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 feet 2 inches (1.88 m)?
... 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