First, Schwab’s, now . . . 7-Eleven?Yes,...

First, Schwab’s, now . . . 7-Eleven?

Yes, aspiring actors, the next time you drop in for a microwaved burrito, you can leave your resume and photo in a drop-off box at the convenience store. And Culver City-based Gateway Information Services promises to distribute it to casting directors (if it doesn’t have too many burrito stains).

The catch is you first have to call Gateway’s 900 line (at 95 cents a minute) and jot down the “listing code” of the job that interests you. Then you must write the code on the outside of the envelope that you drop off at any of five 7-Elevens on the Westside. (Apparently, Gateway figures there are no prospective thespians in Downey or Encino or Pomona.)

Times have changed since Lana Turner was supposedly discovered while drinking a malt.

Come to think of it, Gateway lists only acting and technical jobs.

Doesn’t the company know that everyone in L.A.’s a screenwriter these days?

Which reminds us: Some Cal Poly Pomona students broke a world record by building a 201-foot bean-and-cheese burrito, which they cut up and sold to raise money for charity. It wasn’t microwaved.

An alleged counterfeiter was arrested in Hollywood but police are accusing him of passing a bogus dress, rather than bogus money. He allegedly claimed it was one worn by Rita Hayworth in a 1946 film.

Police arrested John B. Ponca, 36, the owner of a memorabilia shop, after investigators took the dress to Santa Barbara and showed it to Jean Louis, designer of the original costume for the movie, “Gilda.” They concluded the dress might date back only 30 years or so.

Lloyd Curry, a collector, purchased the garment from Ponca for $3,500. Curry said he first suspected the costume was bogus after he removed it from its frame. The dress had been mounted like a Da Vinci.

It’s important to choose the proper car-pool. That seems to be the message of a witty Richard Gerrish painting, which is part of the “Carpool” exhibit at the Pacific Mutual Building on West 6th Street.

The show opens Monday in conjunction with the start of Rideshare Week. Gerrish depicts a maze of traffic, including cars tumbling into a pool of water. Not what Commuter Computer had in mind.

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Griffith J. Griffith, whose donation of land to L.A. became Griffith Park, later served a year in prison for attempting to murder his wife, whom he accused of plotting with the Pope to murder him.