Just Sell, Baby

A mysterious classified ad buried in the Wall Street Journal last week said that a 1.88% interest in the Los Angeles Raiders is for sale. No price was listed nor was there any disclosure of who is selling the tiny fraction of the Al Davis-controlled team. The only other information was a post office box in Occidental, Calif., north of San Francisco.

Some Raiders executives are puzzled as well.

Executive assistant Al LoCasale, Davis’ chief lieutenant, said it was news to him that any of the Raiders investors would sell a piece of the team. He was also unable to locate any Raiders executive who knew what is going on.

How much is 1.88% of the Raiders worth? Last month, Financial World magazine pegged the team’s value at $124 million. Assuming the estimate is in the ball park (or football stadium in this case), the stake would be worth about $2.3 million.

Anybody Home?

Fun facts from a high-profile bankruptcy case. . . .

Papers in the Chapter 11 filing of actress Kimila Ann (Kim) Basinger--under court order to pay a production firm $7.4 million for breaking a promise to appear in a film--include a few oddities.

One is a declaration by Joel G. Samuels, one of the lawyers for the company that successfully sued Basinger. He says in his declaration that he paid a visit to the Coldwater Canyon address for Basinger’s “Mighty Wind Productions.”

Samuels says he found a gated home, which a property title check later showed belongs to rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

Another Price Waterhouse

Robert Prechter, the “Elliott Wave” stock market guru who predicts everything from stock prices to social unrest, now takes credit for picking Oscar winners.

Prechter’s latest promotional materials credit him with forecasting last year’s Academy Award to “Silence of the Lambs” and its star, Anthony Hopkins. Prechter cites his 1989 statement that “an Academy award for a horror picture or actor is likely.”

No Dental Floss Night?

Anyone interested in picking up a few odds and ends for the home might consider attending a few California Angels baseball games in July.

Giveaways this month are to include promotion nights called “Toothbrush & Cup,” “Laundry Bags” and “Pillow Cases.”

Unfortunately, it’s too late for “Shower Curtain” night.

That was a May game against the Kansas City Royals.

Briefly . . .

An “interactive theater company” called Murder to Go offers to stage “team building exorcisms” during company meetings. . . . Mmmm-Mmmm-good titles: The Campbell Soup Co. named a new president for its “Meal Enhancement Group” as well as a new “president of U.S. Soup” . . . . More Raiders: Former wide receiver Mike Siani will manage a new operation for Nationsbank, providing trust banking services to athletes.