Grunt’s gone Hollywood, no doubt about it.One...

Grunt’s gone Hollywood, no doubt about it.

One year ago, he was just a homeless, 800-pound porker, abandoned when his owners left Rolling Hills Estates. The county Animal Control Shelter feared he’d have to be put to death if no one adopted him.

But after The Times reported his plight, more than 500 people phoned in three days, including Ozzie Osborn, a Santa Paula rancher. Grunt went to live on Osborn’s 193-acre ranch.

The big pig not only became a tourist attraction, he was recently photographed for a ski-clothes catalogue (Grunt-Claude Killy?). Befitting Grunt’s star status, Osborn built a small swimming pool for him. Gossip has it that flashy Grunt has been seen on separate occasions with three 400-pound females, Pugsy, Sabrina and Izzie.

Rhonda Osborn, Ozzie’s wife, says she hopes Grunt will settle down and start a family this year.

But, she adds, despite all the females around him, Grunt “doesn’t seem too interested in sex. He doesn’t even like to get up, except to eat.”

Nothing like the intellectual stimulation of a college community. Next door to USC, for instance, University Cinema is showing:

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

Sure, the city of Beverly Hills just jacked up the price of its parking meters to 25 cents for each 15 minutes.

But that wasn’t the reason that Elm Productions decided to shoot “The Taking of Beverly Hills” elsewhere--Mexico City, actually.

“We needed to use the business center of Beverly Hills so we could hardly ask the city to close down the streets,” said a publicist for the shoot-em-up about an ex-football star who becomes a cop and . . . well, you can guess the rest.

In Mexico City, the company produced “an exact duplicate of Rodeo Drive . . . including some of the alleys,” the publicist said.

Maybe when the company returns, it could re-create Pickfair.

Smile when you say that:

A wire service reported that members of a youth group called the Happiness Club were going to “march down Hollywood Boulevard to launch a campaign to attack the grim on the Walk of Fame.”

Though there are plenty of down-in-the-mouth candidates on that thoroughfare, they were actually attacking grime .

But we should talk. We reported the other day that the Saugus Cafe was in Newhall. Turns out it’s in Saugus, of all places.

After a boo-boo like that, we’re thinking of responding to the ad run by acting teacher Guy Stockwell in the show-biz publication, Drama-Logue. Stockwell is offering lessons in “right-brain training.”

Well, half is better than nothing.

MiscelLAny:

A total of four palm trees can be found on Palms Boulevard in the Westside community of Palms. But, then, there probably aren’t very many Studebakers parked in the Norwalk community of Studebaker.