Another indication that the President’s in the...

Another indication that the President’s in the doghouse: A North Hollywood salon tried to exploit the Hair Force One incident by offering $200 worth of cuts to anyone named Bill Clinton who showed up Friday. “We got a call from a guy who said he had a 2-year-old named Bill Clinton,” said Hope Diamond, a spokeswoman for Supercuts. “Then he said, ‘I better tell you one other thing. He’s a dog.’ ”

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Some data that’s off base: Publicist Pat Penney sent along an unfortunate typo from a database publisher that makes it seem as though it’s trying to take advantage of one segment of the population (see excerpt).

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Stop-Action News: John Lippman, who was recently fired as Action News director at Channel 2, had just begun to speak at a Radio and Television News Assn. dinner at the Universal Hilton when half the people left the room. A protest against the controversial Lippman’s ways? (He was the news director, after all, who forbade his reporters from shielding themselves from the rain with umbrellas.) Actually, the cause of the quick exits was the 5.0 earthquake that struck Thursday night. Not only did the massive chandelier in the ballroom shake “like a million glasses,” reports publicist Linda Grey, but “everyone’s beepers went off.”

Spin control: Pamela Leven of Culver City received a flyer from a dealership that is inviting people to drop in and “spin to win on our giant wheel of fortune”--and perhaps take home a 1993 Toyota Tercel. Leven’s excitement was tempered by the small print, which set the odds at winning the car at 1.6 billion to 1. “Based on those stats,” Leven noted, “fewer than two people in the entire world have a chance of winning.” But, gee, you gotta have a positive attitude.

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Literary L.A.: “Final Diagnosis” by Dr. Roger Dunham is not only timely--it’s the story of two medical interns in the jail ward of L.A. County Hospital--but it contains a torrid love scene in the Bonaventure Hotel. The latter is, we believe, a first in the annals of literature. The book cover (see photo), which shows a man who seems to be tied to a bed, seems to promise some pretty kinky sex.

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Not only was the “Eyewitness News” theme on Channel 7 originally heard in the movie “Cool Hand Luke,” but a Glendale resident wants us to mention that the composer was Lalo Schifrin, the conductor of the Glendale Symphony Orchestra. Excuse us for omitting Schifrin’s name the first time. As Cool Hand Luke’s jailer would say, what we had was a failure to communicate.

Could there be a guerrilla typesetter sabotaging this advertisement?