The wait is over for Irvine ad shop T & O; Group, the Business Journal’s Jennifer Bellantonio hears. T & O; beat out two other finalists to win Irvine-based In-N-Out Burger’s reported $5 to $10 million creative advertising account “Which Way LA” host Warren Olney only could recall a handful of programs in the nine-year history of his KCRW radio program that compared with the audience emotion at last week’s El Toro debate. Those programs involved the 1992 riots, L.A. mayoral debates, the redevelopment of Playa Vista and San Fernando Valley secession Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham was set to be at the Village Crean in Santa Ana Heights this week for a lunchtime speech arranged by the local GOP It turns out that a newspaper search wasn’t the only way OC officials could have located Kathryn Thompson in recent months. They could have called former supe Bill Steiner, who now directs Childhelp USA in Scottsdale, Ariz. Steiner said he has kept in touch with old friend Thompson, who has wrestled with family problems, including gaining the guardianship of her granddaughter. Thompson’s whereabouts had been a mystery to the county, which is suing her for $1 million-plus over a failed construction loan. As this paper disclosed three weeks ago, Thompson had been making headlines for the past two years as a developer in Kansas City. She recently quit that job and moved back to Dallas, where she filed for personal bankruptcy in order, she said, to thwart OC’s legal action Peter Buffa shot a 96
….. How do you know if you’re among the Irvine Co.’s 2,500 closest friends? If you’ve received a complimentary copy of “Irvine Ranch,” the company’s classy new coffee-table tribute to itself, compiled by Paul Kranhold just before he left for the Bay area. If you aren’t among the chosen, you can get a copy for $50 at Four Seasons, Hyatt, Pelican Hill or Oak Creek gift shops … Harriett Wieder says a recent party at her home landed four more $10,000-a-year members for the New Majority Happy 60th to Carl’s Jr. and founder Carl Karcher, who began selling hot dogs from a cart on July 17, 1941. His first day’s take: $14.75. And happy 46th to Disneyland, which opened July 17, 1955 Another ramification of the tech-stock bust: Ties are back Getting there: National Jurist magazine ranked Chapman U 27th among the “most wired” law schools. Earlier, the school’s law library was ranked fifth Lost in the 2600 Michelson vortex: Every few months, some poor soul decides to take the fire exit in the 16-story Citicorp building in Irvine and winds up frantically pounding on a first-floor door. Imagine the person’s surprise when it opens into the cluttered cubicle of EE RR, who provides escort service through the OCBJ office to the lobby. The Insider has decided to begin recording the names of these wanderers. The first is Vanessa Dee of Huntington Beach, who was leaving a lawyer’s office when she made the fateful turn into the stairwell.
