Bad hair daze: As the mega-galas for the new concert hall at the OC Performing Arts Center draw near, a crisis has arisen among society women: Fashion Island hairdresser Christophe has gone on vacation and won’t return until after the festivities …
While PBS affiliate KOCE battles Dallas televangelist Marcus Lamb (Daystar) over ownership of the station, Orange County’s only commercial station, KDOC, is severing its 23-year relationship with another televangelist, the late Gene Scott. KDOC had been airing reruns of Dr. Scott’s idiosyncratic sermons, along with new lectures by his widow Melissa Scott, who succeeded him as pastor of University Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. “This will be one of the most notable changes in the history of KDOC, freeing up our prime time for great classic entertainment programming through midnight,” says KDOC’s new owner Bert Ellis. A revised program schedule, along with a new logo and graphics, will be unveiled within two weeks. Ellis also is working on OC-focused news and entertainment, which KDOC last tried 15 years ago …
Montreal has the Fellini Theater. Chapman U’s new film school building has the Folino Theater …
Fitness industry legend Augie Nieto continues to wage his inspirational quest for a cure to Lou Gehrig’s disease. Over the Labor Day weekend Augie was featured on the cover of national newspaper insert Parade Magazine and appeared on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. Nieto was diagnosed with the terminal illness in March of last year …
One Day’s Pay, the nonprofit headed by Irvine PR exec David Paine, has launched a media campaign to promote the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11. Hillary Clinton and Congressman Peter King headlined a Manhattan news conference kicking off the campaign; ODP has partnered with AOL and MySpace.com and will run TV and radio spots narrated by actor Gary Sinise. Charitable pledges can be made at the group’s new Web site, myGoodDeed.org …
Jo Ellen Allen is back from England, where she played the piano in Holkham Hall …
After a week in Italy during which he viewed tons of stone nudes, EE RR concludes that the ideal man hasn’t changed much over the centuries, but women have gotten better … Longtime Irvine Company spokesman Larry Thomas has become a grandpa. Rylan Campbell Beach arrived by way of Larry’s daughter Leigh and son-in-law Eric Beach. Thomas describes his granddaughter as delicate, petite and well-behaved,gee, just like the reporters and politicos he hangs around with …
EE RR had back-to-back meetings with Paul Makarechian and Chapman U film school dean Bob Bassett. Both wore purple ties …
In town: Rudy Giuliani, Tuesday evening at the Center Club, Costa Mesa, for a fund-raiser with state GOP candidates Tom McClintock, Chuck Poochigian and Tony Strickland. Talk show host Dennis Prager, Oct. 4 at Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle’s Prayer Breakfast at the Anaheim Convention Center (info at www.AnaheimChamber.org).
