A Sequel--’Orgy of the Jungle?’

One of the enjoyable aspects of returning from a vacation out of town is catching up on all you missed. For instance, there was that shocking matinee showing of Disney’s “George of the Jungle” in Long Beach. Parents and children in the audience were stunned to see on the screen “two men kissing and conversing in vulgar language,” that city’s Grunion Gazette reported.

The manager was immediately notified and he stopped the movie, apologized for the error and offered free passes for a future film. Apparently, the audience had inadvertently been subjected to an R-rated, adult-themed movie, “Love! Valour! Compassion!”

HOW HOT WAS IT . . . : And then there was the recent 100-plus-degree heat. Paul Ecker of Diamond Bar wrote that it was so bad that “Aaron Spelling was pouring ice water on his leaky roof.”

And Jim Chilton added: “Temperatures of 115 were reported in West Hills. Serves those stuffy folks right; never got that hot there when it was called Canoga Park!”

LE VALLEY (CONT.): Incidentally, Valleyites who feel they are snubbed by L.A. politicians can vent their anger on a new target: the French film industry. Vacationing Jody Fox of Laguna Beach sent along a Paris newspaper clipping advertising the American movie “Two Days in the Valley.” It had been retitled “Two Days in Los Angeles” (see accompanying).

On the other hand, some Valleyites might want to distance themselves from the movie. It contains such dialogue as this observation from a 60-ish apartment dweller who hears a fistfight on the floor above.

“Maybe,” he tells his wife, “that’s how they make love in Tarzana.”

TODAY’S RELIGIOUS THOUGHT: A florists’ shop in midtown L.A. offered a bit of curbside philosophy for motorists (see photo).

CLOAK AND DICER: The wide range of interests of today’s youths can be seen in the plans of the 400 or so members of the 1997 graduating class of Mira Costa High. The Manhattan Beach school’s newspaper listed such destinations as USC (15 students) and UCLA (10) as well as various specialized institutions, including the Vidal Sassoon Hair Academy (1), the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise (1), and the Rhode Island School of Design (1). One Mira Costan even chose the CIA--the Culinary Institute of America.

MORE HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL: This marks the 25th anniversary of Beverly Hills High’s station, KBEV-TV, one of the few (if not the only) cable television stations operated by a high school. Advisor Gil Chesterton and his students were proud when L.A. County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti agreed to be interviewed on KBEV during his recent reelection campaign. And they were even prouder when Garcetti’s opponent, John Lynch, demanded equal time. The kids thought it over and said OK to a Lynch appearance.

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When driving home from the north at vacation’s end, I don’t really consider myself in Southern California until I’ve been cut off by a rival motorist. Last year, it happened in Calabasas. This year, it occurred earlier, in Santa Barbara. But rather than curse, I paid heed to the 500 virgins who recently marched on Washington. I followed their cry to “honk for purity.”

Steve Harvey can be reached by phone at (213) 237-7083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by e-mail at steve.harvey@latimes.com and by mail at Metro, Times Mirror Square, L.A. 90053.