People and Events

Voice-over ads pushing Republican presidential nominee George Bush were aired on Los Angeles television station KSCI (Channel 18) during the weekend in 13 languages: Armenian, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Tagalog, Hebrew, French, Cambodian, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi, Italian and Japanese.

None in Greek, though.

In other politicking:

The HOLLYWOOD sign, which has been edited in the past to read HOLLYWEED, OLLYWOOD and HOLYWOOD, went through another script change over the weekend. Sheets of paper were draped over the sign’s 50-foot-tall letters so that it read “YES” with the three-digit number of one of the insurance propositions.

But city workers quickly removed the paper, and people passing by Monday missed the largest ad of the heated campaign.

Long Beach may be growing, but the Junior Chamber of Commerce feels the town isn’t big enough for three Miss Long Beaches.

“We don’t want to create a lot of waves, but we want to protect the pageant we put on every year,” said Tom Luebke, an attorney representing the Jaycees.

The first storm clouds were the convening of a contest by the city of Long Beach to find a Miss Long Beach and her court to ride its 1989 Rose Bowl float.

The Jaycees protested that Dana Eytcheson, 21, already wore that crown. The city eventually agreed to put Eytcheson on the float, though whether as the Miss hasn’t been revealed yet.

Then another royal threat arose when the “Miss Eye on L.A. Beauty Pageant” on KABC chose its own Miss Long Beach (along with several other regional Misses).

“All they had to do was contact the chamber and we could have sent them Miss Long Beach,” said Luebke, adding that the Jaycees hold a trademark on the title.

After several protests, “Eye on L.A.” ran a disclaimer on its final show on the beauty contest. But Luebke vowed that next year the Jaycees “will get an injunction to halt” any similar contest.

It was the second time in recent weeks that a local city has poked KABC’s “Eye.”

Pasadena’s Board of Directors, expressing regret that the Rose Bowl was used for the initial round of “Miss Eye on L.A.,” recently donated KABC’s $5,000 fee to the city’s Commission on the Status of Women “for a more appropriate use of the money.”

A recent poll rated Los Angeles as the ninth-most stressful city in the nation, miles and miles of concrete road behind the burg rated as the most relaxing, State College, Pa.

However, Los Angeles comes out better in a survey by the Union Bank of Switzerland, ranking fifth in the world in terms of salary levels. State College didn’t crack the Top 64 in this poll.

Even more impressive, the survey says that Los Angeles has the highest-paid workers in the world in one profession--auto mechanics, making an average of $37,000.

When a novice actress named Angelyne commissioned an 85-foot-tall mural of herself to be painted on a Hollywood building last year, she bragged: “I’m the first person in the history of Hollywood to ever become famous for nothing.”

Angelyne, who recently made her debut in a one-minute role as a computer date in “Dangerous Love,” can still make that claim. The movie closed after a week.