Trash bin to the stars: Legal secretary...

Trash bin to the stars: Legal secretary Robin Yeo dropped by a recycling bin on the Westside but found it closed, which explained why someone had stacked a pile of boxes outside the fence.

“I thought I saw some empty folders I could use,” she explained. “Then I noticed they were filled with information from clients of Faces International--canceled checks, payment stubs, credit card slips.”

Investigating further, Yeo found other boxes containing financial records for the talent agency dating back to 1989.

“I couldn’t believe that this stuff would just be left out in the open like that,” Yeo said. “Besides, companies usually hold on to their records for several years.”

The receipts showed that numerous would-be stars paid $3,000 and up for a single ad in the company’s magazine.

Oh, yes, there were also stacks of past issues of the magazine, as well as copies of a book, “How to Make It in Show Business,” by George Goldberg of Faces International.

We tried to contact representatives of Faces International to ask about their record-keeping, but their local phone numbers were disconnected and a recording said their New York number was “temporarily disconnected.”

“I just thought of all these kids coming to Hollywood,” Yeo said. “And this is where their photos end up.”

An endorsement?As countless drivers know, it’s been more than six months since KNX traffic reporter Bill Keene retired and moved to Tucson, where there’s no South Bay Curve or Malfunction Junction.

But his old radio station is still playing a commercial in which he says he is a “recent retiree” and “that’s why I’m going to go to Centinela Hospital Fitness Institute” for a checkup. Maybe he dreads making the drive.

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List of the Day: Some tidbits from “Wills of the Rich and Famous,” by Herbert Nass:

* Comic Jack Benny (1894-1974) left his Presenda and Stradivarius violins to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

* The interment site for Walt Disney (1901-1966)--Forest Lawn in Glendale--was not selected until nearly a year after his death, a “delay (that may have) fueled the speculation” that he had opted to have his body frozen. Actually, Disney’s will made no mention of that practice (cryogenics).

* The will of J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) refers to the ranch that became the Getty Museum as being located on “Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades”--although the Getty Museum now insists (map coordinates to the contrary) that it is in Malibu.

* Showman Bob Fosse (1927-1987) left 66 friends bequests of $378.79 each to “go out and have dinner on me.”

* Comic W.C. Fields (1880-1946) was a curmudgeon to the end, dying on Christmas Day.

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On the scent in the Valley: Bill Walker wonders if the presence of an Anheuser-Busch brewery explains why a local merchant’s flyer referred to a San Fernando Valley community as Panaroma City.

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has sued the makers of a television movie because they allegedly used the grounds of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church of Beverly Hills for scenes involving nudity and sex. The suit seeks at least $500,000, as well as a halt to distribution of the film--”Virgin High.”