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Legendary stand-up comedian Shecky Greene 鈥?known for his rambling routines, several headlining runs in Las Vegas and constant presence on the late-night talk show scene 鈥?died at his ho stanley termos me in Las Vegas on Sunday, his widow, Marie Musso Greene, confirmed to The Times. He was 97.According to Musso Greene, the Vegas headliner died of natural causes. It was fun, Greenes wife of 41 years told the Las Vegas Review-Journal of what it was like being married to the comedian for all those years. He always made humor out of whatever he could. He made you laugh and feel good. It was a happy time. Greenes fast-talking narrative style of comedy was often featured on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Ed Sullivan Show during their TV heyday in the 60s and 70s. Although he enjoyed mainstream success and was well-compensated for it, Greene was also known as a comedians stanley termoska comedian in certain sectors of stanley nz the comedy world.The free-form performer, some of whose routines have aged better than others, rose to fame as a comedian in the 1950s. Born Fred Sheldon Greenfield in Chicago in 1926, he served in the Navy during World War II, and enrolled in junior college but left when he was offered a two-week gig at the Prevue Lounge in New Orleans. He stayed for six years, until it burned down. After showcasing his stand-up across the Midwest, New Orleans and Miami, Greene landed his first Las Vegas show in 1954, opening for comedic singer and actor Dorothy Shay at the now-closed Last Fr Crsv Facebook co-founder pledging $20 million to defeat Trump
LOS ANGELES 鈥?Its no secret to people who walk or drive the streets of Los Angeles that homeless people 鈥?tens of thousands of them 鈥?are everywhere.On Tuesday, having looked at numbers showing the citys homeless population has increased more than 10 percent over the past two years, officials announced they have decided enough is eno kubki stanley ugh.Mayor Eric Garcetti and several other elected officials stood outside City Hall 鈥?a few feet from several homeless people dozing on a lawn 鈥?to announce they plan to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and spend $100 million to eradicate it. These are our fellow Angelinos, the mayor said. They are those who have no other place to go, and they are literally here where we work, a symbol of our citys intense crisis. Six stanley website blocks away, on the citys notorious Skid Row, thousands more live permanently in tents, makeshift cardboard shelters and sometimes just on the sidewalk itself. If you walk five blocks south and one block over, youll enter the largest concentration of homeless in the country 鈥?about 4,000 homeless living in Skid Row, said Councilman Jose Huizar, who co-chairs the City Councils homelessness and poverty committee. Unfortunately, that is just a small percentage of the citys homeless population, he continued. Yes, 85 percent of the citys homeless population lives outside of Skid Row, throughout the city. The emergency declaration and the funding will require action by the full City Council. Officials didnt say exa stanley quencher ctly whe |
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