Love is a many-splattered thing: Chris Darryn...

Love is a many-splattered thing: Chris Darryn of the Talk Show Guest Registry in Reseda reports that the latest addition to his database of TV hopefuls is Brenda Love, author of “The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices.” Love has profiled 706 subjects, including “a man who is aroused by having pies thrown in his face during sex.”

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Speaking of sexual humor: For one of the area’s longest-running billboard misspellings, June Shelnutt of Los Angeles nominates the Smash blunder on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood.

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Who said Hollywood can’t sink any lower?You may recall that construction of the Metro Rail Red Line caused sinkage of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and cracking of some plaques.

Now, there’s a sequel to this real-life horror story. Mann’s Theater has written to Parsons-Dillingham, the construction management firm for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, complaining that “over the past few weeks, an 8-by-15-foot section in the southeast corner of the Chinese Theater forecourt began sinking. . . . It includes handprints, footprints and signatures of such motion picture stars as Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Myrna Loy, James Mason and Esther Williams.”

And the sad fact is that, unlike the Walk of Fame plaques, the prints of such departed stars as Davis, Loy and Mason cannot be replaced.

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Obviously, the juror candidates haven’t been buying: Don’t know if you noticed, but “Nicole Brown Simpson” by Faye Resnick with Mike Walker is No. 1 on the national charts for nonfiction hardcovers, followed by “Crossing the Threshold of Hope” by Pope John Paul II. But in Southern California, the Pope’s book is No. 1, followed by Resnick’s tome.

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Ethnic politics, 1850-style: Author Gloria Lothrop notes that even 144 years ago, newcomers to the state were a controversial issue.

But these newcomers were Americans who had moved here from elsewhere in the United States after California was admitted to the Union. These Americans were sometimes accused of ignoring California land titles and of preferring to settle disputes with firearms.

Lothrop, a California history professor at Cal State Northridge, found an 1850handbill distributed in the city that said:

“It is time to unite! Frenchmen, Chileans, Peruvians, Mexicans--there is

the highest necessity for putting an end to the vexations of Americans in California.”

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One measure whose backers refuse to give up: Marge Klugman of West L.A. noticed the accompanying proposition is listed in the Official Sample Ballot--just as it was in 1992, when it apparently lost. We’re not committing ourselves until we hear Ross Perot’s position.

miscelLAny Looks as though the computer age has even come to fortune-telling. A Long Beach woman advertises her business as “Anna, Technical Consultant on All Problems.”