Inside Scoop

Independent staff

Costume designer Susan Thomas Babb often surfs the World Wide Web

for new fashion ideas, but she has to be careful not to offend her

audience.

While designing her most recent musical, “Nunsense,” the Huntington Beach

resident consulted online nunneries to give modern twists to a timeless

garb, but said she kept coming across the Drag Queen Nuns in San

Francisco.

“It wasn’t the sort of information I was looking for,” she said.

BOONE DEFENDER TURNS TABLES ON HIS CRITICS

A strong defender of public safety officials, resident Virginia Sims came

to celebrity Pat Boone’s rescue at the Aug. 2 City Council meeting.

Boone, this year’s Fourth of July Parade celebrity grand marshal, took a

verbal beating from the talk show hosts of ‘Karel & Andrew Live’ on KFI

radio, who said the singer was over the hill and out of touch with the

city’s youngsters.

“They say [Boone] hasn’t had a hit record in 30 years, [but] I wonder

what they’ve had?,” she asked. “They’re certainly not Dick Clark or Orson

Wells.”

CAN’T WAIT TO GET TO THE CLASSROOM

Parents and students of the new Huntington Seacliff Elementary School, to

be opened Sept. 7, aren’t the only ones excited about having a new

state-of-the-art home school. Some of the teachers are already measuring

their currently unfinished rooms for their classroom decor, said Frank

Blonska, Huntington Beach City School District’s supervisor of

construction and facilities.

Blonska recently received a call from a teacher asking if she and another

teacher could tour the new school site, and he agreed.

“When they showed up, there was a total of 11 teachers,” Blonska said.

“They are really excited. They were even measuring and planning where to

put their plants.”

--Ellen McCarty, Eron Ben-Yehuda and Marissa Espino