AFTER BOGIE: “Casablanca” made Humphrey Bogart a...

AFTER BOGIE: “Casablanca” made Humphrey Bogart a Hollywood legend. Now a dozen Orange County teen-age surfers will be hitting the beach there this week. Morocco’s King Hassan II has invited them as part of an international surf group to help him form a surfing federation there. And to teach his 16-year-old son how to surf. . . . Says Candice Kelly of Laguna Beach, whose 13-year-old son Brendan is among them: “It’s kind of a combination cultural exchange/surf competition.”

ELEPHANT DANCE: For nine years, Greg Haskin has been the stoic executive director of the Republican Party in Orange County, faithfully defending George Bush and fighting Democrats for newly registered voters. Now Haskin will focus his attention on just one Republican: He’s joining the staff of U.S. Rep. Chris Cox of Newport Beach. . . . His replacement is William C. Christiansen III, 28, a field coordinator in Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan’s campaign last fall.

RESERVED CHEER: She couldn’t convince a judge last year that Irvine’s grade requirements were unfairly higher for high school cheerleaders than for football players. Now Huntington Beach education consultant Phyllis Lerner offers some other thoughts on cheerleaders. . . . Sitting alongside some Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Lerner says on a taped segment of “The Mo Show,” on Fox TV: “My worry is that they’re in secondary roles, which says something about the way we see women in society.” The show is scheduled to air Jan. 14.

BETTER LUNGS: One standard New Year’s resolution: to stop smoking. Which is why the local chapter of the American Lung Assn. has chosen January to set up three Freedom from Smoking Clinics: At Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo, and Fullerton Internal Medicine Center. . . . Dates and details: Call (714) 835-LUNG (5864). But Freedom from Smoking isn’t free: It’s $75.