This Movie Scene May Leave Some O.C. Viewers Fit to Be Tied

“Orange County,” the movie, is due out this summer. Honest. Not sure the county is going to love the publicity, though. Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd reported awhile back that it includes a bondage club scene that was shot in a club in Hollywood. What an insult. Orange County bondage clubs weren’t good enough?

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BATHED IN TRADITION: Venice High historian Leonard Gottlieb shared a copy of a parental permission form sent to parents of girls in 1911, the year the school opened (see accompanying).

It sought an OK for the girls to dance with boys. Yes, the times were a bit more innocent. Nowadays you have the feeling that a comparable letter would ask permission for participation in a clothing-optional dance.

You’ll notice the school’s 1911 address, listed on its stationery, was: “Coral and Aldebaran Canals.” The original school was in the old Venice Bath House. (The pool was drained and boarded over, no doubt to the students’ distress.)

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SNAKE EYES: Gottlieb also enclosed a 1911 letter from a pupil who begged forgiveness from the principal. The lad despaired of “having forfeited my standing and right to membership in this school by improper conduct [throwing dice].”

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SUDDEN THOUGHT: Does anyone throw dice anymore--I mean, other than in casinos? The disappearance of this art from the streets has, I believe, been a cultural blow to the nation. Think of all the movies and plays (“Guys and Dolls,” “Dead End”) in which craps played an important role. How do you make an exciting Lotto production?

Steve Harvey can be reached at steve.harvey@latimes.com.