An angel goes to the devil:Dismayed that...

An angel goes to the devil:

Dismayed that the City of Angels wasn’t living up to its name in an artistic sense, sculptors Sally Marr and Peter Dudar fashioned a bronze of a winged messenger for a Hollywood condo two years ago.

The other day, Marr said, “we got a call from a friend who said, ‘I just saw your angel in a movie on TV.’ I said, ‘What kind of movie?’ And he said, ‘Actually, a pay-for-TV skin flick.’ ”

Their angel only had a small role in the film, “Voyeur.” But the sculptors were not happy to see an actor mutter suggestive remarks while standing near the backside of the innocent creature.

When they created the bronze, Marr pointed out, they saw the angel as a figure who would “raise the spirit of the city, help unite it.”

While it was too late to remove the angel from the movie, the artists did contact the producer through an attorney to secure “some compensation for the use of our work.”

Ironically, Dudar pointed out, their angel had been considered for a couple of mainstream movies--”the location scouts were out to look at her,” he said.

Added Marr: “I feel almost like she was one of those young women from a little town who comes to L.A. to be a serious movie actress and winds up in a trash film at the Pussycat Theater.”

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: We recently mentioned a junk-mailing that listed “Deceased” as the last name of a resident’s late husband. That prompted Louis Mraz of Mt. Washington to recall a letter he received from the Internal Revenue Service. “I was informed,” Mraz said, “that a Mr. Louis Architect had the same social security number as me.”

You don’t have to be an FBI agent to guess Mraz’s profession.

FOR HAIR-RAISING ENDINGS: Michael Bird of Calabasas sent along a Ventura County Cable memo announcing that special assistance would be afforded the follically challenged.

LIST OF THE DAY: A local high school teacher forwarded some gems offered by students in a test on legal terms:

* Restitution: “to rest from crime.”

* Simple assault: “beating but not bad.”

* Aggravated assault: “real bad.”

* Environmental design: “drawing on walls.”

In some cases, the students showed a mature understanding of the way the political system works, as in this definition:

* Lobby: “an assembly of Congress.”

Then there was this bit of philosophy about labor negotiations, possibly picked up from a cynical instructor:

* Mediation: “to kill teachers.”

THE 100 WORST SPORTS MOMENTS: You may have read that a poll of sports experts recently ranked Kirk Gibson’s game-winning home run for the Dodgers against Oakland in the 1988 World Series as No. 1 among the the top 100 sports moments in L.A. history.

To restore some balance in the universe, we think there should be a compendium of the 100 lowest points in L.A. sports.

May we suggest:

1. Al Davis moves the Raiders from L.A. to Oakland.

No, strike that. Let’s start over.

1. Al Davis moves the Raiders from Oakland to L.A.

Time for some restitution, Al?

miscelLAny When Richard Nixon was the grand marshal of the 1960 Tournament of Roses Parade, the theme was “Tall Tales and True.”