“The Real Housewives of Orange County” may be getting lots of jeers, but at Bravo the reality show is getting lots of, well, bravos. The network reports the first airing of the third episode reached 534,000 viewers, up 74% from the prior week and up 143% in the key 18 to 34 age group. “The show beat its lead-in, the popular ‘Blow Out,’ this week for the first time. That’s huge news,” spokeswoman Brenda Lowry said. Counting repeats, “Housewives” has reached 8 million viewers so far …
EE RR interviews “Housewives” Lauri Waring and Kimberly Bryant Wednesday evening on “Inside OC” …
OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh has left Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw to set up his own legal and lobbying practice …
Did you sleep through 01:02:03 04/05/06? …
There’s room for chivalry in the often-savage Tom Harman-Diane Harkey state Senate race. As Harkey exited the “Inside OC” set following their televised debate, Harman warned her she was about to step on a cable and reached out to stop her from falling …
Robert Bein, who’s been engineering in Orange County since 1959, is anticipating another milestone,his RBF Consulting expects to hit the 1,000-employee level before year’s end. “We’ve been fortunate. Our clients are Lennar, The Irvine Company and the other big developers, and we just follow them around.” Well, it’s not that simple. “We just got into airports,” the septuagenarian chairman and emeritus CEO remarked, as he got up from one meeting to dash to another …
Rave reviews,including one from aunt Annette Bening,for Kimberly Reisman’s lead performance in Laguna Beach High’s “Oklahoma!” …
While others watched the UCLA-Florida basketball championship, the UCI Stem Cell Research Center held a panel discussion, Libyan diplomat Abozade Dorda addressed the World Affairs Council of Orange County and EE RR spoke to the Los Angeles Fastener Association …
UCI’s “new look” b-school has moved into a new strata on the Business Week list, leaping 11 places to No. 38. Asked whether he ever has misgivings about the Graduate School of Management renaming itself the Paul Merage School of Business, Dean Andy Policano quips, “For $30 million I’d change my name” …
There’s little doubt Jim Davy,Navy vet, onetime mayor of Lafayette, Calif., retired newspaper ad exec and local political activist,went the way he wanted to. Big Jim was at Dana Point harbor with wife Phyllis, having just celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary at the deli, when the vigorous 80-year-old fell over from a heart attack and died. He’d recently received a chunk of the El Toro runway in recognition of his lead role in gathering signatures to stop the proposed airport. Among the many lives Jim touched were OCBJ readers,one of his numerous side jobs was syndicating cartoonists Herb Stansbury and Harley Schwadron, whose work will continue to appear in this paper.
