Dueling spectacles:Hank Rosenfeld, who works for Santa...
Dueling spectacles:
Hank Rosenfeld, who works for Santa Monica’s Tourist and Convention Bureau, says that people have been asking him for directions to the circus.
“And this year,” he says, “I have to answer, ‘Which one?’ ”
What Rosenfeld means of course is: Cirque du Soleil or Cirque du O.J.?
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NO PLACE TO GET HIGH: Clover Butte of Mar Vista saw a notation on a menu (see excerpt) at a restaurant that sounds to her “like a good place for astronaut Shannon Lucid to celebrate her homecoming.”
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SIT DOWN FOR OLD SC: Most of the controversy swirling about USC football has concerned suspensions of several of the team’s student-athletes. But even the actions of USC cheerleaders and fans have come into question in the letters column of the Daily Trojan newspaper.
A yell leader was accused of male chauvinism at one game after he told the student section he was going to lead a spell-out of the school’s name very slowly because “we like our women fast--not our yell.”
In a separate incident, four overenthusiastic USC rooters were escorted from the student section after they refused to sit down during a game.
One of the rebels wrote the Daily Trojan that he developed the habit in Green Bay, though he admitted that one of the reasons fans in that chilly city stand at football games is “if they sat down they’d freeze to the spot.”
But there was one positive development. Card stunts will be reinstituted for Saturday’s game against Cal for the first time in seven years. The stunts had been banned after some students converted them into projectiles in 1989, tested gravity and pelted several spectators, reportedly including the wife of one USC official.
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L.A. TRIVIATA: Longtime disc jockey Art Laboe says in the latest issue of the Los Angeles Radio Guide that he invented the phrase “oldies but goodies” in the mid-1950s while taking requests “on a daily show on KPOP from Scrivner’s Drive-In” in Hollywood. KPOP and Scrivner’s are long gone but Laboe can be heard on KRLA, still spinning the platters, or whatever deejays do now. We’ll be interested to see if any other jocks dispute Laboe’s claim to fame (a phrase that we coined several years ago).
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FURTHER PROOF LIFE’S A BEACH: The South Bay Medical Center’s slogan on its billboards is: “Your 24-Hour Lifeguard Station.”
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COP FOR A DAY: Remember when Nancy Reagan went along on a drug raid while wearing an LAPD jacket that bore her first name? Well, the LAPD was joined on an operation by another notable the other day--Mayor Richard Riordan (wearing a nonpersonalized LAPD jacket).
Riordan pedaled along with the Hollywood Division’s bike patrol, an adventure that will be shown Oct. 17 on the KCOP (Channel 13) reality series “LAPD: Life on the Beat.”
His Honor’s fellow cyclists made three arrests, although Riordan didn’t make any busts himself.
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JUST THE THING AFTER A GRUELING FRAT PARTY: One advertiser in the Daily Trojan says in its pitch to USC students that it’s “a great way to relieve stress!” The advertiser: The Los Angeles Gun Club, which boasts a 50-foot indoor pistol-shooting range. The club offers “free brief safety instruction” to “USC beginners.”
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Howard Joseph of West L.A. was stopped at a red light when he noticed a woman who was executing a left-hand turn while making a series of bizarre arm movements. “At first I thought she was merely someone who hadn’t paid attention in driver’s education class when they were teaching hand signals,” Joseph said. “Then I realized she was doing the Macarena.”