Maybe peace can break out in the Middle East. After all, what’s impossible now that the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register have gotten together? Oh, they still compete for subscribers and advertisers. But the dailies are in a venture to distribute ad inserts by newspaper and mail to OC households. The program is an acknowledgement that the enemy (junk mailers) of my enemy is my enemy, too. “It’s a victory of business sense over ego,” says an industry player …
The Reg, meanwhile, has a new business editor. Glenn Hall, who heads Bloomberg’s politics and government coverage in Washington, D.C., starts next month … HP’s sacking of Carly Fiorina was a setback for women in the executive suite. But the Insider notes a corporate gain in OC for females,the naming of director Betty Woods, a Seattle resident, as next chairman of Beckman Coulter. No other woman chairs a major OC company …
Linksys execs are delighted with their new digs at University Research Park. They’ve gained views, more space and more parking than at the former warehouse building on Armstrong Avenue in Irvine. And no fears in an office-only environment of having to set mousetraps, as when an overseas shipment arrived at Armstrong complete with rats …
Who’s responsible for enlisting former El Toro airport advocate Bruce Nestande in the Great Park effort? Arnold Forde of Forde & Mollrich, the Insider is told. The political consulting firm, which has generated millions from El Toro, is itself a crossover. F & M; has won four El Toro campaigns,twice for an airport then twice against it …
Henry “Nick” Nicholas spent $4 million and several late nights last fall defeating Proposition 66, which would have modified the state’s Three Strikes law. The efforts have earned him a Public Safety Service Award from OC Sheriff Mike Carona and DA Tony Rackaukas and a Those Who Serve award from the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs …
The Bolshoi Ballet has been rescheduled to Aug. 9 to 14 at the Performing Arts Center …
D & #233;j & #341; vu all over again: Archie Brown shared an old clipping from the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. “The Angels board of directors doesn’t want to call the team the Anaheim Angels when the move is made to Anaheim Stadium next year,” wrote columnist Bud Furillo in 1965. “The brass favors something like California Angels or Southern California Angels …
The American League office …
weeps in fear of the team being named after the city in which it will play.” But Furillo defended Anaheim: “The action there (on the ‘Anaheim Strip’) makes the Sunset Strip look like Sun City.” And, “If I owned the Angels, I’d name my next kid Anaheim, let alone the ball club.” No mention of keeping the name Los Angeles.
