An apple doesn’t do it anymore:When a...
An apple doesn’t do it anymore:
When a student brought him a bagel one morning, Beverly Hills High School journalism teacher Gil Chesterton was appreciative, but not overwhelmed.
He started to put it away when the student, Jooyun Min, said, “Read it.”
She meant the bagel.
It turns out that Jooyun, who works in a bakery, had had the item autographed by a customer who’s a media celebrity.
The bagel said, “Gil, Best. Larry King.”
Chesterton says he’s going to perma-plaque it, rather than eat King’s words.
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HARD DRIVE: Our mention of the laptop computer that plugs into a car’s cigarette lighter brought this message from Mike Faneuff of Long Beach:
“Another premonition by you! I was almost sideswiped the other day by some doofus in a Honda who was pecking furiously away at a laptop perched on his steering wheel and glancing at his flip-up screen. I thought he was drunk at first. He was all over the road.”
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L.A.’s ‘CASABLANCA’: The other day in The Times’ Calendar section, Patrick Goldstein revealed that still another L.A. disaster movie is rumbling this way: “Escape From L.A.” The plot has the quake-devastated City of Angels reduced to an island in 2013.
It made us wonder: Would Angelenos be cut off from the Pasadena Seahawks football team? But more important, why aren’t there any good old-fashioned romances about L.A. life anymore? Like the 1988 tear-jerker “Earth Girls Are Easy,” about three space aliens who land in the Southland. Surely you remember the moving scene in which Geena Davis tells one of the invaders that their romance can never be. “You’re an alien,” she explains, “and I’m from the Valley.”
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TALK ABOUT VARIETY: Well, if L.A. does become an island, Angelenos will be able to remember a glorious time when the Hollywood Palladium offered something for everyone, whether you attended church, oiled your body and/or partied religiously (see photo).
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HE’S EVERYWHERE: Magic Johnson set a record this week by getting his mug on the covers of five publications: Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated and the Sporting News. Three other sports figures have made the cover of three of the magazines--Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated--in the same week, ESPN says.
One was Super Bowl hero Joe Montana (1982) and another was murder defendant O.J. Simpson (1994). The third sports figure, who was so honored in 1973, never gave an interview to a member of the media. Can you guess this star’s name?
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FREE WILLY--MEET $73.99 BARBIE: Mattel Inc. of El Segundo says it will donate $500,000 to the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation to aid the rehabilitation of the movie star at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Oh, yes. Mattel is also coming out with an “Ocean Magic Barbie,” which will be accompanied by a miniature version of Keiko, the real name of the killer whale in “Free Willy.”
With her involvement in social causes and her constant changes of occupation, we’re beginning to think Barbie will never get married.
Free Ken.
miscelLAny:
The untalkative sports celebrity pictured on three magazine covers in 1973 was Secretariat, the racehorse.
