People and Events

“I got four pizzas for No. 7,” the Domino’s deliveryman announced.

The street address was right, but No. 7 turned out to be cell No. 7, in the LAPD’s Hollywood division. Police say 18-year-old Patrick Spurlock, arrested earlier on suspicion of trespassing and disturbing the peace, had used the prisoners’ phone to call for dinner Monday night from his holding cell--four large pizzas, $43.40, not including tip.

But all Spurlock had was an appetite; he was flat broke.

After the pizzas were sent back with the crestfallen driver, a jailer reported overhearing the famished Spurlock grousing, “I ordered pizzas. Are they here?”

On Tuesday, said Asst. City Atty. Timothy Adams Hogan, Spurlock pleaded guilty to the two initial charges and another one for the pizza caper--defrauding an innkeeper--and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. “I think he was treating everyone in the cells,” mused Hogan.

“I’ve delivered to the cops down there, but never any of the inmates,” said Domino’s day-shift manager, Bill Brown. As for the deliveryman, Brown said, “He was having a bad day yesterday. Some guy’s dog attacked him too.”

The arms race will be decided once and for all in a Sunset Strip restaurant next Wednesday. Negotiating the fate of the Free World (and probably free drinks) five days before the real summit will be a veteran Ronald Reagan look-alike, and a Mikhail Gorbachev impostor yet to be selected. So far, six people are volunteering to take an Iron Curtain call as a Gorbachev impersonator for Ron Smith’s fabled stable of celebrity doppelgangers.

The Soviet general secretary is “not an easy look-alike to find,” said a spokeswoman for Smith. “You have to be older and have hair that way and be a little bit pudgy”--not to mention the Gorbachev birthmark, which most contestants paint onto their foreheads.

Whoever wins will then sit down to a mock summit with a mock Reagan. Judging the winner in the peace talks will be impersonators of Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds, among others.

On to real celebrities: been hankering after televangelist Jim Bakker’s autograph?

For about $45,000, it can be yours, on a pink slip, along with the Mercedes-Benz convertible that his wife, Tammy Faye, may have used only to drive to church on Sundays--and on a few shopping trips around Palm Springs.

The 1984 two-seat, metallic-blue 380 SL with 3,200 miles on it is going on the auction block Saturday at the Newporter Resort hotel in Newport Beach, along with a 1907 circus coach and a 1899 Gypsy wagon, which the Bakkers did not own. The car’s slipped halo of celebrity is expected to fetch $2,000 to $5,000 above the the $40,000 “blue book” value, believes auctioneer Rick Cole who, says his spokesman, has been looking around the car’s sleek tan interior for any forgotten Bakker-abilia, like maybe “some Maybelline.”

In a holiday vein--the jugular vein--one turkey has been spared the Thanksgiving blade. A bird brought to Hollywood from Fresno for a brief spot on a TV special was left behind by the farmer.

Actress Suzanne Kaye, host of Movietime Cable Network and daughter of actress Diahann Carroll, who had innocently asked the farmer if turkeys were ever kept as pets, said the all-white bird (white feathers, not white meat) “kept rubbing up against my leg. It was very content and just looking for love.”

After keeping the turkey in her bathroom overnight, she turned him over to a bird sanctuary where, Kaye says she was told, he is cooped up with a turkey named Zelda.

A business presentation entitled “Still Feeling the Shake” was scheduled to begin at the Los Angeles Theater Center Tuesday morning--about three hours after the El Centro quake struck. It was cancelled; not enough RSVPs had been returned. After Tuesday morning’s shaky reminder, organizer Debby Buckelew says hopefully, “Maybe they’ll make time on their calendars in January.”