It’s the Westwood Chainsaw Protest, Part I.The...

It’s the Westwood Chainsaw Protest, Part I.

The Alliance for Survival says it’s going to protest the release of the film, “Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III,” by lugging its own power tools to the front of the Mann Bruin Theater this afternoon.

Since the Venice-based group is a peace organization, the members don’t plan to cut up even a popcorn box. They’re just protesting the “glorification of violence,” spokesman Jerry Rubin said.

One Venice celebrity, however, won’t participate in the demonstration because he’s been hired to promote the movie, Rubin said.

Talk about type-casting. The absentee is the street performer known as “The Chain-Saw Juggler.”

Elvis-Head Sightings (cont.):

The 15-foot-tall floral noggin of the King, which appeared in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade and was later denied entrance at Graceland, began a weeklong run outside the Northpark Mall in Ridgeland, Miss.

As with any celebrity, a makeup specialist was called in first.

“We had a florist do some patching,” disclosed mall spokeswoman Becky Orsi.

And what happens to the bust when the mall showing has ended?

“We’re thinking of auctioning it off,” Orsi said, noting that the singer’s float cost about $150,000 to construct.

How much is a used Elvis head worth, anyway?

Florida’s California envy is showing again. The Sunshine State has copied such local attractions as Disneyland, the Universal Studios tour and Hollywood Boulevard. One basketball team even call itself the Orlando Magic, in honor of the Lakers star.

Now, Florida is up to it again, no doubt embarrassed over reports that L.A. has replaced Miami as the cocaine capital.

Newspapers down there are claiming that Florida has become the car capital, with 15.1 million vehicles for 12.8 million residents.

“Florida is jumping up and down as though it’s more important than California,” said John Rettie, editor of the “California Report” auto newsletter. “But California still has more vehicles.”

California numbers about 24.3 million chariots for 29 million residents, more than 8 for every 10 people.

In fact, as far back as 1913, the Auto Club was reporting that, car-wise, “California now leads” the nation.

After all, back then the state could boast “one car to every 28 inhabitants.”

Medflies haven’t produced much good. But at least the controversy over how to combat the critters did inspire the area’s most wacky recent survey.

Joe Crummy, one of KFI’s “shock radio” personalities, asked his listeners: “Who would you like to spray malathion on?”

Some of the standard targets were singled out, such as Raiders owner Al Davis, state Insurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie and Beverly Hills cop-slapper Zsa Zsa Gabor.

But several generic pests were also nominated, including:

- Freeway drivers who “slow down while talking on their car phones.”

- “Every driver on the 405 (freeway).”

- “Valets who change the radio station in your car.”

- And the people sitting next to you on airline flights who wait until the “seat-belt light comes on to rush to the bathroom.”

Coffee, tea or malathion?