“Dobie Gillis,” it ain’t: The Commencement Day...
“Dobie Gillis,” it ain’t: The Commencement Day dress code for boys at Mira Costa High in Manhattan Beach includes this rule about jewelry:
“Stud earrings only.”
Vegetable victim? “Thought you might be interested in the Mystery of the Echo Park Eggplants,” Marielle Smith writes. “Over the past week, the enclosed flyer has been appearing on every telephone pole in my Echo Park Hills neighborhood. Street art or self-promotion?”
Or could someone be looking for a missing eggplant?
Strong menu: Southern California’s preoccupation with The Body Beautiful is evident once more in this menu for a Tarzana wine-tasting event.
The original B.H.: The “sentimental” Oscar choice of Val Rodriguez and his boyhood chums in Boyle Heights is supporting actor Harvey Keitel (“Bugsy”). After all, Keitel portrays a character from Rodriguez’s old neighborhood: Mickey Cohen.
The late mobster, who grew up east of City Hall when Boyle Heights was a Russian-Jewish neighborhood, was luckier than Bugsy Siegel when it came to attempts on his life. Cohen survived several, though developing some nervous habits along the way. Legend has it he washed his hands 50 times a day.
Ranked by police as L.A.’s No. 1 hoodlum after Siegel’s murder, the Mick complained that he and his associates were unfairly portrayed in newspaper stories.
“If I see a guy a couple of times or go out socially with him, all of a sudden he becomes my ‘henchman,’ ” he once said. “What the hell is a henchman, anyway?”
The kind of guy who would steal a defenseless eggplant.
Plothole: “Rising Sun,” Michael Crichton’s Pacific Rim mystery, is full of twists and turns. But one of the novel’s most exciting turns isn’t fully developed. It’s a left turn that police officers make onto Figueroa off 2nd Street. They then race south to the site of a murder at Figueroa and 7th. There’s no mention of the horn-blowing, the screaming pedestrians, the breaking of plate-glass windows and the crashing of vehicles that must have resulted from the cops speeding the wrong way on a one-way street.
But it’ll look great in the movie.
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Read this after breakfast: On display at the Ralph Parsons Insect Zoo is a photo, magnified 100 times, of a fly laying an egg.
