This China-NBA crisis — an inevitable TV money and merchandise crisis — brings to mind two things:
1) The paths to big-dough global markets are paved with unconscionable greed.
2) “The Three Stooges.”
Moe, Larry and Curly? Yes.
This has played out before. It took “The Three Stooges,” their producer/director Jules White, born Julius Weiss in Hungary, and Columbia pictures to be among the first in the American film industry to show not all were tethered to a price tag.
In 1933, the year White became head of Columbia’s short films, Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.