Kato should have this much get-up-and-go: Aspiring...

Kato should have this much get-up-and-go: Aspiring actor Steve Mozena has plastered his name, phone number and face on bus benches around town, trying to get the attention of Hollywood big shots at Oscar time. The question is, how many Hollywood big shots are MTA riders?

Then, again, Forrest Gump spends a lot of time on bus benches. . . .

That’s the way it crumbles: Babs Woodcock of Rancho Palos Verdes reports that about $30 worth of cookies were purchased for the meeting of a condo association, but “before they could be served, someone absconded with them.� Purpose of the get-together? A Neighborhood Watch meeting.

What do you expect from part-timers?Downey isn’t going the way of Orange County. But it has just discovered that members of the City Council were granted a cost-of-living raise eight years ago--a raise they never received because of an unexplained foul-up.

The 1987 document was discovered recently during a survey of whether the part-time legislators deserve raises.

“I looked really quickly at the ordinance and said, ‘Oops,’ � said Lowell Williams, city finance director.

The city attorney is studying whether anyone should receive the back pay, which amounts to less than $500 per year per council position.

No one has formally requested the money, added Lee Powell, the assistant city manager.

Yet.

Councilwoman Diane Boggs, the only current council member who was serving in 1987, said: “It should not be a controversy. It’s owed to me.�

What’s that old expression--You snooze, you lose?

Now to the cost-of-

dying rate: William Savage of L.A. might have been alarmed at receiving the enclosed receipt from the city of Chicago, except that it was for a death certificate.

No wonder we could never fix our own TV: John Blackhall of Hollywood, among others, called to correct our statement that the image orthicon tube, or “immy,� was found in early TV sets.

Actually, it was found in early cameras.

Now just a darn minute: On the other hand, we want to make it clear that neither Only in L.A. nor anyone else at The Times has ever described a theatrical production this way.

The marquee with the jumbled blurbs was photographed by Elena Delgadillo at a Hollywood theater.

miscelLAny A failed Gibraltar Savings has reopened as a Simmons mattress store in Santa Monica, prompting Brad Johnson to observe that since the S & L fiasco, many people probably feel “a mattress is the safest place to stash cash.�