TRUE STORIES: Who says publicity stunts are...

TRUE STORIES: Who says publicity stunts are dead? Heart’s new album is titled “Bad Animals.” So when it came time for Capitol Records to send the record out to radio stations here recently, the label hired a chimp named Lucy (on loan from the L.A. Zoo) to make in-person deliveries. . . . What are Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx and Vanity doing together? Nope, it’s not a duet. It’s an engagement. Vanity is already showing off her new diamond ring. . . . The controversy over safe-sex records has just built up steam--and already the issue has spawned a satirical rejoinder. Tonio K.’s new single, just out from Chrysalis Records, is titled “I’m Supposed to Have Sex With You.” The song will be part of the upcoming sound track to “Summer School,” a comedy starring Mark Harmon due July 17. . . . Local faves John Trubee & the Ugly Janitors’ new album is titled “Beyond Eternity/Lavender Flesh.” Available on the British Cordelia Records label, it features several of the group’s popular prank phone-call routines as well as a new tune that should become a World Wrestling Assn. tag-team theme, “They Call Me Mister Ugly.” . . . And Howie Klein, the founder of the influential San Francisco-based 415 Records (and the man who first turned us on to the Dead Kennedys), has left the label (and San Francisco). He’s moving to Los Angeles, where he’ll be general manager of Sire Records. Dan Levitin will be 415’s new president; he was the label’s A&R; director.