A Magazine for the Ex-Generation

Southern California’s Divorce Magazine (yes, there is such a publication) reports that a recent divorce party included “a breakup cake” (like a wedding cake, but each side is only entitled to half).

So big is the divorce biz these days that a Web site called lastwordcards.com offers a selection of announcements that will inform a special someone that it’s all over.

Example: “All the world’s a stage. Time for you to make your exit.”

And happy un-Valentine’s Day.

ON THE SINGLES CIRCUIT: Judy Sims says she’s “very happily married, but I may pass this personal ad on to my single girlfriends.” It’s from the Mountain News of Lake Arrowhead and begins:

“SINGLE WHITE MALE, 42, 6-1, 180 lbs., looks OK after a few drinks, attorney, financially secure, enjoys hiking, music and cultural events, fireside chats and tailgating flatlanders. . . .”

BAH HA: Alaster McKay, a writer for a Scottish newspaper, paid a visit and dismissed L.A. as “a good place to get lost, a bad place to find yourself. It is a place to go, but not to stop.” (Personally, I think L.A. looks OK after a few drinks.)

At one point he referred to a hotel called the Hacienda near LAX “on a soul-less highway in a Mexican suburb of Los Angeles.”

Daily Breeze columnist John Bogert found the “Mexican suburb” where the Hacienda is located. It’s El Segundo.

WE INTERRUPT THIS COLUMN: Cindy Lokitz of Oak Park sent along a theater ticket stub with the comment, “I think this is really a case of ‘Girl Interrupted.’ ” Meanwhile, Rod Casper of L.A. noticed a South Pasadena theater that seems to be freshening up its appearance (see accompanying).

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: You’ve heard of “baron” of beef. Well, Julie Singer of Seal Beach spotted a restaurant offering something “barren” of beef. Commented Times Food Editor Russ Parsons: “Maybe it’s tofu.”

ABE AND JACK: Publicist Duke Russell writes that entertainer Steve Allen will recite the Gettysburg Address at a celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday Saturday at noon in Westwood. The site: the L.A. National Cemetery, 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd.

This, you may recall, was one of the favorite occasions of columnist Jack Smith. In 1995, the year before his death, he agreed to read the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln event.

However, after being driven to the cemetery, he unwittingly left his briefcase containing the speech on the roof of his daughter-in-law Jackie’s car. She drove off but, Smith wrote later, “saw in the rearview mirror something falling off the roof. She thought maybe she had hit an animal.”

She rescued the briefcase and brought it to Jack. Consequently, he was not left speechless.

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Mention was made here of Dean Koontz’s new thriller, “False Memory,” in which a roofer in Newport Beach says he has seen “the angel of death”--and it looks like Billy Crystal.

“It really shouldn’t come as a surprise,” commented Tim Melnarik of Burbank. “After all, Billy Crystal has already been the devil in Woody Allen’s movie ‘Deconstructing Harry.’ ”

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