Get ready for another L.A. movie. It...

Get ready for another L.A. movie. It won’t be as mysterious as “Chinatown,” as shattering as “Earthquake,” as ominous as “Blade Runner,” or as full of wrong-way freeway chases as “To Live and Die in L.A.”

It’s “L.A. Story,” a comedy written by and starring Steve Martin as a weekend weatherman whose ambition is to roller-skate through all the world’s major museums.

Martin admitted in the new L.A. magazine, Buzz, that he was advised that his initial draft “trashed” L.A. (Remember, Martin grew up in Orange County.)

So he softened it. In fact, he cut one line that surely would have immortalized the movie in the minds of Easterners. It’s a scene where a talking freeway sign (yes, talking freeway sign) says:

“You think I’m dumb because I’m L.A.”

The Channel 13 camera crews obviously were on guard for risque entries as they televised Pasadena’s Doo Dah Parade on Sunday. Generally, they were able to leap out of action in time.

During a parody of Roseanne Barr’s rendition of the national anthem, for instance, KCOP stayed above the waist of the “singer” when she began to imitate Barr’s now famous imitation of an athlete scratching an itch.

Alas, the crews weren’t so fast when one member of the Flasher Drill Team whipped open his raincoat.

Zippety up that doo dah, boys, and let’s cut to a commercial.

Switching around the dial, Channel 9 recently identified Paul Westhead, the coach of the Denver Nuggets, as Paul Westwood during a Lakers game. Don Fawcett of Brentwood says that because the coach last worked for Loyola Marymount University, a more appropriate goof would have been Paul Westchester .

When it comes to furry animals, we usually associate Beverly Hills with minks and foxes.

So we don’t know what to make of the sign at the corner of Whitworth and La Peer drives.

Robert Ridenour of Burbank says his housebroken pet, Arnold, has been trained to come when called, sit on command and climb up stepladders. Problem is, Arnold’s a Vietnamese potbellied pig. Just a foot tall and 45 pounds in weight, but still a pig.

And Ridenour was recently given a citation for violating the city’s no-pig law. Ridenour squealed so loudly that the Burbank City Council is reviewing the ordinance to see whether it should exempt the potbellies, as Monterey Park did recently.

Phyllis Frisbey, founder of the Southern California Potbellied Pig Assn., doesn’t sound confident. She claims that hundreds of residents own the chic pets in secret because most cities prohibit them.

“Some people,” Frisbey said, “are pig prejudiced.”

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Burbank, christened in honor of Dr. David Burbank, is the only city in Los Angeles County to be named after a dentist.