Coming Very Soon to Theater Near You: ‘LT on Elm Street’

Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants, whose Achilles’ tendon injury may end his pro football career, is considering a movie career: “I only want to be in kill movies,” Taylor said. “It ain’t no fun unless you get to kill somebody. I don’t want to be in ‘Love Story.’ I want to be the black Rambo. I want to be Rambro.”

Anything you say, big guy.

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Trivia time: What school record did USC tie by losing to UCLA, 38-37, last Saturday?

Anyone for boccie?The Daily Pilot reports that Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana restaurant in Irvine is the location of the only two regulation boccie courts in Orange County. But only diners are welcome to play.

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Dial M: Jim Muldoon, the Pacific 10 Conference’s public relations director, on Michigan having no defeats but three ties: “8-0-3 ain’t a record. It’s an area code.”

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Stay cool: Now that Riddick Bowe has won the heavyweight boxing championship, he told the New York Times’ Phil Berger, “cousins” are appearing out of the woodwork in Brooklyn asking to borrow money for cars.

Bowe said he tells them all the same thing: “A year ago you were ridin’ the subway. Don’t start no bad habits.”

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Home away from home: USC has never played Fresno State in football, but the Trojans played in Fresno in 1944. They beat St. Mary’s Pre-Flight, 6-0, in the school’s first night game.

Believe it, or not, it was a USC “home” game.

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FYI: The UCLA-USC game was played on Thanksgiving Day in 1936 and 1938.

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Fish story: Dick Fish of San Juan Capistrano recently caught a 12-pound rainbow trout at Irvine Lake.

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Is that all? Columnist Edwin Pope of the Miami Herald, writing on Miami’s 16-10 victory over Syracuse to retain its No. 1 ranking:

“Miami is still right there because of one of the greatest defensive halves of college football’s finest dynasty of at least the second half of this century.”

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Ugh: Defensive tackle Steve McMichael of the Chicago Bears on losing: “It eats away at me like a vulture gnawing on some road kill.”

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Trivia answer: It equaled the highest losing score in USC history, a 38-37 loss to Notre Dame in 1986.

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Quotebook: NFL television analyst Terry Bradshaw talking with Jim Hill of CBS: “I’m not afraid to let people know that I’m kind of an idiot.”