Sign o’ the times:The Code of Conduct...
Sign o’ the times:
The Code of Conduct posted at the Northridge Fashion Center warns visitors against several practices, including “any unnecessary staring.”
Even at the confections in the See’s candy shop?
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TALK ABOUT THE SHOE BEING ON THE OTHER FOOT . . . We kid other publications occasionally so it’s only fair that The Times own up to a goof of its own in a Standard Shoes ad (see excerpt). The gender switch was called to our attention by Eric Amador, Carol Imlay and Mary Oran, among others. “Personally,” Oran commented, “I would welcome seeing more men do their jobs in heels.”
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LIST OF THE DAY (THE SEQUEL): Other readers, meanwhile, were contacting us to add to our list of schools where parts of movies and TV shows have been filmed.
Quiet on the set:
* Le Conte Junior High, Hollywood: “Bye, Bye Birdie,” “The Wonder Years,” “Torch Song Trilogy” (submitted by Ellen Jaffe McClain).
* Santa Monica High: “Rebel Without a Cause” (Goy Casillas).
* John Burroughs Junior High, Hancock Park: “Teen Wolf” (Barak Berlin).
* Whittier High: “Back to the Future” and “Back to the Future 2” (Diane Priore).
* San Pedro High: “My So-Called Life” (Jay Berman).
* Van Nuys High: “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (Barak Berlin).
* Marshall High, Los Feliz: “Grease”(Tom LaBonge). We have to admit that when we saw “Grease” we did a bit of “unnecessary staring” at Olivia Newton John.
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JURIES ON TRIAL: “And still the thing goes bravely on . . . arresting criminals and trying them before a jury that agrees to disagree, and after repeating this two or three times, sets the culprit free,” said a letter to The Times. “Is it not possible that our jury system is a farce, especially in these later days? If we must have a jury at all, then let a majority rule.”
The letter appeared in The Times on Oct. 27, 1889.
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ARE ALL THE SHELVES BARE?Julie Cuttrell of Long Beach saw this sign outside a supermarket: “No Food or Drink.”
Asked Cuttrell: “What’s the use of going inside?”
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GUY STUFF: Readers often send us clips of those “Men Only--Penile Enlargement” ads, which are promoting one of the Southland’s most unusual new businesses.
By coincidence, we came across a possible alternative to such surgery in Robert Westbrook’s new book, “Intimate Lies.” Westbrook relates that F. Scott Fitzgerald was once told by his not-always-supportive wife, Zelda, that his penis was too petite. Fitzgerald then contacted Ernest Hemingway, who took his fellow author on a tour of the art museums of Paris to study the size of male sexual organs on various sculptures. Fitzgerald felt better afterward, possibly because he also had several drinks with Hemingway.
miscelLAny:
A study by Runzheimer International found that the costliest big city for automobile driving, based on insurance, taxes, fuel, oil, tires, maintenance and other factors, was Los Angeles. It cost 55.8 cents a mile to pilot a mid-size car through L.A., which edged out Boston (49.8 cents), Philadelphia (49.0), Providence, R.I., (48.5) and Hartford, Conn. (48.0). Yes, but what other city can match the beauty of the Santa Ana Freeway?
