Article: The Nyuk, Nyuk Stops Here; A museum celebrating the Stooges? It's better than a poke in the eye.

On their first date, back in 1978, Gary Lassin's future wife told him she was related to someone famous. But she wouldn't say whom.

"She was a little embarrassed," Lassin recalls. No guy would let such a challenge lie. He coaxed and cajoled and finally got it out of her: Robin was the niece of Larry Fine, one of the Three Stooges. (He's the one with the Bozo-like Brillo hair and what Lassin calls "the stupefied, google-eyed stare.")

"I knew I had to get this girl to marry me," Lassin says.

Soitenly.

Lassin managed to get the girl -- and, more important to our story, he took on the fixation with all things Stooges that was somehow lacking in Robin's family. ("She was very afraid of the ...