GOBBLE GOOD: Maybe you’ve had it up...

GOBBLE GOOD: Maybe you’ve had it up to your stuffing with Thanksgiving dinner tips for today. But Robert E. Merryman is someone to listen to: He’s the county’s environmental health division director, and he warns that where there’s feasting, there’s the chance for food-borne illness. . . . Common mistakes, he says: “Improper thawing, inadequate cooking, contaminating foods with raw poultry juices, and leaving holiday foods out at room temperature are the main concerns. . . . Foods traditionally served at Thanksgiving provide an excellent food source for harmful bacteria.”

YOUNG LIONS: If you’ve chosen today to crowd your way into Disneyland, you could be on national TV. CBS will show three hours of Thanksgiving parades, including Disneyland’s “Lion King Celebration Parade.” But don’t expect Dick Clark. . . . The Disneyland TV hosts are Sheree J. Wilson--she married Bobby Ewing on TV’s “Dallas”--and George Newbern--he married Steve Martin’s daughter in the movie “Father of the Bride.”

HOLIDAY TREAT: Actor John Stamos may be the biggest name to come out of John F. Kennedy High School in tiny La Palma, but one day Roxanne Taga may upstage him. Taga, who is just 19, was the understudy to the lead in Broadway’s “Miss Saigon.” But Wednesday the lead skipped for the holiday and Taga found herself center stage in one of Broadway’s biggest hits. . . . Her response: “I feel prepared. It’s what I’ve been working toward since coming to Broadway.” She had a little help: Mom and Dad, Roxanna and Ernest Taga, flew in for her opening.

HE’S NO DUMMY: Art can be painful for the artist, as well as the beholder. Antony Gormley, whose work is part of the “Essential Gestures” collection of sculptures now on exhibit at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, goes the extra mile for his work. Gormley risks suffocation to take impressions of his own body while using breathing tubes. . . . But it pays off. Wednesday, he was awarded the Turner Prize, Britain’s top art honor, for his collection of five dummies bent over double against a wall.