Lawyer about town: Robert Shapiro and the...

Lawyer about town: Robert Shapiro and the Rolling Stones--you just can’t keep them apart.

Now they’re featured in Vanity Fair’s “1994 Hall of Fame” photo spread, along with such worthies as TV’s “Melrose Place Girls,” magician David Copperfield, model Claudia Schiffer, actor Hugh Grant and Jimmy Carter (yes, the former President).

Shapiro and the Stones were last linked up, you may recall, when an image of the head-bopping attorney popped up on the Rose Bowl’s giant screen during a concert by the group.

In his Vanity Fair shot, by Annie Leibovitz, the nattily attired Shapiro is seated in a cluttered office, with several scraps of paper on the floor. We thought we detected a mysterious look on his face--related, perhaps, to a nearby box. It’s labeled, “D A CLUE.”

“Maybe,” cracked Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, “it’s a new board game.”

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Well-deserved faint praise?A few days before the election, a Diamond Bar assemblyman’s bumper sticker was attached to a billboard that bore a radio station’s partially finished blurb.

Considering the nature of the endorsement, we’re not sure whether followers or opponents put it up. Especially since the assemblyman is Paul Horcher, who has since helped stalemate that body by defecting from the Republican Party and supporting Democrat Willie Brown for Speaker.

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Ooh L.A. L.A.: Arthur Manask of Burbank found L.A.’s melting pot bubbling in Toluca Lake, where the City Wok restaurant gives Chinese fortune cookies with messages in English and Spanish.

One fortune, by the way, may also have wound up in Assemblyman Horcher’s hands.

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A stealth bus?Yes, that’s the nickname that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has given to the lightweight Advanced Technology Transit Bus, which was introduced by Northrop Grumman Corp. on Thursday.

The concept sounds like a ready-made bureaucratic explanation when a bus misses a stop. “It’s a stealth bus,” the MTA can tell a complaining rider. “Of course, you didn’t see it.”

Play poetry!While ballplayers and owners are haggling over money, broadcaster Vin Scully wrote the introduction to a poetry book, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year--A Child’s First Look at Baseball,” and donated all proceeds to charity. So did author Larry Harper and artist Brent Benger. If you’ve missed Scully’s voice, he’ll be signing copies at Vroman’s bookstore in Pasadena at 2 p.m. Saturday.

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We hate to say L.A. told you so: It was a bit more than 100 years ago that a group of towns broke away from the comfort and security of L.A. County and established themselves as Orange County. Maybe if they ask nicely, we’ll let them come back.

miscelLAny We were shocked to come across “Mutant League,” a Sunday morning cartoon show on KCOP. It’s about a band of terrifying football players and equally terrifying spectators who wreak havoc in a stadium that is struck by a massive earthquake. How dare KCOP expose children to a series about the Raiders?