A tabloid attack on Clinton?No, it was...

A tabloid attack on Clinton?

No, it was just a movie marquee that Laurence Cohen spotted in Marina del Rey. But the titles couldn’t have been arranged more skillfully by a Republican dirty-trickster. They read:

AMERICAN PRESIDENT

WILD BILL

WELL, WITH TERM LIMITS, THEY HAVE TO WORK FAST: “As a parent of a rather idealistic teenager joining the YMCA Youth and Government Program,” writes Elina Lejman of Santa Monica, “I found it humorous and shocking at the same time, what was printed under ‘Career Objectives’ for our budding future politicians in a sample resume.”

The resume, given to program applicants, listed as the sample objective: “To retire at 35 years of age, with a net worth exceeding one billion dollars [U.S.].”

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Robert Prest of L.A. could be excused for thinking he was starring in a remake of the old TV series, “I Led Three Lives.” Prest dispatched a letter to Mayor Richard Riordan, who sent back a reply addressed to Roland Prest. And Riordan’s salutation read, “Dear Mr. Daly .”

THE LAS VEGAS COWBOY?The first anniversary of Orange County’s bankruptcy bombshell passed this week--a grim milestone, to be sure. But we want to squelch one rumor. The county’s airport has not been renamed, despite what the accompanying ad appears to indicate. Actually, this is an Only in L.A. golden oldie boo-boo, placed a few years ago by Royal Canadian, uh, Caribbean.

NOT THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH FOR EVERYONE: An Antelope Valley resident alleges in a lawsuit that she and her daughter and grandchildren were robbed in the Disneyland parking lot and then held for hours against their will as park security officers questioned them.

The suit criticizes Disney’s security force for failing to prevent the robbery. And it alleges that the three grandchildren, while being questioned backstage about the incident, suffered further “emotional distress” when they saw some Disney cartoon characters disrobed and discovered that they “were, in fact, make-believe.”

NO SHELL GAMES HERE: “New neighbors have radically changed the ambience of our seaside ‘hood in Rancho Palos Verdes,” writes Rob Mack.

Take the “house where former Raiders coach Art Shell flew the rock ‘em, sock ‘em team’s menacing black skull and crossbones flag.” Shell has since moved to a new job with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Now, Mack says, that house “sports the new owner’s big white ‘Little Lambs Pre-School’ van.”

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Tourist types still try to snap flash photos in front of Department 103 of the Criminal Courts Building, where Judge Lance Ito presided over the O.J. Simpson trial. Some of the mystique is missing, though. The judge is moving to a new courtroom and, as City News Service notes, “Ito’s nameplate [on 103] was stolen from the door long ago.”