‘Til dessert do they part: Actress Drew...

‘Til dessert do they part: Actress Drew Barrymore, we’re sure you heard, has filed for divorce in L.A. Superior Court to end her marriage to British bar owner Jeremy Thomas. What caught our eye was the admission that the two had separated 30 days after they walked down the aisle. Did that set a record in Hollywood?

Not even close.

Shortest-marriage honors appear to belong to Rudolph Valentino and actress Jean Acker, who said their I-Do’s on the evening of Nov. 5, 1919, at the now-vanished Hollywood Hotel. After a party, they repaired to their honeymoon suite. Realizing, as she said later, that the wedding had been a “mistake,” Acker went inside and locked the Great Lover out.

End of marriage.

Elapsed time: About six hours.

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Who ain’t who: Gene Autry, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and L.A. County Supervisors Deane Dana and Mike Antonovich are among the more than 3,000 entries in the 1994 edition of “Who’s Who in California.” But look at some of the notables who didn’t merit a place in the book:

--L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan.

--Artist David Hockney.

--USC President Steven Sample as well as UCLA Chancellor Charles Young.

--Architect Frank O. Gehry.

--L.A. County Sheriff Sherman Block as well as L.A. Police Chief Willie L. Williams.

--Chef Wolfgang Puck.

--Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown as well as her brother, former Gov. Jerry Brown.

--Attorney Gloria Allred.

--Movie mogul Steven Spielberg.

Also left out was Disney boss Michael Eisner, which makes the book look like a sort of Mickey Mouse job to us.

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Changing sexual roles: Vern Urich spotted a casting notice in Drama-Logue for a TV program titled “Man to Man.” It’s being made by All Girls Productions.

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Does Dr. Rex Morgan know about this? Daniel J.B. Mitchell of Santa Monica notes that when it comes to making medical advances, comic strips seem to be competing against scientific papers. Mitchell found this cartoon in The Times on April 28, 13 days before a similar story by Times medical writer Thomas H. Maugh II was published.

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Stuff happens: Frederick Schreiber of Beverly Hills writes: “I realize that, like most others, my street is not what it once was. But, I ask you, is this appellation really necessary?” Schreiber enclosed a letter that contained an unintentionally (we’re sure) vulgar typographical error that altered the first letter of his street:

Whittier Drive.

miscelLAny:

Playwright Joseph Tuoti, who wrote “Big Time Buck White,” the off-Broadway hit that was inspired by the 1965 Watts riots, is back with “The Pizza Connection,” which was inspired by the 1992 L.A. riots. Tuoti says “Pizza Connection,” which is appearing at the Showcase Theater in Hollywood, depicts a group of older actors who are working for a Hollywood pizza joint owned by the Mafia when the riots break out. L.A.’s next riots, that is--the play is set later in the decade.