Brentwood Villa, Just for Laughs

GARRY SHANDLING, whose award-winning parody “The Larry Sanders Show” is in reruns on HBO and is scheduled to start again with 22 new episodes in June, is building a Spanish-style home in Brentwood.

Shandling launched the series--as its star, principal writer and executive producer--last August. The show, a fictional talk show/sitcom about the host’s private life, won a Cable ACE Award in January for Best Comedy Series. The series has been said to have “made its point by smudging the line separating mockery and reality.”

A former stand-up comic and sitcom writer, Shandling starred in his own television show from 1986 to 1990 called, “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” in which he talked directly to the camera. Before that, he often subbed for Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show.”

Shandling is building a four-bedroom home with a gym in about 8,000 square feet. It was designed, sources say, by architect Robert Earl, who designed the late Michael Landon’s Malibu home and what is believed to be the future Beverly Hills residence of the Sultan of Brunei.

Expected to be completed this summer or early fall, Shandling’s new home is being built on a prime view lot, of slightly more than an acre, overlooking the city.

The 43-year-old bachelor will get such early California touches in his home as a Mission tile roof and other Mexican tile finishes as well as a number of courtyards and what were described as “colonnade effects.” The house also will have a steam room and an office.

Shandling, who is a native of Chicago, moved to Los Angeles in 1973 from Tucson, where he grew up. He was a writer on “Sanford and Son” and “WelcomeBAck, Kotter” but became a stand-up comic after he nearly died in a car accident in 1977. “I came to realize that I should do what I want to in my life, and I wanted to do stand-up,” he has said.

He currently lives in a three-bedroom, Sherman Oaks house that he has owned for a few years.

KNBC-TV sportscaster FRED ROGGIN, who is also star of the nationally syndicated show “Roggin’s Heroes,” and his wife, Eileen, have put their Monarch Beach condo in Dana Point on the market at $279,000.

“It’s their weekend getaway place, but they hardly get down here at all,” said listing broker Jock Patterson of Patterson/Parks Real Estate, Laguna Beach.

The Roggins, who live in the Beverly Hills area, bought the condo about three years ago. It has two bedrooms and two baths in about 1,100 square feet and is in a private community within walking distance of the beach and the Ritz Carlton hotel.

IAN ZIERING, who plays Steve Sanders on the Fox-TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills for close to its $585,000 asking price, sources say.

“He refers to it as his treehouse, because his property has lots of trees around it,” said Carolyn Garth of Exclusive Realtors in North Hollywood, who represented Ziering in the purchase. (Garth’s 20-year-old daughter, Jenny, plays Kelly in the show.)

Ziering, a bachelor in his 20s, also owns a home in the East, she said. Richard Saunders of Fred Sands’ Marina del Rey office represented the sellers.

Late fashion magnate ALDO GUCCI’S Palm Beach, Fla., home, has been sold for $3.4 million, according to listing agent Mel Kane of Martha A. Gottfried Inc. in Palm Beach.

Gucci--who transformed his father’s boots and saddle company into an Italian fashion house selling items ranging from $11 bars of soap to $50,000 hand-sewn, alligator trunks--was often in residence at the estate until he died, at age 84, in 1990.

Built for Gucci in 1977, the home has about 160 feet of ocean frontage and a 60-foot-long pool.