SEEDS OF CONFUSION: When a mysterious package...

SEEDS OF CONFUSION: When a mysterious package arrived at Burbank’s Disney Studios for actor Tom Selleck, studio security officials took no chances. Unable to see the contents by X-ray, they summoned the sheriff’s bomb squad, which blew up the package. . . . Inside: a T-shirt and a package of petunia seeds, sent by a fan in Illinois.

HOLDING PATTERN: First, NASA employees at Dryden Flight Research Center near Lancaster learned that proposed GOP cuts could cost as many as 300 jobs. Then on Friday, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said NASA wants to add 300 positions by realigning the space agency’s aeronautics program (A19). . . . Said Dryden spokesman Don Haley: “You just walk the line and see what happens.”

LAUGHING MATTER: Did you hear the one about the rabbi with the microphone? . . . Pulpit punsters like Rabbi David Vorspan of West Hills, above, recently strutted their shtick at the “Funniest Rabbi in L.A.” contest, held at the University of Judaism in Sepulveda Pass. But the final joke was on L.A.: The winning rabbi hailed from Palm Springs (B11).

NO JOKE: . . . But not all Jewish jokes are funny. Republican campaign consultant Ed Rollins--an adviser to Sen. Bob Dole’s presidential campaign--is under attack after using a derogatory term to refer to two Los Angeles-area congressmen. Rollins spent Friday apologizing for his “feeble attempt at humor” (B1).