FRIENDS FOREVER: Alexander D. Ciurczak of Dana...

FRIENDS FOREVER: Alexander D. Ciurczak of Dana Point will talk about two friends during his Memorial Day address Monday at the El Toro Memorial Park Cemetery. They lived in the same hut with Ciurczak, a World War II U.S. Air Force combat photographer who twice received the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism. . . . One was killed in war. The other, John E. Jenkins, recently called Ciurczak after learning he’d founded the Distinguished Flying Cross Society. . . . “I’d been looking for him for 50 years,” Ciurczak says. “We were as close as you can get.”

MEMORIAL ENOUGH? Huntington Beach has a memorial at City Hall with the names of its residents who died in WWI, WWII, and the Korean War. Now Vietnam veteran Bob Kakuk, 48, has asked the city to add a memorial for the 21 Huntington Beach men who died in his war. . . . “These men gave their lives for their country, their state and the city of Huntington Beach,” Kakuk says. . . . City officials say they’ll look into it.

STARRY EYES: Actress Claire Trevor Bren had a long list of distinguished co-stars during her Oscar-winning career (E1). The 85-year-old Newport Beach resident concedes she was in awe of working with Clark Gable (“Honky Tonk”). But it was different with her “Stagecoach” co-star John Wayne--they worked together four times. . . . “I never was star-struck with Duke,” she says. “I got to know him on the set, working with him. I had never seen him on the screen, so you don’t get star-struck.”

ADD SMILE: What do celebrities think when the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park adds their likeness to its collection? For an upcoming wax Geena Davis, it’s back to the sculpting shop. Reason: Geena Davis (“A League of Their Own,” “Thelma & Louise”) wasn’t that thrilled with it. . . . She wanted “a little more gleam in the eyes, heighten the cheekbones a touch, a little more of a smile,” museum spokesman John Dailey says. “We decided we’d be better off re-sculpting instead of carving into what we had.”