Entertainment & Arts
Pinky Lee, the baggy-pants vaudeville comic who starred in a children’s TV show in the 1950s, was listed in serious condition today after suffering a heart attack backstage during a musical.
Jan. 26, 1989
California
Pinky Lee, the baggy-pants vaudeville comic who secured his niche in entertainment history on children’s television, has died.
April 6, 1993
Performer Pinky Lee, 72, has been released from a hospital in Peoria, Ill., where he had been since suffering a heart attack Jan. 25 during a performance of “Sugar Babies.”
Feb. 10, 1989
The Ventura City Council has decided to allow the 31-year-old wife of an elderly poker club owner to continue operating the small card club for 10 years after he dies.
May 12, 1993
Television
Today, Shout Factory releases the Blu-Ray set “Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series,” an astonishingly beautiful work of television art -- I am not kidding -- that has rebuilt the show, originally edited and assembled on videotape, from its original film elements.
Oct. 21, 2014
Sports
Cleveland Browns starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor is not expected to miss any time after dislocating his left pinky and bruising his hand in Thursday’s win over Philadelphia, while the Arizona Cardinals might be without rookie quarterback Josh Rosen when they play at Dallas in a preseason game Sunday night.
Aug. 24, 2018
Food
Properly executed, the Japanese soba noodle is one of the loveliest noodles around, a thin, square-cut strand of purest buckwheat a yard long, with the clear pinky-brown color of a mountain range 10 minutes after sunset.
March 17, 1994
World & Nation
The 31-year-old wife of an elderly professional gambler has petitioned the Ventura City Council to change the law so that the city’s last licensed poker club can remain open after her ailing husband’s death.
April 9, 1993
I got exhausted reading Colman Andrews’ rambling writing style in “Loved It, Left It” (March 19).
April 30, 1995
Dec. 31, 1901: “In the presence of an admiring and awestruck multitude,” Los Angeles Mayor Meredith “Pinky” Snyder was among the first passengers on Angels Flight, the 298-foot funicular from Hill Street to the top of Bunker Hill, The Times reported.
Dec. 31, 2006