RECORD BUSINESS: It’s a huge name, with...

RECORD BUSINESS: It’s a huge name, with huge--even record--numbers for the Anaheim Convention Center. The National Assn. of Music Merchants International Music Market--Thursday through Sunday--is the biggest event ever to be scheduled there. . . . How big? Nearly 20,000 people are expected daily for the retail music industry trade show. Says Greg Smith, Convention Center general manager: “We’re cleaning out storerooms and restrooms to make room for exhibits.”

SAFE SEA LOVER: Professional skipper Lu Dale, 52, of Costa Mesa makes her living delivering other people’s yachts to them, logging 300,000 miles on the job (E1). She’s worked the last five years in the South Seas, often through dangerous passages. But, she says, “I feel very comfortable out there. Driving on the freeway in L.A. is a lot worse.” Still, she prefers a nice, flat sea: “It’s good when it’s tedious. You pray for calm.”

FIGHTING ON: When Rabbi Bernie King of Irvine’s Shir Ha-Ma’alot congregation spoke last year at a meeting of Parents of Murdered Children, it led to a friendship with Fred Goldman, above, whose son, Ronald, was slain along with Nicole Brown Simpson. The men became good friends, and King, at Goldman’s request, led a candlelight vigil on the first anniversary of those deaths. Goldman, now pursuing a civil suit against O.J. Simpson after his acquittal in those deaths, will address King’s congregation Friday. His topic: “Pursuing Justice.”

EGGONOMICS: Egg theft at UC Irvine gets top billing in the “Real Life Rock Top Ten” column in the January issue of Artforum magazine. Essayist Jeff Weinstein quotes Dr. Ricardo H. Asch as saying: “Genes are, at least in my opinion, not that important.” Asch is accused of implanting women’s eggs into other women at the UCI fertility clinic. . . . Adds Weinstein: “If true, this deserves the Top Ten triple imprimatur for medical hubris, criminal inevitability and talk-show potential.”