Boring Nicknames: Remember those cute nicknames for...

Boring Nicknames: Remember those cute nicknames for Metro Rail’s tunneling machines? Well, forget it, say the subway people. Perhaps the names aren’t all that funny after a giant digging machine became stuck in the Santa Monica Mountains over the summer. . . . Mimicking a phrase normally associated with descriptions of the rock star Prince, the spokesmen now tell reporters of the progress of “tunnel boring machines Nos. 1 and 2, formerly known as Thelma and Louise.”

Moving In: Aerospace is out. Mortgage banking is in. . . . Countrywide Credit Industries Inc. of Pasadena closed escrow Thursday on the former Lockheed corporate headquarters in Calabasas. Countrywide says its payroll grew by 35% last year; about 750 Countrywide workers will move to the Calabasas site, said spokeswoman Jumana Totry.

Class Notes: Smaller sometimes winds up bigger. . . . First-time teacher Jana Doros, above, spent her first day Thursday teaching first-graders at Reseda Elementary School. And instead of 20 6-year-olds, she had 40 (B1). She asked the kids: “Was anybody scared last night? No one? I was scared.”

School Stars: Two Valley teens star in Disney’s new film “First Kid.” . . . Brock Pierce, 15, of Burbank, plays the President’s neglected son. Zachery Ty Bryon, 14, of La Canada Flintridge, is the class bully. . . . Instead of a trip to the principal’s office, they helped gross $8 million over the holiday weekend, putting the film No. 3 in the nation. What would Chelsea say?