WHAT THE CAMERA SAW / THE WEEK AND MORE
TRIPLE CLICK
The scene is a tragic triple homicide in Bell, but with Pavlovian instincts this woman entices the camera. Click! Golden girl Jenny McCarthy--as well as former Playmate of the Year and MTV hostess with the mostest--camps it up for the lens during a photo shoot at her Pacific Palisades home. Click! Even J.J., a California gray whale at San Diego’s Sea World, can’t refuse a photo op as she seems to smile for her camera-toting visitors. She was rescued several months ago, a 3-day-old babe at the time. Today, she tips the scales at 5,000 pounds and will be released to the sea sometime next year. Click!
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 22, 1997 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday October 22, 1997 Home Edition Life & Style Part E Page 3 View Desk 1 inches; 32 words Type of Material: Correction
One Big Whale--In Tuesday’s Life & Style, a caption for a picture of J.J., the rescued California gray whale residing at San Diego’s Sea World, should have put her weight at about 12,000 pounds. The whale puts on about 50 pounds a day.
DOUBLE TAKE
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Well, one out of two ain’t bad. At right, 19-year-old Trung Nguyen, a badminton player at Huntington Beach’s Ocean View High School, watches an airborne birdie. At left, Alfredo Viveros, helping dig a cable trench, looks like he’s about to get the dirt from Bruno Vayona. Not to worry, the dancing UFO (Up and Flying Obstacle) fell to Earth.
AH, REFRESHMENT
On a scorching day, it chills our bodies. On a peaceful day, it soothes our souls. And on a day off work, it becomes the wettest amusement park in the world. Water: blue, cool, fuel; placid, playful, the Pacific. Surfer Mark Ballard of Hawthorne rides a mean wave at Manhattan Beach while, below left, the Garcia family chills out in a kiddie pool. Left to right are Henry, 7; dad Carlos, and Jefferey, 5. Above top, Denise Campos, 7, and gal pal Jocelyn Moreibio, 10, take it from the top with a water hose at their Boyle Heights apartment building. Above, Edwin Redway hawks lemonade from his Fairfax Avenue driveway during a recent heat wave, getting a customer every five minutes. Below, fisherman Boris Uchenink of Van Nuys enjoys the solitude along the shores of Encino’s Lake Balboa.