The rains unearth a familiar type of...

The rains unearth a familiar type of pest: Long rolls of plastic used to prevent earthslides were recently draped over the hills along the Golden State Freeway in the Los Feliz area. Taggers have since scrawled graffiti on them.

Hang 10 honors: Huntington Beach, as you no doubt are aware, is planning a Surfers Walk of Fame. Putting aside the question of whether a “walk” is appropriate for surfers--why not a “wave,” a “curl” or a “pipeline”?--here are some locals we think should be enshrined:

* Todd Marinovich, the Raiders quarterback, who revealed that he enjoys surfing in the nude.

* Corky Carroll, the first hot-dogger to appear in a beer commercial.

* Robert Duvall, the colonel in “Apocalypse Now” who liked “the smell of napalm in the morning” and organized surfing competitions.

* Dana Rohrabacher, the Cal State Long Beach grad who calls himself the “best surfer in Congress.”

* The Beach Boys, performers of “Surfin’ Safari,” etc. Brian Wilson’s star should be the farthest inland, however, because he is said to have a phobia about entering the ocean.

Speaking of the beach: You apparently can’t get there on Wilshire Boulevard, judging from this set of dueling signs, photographed in West L.A. by David Gershwin.

Art imitates saloon: Richard Koshalek, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art on Bunker Hill, told the New Yorker magazine that the temporarily shuttered Beverly Hills Hotel was an inspiration for MOCA architect Arata Isozaki.

“You know we based the entire color scheme at MOCA on the colors of the Polo Lounge--that green and pink coloring,” Koshalek said. “It seemed to Isozaki . . . that they represented a kind of mystical, heraldic, symbolic coloring of Los Angeles.”

Family values alert!It’s “discriminating against married men,” said James Brown of Westlake Village of the accompanying ad in the L.A. Daily Journal. Or married women, for that matter. Obviously, the company’s rationale is that an attorney who’s gone splitsville is meaner, less trusting, and has a lot more time on his (or her) hands to spend at the office.

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Actress Lillian Gish, who died Saturday, starred in D.W. Griffith’s classic “Birth of a Nation,” which premiered in L.A. in 1915 at Clune’s Theater at 5th and Olive streets. It was such an expensive production ($100,000) that Angeleno moviegoers were asked for the first time to fork over $2 for a ticket.