His publicist is sending out news releases...

His publicist is sending out news releases proudly reminding everyone that Anthony Tetro is the local artist “whom the L.A. district attorney has described as ‘the single biggest (art) forger in the United States.’ ”

We’ll pause until you’ve stopped applauding.

Tetro, currently facing 68 felony counts of forging Picasso, Norman Rockwell and others, wanted to establish his non-credentials to dramatize his latest creation: A fake Ferrari.

The car, which will go on display today at Ma Maison Soiftel on Beverly Boulevard, sounds like the perfect Christmas gift for the driver who’s afraid to take his real 1958 Testa Rossa TR58 out on the streets. A costume sports car!

Tetro’s press release, which even hyped his court date--”trial begins on Feb. 4, 1991”--added that members of the press and, we assume, Ferrari’s attorneys, will be served champagne at the grand unveiling.

What, no champale?

Speaking of jalopies, the organizers of the 5th International Contemporary Art Fair figured it would be in keeping with L.A.’s Freeway City image to design their 1990 Art Fair Guide in the style of the Thomas Guide (see photo). The fair cruises into the L.A. Convention Center on Thursday. You know, over at Page 44, B-4.

Ironic that the Doolittle Theater in Hollywood is staging “The Heidi Chronicles,” which deals with the feminist movement, while the management ignores one common women’s complaint about theaters and arenas: insufficient restroom facilities. Lines of waiting women stretched out nearly to the street at intermission the other day; one woman said angrily that she waited for 20 minutes.

Lines of men, meanwhile, were nonexistent.

Taking the unisex look too far:

A City of Industry store was robbed the other day by two bandits, a male and female who were identically dressed.

Travelers’ Advisory:

A poll of the readers of the British magazine Business Traveller ranked LAX fourth worst in the world among airports in the “luggage retrieval” category. (The good news: LAX was third worst in 1989.) Our copy of the magazine, by the way, was purchased in Saudi Arabia by a visiting colleague. About one-third of a Holiday Inn ad had been blacked out by Saudi authorities. The offending portion? A woman in a bathing suit.

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San Fernando Valley communities earlier in this century included Maxwell (now part of Studio City), Lankershim (North Hollywood), Owensmouth (Canoga Park), Marian (Reseda), Girard (Woodland Hills), Picture City (Agoura) and Zelzah (Northridge).