The Lincoln Club has taken on OC’s sheriff deputies (prodding the supes to investigate pension rollbacks and a civilian oversight board.) Now it’s targeting Hillary Clinton. The Insider hears the OC-based GOP support group has pledged a low-six figure amount toward “Hillary: The Movie,” a documentary hit piece on the Dem presidential front-runner that features Clinton adviser-turned-critic Dick Morris. The film is being produced by the D.C.-based conservative advocacy group Citizens United (David Bossie and Floyd Brown). The Lincoln Club, which is getting a screen credit, plans an OC premiere in December as a run-up to the California presidential primary …
Where’s the epicenter of those subprime tremors that have been shaking up world financial markets? Try Orange County. The Wall Street Journal Online has a list of subprime lenders that have recently shut down, been acquired or stopped making loans,and 13 are based in OC. New Jersey, the state with the most listings after California, has eight,same number as Irvine alone. OC comprises about half of the 27 fallen companies from the Golden State …
The L.A. Times was first to report that rival OC Register was laying off an estimated “20 to 35” journalists. The Times quoted Reg staffers, mentioned a previous Reg buyout and noted challenges facing newspapers generally, but didn’t reference the Times’ own problems or its bigger round of job cuts earlier this year. The Reg’s shorter story a day later said it was laying off “fewer than 50 staffers” (see page 66). The Insider expects more changes for both papers,and wonders if the cuts are becoming so commonplace as to be non-stories …
Kirk Douglas signs his memoir, “Let’s Face It,” at Barnes & Noble in Fashion Island at 7 p.m. on Thursday … Magic Johnson keynotes and Downey Savings founder Maurice “Mac” McAlister is honored at the UCI Center for Real Estate’s annual gala Sept. 6 at the Costa Mesa Hilton. Call (949) 824-6042 …
Media consultant Michelle Jordan did three live segments for MSNBC, commenting on the “reputation management” issues of Barry Bonds, Michael Vick and Lindsay Lohan: “Drugs, dogs and detox, you might say!” …
EE RR is back from a swing East. In Cooperstown he watched the Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken inductions, noted the inclusion of Anaheim’s name in the Angels exhibit at the Hall of Fame, and, after saving a turtle from becoming road kill, was himself helped from the bottom of a river bank by son-in-law and OC Fire Authority Capt. Stephen Miller, who caught poison sumac in the process. He saw the Richard Serra exhibit at MoMA (funded in part by Californians Eli Broad and Henry and Elizabeth Segerstrom) and, thanks to the John Wayne curfew, got diverted to LAX on the late return from O’Hare. He found thoroughfares in NYC and Chicago to be just as congested as those in SoCal.
