People and Events

Marilyn lives.

Marilyn Monroe’s lipstick, a lock of her hair, a glove she wore in “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” her first video screen test and other memorabilia will tour the United States in the next few months before being entombed in a time capsule in Hollywood.

Hollywood Heritage, a private preservationist group that runs the Hollywood Studio Museum, showed off the items Wednesday at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to kick off the tour.

The centerpiece of the exhibit will be a realistic relief sculpture of Marilyn that was created by Bill Mack, entitled “Legend.” Another of his bronzes, a life-size likeness of the star in a scene from “The Seven Year Itch,” will be unveiled next year at the museum. The time capsule will be buried on land at the museum near the Hollywood Bowl and not unearthed until Aug. 5, 2062--the 100th anniversary of her death.

Fashion designer Mr. Blackwell contributed the red silk pajamas that he created especially for the actress. And in a tribute, he explained her enduring popularity: “She keeps alive style, romance and intrigue.”

Mayor Tom Bradley, attending the National League of Cities meeting in Las Vegas earlier this week, fumbled a bit when he introduced the luncheon speaker, erstwhile Detroit Lions quarterback George Plimpton. The mayor called Plimpton “a former football player of the Detroit Rams.”

Plimpton, the Bostonian author of “Paper Lion,” which chronicled his pseudo pigskin days, took advantage of the faux pas , telling the crowd, “I bring greetings from the Detroit Rams and Boston Lakers.”

LA.’s chef to the stars, Wolfgang Puck, is finding a lot of opposition brewing against his planned “beer food” restaurant on the Westside.

Puck plans a new restaurant and a sort of boutique brewery in what is now an unused warehouse at 1845 S. Bundy Drive. But neighbors fear crowds and drunk drivers will overrun their neighborhood.

Puck, who is better known for his gourmet pizzas at Spago and his French-Chinese delicacies at Chinois on Main, envisions a 214-table restaurant that would feature “beer food”--Chinese baby back ribs, Mexican quesadillas, American hamburgers. The victuals would accompany a German-type lager brew produced by his associates, the Los Angeles Brewing Co.

A permit has already been OKd after several rounds of disputation. But nearby residents, many of Japanese ancestry, have enlisted the Japanese American Citizens League to appeal the decision. “They want to make this a playground for the rich,” complained Bill Sakurai, league board member.

Brewery vice president Jerry Goldstein insists that the restaurant will not attract an unsavory element. “We don’t make much money from people sitting at a bar and buying a $2 beer,” he explained.

Rainbow City, the new tent city being planned for the homeless during the holidays, will have its own official song and is getting some help from famous friends.

Gospel singer Tramaine and the Edwin Hawkins Singers have recorded “People in Need,” dedicated to the homeless. Ten thousand copies of the single are being made, according to Barbara Peck of the Benefit Network, which donated the $20,000 production costs for the record.

Sample lyric: “We live in a cruel world / The hungry and homeless are crying for mercy. . . . There but for the grace of God go I.”

Tent City activists must still find an insurance carrier, obtain a state permit and find food, blankets and sleeping bags before the third annual holiday tent city can be erected on state property at 217 1st Street.

A check for $5,000 toward the insurance costs has come from musician Yoko Ono. Said her spokesman, Elliot Mintz: “We should all think globally, but act locally.”