As an accommodation to the city`s Spanish-speaking residents, the Department of Streets and Sanitation has been posting ”No Parking-Street Cleaning” signs in Spanish in certain neighborhoods. But there`s a minor problem with this plan, as the residents of the 700 block of West 16th Street learned earlier this month. Their cars were all ticketed on Thursday by a Monroe District police officer who obviously didn`t speak Spanish and couldn`t read the sign, which clearly (in Spanish, anyway) banned parking on Friday. A spokesman for Streets and San Commissioner John Halpin said they`ll get the mess straightened out.
REEL NEWS . . .
David Lynch, whose film projects have included ”Elephant Man,” ”Dune” and ”Blue Velvet,” reportedly will be working next on a comedy adventure. . . . One is not enough: A replica of the Beverly Hills Hotel`s Polo Lounge was built in L.A.`s Ambassador Hotel-for a Blake Edwards movie that`s now filming. . . . An NBC-TV movie remake of ”Around the World in 80 Days” will feature Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle as Passepartout. Others in the cast: Peter Ustinov, John Hillerman, Robert Morley, Lee Remick, Roddy McDowall, Robert Wagner and Jill St. John.
REEL NEWS, CHICAGO STYLE . . .
Andy Davis, director of ”Code of Silence” and ”Above the Law” (which were both filmed in Chicago), is hoping to sign his ”Law” star Steven Sagal to return for ”The Package.” The tale of international intrigue will film here (and possibly other cities) this fall. . . . American Ballet Theater star Johan Renvall is starring in ”Desire,” an independent movie being filmed here this summer, mostly at Niles East High School.
SMALL SCREEN SCENE . . .
Charles Nelson Reilly will be the host of ”Sweethearts,” a syndicated TV game show in which a celebrity panel must decide which of three couples is really married and which are actors. We`re excited. . . . Because of the Writers Guild strike, NBC will air the two episodes of ”The Cheech Show”
that were taped last spring. The show stars Cheech Marin, and the ensemble cast includes former Chicago radio personality Kit Paraventi, who will play an 80-year-old hillbilly grandmother in the July 29 show with Willie Nelson, and an Italian film actress in the Aug. 5 show with Jackee.
POLITICAL POSTSCRIPTS . . .
– For all the Democratic happy talk about the party`s ”politics of inclusion,” it was obvious at the convention that Those Who Give Money still get better treatment than those who represent Those Who Don`t. Major contributors and movie stars roamed freely around the convention floor all week, but folks like Miguel del Valle, chairman of the Illinois Dem Party`s official Hispanic caucus, couldn`t get a pass to get on the convention floor until Wednesday night. P.S. It wasn`t all bad news for Del Valle; the Democratic National Committee promised him $100,000 to run a voter-
registration campaign in Illinois.
– Unity? What`s unity? Peter Weinberger, the Illinois delegation`s convention manager, has shouldered aside state party Executive Director Mike McGann-and may end up with McGann`s job. So more chaos may be ahead. . . . Does state party Chairman Vince Demuzio regret not sticking with his original plan for a convention task force led by Fred Lebed and Vince`s wife, Deanna? Everyone else in Atlanta did.
– Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of Franklin and Eleanor, joined the Democratic National Committee as a staff member in April and at the same time came aboard as the finance director for the Illinois Dem Party-a position she`ll keep after the November election. Like her grandmother (she resembles a young Eleanor but dresses much more fashionably), she`s gracious and charming, unlike some of the other presidential offspring who seem to be very taken with their status.
– Scrappy Texas Treasurer Ann Richards is on everybody`s invite list. She`s promised Aurelia Pucinski she`ll travel to Chicago to campaign for the Cook County ticket.
INC.LINGS . . .
Monday birthdays: Jack Gilford, 81; Walter Payton, 34; Louise Brown, 10;
Barbara Harris, 53. . . . A suburban public relations firm is named Gant & Donald-for Donald Rosenthal and his dog, Gant. . . . It looks like ”Heaven is a Playground,” that movie about a Michael Jordan-like character (in which Jordan would have a cameo), isn`t going to happen.
