Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Did you know/8
Appearance
![Jeanie Buss](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Jeanie_Buss.jpg/70px-Jeanie_Buss.jpg)
![Gold Base viewed from the air](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Gold_Base_aerial_view.jpg/100px-Gold_Base_aerial_view.jpg)
- ... 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