We know there’s a cyberheaven:Steve Miller found...

We know there’s a cyberheaven:

Steve Miller found what he calls “a new hazard of the information superhighway.� It was a calendar listing for a class offered by the training division of the American Film Institute:

“Widows 95.�

IRRESISTIBLE YOU: We don’t know why we were targeted, but a publicist for a local “psychic / shaper� sent us a press release about Sexcharm, a talisman that supposedly can transform an individual into “a human sexual magnet.�

The publicist couldn’t divulge everything about this “unique body jewelry�--not even the price.

But she did confide that Sexcharm contains “a hair-like substance� that is “mostly of equine origin� and is “gathered from brushings, cruelty-free and untreated.� (Reminds us of the cowboy stars of the early movies who were so shy that they kissed no one but their horses.)

But wait--there’s more: “Sexcharm is activated by a personal incantation which is written on the container in which Sexcharm is enclosed.�

Of course! And we bet this is the incantation:

“Say, haven’t we met before?�

SPLAT!In a discussion of the low alumni-giving rates at such local universities as USC and UCLA (12% each), we left out the more generous figures for grads of three Claremont colleges: Pomona (47%), Scripps (49%) and Claremont McKenna (53%). Referring to our omission, we mused: “Let’s face it--in Claremont, the Harvey name is mud.�

How were we to know we had offended still another school? We received a note from a fourth Claremont college that has a 49% alumni-giving rate--Harvey Mudd.

L.A.’S HALF-HOUR OF FAME: “60 Minutes� has been spending a lot of moments in L.A. lately. Not only is the TV show working on a piece about the MTA and the Metro Rail subway, but it recently ran a segment on L.A. Police Chief Willie L. Williams and his problems. City Councilman Nate Holden demanded an apology on behalf of Williams after the latter segment--a demand that CBS rejected.

A few years ago, an appearance on “60 Minutes� by then Police Chief Daryl F. Gates raised another question. One Santa Monica viewer wrote to Gates to say he’d noticed that the chief was not wearing a seat belt as he was driven through riot-torn L.A. with reporter Leslie Stahl.

In a reply letter, Gates pleaded guilty with an explanation. He had initially buckled up, he wrote, but inasmuch as “Leslie Stahl and the camera were both in the back seat, I turned around in my seat and was nearly strangled by the three-point safety belt. My car does not have a simple lap belt system so I removed my seat belt.�

We let Gates off with a warning.

miscelLAny Stan Sellers of Mission Hills shared with us a letter he received from Blockbuster Video, demanding payment for a movie “which you checked out on 11/17/58.� Says Sellers: “Wow. 1958 BV. Wasn’t that Before Videos?�