Danny Bacher began collecting Laurel and Hardy memorabilia at the age of five, and has since amassed one of the world’s largest and most important private collections.

An award-winning entertainer, he is a singer, saxophonist, songwriter, and international touring and recording artist with three critically acclaimed studio albums. He lives in New Jersey. www.dannybachermusic.com.



Bernie Hogya founded the Stan Laurel Correspondence Archive Project (LettersFromStan.com). He is an accomplished creative director. One of Bernie's advertisements is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution. He co-created the famous milk mustache campaign, which led to the publication of The Milk Mustache Book, a New York Times Best Seller. He lives in Delaware. www.berniehogya.com.

Leonard Maltin is a leading film critic and historian. At age thirteen he launched the first sanctioned “junior branch” of Sons of the Desert, the Tit for Tat Tent of Teaneck, New Jersey. He later wrote about Laurel and Hardy in his books Movie Comedy Teams, The Great Movie Shorts, The Great Movie Comedians, and The Laurel and Hardy Book. He is perhaps best known for his long-running paperback Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and a thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and hosts a weekly podcast, Maltin on Movies, with his daughter, Jessie.


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