Maybe that’s why the Los Angeles Angels...

Maybe that’s why the Los Angeles Angels moved to Anaheim: Artist Sally Marr says she can’t find any sculptures of angels in the City of Angels. “And we need angels in this city,” she adds. “Angels are symbols of healing.”

To reduce the shortage, she and her companion, Peter Dudar, are fashioning a bronze of an eight-foot-tall winged messenger--Reina de Los Angeles--for a condominium’s fountain in Hollywood.

“This angel is a female,” she said. “We don’t agree with people who feel angels have no sex.”

The artists began by looking for the “ideal woman” as a subject but wound up seeking “ideal parts.”

She explained: “We wanted smaller breasts--those are from a jazz dancer named Marilyn. We wanted a very female stomach so we used that of a belly dancer named Suhaila. We wanted very powerful legs because this angel is landing and bringing water--sustenance to man--so we got a classical ballerina named Susan.

“The face is a close friend of mine named Karen. We started using the hands of the belly dancer, but she wasn’t available after a while so we had to finish with mine.”

Marr said she doesn’t fear vandalism of the statue, which will be unveiled Feb. 5 at the Harper Avenue property. “Certain things aren’t desecrated because they are universal symbols,” she said. “I think of an angel as having its own protection.”

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The Bill Keene Memorial Pun: That’s how KNX radio broadcaster Tom Sirmons described his response to a report of cattle loose on a roadway. Quoting the station’s retired traffic reporter, Sirmons said: “Someone better call Cow Trans.”

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Which reminds us: Jay Olins of L.A. wrote to suggest that we have a feature on mysterious vanity plates. “For instance,” he said, “I saw ’10 COWS’ on the Ventura Freeway.”

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The kind of thing you’d expect from Surf City: Desiree Meglio of La Mirada found a flyer for a video store that offers free memberships to anyone who has a major credit card and a “diver’s” license.

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Hot property, indeed: “I know the real estate market has plunged, but really!” wrote a shocked Judy Hoffmann of Westlake Village. She sent along one company’s provocative ad, above.

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The thanks we get: We were nice enough to publish a Recycler ad that gave a new dimension to the old line, “So you wanna be in pictures?”

The ad said: “Squish me! Females, 18-35, wtd to step on bugs w barefeet for short films, lrg feet welcome. Jeff at Squish Productions . . . “

So what do we get in the mail but a letter from Jeff, complaining, “Why didn’t you print my damn phone number?”

OK, OK, next time we’ll remember.

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The creators of Reina de Los Angeles combined the “ideal parts” of various women for their artwork. But another sculptor was able to find all those parts contained in the person of one Venice High student for a statue at the school early this century. The student gained more fame after graduation, becoming known as “the Queen of the Movies”--the late Myrna Loy.