The Good, the Bad, the . . .
A river rafting company advertised that “Whitewater doesn’t just mean Bill and Hillary.” . . .
Assets Zsa Zsa Gabor listed in her bankruptcy petition included $20,000 in clothes, $20,000 in jewelry, $15,000 in furs and a $7,000 Chevrolet truck. . . .
After January’s Northridge earthquake, a Calabasas mortgage company invited photographers to snap pictures of employees drying water-soaked documents using hair dryers. . . .
Donald Trump, in disclosing that he would not bid on the Aladdin hotel in Las Vegas, said: “Now with the earthquake, people stop going to Las Vegas. Maybe I turned out to be right.” . . .
Former “Davy Crockett” star Fess Parker, turned winemaker, billed himself as “King of the Wine Frontier.” . . .
The family of the late actor James Dean sued a Korean businessman selling James Dean brand underwear. . . .
A North Hollywood candy maker settled a lawsuit filed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after he was found making unauthorized Oscar-shaped chocolates, agreeing that he won’t “advertise, manufacture, sell or offer to any entity any naked male victory figurine holding its hands or any object in front of its chest or abdomen.” . . .
Believe it or not: A study found that 51.8% of Americans have never heard the term information superhighway . . . .
Amid the O.J. Simpson murder case, Barq’s soda launched a “Match the DNA Sweepstakes” scratch-off contest. . . .
Hits magazine listed O.J. Simpson friend Robert Kardashian as the most famous man in the music industry. . . .
The National Enquirer offered $250 to the two people who look the most like Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro and prosecutor Marcia Clark. . . .
Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson sang “Good Vibrations” during testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom. . . .
Playboy Enterprises took a $1.2-million write-down on the vanity documentary “Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time.” . . .
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown cut the asking price for his San Francisco home from $1.4 million to $1.2 million. . . .
An insurance executive awarded a San Fernando Valley limousine tour and a cellular phone call to the head of Connecticut Mutual Life for the best entry in a contest naming the people who have most hurt and helped the image of insurance agents. . . .
The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace started selling the book “The Day Elvis Met Nixon” by former White House lawyer Egil (Bud) Krogh and designated a former “Nixonette” campaign worker as a “personal shopper” to fill holiday gift orders. . . .
Autograph Collector magazine in Corona listed former President Gerald R. Ford as the worst celebrity autograph signer. . . .
A Gallup Poll found that 69% of adults ages 18 to 49 had heard of television producer Aaron Spelling. . . .
A Time Warner shareholder at the firm’s annual meeting in Burbank asked Chairman Gerald M. Levin if he could get a tour of the Warner Bros. studio lot. . . .
PG-13: Sony Pictures executives received a brochure on massage services offered at the studio that included a “How to Receive a Massage” section that read, “The best way to receive a massage is with the body completely unclothed.”
