Raiders in Huddle on Inglewood

The Inglewood Raiders? Don’t rule it out. In the last two months, Raiders owner Al Davis has held about a dozen closed, secret meetings with Hollywood Park attorney Neil Papiano--meetings that have been lengthy and continuing, an inside source said. The private approach is a directly opposite tactic to the publicity-geared plan of Irwindale, which has put together a $115-million offer to locate the National Football League team in a gravel pit. The agreement being discussed between Davis and Papiano would involve the building of a new stadium at the Hollywood Park site, adjoining the parking area, construction to be financed jointly by Davis, Hollywood Park and the City of Inglewood.

WOMEN TO IMPORTANT WOMEN--Philippines President Corazon Aquino will be inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame next week when a 26-woman delegation visits her in the Philippines. Two local VIPs are going--Braun Corp. veep Judy Miller and advertising exec Adrienne Hall. Miller heads up The Trusteeship, the local 200-plus membership group of top women from business, politics, sports etc. The Trusteeship is all part of the new International Women’s Forum, which holds its annual meeting in October in New York. Reluctant to leave the Philippines, Aquino wouldn’t go to New York for the honor--so the delegation instead is going to her.

From across the country, other autonomous “Forums” will be represented by the likes of former N.Y. City Council President Carol Bellamy, TV exec Ponchitta Pierce, Muriel Siebert (the first woman to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange), Oregon politico Norma Paulus, D.C.-based international trade consultant Jean Sisco, Texas attorney Jane Macom and Jill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor.

Last year the group honored Margaret Thatcher, and previous recipients of the Hall of Fame award include Clare Boothe Luce, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Coretta Scott King and astronaut Sally Ride. To make the International Women’s Forum even more prestigious, all the honorees have joined--after they were honored . . . Another landmark for women--Orange County-based political consultant Eileen Padburg will head up the California and Hawaii presidential campaigns of Vice President George Bush. And there sure aren’t many women in jobs like that these days.

SHIRT-TALE SEXISM--In China, political observers read the wall posters. In D.C., perhaps it’s easier to read the T-shirts. Look at the judgments made by these two best-sellers, on sale in Georgetown this week. One shirt, with a childlike drawing on it, carries the message: “See Fawn Shred. Shred, Fawn, Shred.” While another, with a large picture of Lt. Col. Oliver North, carries the slogan: “Our country ‘tis of thee.” OK. Get the picture?

BENEFITS AND OTHER STUFF--The Bel Age Hotel and art publisher Ed Weston have taken more than 1,000 of his pictures and “images” of the late Marilyn Monroe and will put them on display at the West Hollywood hotel to mark the 25th anniversary of her death Aug. 5. A celebrity preview of the exhibit will take place Aug. 4, with all the money going to the AIDS Project/L.A. Renee Taylor, a close friend of Monroe’s, will host the celeb party . . . L.A. Classic Theatreworks came up with more than $135,000 with the one-time production Sunday night of “Once in a Lifetime.” Partying afterward were stars from the show (and the audience) including Ed Asner, Steven Spielberg with wife Amy Irving, producer Sarah Pillsbury with writer-spouse Richard Kletter, John Lithgow, Robert Foxworth with Elizabeth Montgomery, Chuck Fries and Ava Ostern, back-from-Italy Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum, Marsha Mason, Ted Danson, Ed Begley Jr., Judge Reinhold and writer Amy Ephron. L.A. Classic Theatreworks next year will put on a several-weeks run of “Three Penny Opera,” giving all the stars of TV and film a chance to tread the boards.