Freeway commentators:One of the odder side effects...
Freeway commentators:
One of the odder side effects of the Simpson trial is the emergence of related vanity license plates. You may have heard of NOT OJS (on a white Ford Bronco) and OJDIDIT. Now Daniel Nussbaum, author of “PL8SPK” (his rewriting of well-known stories using personalized plate messages) tells us he saw ASK KATO.
Actually, we’d rather not.
YOU’D THINK HE’D KNOW THE WAY: Mayor Riordan was half an hour late Friday for a meeting of LEARN, the Los Angeles Education Alliance for Restructuring Now, at the L.A. Convention Center. A LEARN staffer was told His Honor had gone to the wrong location.
WE’D HATE FOR YOU TO DIE AND IT SHOWS!T.C. Cirillo of Lakewood noticed that Delta Airlines’ magazine states that passengers are prohibited from using “certain types of portable electronic devices.” But the federal regulations make an exception for “heart pacemakers and implanted medical devices.”
Also, the magazine says, “personal life-support systems may be operated during all phases of flight.”
No Kevorkian jokes, please.
CAN IT PULL LUGGAGE? David Tokofsky snapped a shot of an airport parking lot that seems to brag about a four-footed helper.
REALLY YOUNG AT HEART: Going against the stereotype that Southern Californians try to stay young forever, a Long Beach play group is looking for 3-year-old seniors.
EARLY SUNSETS: So Assemblywoman Doris Allen is bowing out as Speaker. Let’s see how her three-month tenure compares to some other brief flings:
* 40 days: Chevy Chase as talk show host for Fox, 1993.
* Six hours: Marriage between Rudolph Valentino and fellow thespian Jean Acker in 1919 (she locked the Great Lover out of their room after the wedding party).
* One game: Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner as manager of the team, 1977.
* Five months: Pierre Salinger fills an opening as appointed senator from California (he lost to George Murphy in 1964).
* Zero performances: Faye Dunaway as lead in “Sunset Boulevard” production at the Shubert Theater (she was fired during rehearsals last year).
* 21 months: John Seymour fills an opening as appointed U.S. senator from California (he lost to Dianne Feinstein in 1992).
* One night: CBS detective show, “South of Sunset,” starring Eagles singer Glenn Frey (canceled after one performance in 1993).
* Four days: The $100-million movie “Inchon!” took in $5,000 before being shut down.
SHORT TAKES: Ex-Speaker Allen may be best remembered for her comment earlier this week that she would not be pushed around by “a bunch of power-mongering men with short penises.”
On behalf of the Assembly’s males, Only in L.A. phoned the Rosenstein Medical Group, which runs newspaper ads for “penile enlargement-penile lengthening.” But all we got was a recording. We wanted to know if Rosenstein gives group discounts.
miscelLAny Other one-episode wonders for planned TV series, besides “South of Sunset,” were “Melba,” a 1986 sitcom; “Turn On,” a 1969 comedy; and “You’re in the Picture,” a 1961 game show hosted by Jackie Gleason. Gleason apologized to the audience before the episode had ended.
