The Flat Earth Society would understand:A KCAL-TV...
The Flat Earth Society would understand:
A KCAL-TV news crew arrived late the other day for a 4 p.m. interview with a Burbank tax firm to discuss the flat tax.
Reason: flat tire.
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AMBUSHED BY SCREENWRITERS: The LAPD’s SWAT team members know about real-life danger, but a couple of the officers have had unexpected mishaps on the movie screen.
Pete Weireter, who spent 50 minutes on a cellular phone persuading O.J. Simpson to surrender, had a small role as a CIA bodyguard in the movie “Clear and Present Danger.” Weireter’s character was bumped off during an ambush.
More recent, Charlie Duke, who also was part of the team that arrested Simpson, had a bit part in “Heat.” He played a cop who mistakenly allows robbery suspect Val Kilmer to go free.
In the credits, Duke is identified as nothing more than police officer “No. 5.”
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OUT OF BOUNDS: “I’m sure Cadillac dealers started it all when they no longer advertised ‘used cars’ but instead offered ‘previously owned vehicles,’ ” writes Warren Turnbull of Redondo Beach. “But I still found it a bit much to try and pass off used golf balls this way.” He enclosed a flyer from a golf shop.
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MORE CHARGES FROM READERS: When the electric car age arrives, Doris Walden of Culver City says, a driver who virtually lives in his car can call it: “Ohm Sweet Ohm.”
Joel Robbins of North Hollywood doesn’t have any electric car names to contribute, but he does know what the first electric car show should be called: Watts Happening.
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HEY, LET’S NOT GET FRESH: Bill Miller of Signal Hill found a coffee shop that offers a real eye-opener for breakfast.
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UNLIKELY UNION: The March issue of Playboy magazine has angered some Catholic educators because the plaid-skirted cover girl is dressed like a parochial school student--for a story about seemingly wholesome lasses who turn out to be naughty.
Ironically, points out Jack Cunningham, Playboy and the latest issue of the Tidings, a local Catholic newspaper, have something in common. Both have interviews with Dick Vitale, the noisy basketball broadcaster. Vitale, you may be relieved to know, bares nothing more than his bald head in Playboy.
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HOT DOGGY DOG: In his defense of murder defendant Snoop Doggy Dog, attorney Donald Re said: “It’s like committing a drive-by shooting in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and thinking you’re not going to be noticed. It’s not reasonable.” Re meant that the black Jeep driven during the killing was conspicuous because of its expensive rims and yellow pinstripes.
Well, regardless of the merits of his argument, we think it’s a shame that Re would drag the Wienermobile into the case. We’ve covered some of the motorized frankfurter’s visits to the Southland and can attest to its good reputation.
OK, there was that one time it was stopped by a CHP officer on the Harbor Freeway. But it was a minor matter and the Wienermobile pilot was only given a warning.
“We didn’t have our front license plate on,” pilot Denise Schroeck explained later. “We thought we were in a real pickle.”
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We recently published the jury summons for a Compton juror that informed him that “knives, etc., may be confiscated.” But L.L. Parker writes that at least the Compton courthouse supplied parking. Parker received a jury summons for the Glendale courthouse that said: “Park on any street except Broadway or posted restricted area.”
