SPORTS
February 12, 1987
Zabaleta outfinished Zany Tactics and 9-10 favorite Bedside Promise Wednesday to win the $78,975 Potrero Grande Handicap before a crowd of 19,369 at Santa Anita. Zabaleta, ridden by Laffit Pincay and carrying 117 pounds, crossed the finish line a head in front of Zany Tactics and paid $8.40 and $4.40. Winning time for the 6 1/2-furlong race was 1:15. The victory was the fourth in nine career starts for Zabaleta, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred son of Shecky Greene.
MAGAZINE
January 9, 2005 | Murray Olderman, Murray Olderman last wrote for the magazine about the Palm Springs Follies.
His wife, Marie, is still emptying boxes from their move to Palm Springs over the summer--they sold their big home in Hancock Park. Shecky Greene, who didn't lift a hand when he was riding high as a nightclub comic, is helping her with the heavy ones until the heat gets to him and he throws up. "You've become so nice," Marie says. Wearing shorts and a "Shecky superhero" T-shirt, Greene slouches into a chair in the den of the expansive condo. His brown hair, graying, flops over his forehead.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 30, 1994
Regarding "It's Not Easy Being Greene," Oct. 16: Lawrence Christon's article on Shecky Greene was outstanding--informative, funny, sad, compelling, a rare moving, well-written story. It should be printed in medical journals. I hope that Greene will be free from his demons and that his genius will thrive and prosper. Thanks to Dr. Ronald Gershman and his expertise. Mental illness is a dreadful disease. Lucky that Greene found him! Thanks to The Times for publishing and giving proper space to a proper story.
NEWS
April 4, 1990 | From Times Wire Services
Pete Rose, Mike Tyson, Oprah Winfrey--you're just chopped liver now. Stage Deli patrons, saying the three are among 10 famous people who no longer cut the mustard, have voted their sandwiches off the eatery's menu. "While the results were a dream come true for some, they were a nightmare for others," Stage co-owner Paul Zolenga said Tuesday. Comedians Shecky Greene and Nipsey Russell got the boot; the late Yankees Manager Billy Martin, once No. 1 in pinstripes and No.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 18, 1988
Through the veil of eloquence of Lawrence Christon's critique of "Roseanne" was glimpsed the comedy critic's now-familiar inherent dislike of all things comedic and his refusal to participate in the comedy community ("Does Roseanne Rise Above It All?" Calendar, Dec. 11). In a time when there is an unprecedented number of stand-up comedians (approx. 3,000) working in America, it seems ironic that the Los Angeles Times chooses to keep a person on the comedy beat whose tastes run to Mort Sahl and Shecky Greene, period.