The final words in the Martin Sheen...

The final words in the Martin Sheen controversy may be on T-shirts.

You recall all the waves Sheen, honorary mayor of Malibu, made recently when he proclaimed the surf-side community a nuclear-free zone and a haven for the homeless. One of his critics, Tony Casson, manager of the Malibu Inn and Restaurant, tried to get Sheen removed from office for the political remarks, even placing a “Dump Sheen” sign on his marquee. But Casson, like the Chamber of Commerce and most other critics, has since had a change of heart.

Casson recently placed another message on his marque: “Martin, call me. I have a great idea.” Sheen’s business partner Bill Greenblatt saw the sign and called. Casson suggested that they organize a T-shirt sale and canned food drive to benefit the seaside community’s homeless.

A trailer will be parked across from the Malibu Pier on Pacific Coast Highway during July to collect canned goods for area food banks. Proceeds from sale of the $11 T-shirts will benefit ArtifacTree, a Malibu establishment that helps feed the community’s homeless. As for his seeming flip-flop, Casson said, “I was never opposed to helping the homeless, only in Sheen making the political remarks while serving as an honorary mayor.”

The T-shirts come in three styles. Two of them say: “We Love Martin Sheen” and “Malibu Cares.”

The third one is stenciled with: “Dump Martin Sheen.”

Casson added, “Sheen thinks that one will be the big seller.”

Another local movie star was in the limelight Friday at the kickoff for Universal Studio Hollywood’s 25th anniversary celebration.

Jerry Lee, who recently starred with Jim Belushi in “K-9,” was on hand (or should we say on paw?) at the studio for the burial of a time capsule. The German shepherd dug up the first scoops of dirt, and even surrendered for the capsule the dog tags he wore in the movie.

The time capsule, which is actually a film canister that will be opened at the 50th anniversary bash, was crammed with the hat worn by Ernest Borgnine in the 1964 film version of “McHale’s Navy,” a swatch of King Kong’s fur, a tooth from “Bruce the Shark” (the star of Universal’s Jaws attraction), Sean Connery’s bow tie from the 1964 Hitchcock classic “Marnie,” and a seismogram from Universal’s man-made earthquake attraction.

Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston has agreed to run in the 60-yard dash for old-timers, called Legends 60, at the Jack in the Box Invitational Track Meet scheduled for Aug. 6 at UCLA. But the other day, Cranston, who ran the quarter-mile for Stanford 50 years ago, called up track meet chairman Al Franken to see who his competitors would be.

When he heard about the other younger entrants, Cranston asked, “Can’t you find anyone older?”

Franken replied, “Senator, there aren’t many 74 year olds who can sprint.”

The Bell Tolls for No One. (This is a recording):

“We had a question about our Pacific Bell Yellow Pages advertising,” writes Al Stern, who owns a public relations agency in Sherman Oaks. “The only number we could find to call was on the back of the contract, in very small print (800) 421-4307.”

Stern dialed it.

He got a taped voice telling him that his call could not be completed.