Drive-by art: The Venice Art Walk will...

Drive-by art: The Venice Art Walk will have a true Southern California touch this weekend: Some artists are using the bodies of parked automobiles as canvases.

“It might be assemblage art--something attached to the car--or it could be painted on the car,” explained Sheila Goldberg, the Art Walk chairwoman.

The 10 cars, which will be parked on Abbot Kinney Boulevard on Sunday, form the exhibit “FAR Parked” (the acronym stands for Foundation of Art Resources).

The crucial question, of course, is whether the artists will be able to find parking. “Oh, what they’ll do is go out Saturday night and leave another car in the spot,” Goldberg said. “Then they’ll trade cars early Sunday.”

Luckily, the street does not have parking meters.

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List of the day: The Hair Force One controversy--President Clinton’s $200 clip job at LAX--is not the first unusual contretemps involving the airport. Fasten your seat belts for a few others:

*1992--A United Airline flight is held up when Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Garden Grove) is booted off the plane for refusing to bring his seat upright for the takeoff. B-1 Bob claimed he needed to recline because of a sore hip.

* 1991--Mayor Tom Bradley, returning from a trip abroad, finds no car waiting for him. It had been towed away after His Honor’s chauffeur illegally parked it at the curb.

* 1990--An L.A. lawyer is arrested and handcuffed for petty theft--using his own earphones to listen to a movie soundtrack on a United Airlines flight. The charge is later dropped. The movie: “Presumed Innocent.”

* 1973--L.A. Police Chief Ed Davis says hijackers should be given “a rapid trial . . . with due process of law at the airport, then hanged.” Two decades later, the quote is immortalized in the book “The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said.”

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Watergate West: Perhaps one mid-L.A. apartment complex has learned from its namesake in Washington, D.C. Its barred windows indicate an awareness of the possibility of break-ins.

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Dueling Babylons: We’re pleased that another author has dismissed the rumor that silent screen star Clara (The It Girl) Bow had a one-night stand with the starting lineup of the 1927 USC football team.

We previously noted that Bow biographer David Stenn found no evidence to support the rumor, which was published in “Hollywood Babylon” by Kenneth Anger. Siding with Stenn is Ray Mungo, author of the just-released “Palm Springs Babylon.”

Mungo writes that Bow (who occasionally hung out in Palm Springs) and the Trojan gridders “were just friends.” So we see no need for an NCAA investigation of USC.

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Charles Lindbergh, who made his solo flight from New York to Paris 66 years ago this week, attended Redondo High School for one semester in 1917. Young Lindy received high grades in every subject except geometry.