Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Did you know/8


 * ... that Los Angeles Lakers executive Jeanie Buss (pictured) was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Sports by Sporting News?
 * ... that basketball executive Jim Buss of the Los Angeles Lakers attended jockey school even though he stood 6 ft?
 * ... that Ben Orloff set school records in college baseball for career hits, runs scored, and games played at the University of California, Irvine?
 * ... that during the eight-year course of making The Decay of Fiction, in which he honors the past of the Ambassador Hotel, director Pat O'Neill collaborated with 45 actors and spent US$250,000?
 * ... that Luigi's Flying Tires, a Disney California Adventure attraction that opened in 2012, is based on Disneyland's Flying Saucers ride of the 1960s?
 * ... that Gold Base (pictured) in Riverside County, California, is the Church of Scientology's closely guarded international headquarters?

January - March 2013