A sarcastic opponent might be tempted to...

A sarcastic opponent might be tempted to label the description of Tom Bradley in the best-selling Wall Street expose “Den of Thieves” as a tribute to the mayor’s dynamic leadership. On Page 399, author James Stewart mistakenly refers to Bradley as L.A.’s “former” mayor.

It’s not the first time that His Honor has been victimized by poor proofreading. In “The Impossible Dream,” the authorized biography of Bradley, authors J. Gregory Payne and Scott C. Ratzan intended to say on Page 337 that the mayor doesn’t make a lot of “noise,” but another word was substituted.

The resulting sentence read:

“Tom Bradley doesn’t make a lot of sense , he just gets things done.”

Just a few months ago, San Dimas’ Canyon Theater held a ceremony for its showing of “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey,” a comedy about two young guys who don’t make a lot of sense or get many things done.

The film was set in the San Gabriel Valley city--though none of it was filmed there--and the theater hoped that the stars, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, would appear. There was talk of having them leave their footprints in cement outside the entrance.

Alas, the stars’ schedules wouldn’t permit, as the saying goes. And now the Canyon--the city’s only theater--faces the possibility of demolition. More than 3,000 people have signed petitions to save it from a developer who wants to build condos there.

We hope that theater officials are able to negotiate with the city as successfully as Bill and Ted dealt with the personification of Death in that unforgettable scene in “Bogus Journey”:

Bill: “It’s the Grim Reaper, Dude.”

Ted: “How’s it hanging, Death?”

From Bill & Ted to Elvis & Dick:

It seems shocking to us that the U.S. Postal Service apparently is not considering the classic shot of the King and the Prez in the White House for its 1993 Presley stamp. Needless to say, at the Richard Nixon Museum and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, the Nixon-Presley postcard and the Nixon-Presley T-shirt are the biggest sellers in their categories.

Ah, look at his cute little circuits:

Reader Casey Kilbride points out that in the movie, “2001,” HAL, the fictional supercomputer, was born on Jan. 12, 1992. That was Sunday, in case you forgot to send a card.

A woman who took out an ad in the singles’ section of Long Beach’s Grunion Gazette describes herself as “a cross between Counselor Troi (of TV’s ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’), Carol Burnett and Sophia Loren.”

No problem. Surely, there’s a cross between William Shatner, Harvey Korman and Marcello Mastroianni out there somewhere, anxious to take a bogus journey.

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Milwaukee, Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Toledo, Ohio, ranked 1-2-3 among cities with the most bowling alleys and pool halls per 100,000 residents in one study. L.A. was 61st, Long Beach 82nd.