Studio Is Teleported to 310’s Outer Limits
Has still another prominent L.A.-area company moved its base elsewhere? Paul Wilson of Culver City could have been excused for wondering when he saw Pac Bell’s Utah listing for Warner Bros. Studios in the West L.A. directory (see accompanying). Is this another Hollywood snow job?
MELLOW YEL A W: Funny thing about Pac Bell’s Greater L.A. business directory is you can find the following listings:
Yel A W Cab
Yelaw Cab
Yell A W Cab
Yell Ow Cab
Yellaw Cab
Yellow Cab
They all have the same phone number. And they all connect you with Yellow Cab.
In this case, no boo-boo was made. A Yellow Cab spokesman said the names formerly belonged to imitators who have been put out of business by the courts.
I’m also guessing that the listings help folks who might have a bit of trouble spelling “yellow.”
THE SMOKE HASN’T CLEARED HERE YET: Last time I checked, L.A. and Houston were tied for the most high pollution days in the nation this year. Even if L.A. avoids the distinction, it will be a long time before it can challenge the claim of the city of Manaya, Brazil, as snapped by Bob Elliott of Newport Beach (see photo).
OBVIOUSLY THE LAST TYPIST WAS FIRED: Marsha Stolzoff of Irvine sent us a job ad that she admittedly clipped out years ago (see accompanying). But it’s funny and, besides that, I’m caught up in the spirit of NBC’s delayed coverage of the Olympics.
ANGELYNE SIGHTING! Most of us know Angelyne only by the ubiquitous billboards depicting the big-haired blond. The reclusive celeb, whose profession has never been identified, if indeed she has one, once claimed to be “the first person to be famous for doing nothing.”
But Dave Kase of Palos Verdes Estates actually encountered her, in her trademark pink Corvette, in a Vons parking lot in the South Bay, no less.
“I waved and smiled,” he said. “She stopped and rolled down her window. Did I have change for a $5 bill? I did. She thanked me. I asked what she needed the change for. She said she was going somewhere and needed tip money. She gave me her business card, a miniature of her billboard poster, and drove off.”
Sounds like sort of a stingy tipper. Then again, I guess she needs to save money to pay for those billboards while she’s busy doing nothing.
ALL IN THE FAMILY: My friend Gil Chesterton of North Hollywood tells me his daughter Carey is getting married. Naturally, he hopes that he’ll have a grandson some day. But if the couple doesn’t name the kid after Gil, he won’t be offended. The groom’s name is Brian Gil.
miscelLAny:
In the Saddleback College newspaper, Raymond Dewees Jr. of Mission Viejo spotted a police log item reporting that two people got into a verbal “alteration.”
Nothing can get more heated than English majors debating conjugation.
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