Running water: a Hollywood amenity

Next Sunday’s L.A. Marathon passes through Hollywood, so naturally there’ll be two celebrity water stations there. The cast of TV’s “The Closer” will be at one on Vine Street, near Hollywood Boulevard.

And Ken Davitian, the hefty sidekick in “Borat,” will be at another on the corner of Franklin and Highland avenues.

In case you’re wondering, Davitian will be clothed -- unlike his condition in the memorable fight scene in the movie with star Sacha Baron Cohen.

Davitian, who owns a restaurant in the area, was happy to participate in the marathon -- to a point. “I’m not going to run it,” he told race organizers.

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Twenty-six-mile fox trot: Marathon entrants have different training regimens.

Wesley Acker of Montclair runs the same number of miles every day. None.

Nada. Zilch. He doesn’t run at all. He dances, and he works out on a treadmill. Acker is the director of a ballroom dance group at Cal Poly Pomona.

He isn’t likely to waltz to victory -- his time last year was four hours and 26 minutes. But, he said, “I’m doing this because not only is it something amazing in my life, but it lets them [his dancers] see how you can do anything you set your mind to.”

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Breathless drama: “A man was seen drinking from a Listerine bottle,” said the police log of the Los Alamitos News-Enterprise. “Officers contacted the man, and he checked out OK.”

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Oscar tribute: This being Academy Awards day, I wanted to honor one San Francisco theater for best original arrangement of movie titles (see photo).

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Awkward Translation Department: At a San Gabriel supermarket, Ed Wu noticed a sign that, he figures, was supposed to say, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” (see photo).

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Speaking of rules and regs: Barry Nackos of L.A. spotted a sign at a Redondo Beach restaurant that gave preferential treatment to lobsters (see photo).

Considering the creatures’ fate, it’s the least the owners can do.

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For heated arguments? Just when I thought I’d heard of every household feature, Jan Herrera of Long Beach told me about a fireplace set aside for one’s enemies (see accompanying).

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miscelLAny: The police log of Pomona College’s Student Life newspaper said: “An employee reports two females throwing missiles off the roof of an arts building. They claim to have permission from a professor, this is checked, and the claim turns out to be true.” As the old saying has it, “I know art when I see it -- or when it hits me on the head.”

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