M ama mia!On the invites sent out...
M ama mia!
On the invites sent out for a meeting of the L.A. County Italian American Lawyers Assn., the space for the emcee was blocked out and a new name pasted over: Honorable Charles Frisco.
Why the change? The invites originally said: “Horable” Charles Frisco.
Like we always say, it’s difficult to match the inventiveness of real estate people.
There’s the Beverly Hills agent who laminated his business card so he could hand it out at the pools of the big hotels. There’s the Santa Monica agent who inserted his business card in such books as “How to Cash In On the Coming Housing Boom” in the city’s library.
Pasadena agent Kelley Brock tried a different gambit Saturday, hosting a free screening of “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” for 350 residents at a local theater.
Not only were the soft drinks and popcorn also free but Brock even avoided the temptation of showing coming attractions of her clients’ properties on the screen.
Some beach volleyball terms popularized by Prime Ticket sportscaster Chris Marlowe:
1-- Campfire Defense : The players form a circle around the ball and let it drop.
2-- Credit Card Defense : The defensive players are all charging the serve.
3-- Husband-and-Wife Defense: There’s no communication between players as the ball drops between them.
4-- Facial : what a player gets when hit in the face by a hard spike.
5-- Facial Disgracial : what a player gets when the facial is so painful that he or she must come out of the match.
After a segment on bees the other day, KCBS-TV’s anchorweds Bree Walker and Jim Lampley segued into a discussion of a bee infestation at their own home--”our little problem,” they called it.
Viewers might have expected a respite from the couple’s frequent references to their life together when Walker appeared solo as a newscaster on TV’s “The Trials of Rosie O’Neil.”
Not so. When Walker’s character finished a newscast on “Rosie,” she said:
“Back to you, Jim.”
Bring back the husband-and-wife defense.
miscelLAny:
A persistent myth holds that the Shakespeare Bridge, with its colorful turrets and arches, was built for a movie by either Walt Disney or Cecil B. De Mille, who both lived nearby. Actually, the 65-year-old Los Feliz landmark was the work of a city engineer.
