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Someone’s going to have to take a hike: CityWalk, the $100-million entertainment and restaurant complex that MCA is erecting next door to Universal Studios, has stumbled into a small obstacle. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the use of the name CityWalk.

MCA is being sued by a North Hollywood company that complains that the moniker is too similar to its own and might confuse the public. The company runs a Chinese restaurant named City Wok.

Walking all over L.A.: Airline magazines, you may have noticed, invariably are filled with tame articles intended to avoid offending (or exciting) passengers.

But poking fun at the Golden State, particularly L.A., has become such a national sport--even out here--that United Airlines’ mag has an irreverent piece called “50 Things Every Visitor Should Know About California.” Some excerpts:

* “If you want to know why people love living in the greater Los Angeles area, so do San Franciscans.”

* “In California, if you order a ‘double decaf latte, low-foam with a twist, and hold the chocolate,’ you will actually get a cup of coffee.”

* “In California, when movie stars are very successful, they become advisers to politicians. When movie stars are not so successful, they become politicians.”

Talk to United Airlines about that last crack, Nancy, not us.

Great Hollywood casting moves: Ross Perot has appeared on television frequently of late in commercials as well as the presidential debates. But he didn’t play himself in the 1986 TV movie, “On Wings of Eagles,” which recounted Perot’s successful effort to have two imprisoned employees freed from prison in Iran. No, the fiery little billionaire was played by (envelope, please) Richard Crenna.

Mickey Rooney wasn’t available?

In a league of her own: As an entertainment reporter on KTLA (Channel 5) reviewed Madonna’s new book, “Sex,” the station showed several photos that were electronically altered to conceal private body parts. Whoops! Someone forgot to alter one page that showed a naughty, very noticeable four-letter word ending a sentence that began: “I’ll teach you how to. . . .”

Madonna, the Educational Girl.

Meals on wheels: Eddie Hobin Jr. of North Hollywood found an ad in a San Fernando Valley weekly shopper for a used car equipped with some surprising accessories.

MiscelLAny:

A U.S. Census Bureau survey found that 1% of the people commuting to work in Santa Monica travel by bicycle.