Didn’t catch the name:We’re still hearing about...

Didn’t catch the name:

We’re still hearing about local cities and institutions whose names get mangled in today’s hurry-up society. In our last episode, you may recall, an instructor from a Lancaster-area school received a name tag that said “Cantaloupe Valley College.”

Susan Swartz of Saugus had a similar experience when she registered by phone for a seminar, giving her workplace as Olive View Medical Center.

Swartz sent us a copy of the name tag that she subsequently received. It said:

“All of You Medical Ctr.”

HEALTHY ATTITUDE? One wonders if the clerk who typed up “All of You Medical Ctr.” found the name a bit creepy in an anatomical sense--or looking at it in another way, in a financial sense, given the prices of hospitals these days. Then again, maybe the clerk was a fanatical fan of singers Karen and Richard Carpenter of Downey.

After all, the Carpenters named one of their properties the Close to You Apartments in honor of one of their hits.

NO HARD SELL HERE: Otto Plum of Torrance snapped a yard-sale sign that seems to qualify for a truth-in-advertising award, if not a good grammar medal.

It certainly contrasts with the snooty warning we once saw at a similar event--”No Haggling Please.” Of course, the latter yard sale was in Brentwood.

GOOD OLD DAD: Actor Clint Eastwood was 66 when his daughter Morgan was born earlier this month.

In case, you’re wondering, Eastwood’s age wasn’t a record for celebrity papas. Three years ago, for example, Anthony Quinn disclosed that he had fathered a child at the age of 78.

Some other notables in the entertainment world who became dads late in life:

* Charlie Chaplin at 73 (son Christopher, born 1962)

* Hugh Hefner at 65 (son Cooper, 1991)

* Cary Grant at 62 (daughter Jennifer, 1966)

* Warren Beatty at 57 (son Ben, 1994)

* Woody Allen at 52 (son Satchel, 1987)

Then there was Clark Gable, who died in 1960 at the age of 59, a few months before the birth of his son, John.

IT’S ALL GREEK TO US: James Moses of Inglewood found a help-wanted flier under his windshield and noted: “Apparently any two of the languages will get you the job. Forget about English!”

EXPLORING INNER SPACE: Robert Newcombe reports he was viewing the movie “Star Trek: First Contact” in Burbank when he felt the theater becoming uncomfortably warm.

Suddenly, the LeVar Burton character in the movie remarked something to the effect of, “Boy, it’s getting hot in here. Someone check the air-conditioning.” There were laughs and applause in the theater, Newcombe says.

Alas, he adds, while the Enterprise crew overcame their enemies, “the air-conditioning in the theater never did get fixed.”

At least there was no loss of gravity.

THIS CYBER-TECHNOLOGY IS GETTING OUT OF HAND: Barry Weiss saw a typographical error in a Beverly Hills newspaper about a dance company that performed a variety of pieces, including a “modem” dance.

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Players of the L.A. edition of Monopoly have an opportunity to land on several local properties, including Angels Flight. The 95-year-old railway, whose two-block-long route between Hill Street and Grand Avenue is a 60-second ride, occupies an appropriate space on the game board. It’s the space taken by the Short Line Railroad in the traditional version of Monopoly.