Marilyn’s back!At least, her curve is. Perhaps...

Marilyn’s back!At least, her curve is. Perhaps we should explain. One of Marilyn Monroe’s biggest fans was Arata Isozaki, the designer of the Museum of Contemporary Art on Bunker Hill. He went so far as to pattern some of the walls after the outline of her body shown in a famous pinup. Isozaki termed the effect the “Monroe Curve.”

Alas, the Grand Avenue Monroe suffered a fracture earlier this year when a crane tipped over on it. After several months of cosmetic surgery, the curve has emerged looking fit--and, we might add, without the slightest trace of a crystallized-glass tummy tuck.

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List of the Day: “Demolition Man,” the latest futuristic movie set in L.A., presents this picture of life with Sylvester Stallone in the year 2032:

* The city is called San Angeles, the result of a merger of San Diego, L.A. and Santa Barbara after the giant earthquake of 2010. (No mention is made of Orange County.)

* The city’s dictator has banned weapons, except for a display of antiques (from the 1990s) in a Hall of Violence Museum. No murders have been committed in the previous 16 years and citizens politely wish each other, “Be well.”

* Also outlawed are “unhealthy” items, including alcohol, cigarettes, meats, gasoline and contact sports. (It isn’t clear whether the prohibition would apply to a San Angeles Rams football team.)

* Touching is not allowed. Couples make love by donning special helmets and exchanging electronic waves.

* Public computers dispense citations for violations of the “verbal morality statute” (bad language).

* Women police officers wear extremely tight jumpsuits.

* There’s an Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Museum.

* All restaurants are Taco Bells, the survivor of something called “the franchise wars.” But they have valet parking, as well as lounge singers, who warble the “The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant” and other commercial ditties.

The director of “Demolition Man,” by coincidence, until now did commercials.

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You may recall that Lou Desser asked where he could buy ginger beer, one of the ingredients in the old Cock ‘n’ Bull restaurant’s Moscow Mule (along with vodka and lime juice). Donald Lehti of L.A. writes with good news: He found “this delicious drink” in New Zealand. Laura Holland of Van Nuys says it can be found a bit farther north--in tea shops in Santa Monica and Pasadena.