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Las Vegas Legend Shecky Greene
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. Glasses dangle on his nose.
"It's something I wanted many, many years—to get out of show business," he says. "I didn't have the guts because of the money. I don't even want to know how many millions I made. I was supporting a lot of people. One wife got that, the other wife got this, and this wife will get the furniture here."
He smiles and breaks into an impromptu song with a familiar melody, pure Shecky:
The money that I had
I gave it away, I feel sad.
I'd never do that again;
I'd save all the money from the Riviera
and also from the MGM.
I'd walk down the avenue,
there goes a wealthy Jew….
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