The 500 GOP loyalists attending the Lincoln Club’s annual dinner at the Balboa Bay Club gave Gov. Arnold a standing O, but their most rousing ovation was for lieutenant governor candidate Tom McClintock. Tracy Price welcomed the Guv to “the true majority,” a poke at the more politically moderate New Majority, Schwarzenegger’s main OC support group. Arnold poked back: “Tracy, you’re a funny man. Maybe you should be on Jay Leno” …
Panther talk: Co-editing a recently recovered ancient text has put the spotlight on Chapman U religion Prof Marvin Meyer. “The Gospel of Judas” was recently at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list, Meyer was featured on the National Geographic TV special and he’s quoted in news stories worldwide. Last year Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia came to campus to re-enact a controversial 1905 labor case. On Sept. 15 the law school will re-enact the Miranda case (“You have the right to remain silent …”) with another leading conservative jurist,Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dissenter Alex Kosinski will play Earl Warren. Marion Knott’s latest $3 million for the Chapman film school is expected to be quickly followed by other big gifts, the Insider hears. Only $6 million more is needed to finish the $41 million building campaign …
“The Real Housewives” wounded lovebirds Jo De La Rosa and Slade Smiley were together at the sizzling Lisy B fashion show at Tentation Ultra Lounge in Newport Beach …
Human Options’ 25th anniversary dinner on May 20 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach already has raised more than $1 million. “It rounds out all the greed and corruption news in business!” says Julie Hill (chairing the event with hubby Peter) …
Julia Argyros, Sandy Segerstrom Daniels, Glenn Stearns, Marian Bergeson, Supe Tom Wilson and (if he’s not taking another vacation) Frank Mickadeit are among the luminaries in this year’s CHOC Follies, May 20 and 21, at the OC Performing Arts Center. Call (714) 532-8690 … Two weeks after Mark Denny left as Supe Bill Campbell’s chief of staff to join Allergan’s government affairs department, the state Board of Equalization exempted the company’s anti-wrinkle drug, Botox, from sales tax. Good timing, but Denny says the credit goes to Allergan colleagues and consultants who worked on the case for two years. Campbell has tapped the Apartment Association of OC’s Matt Petteruto to replace Denny …
Now a 20-year-old art prodigy, Alexandra Nechita appears 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Wentworth Gallery in Laguna Beach on May 19 and in Newport Beach on May 20 …
He’s taken some ribbing over the name similarity, but UCI biz dean Andy Policano says nobody actually has confused him with indicted Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano.
