Taking a Shot at Farfetched Political Theory

Forget approval ratings and opinion polls; a recent survey conducted by Jose Cuervo found that what Generation X really cares about is whether their elected officials can party!

Yeah, right.

The product-sponsored surveys that PR people spit out on a daily basis never cease to amaze me with their ability to connect the most seemingly unrelated things.

For example, Jose Cuervo found that the female politician legal drinkers would most want to party with is Hillary Clinton (44%). The male they’d want to burn brain cells with is pugnacious Texan Ross Perot. (Perhaps because he’d pick up the check.)

How these life-altering revelations help sell tequila, I don’t know, unless Cuervo is suggesting an overhaul of the electoral process in favor of a tequila shot drink-off. The candidate left standing wins?

Another liquor company, Wild Turkey Bourbon, recently conducted a study of singles’ dating habits “in honor of the spring mating season of the Native American Wild Turkey--for which the brand is named.” (Some marketing genius got promoted for coming up with that.)

The Earth-shattering finding of this survey is that singles value personality above looks when searching for a mate. (Looks apparently aren’t a factor for partying with politicians either.)

Bars and weddings were found to be “prime hunting grounds for compatible mates,” the survey said, while personal ads and dating services ranked low on the effectiveness scale. (Couldn’t be because dating services and personal ads don’t serve cocktails, could it?)

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Burbank’s Woodbury University has been offering four-year bachelor of science degrees in fashion design for 36 years but hasn’t had a public exhibition area . . . until now. This weekend, the school will open the Judith Tamkin Fashion Center, donated by the local philanthropist and Woodbury alum.

The on-campus space will host regular exhibits on fashion and design. The first replicates a living room in postwar Southern California and is titled “Entrele tout et l’ablime” (a French phrase meaning “Between everything and the abyss”).

Julius Shulman photos will be showcased, along with garments by the great Elsa Schiaparelli, James Galanos and Hattie Carnegie, and classic 1950s furniture and vintage periodicals.

The exhibit is open weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the summer. Info: (818) 767-0888.

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Tony Danza graffiti update: My spies were wrong, according to an e-mailer who calls himself “Food.” The tagger wrote that I misquoted him and that the graffiti reads, “Food. Tony Danza Will Pay,” not “No Food. Tony Danza Will Pay.”

(I take the surface streets to and from work and haven’t seen the scrawl, which has been limited to freeways.)

Food claims he is the tagger, and those who have already taken credit for the stunt are phonies. “I don’t know what kind of satisfaction a person would get out of claiming something they have no part of, for example, this ‘knight whoever,’ ” he says. He’s referring to Knight Dreamer, the first to claim authorship in this column.

I urged Food to call and explain his motivation, but he seems to have gotten cold feet.

“I’ll have to think about whether or not I want to stick my neck out on all this,” he said in a second e-mail. “I’ve written it enough that if I get caught, I’m sure the penalties would be severe.”

Will the real Tony Danza tagger please come forward?

Booth Moore can be reached by e-mail at booth.moore@latimes.com.