Help Wanted
Another sure sign money-making opportunities are picking up again in Southern California. . . .
A recent ad in Variety had a national television show looking for “Real Life Ken Dolls.”
In the more specialized area, a Santa Monica-based operation recently advertised in the Hollywood Reporter for natives of Greece “to record erotic phone fantasies.”
Then there is National Enquirer, which is offering $250 to the two people its editors feel look the most like O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Robert Shapiro and prosecutor Marcia Clark.
“Do you resemble defense attorney Robert Shapiro so closely that people give you advice on how to get your client off the hook? If so, you could be a winner in our latest exciting contest!” the Enquirer says.
Insurance Image Adjuster
Forget last night’s Emmy Awards for excitement.
The real drama is a contest by Woodland Hills insurance agent Hank Frazee--celebrating his 11th year in the business--to find the five people who have done the most to hurt the image of insurance agents and investments advisers and those who improved it.
Frazee’s winner is Orange County dentist William Clark. His answers included the financial advisers to Los Angeles Kings President Bruce McNall, now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, President Clinton’s health advisers and financial advisers to baseball’s owners. On the positive side, Clark nominated insurance agents who handled the recent brush fires and earthquake.
For being the winner, Clark gets a San Fernando Valley limousine tour, a subscription to Life Assn. News, a five-minute cellular phone chat with the chief executive of Connecticut Mutual Life and a round of golf with Frazee and his accountant.
Turkey Keeping Abreast
McNall’s recent bankruptcy filing has attracted the interest of numerous creditors, but now even a foreign government is monitoring it.
The Republic of Turkey has filed papers requesting to be kept up-to-date on the proceedings.
Howard Spiegler, a lawyer representing Turkey, said that officials there just want to stay on top of McNall’s bankruptcy because of some past dealing with him.
Specifically, he said, Turkey back in 1988 had a McNall company return some ancient coins scheduled for an auction that the country claimed had been taken out of the company improperly.
Spiegler added that Turkey has not filed any claim to McNall assets.
Briefly. . .
Good reason to justify the trip: An upcoming California Assn. of Realtors trade show has scheduled a seminar on “How to Get More out of Attending a Trade Show.” . . . More on seminar topics: A recent UFO show near the Los Angeles International Airport featured as a topic “New Evidence for a Bigfoot/UFO Connection.” . . . An ad for a Portland office building reads, “It’s not the Trump Tower, but then you’re not Trump.”
