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To know me is to love me: Audrey Franklyn of West Hollywood reports that her Amazon parrot, Georgie Girl, had a near breakdown over a romantic entanglement. Georgie Girl fell in love with herself.

“Her perch is next to a big wall mirror,” Franklyn explained. “She kept looking at it more and more each day, and she started singing. When I’d put her back in her cage, she started building a nest and acting strange.”

Franklyn says her vet told her that Georgie Girl suffered a sort of false pregnancy.

We’ve always been a sucker for a sad love story. So we phoned her vet’s office in Hawthorne. Dr. Richard Woerpel confirmed that a wild bird could carry on instinctual “ritualistic courtship patterns” in front of a mirror, “thinking another bird was there.”

The good news is that Franklyn has covered the looking glass and Georgie Girl seems to be over herself now.

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Hollywood calls: Actor Randy Quaid, who portrays a newspaper columnist in a coming mystery called “The Paper,” dropped in at The Times to see how Only in L.A. comes out each day. We’re not sure ourselves, so we weren’t of much help.

But we were reassured to see that Quaid can handle a computer. After all, as a (since-departed) tour guide at the newspaper once told some visitors: “The main requirement for becoming a Times reporter is the ability to type.”

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Our credits: The Times has been visited often by movie and TV people. One director who was filming in the city room was shocked that there were no clocks giving the hour in major cities of the world; he had some installed to make The Times look more like a real newspaper.

A young actress once asked Los Angeles Times Magazine columnist Patt Morrison if a city editor would wear a skirt. “Depends on whether it’s a man or a woman,” Morrison responded.

Another actress spent the morning interviewing reporters and editors. When she was about to leave, someone happened to see her note pad. It was blank except for the words, “Big Red Dictionary.”

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It’s second only to the Oscar around here: With July 4 coming up, Ken Rosenhek wonders whether tourists will flock to the patriotic attraction that he photographed on Coldwater Canyon Boulevard in Beverly Hills. It’s the famous Statuette of Liberty.

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Speaking of holidays, Happy Fiscal New Year! We know it’s today because our Big Blue Almanac told us so.