Evidently, Legoland Attraction Was Big Deal to Hollywood Chamber

Stop right there, kids: Put your snow cones and cotton candy down and your hands above your heads. You have the right to remain silent. . . .

Well, it didn’t quite come to that. But it turns out that the pint-sized visitors to Legoland, as well as their parents, were looking at an unauthorized attraction--the miniature HOLLYWOOD sign.

Legoland had constructed it (see photo) without permission of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which owns the trademark rights thereto (as the attorneys put it). Chamber boss Leron Gubler said Legoland was recently asked to remove the sign because “Universal Studios has the exclusive right to use the sign in theme parks.”

So the miniature landmark has disappeared. Let’s hope this doesn’t give revelers any ideas about the sign in Hollywood.

ENEMIES OF THE NIGHT: Mention was made here of a study of residents near Heathrow Airport in England that found just 5% were awakened by airport noise, compared to 17% by flushing toilets. The study was included in an environmental review of the proposed El Toro airport released by Orange County, which was trying to defuse the noise issue.

Anyway, Philippe Brieu of Westwood says: “I guess the folks in England don’t have the same type of car alarms we do here, because they’re definitely the No. 1 cause for me to wake up (after earthquakes).”

Indeed, the British study didn’t even mention car alarms. Or earthquakes.

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MUST BE A MED SCHOOL DROPOUT: “After two days of jury selection I was relieved to be excused from what should have been an interesting case,” writes Trina Williams of Fountain Valley. “The defense attorney had admonished nearly every prospective juror not to ‘listen with a jaundiced ear.’ ”

Or watch with a deaf eye.

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