Eddie the Eagle would be proud: Angel...
Eddie the Eagle would be proud: Angel Abreu of Burbank tumbled over his skis the other day, spraining his ankle so bad it had to be put in a cast. Perhaps he should have stuck with tennis. (He’s a nationally ranked 35-and-over player.) The worst part is, Abreu can’t even brag about how he hit a tree at 100 m.p.h. after free-falling from a mountaintop. In truth, he free-fell from some steps in his garage while attempting to carry his ski equipment to his car.
There’s already enough junk in orbit: Jack Warner Jr. found a park in West Los Angeles that is apparently trying to discourage one method of getting rid of doggie-do.
“Newhall and the Beast” was the working title: You would think that receiving a plug in a monster hit like “Beauty and the Beast” would reap big public relations benefits for a region. But that hasn’t happened for Newhall and Valencia.
Perhaps it’s because only by freezing the movie on one frame can one notice that Belle’s father, Maurice, encounters a directional sign that says:
Newhall
Valencia
Anaheim
“We hadn’t even heard about it,” said a worker at the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce (formerly the Saugus-Valencia-Newhall Chamber of Commerce).
Dave Smith, a Disney archivist, explained: “It’s a tradition among animators to throw in little inside jokes.”
Smith pointed out that “a lot of animators attended (Valencia’s) California Institute of Arts.” And he added that “Disney has a Golden Oak Ranch in Newhall.”
Anaheim, of course, is famous as the future home of the Mighty Ducks hockey team.
What the animators left unsaid is which of the three towns is the home of the Beast.
Only ambulance-chasers will be fooled: Insurance companies usually aren’t notified of a traffic collision in advance. But Fireman’s Fund and Allstate were warned of an accident to be staged Tuesday--by a production company for a television movie. The courtesy was extended to the insurance companies because, by coincidence, they have offices next to the site of the celluloid mishap in Woodland Hills. You know Woodland Hills--it’s about 18 miles southwest of Newhall.
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One world-record holder competing in next month’s L.A. Marathon will be Mike Cuzzacrea, who holds the mark for fastest marathon while flipping a pancake (3 hours and 6 minutes).
