head-butting and slow burns.

Edward Bernds might argue that those lines rank right up there among movies' most enduring lines - only funnier.

Bernds, you see, is no knucklehead. The soft-spoken Van Nuys man, now 94, carved his career as a director out of the wild antics of three odd-looking men who took slapstick humor to its extremes.

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