Power wedding: The bride-to-be who dreams of...
Power wedding: The bride-to-be who dreams of receiving a shiny power drill, a dazzling hedge-trimmer or a set of gleaming new trash cans on her wedding day now has a company that will assist her.
Armstrong’s, a Westside hardware store, has set up a bridal registry. No doubt the company hopes to duplicate the success that the 99 Cents Only chain has had with the same idea.
“We’re getting a good response,” said Sharon Chang, Armstrong’s assistant general manager. “For someone moving into a home we offer a lot of things a department store doesn’t.”
One bride even listed two cubic feet of dung at Armstrong’s. Sad to say, not one guest scooped it up for her.
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That’s Hollywood: One of the street people who received a free Thanksgiving meal at the Hard Rock Cafe brought along some reading material--”Pizza Connection,” a play he had written about the L.A. riots.
Joe Touti, 57, a homeless dramatist who lives “behind a McDonald’s” in Hollywood, explained that the work is about “a bunch of actors on the bottom of the dream. They work in a restaurant, delivering pizza” when the riots break out.
Touti said that he’s “saving up my VA checks so I can rent out a theater for a couple of months to show it.” In the meantime, he’s scrimping on everything. One page of his manuscript was written on the back of a menu.
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Bugging out: Long Beach has been so occupied with arguing about what to do with the money-losing Queen Mary that one of its other famous attractions has flown the coup. And we’re not referring to the Spruce Goose.
We mean Herbie the Car. The retired star of the “Love Bug” movies, which occupied the Goose’s dome, has gone south--to Disneyland.
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Quiz of the day: Cliff Dektar shot this gizmo in Studio City. The first reader to identify it by phone or fax will win a special prize from the Only in L.A. warehouse.
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Always at the epicenter: Disturbed by the latest swarm of doomsday predictions, we paid a visit to the quake simulator exhibit at the County Natural History Museum in Exposition Park. There we were surprised to see a fictional newscast of a disaster by KABC news--anchored by Paul Moyer. Obviously it was a rerun, because Moyer has jumped to KNBC. Channel 4, you may have heard, has experienced a jolt of its own since signing Moyer to a reported $1.4-million annual contract: Disastrous ratings for his newscasts. The real ones.
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Weeding out the competition: L.A.’s athletic teams have been stumbling of late, but the city has won two straight championships in one area--the Monster Root Contest.
Service technician James Cacioppo is hoping to maintain that streak with a 40-foot-10-inch branch he captured in a Woodland Hills storm drain after a one-hour struggle. If Cacioppo should win the nationwide contest, which is sponsored by Roto Rooter, his treasure will be enshrined in Des Moines, Ill., in the Monster Root Hall of Fame.
Deadline for the contest is Dec. 31. Talk about drama.
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Terra, the magazine of the Natural History Museum, points out that if the Earth’s history “were reduced to a 24-hour day,” the first victims of the La Brea Tar Pits “would have been trapped three-quarters of a second before the end of the day.”
