CITY PRIDE: You can bet that Orange...

CITY PRIDE: You can bet that Orange is going to spruce up a little for the Tom Hanks movie people, who’ll be in the city to shoot Old Towne scenes next month. The city has agreed to make about $50,000 in improvements, mainly along Glassell Street where shooting will take place--new trees, planter irrigation, new crosswalk bricks. Says Mayor Joanne Coontz: “We weren’t planning this right away because we couldn’t afford it. But these improvements are long overdue, so it’s a nice bonus.”

SUBURBAN INTRIGUE: Another movie set in Orange County: Tonight’s “Dazzle” on CBS-TV comes from the 1990 Judith Krantz bestseller. She used the Rancho Margarita development in South County as its setting, intrigued by the area’s changing history. . . . TV Guide says of the movie (9 p.m., KCBS-TV Channel 2, concluding Tuesday): “Romantic entanglements, financial pressures, family wrangles, a ruthless traitor.” Clarification: The book and screenplay were written pre-bankruptcy.

NIGHT TALK: TV interviewer Geraldo Rivera has made his views clear on O.J. Simpson: “He got away with murder.” . . . Rivera will be on hand tonight at Carmelo’s Restaurant in Corona del Mar for a sold-out $100-per-plate fund-raiser for the Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable Foundation. A spokeswoman says Rivera, who has befriended the Brown family since the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, will help with an auction and probably speak.

EXECUTIVE PACKAGE: Last week George Bush’s secretary of state, James Baker, appeared in Orange County. This week it’s Bush himself. The former President will be the keynote speaker Wednesday at the Anaheim Convention Center--at a national packaging convention. . . . He won’t talk about packaging, says a spokeswoman for the Westpack ’95 confab, but “We consider him a good, inspirational speaker who could shed light on world trade issues that affect our industry.” Tickets not available to the public.