Too deep for us:Have you heard the...
Too deep for us:
Have you heard the radio commercials promoting “The Postman,” the Academy Award-nominated film from Italy? Talk about high-brow! The blurbs quote the glowing testimonials of novelists John Updike and Kurt Vonnegut. We won’t make up our mind until we hear from Danielle Steel.
HOPE IT DOESN’T SPOIL HIS NEXT REUNION: A recent New Yorker article discusses the reported $50 million Michael Milken received for advising Ted Turner on the sale of Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner. A source involved in the deal told the magazine: “We looked for a precedent, and the highest one we could find was Michael Ovitz’s fee of $40 million in the MCA-Matsushita deal.”
So, Disney President Ovitz no longer holds the world consulting fee record--or even the record among graduates of his high school. Both he and Milken attended Birmingham High in Van Nuys.
MTA--THE SLOGAN: In our public-spirited search to find a new motto for the transit agency, we received a few last notable entries, including, “The MTA: Where People Will Tell You Where to Get Off” by T.C. Cirillo. And there was Paul Schowalter’s suggestion, which deserves mention for being the only anti-Angels Fight cry: “The MTA: We Don’t Need No Stinking Funicular.”
But we’re awarding first place to Al Conti for his stirring credo: “The MTA: When You Absolutely, Positively Have to Be There Overnight.”
And, if Conti will give us his address, we’ll have his Angelyne video delivered to him, sooner or later, by U.S. mail.
GOING-AWAY PRESENT: Speaking of contests, the Seattle Times came up with one of sorts after Seattle Seahawks owner Ken Behring announced his intention to move his team to Anaheim. The Seattle paper asked its readers to come up with an apt nickname for the team.
Some of the nominations:
* Smogalerts;
* LaLas;
* Flakes;
* Mickey’s Mice;
* The Atmosphere;
* Valley Girls;
* OverBehrings;
* Heehawks;
And:
* The Team Formerly Known as the Seahawks.
ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY INSULTING: A reader sent us a flier for an herbal elixir designed to increase male potency. We forgot to check to see whether it had a Seattle postmark. Anyway, as for the instructions for dosage, we’re happy the manufacturer didn’t go into more detail about what constitutes a “badtime.”
REALLY, WASN’T IT TO BE EXPECTED? Iris Craddock of L.A. noticed a poster for a missing cat that was last seen wearing a green “flee” collar.
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Candidates with familiar names in the March 26 primary include Michael Jordan, a Democratic congressional hopeful who is a Pepperdine journalism professor, and Jim Beam, a Republican seeking an Assembly seat in Orange. Hmm. Orange mixing with Jim Beam?