Bridge of sizes: Several months ago, a...

Bridge of sizes: Several months ago, a conceptual artist named Nicolino visited L.A. on a whistle-stop train tour to pick up undergarments for a project called “Bras Across Grand Canyon.” He viewed the 10,000-brassiere span as a statement on “breast obsession in our culture,” and we were gratified that he gave L.A. a chance to contribute some of the bridge materials.

We know you’re dying to find out where the project is now.

Well, not at the Grand Canyon, which has banned the bras.

Superintendent Boyd Evison wrote Nicolino that he had received numerous letters from the general public, “which all have opposed the project.”

Undeterred, Nicolino wrote back to Evison to clear up some misunderstandings.

First, the artist said it was not true that he had talked of stretching the bras over 10 miles of canyon, as an article in an Arizona magazine said. “My engineering sketch limits the span to one mile or less,” Nicolino declared. And, second, the rumor that he proposed “to use hot-air balloons to install” the chain of bras was “pure fantasy.”

The Grand Canyon, however, is showing no sign of budging from its position.

OK, how about “Bras Across the L.A. River?”

Talk about negative campaigning: It seemed inevitable that one of the mysterious “We Suck Less” billboards around town would be injected into a political race. And it happened in the City of Industry. In case you’re wondering, a spokesman for Assembly incumbent Paul Horcher (R-Diamond Bar) said: “We didn’t buy that billboard.”

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Careful, yuppies: Russell Stone of L.A. writes that he noticed a pickup truck with two bumper stickers: “Die yuppie scum” and “Licensed hot tub installer.”

Comments Stone: “Looks like he is trying to kill off his business.”

Not literally, we hope.

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Professional pride: The rumors that alleged Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss has the names of some rich and powerful folks in a little black book reminds us of an early-century incident mentioned in “Lawyers of Los Angeles,” by W. W. Robinson.

One day, when Superior Court Judge Charles Monroe and Mrs. Monroe “were walking down the street,” Robinson wrote, “they passed a highly painted woman who spoke to the judge. Mrs. Monroe, with her Quaker upbringing, asked, ‘A friend of thine?’ ‘Professionally,’ her husband answered, to which she replied: ‘Hers or thine?’ ”

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Trick or treat, indeed: By the way, let the record show that the Fleiss trial began on Halloween.

miscelLAny A plaque honoring Laurel & Hardy’s 1932 movie, “The Music Box,” will be unveiled Saturday at 11 a.m. at the base of the famous stairway in the film--between 923 and 935 Vendome St. in Silver Lake. A plaque is fine, but we’d like to see an annual event there commemorating the key scene in the movie--a “Laurel & Hardy Piano-Lugging Race Up the Stairs.”