Get Your Hands on the Cookie Jars

Got milk?

A glass of the white stuff would go just fine with the 400 cookie jars on display at a clothing store on Melrose Avenue.

Casper the Ghost, Popeye, Tigger, the Jolly Green Giant, Humpty Dumpty and other characters from the 1900s through the 1960s are among the ceramic and glass characters featured at Maxfield Los Angeles.

And you can take them home--for a price, of course. The rarest in the group is Howdy Doody, which is going for $2,650.

Others are available for as little as $100.

The store acquired the cookie jars from a private collector who spent more than 20 years collecting them from different parts of the United States.

So far about 12 of the jars have been sold to cookie jar enthusiasts.

On Saturday, in honor of Mother’s Day, Maxfield will treat customers to Oreos and cow juice.

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BUTT OUT: Anyone who’s this confident about their hindquarters deserves a plug. Patty Ambler is opening a Body Tone Fitness Center in Brentwood this month, and she doesn’t mind claiming the title of best “legs and butt.”

The honor was awarded by a syndicated TV show.

“It’s shocking,” said Ambler, 36, who has been a fitness trainer for 12 years and who has a degree in physiology. “But I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised because I have been training so long. Everywhere I go people comment on my legs. . . .Women ask to touch my legs. My legs are my number one priority. If every woman put as much time into their legs as I do they would get the same results.”

She offered to send a picture. We declined.

“I just wish you could see it,” she said, referring to her prize-winning tush.

“There are no flaws in it at all. When I walk, my butt doesn’t move at all.”

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STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES? House Speaker Newt Gingrich has proposed setting aside a day once a month to correct the most stupid things in government, but two Westside Democrats suggest Republican Gingrich’s “Corrections Day” may be a bit stupid itself.

At a hearing of the House Rules and Government Reform committees last week, veteran Reps. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Woodland Hills) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) questioned Gingrich’s plan.

Waxman said special-interest groups might receive special access on Corrections Day.

And “corrections” might be based on isolated anecdotes rather than comprehensive reviews of the issues. Said Beilenson: “I must admit that I am skeptical.”