For those of you who want to...

For those of you who want to get more of a bang out of life, a Hollywood company will let you blow up a building for just $7,500 (explosives included).

The firm, called Dreams Come True, sets up exotic adventures ranging from a trip aloft in a looping, spinning, biplane ($300) to a ride in a supersonic jet ($11,499).

The demolition frolic, called the “Big Bang Weekend,” consists of “a whole weekend with demolition experts,” owner John Alexander said. “First, there are some test shots, little dynamite explosions. You find out how the explosives work. You map out the operation together. And then, on Sunday morning, you get to push the plunger.”

“We have a waiting list of clients,” Alexander said. “We’ll hear of a building that’s been condemned somewhere in the country and offer it to them. Some say, ‘I want a bridge,’ or ‘I want to wait for a high-rise.’ One guy even wanted a grain silo.”

He emphasized that the company chooses the demolition candidates so that, no, you can’t take out your frustrations on City Hall.

Nine months ago, we reported one of the strangest sightings of Elvis Presley.

A portrait of the singer was in an outdoor mall off Hollywood Boulevard, with a caption that said:

OLIVER HARDY.

Well, we checked again, and Elvis is still using the same pseudonym there, next to a painting of Stan Laurel. We telephoned the owner of the mall to ask him when the team of Laurel & Presley was going to be broken up. He assured us he’d correct the error soon. Let’s hope so. Elvis isn’t getting any younger.

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With two of the year’s biggest events this weekend--the Dodgers-Giants and Elizabeth Taylor-Larry Fortensky matchups--we felt so inspired that we put together a baseball team of Liz’s husbands, past and future. Needing a ninth, we drafted a friend of hers to play third base.

Our lineup, with wedding dates:

1--Hotelier Nicky Hilton (1950), SS--Covered lots of real estate.

2--Producer Mike Todd (1957), 2B-- Around the bases in 80 seconds.

3--Actor Richard Burton (1964), CF--Heavy-hitting roles.

4--Sen. John Warner (1976), RF--Much political clout.

5--Actor Michael Wilding (1952), LF--Great range.

6--Burton (1975), 1B--Money player in later years.

7--Fortensky (this Sunday), C--Rookie of the year?

8--Singer Eddie Fisher (1959), P--High pitch is his specialty.

9--Singer Michael Jackson, 3B--Famous glove-man.

We doubt whether KABC-AM radio General Manager George Green will be asked to address any conventions of the American Assn. of Retired Persons after bragging to The Times in a recent interview:

“We’re getting rid of our geriatric image and replacing it with a fast, hip show.”

What kind of timing is this? The Southland’s in the midst of a 5-year-long drought and the artist Christo is preparing to set up 1,760 umbrellas along Interstate 5 next week.

Then again, perhaps the rain gods will finally decide that they’ve been appeased.

miscelLAny:

Bars that have deceptive names to give them respectability (and, perhaps, fool spouses) are not a new phenomenon. A century ago, a building in the now-vanished Downey Block at Main and Temple streets contained a saloon called “The Office.”