LOST DREAM: Now that Disney has bought...

LOST DREAM: Now that Disney has bought Dream Quest Images and plans to move the special effects studio to the San Fernando Valley (B1), Simi Valley’s days as a Hollywood player are numbered. . . . One of the last big releases with a local contribution will be “The Rock,” a Sean Connery-Nicholas Cage vehicle due out this summer. . . . Dream Quest supplied model and digital special effects for the thriller, which involves terrorists occupying Alcatraz to threaten San Francisco with nerve gas bombs. . . . Now that’s going out with a bang.

SCHOOL DUDS: Two Oxnard schools will join the growing number requiring kids to lose the zany threads and wear uniforms (B1). . . . In a development sure to mortify adolescents but satisfy retailers that stock uniforms, one of those schools is Rio del Valle Junior High. All the rest have been elementary schools. . . . “We carried some juniors sizes for awhile in the women’s department,” said Mike Harnden of Mervyn’s in Ventura, “but they didn’t sell very well.” This fall may be different.

AND ON TV: Public television tonight concludes “Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement.” . . . Oxnard lawyer Oscar Gonzalez will watch to relive an important moment in his life. . . . “I remember my sister taking me to see Bobby Kennedy in May of ’68 at [Buenaventura] Mall in Ventura. . . . With the United Farm Workers signs in the crowd, the sense of being imbued with purpose--it left an indelible mark on me.” Gonzalez named his son after Kennedy, who was assassinated a few days after his Ventura visit.