Luminaries Set About to Improve Sight Lines

PRETTY IS AS . . . There’s been much talk about the portrait shot of Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird(seen last Sunday in The Times). Supplied by her office recently, the photograph showed a glamorous blonde, shot at a silver-screen angle reminiscent of the ‘50s’ Doris Day. Such studio pictures are not often used, but an aide to the chief justice had turned down a longstanding request for a quick newspaper photo session, saying she was too busy . . . . But it’s just not the women who pretty up for politics. A staff person in Supervisor Pete Schabarum’s office said that 10 years ago he had a full eye lift. The supervisor, to use Schabarum’s term, “had the bags scooped out” from under his eyes. The macho former football player also had the excess skin on his upper eyelids removed at that time. Anything recently: “No,” Schabarum said, “but since I stopped smoking, I’m thinking of getting a tummy tuck.” . . . And friends say that Mayor Tom Bradley has a more winning smile since he got his teeth bonded this summer.

ROCKIN’ AROUND THE ECOLOGY--”We’re a litigious group . . . and we’re not going to take it anymore.” The tongue-in-cheek line from ecology-minded Don Henley came during the massive rock concert at the Universal Amphitheatre he organized to benefit Mulholland Tomorrow and the William O. Douglas Outdoor Classroom. The WOD founding president Sooky Goldman said she’s never been to a rock concert before, but it was really great--especially since she thought it would raise $100,000 for each group. Linda Ronstadt (staying away from the torch songs, a la Smokey the Bear), Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne had all played and played, when Henley wound it up with some statements on the proposal to rate albums the way movies are rated: “I always agreed that albums should be rated. They should be rated good, bad and awful.” Huey Lewis, Mick Fleetwood, Carrie Fisher and Ed Begley Jr., Tatum O’Neal and John McEnroe, Diane Lane with her friend Beverly D’Angelo were seen in the audience, as was Donna Mills, who hosted the party afterwards.

BY THE BAY FUND RAISING--Under wraps until Tuesday is an announcement from Mayor Dianne Feinstein of The City’s planned fund raising for AIDS--a very tony San Francisco Arts for Life benefit to be held Oct. 13 at the Opera House. Put together by Terry McEwen, the managing director of the S.F. Opera, the benefit will also involve the symphony and the ballet, with all those Nob Hill names from the performing arts boards signing on. Marilyn Horne is the featured star, and it’s expected the evening will gross $600,000, our sources said.

NEW JOBS--Young Ron Reagan is at the Channel 7 studios a couple days a week, on the ABC network payroll but getting on-the-spot training from “Good News” reporter Fred Anderson. Former Carter White House aide Midge Constanza has signed on as talent coordinator on the new syndicated information-entertainment series “America” . . .Yet another new Washington campaign consulting firm, this one with Robert J. Beckel (Mondale’s campaign manager), Timothy Finchen (Mondale’s finance director) and Rep. Tim Wirth’s former assistant David K. Aylward. It’s a “national strategies and marketing group” . . . Bill Misenhimer, executive director of the AIDS Project/L.A. leaves after two years, replaced by Paula Van Ness, formerly executive director of Family Planning Centers of Greater L.A. . . . Pat Mitchell, from “Hour Magazine” and “Woman to Woman” next week takes over while Jane Pauley vacations from “Today.”

NEW VENTURES--Marvin Minoff and Mike Farrell have set up their own production company, the name of which will proably be something like Minoff-Farrell. Minoff said they thought about naming it “Our Wives,” since his spouse is Bonnie Franklin, while Farrell is wedded to her good buddy, Shelly Fabares . . . When Rich Little picks the lucky Oregon band that will open his Oct. 25 concert at the University of Oregon, he will choose from videos made of the more than 24 bands recorded this week in Eugene . . .

FETES--Celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts’ 20th anniversary on the Music Center Plaza Saturday will be the Mark Taper’s Gordon Davidson and Frank Hodsoll, the chairman of the Endowment--along with lots of friends, who will all get their pictures in a special aerial photograph . . . No wonder Barbara Davis gets stars at her Carousel Ball, this year set for Oct. 12. She was working the room at the Bistro Garden last Friday lunch, with buddies Eva Gabor and Suzanne Pleshette, talking to Sidney Poitier (who just contributed one of his Prince tennis rackets to the ball’s auction). The other center of attention was a visiting Ingrid Ryan, getting hellos from Jane Nathanson, Fran Stark and Harriet Deutsch . . . . . . KCBS-TV’s Jess Marlow gets roasted by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, Oct. 9 at the L.A. Athletic Club--with comments from emcee Bill Stout . . . For real, Mel Brooks was doing a great job choosing the wines at Max au Triangle as Anne Bancroft--out of her nun’s habit--just watched the show.

WHAT NEXT--Styles in entertaining keep changing. How about the press party for “A Space Odyssey,” the third annual masked ball given by the Pasadena Central Improvement Assn. on Oct 11. The invitation to the event Thursday promises “A Total Westside Experience” at the Cafe Jacoulet, which is located in “West Pasadena” . . . It might be a little cool, but Oct. 10, Sen. Bill Campbell will be taking his annual moonlight cruise, along with a host of supporters who will pay $250 for the chance to join him . . . Assemblywoman Gloria Molina hosts a “Mayan Sunday, Molina Style,” Oct. 13 at the Ennis Brown House in Hollywood . . . Three chefs--Wolfgang Puck, Michael McCarty and Gail de Krassel--get together a “gourmet food tasting” for Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem William Jennings, Sunday afternoon at Scratch.