When an unauthorized Snow White performed on...

When an unauthorized Snow White performed on the most recent Oscars show, the Walt Disney Co. demanded an apology. Meanwhile, MCA has been complaining that Disney copied its Universal Studios Tour concept in Florida.

So now that Birmingham, Ala., has held its first Doo Dah Parade, will Peter Apanel hire a Briefcase Drill Team of lawyers to sue?

Not at all, according to Apanel, who founded the parody of Pasadena’s stately Tournament of Roses Parade in 1977.

“I don’t care about Doo Dah copiers,” Apanel said. “In fact, I hope fewer people show up for ours this year. It’s gotten too crowded. And there’s no parking anymore.”

Nor was Apanel concerned that Birmingham violated the Pasadena Doo Dah’s rule against showcasing celebrities by exhibiting Jessica Hahn as grand marshal.

“I can’t even remember who our last queen was,” said Apanel, whose parade has introduced to the world such zanies as the Dull Men’s Club of Newport Beach and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Drool Team.

Actually, Apanel said, several other cities have also inaugurated Doo Dahs--including Pismo Beach, Calif.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Columbus, Ohio, and Pitman, N.J.

Apanel himself recently rode in the Ocean Park, N.J., Doo Dah as grand marshal.

“It was a great honor,” he said. “I was in an open convertible and it rained the entire time. Also, they had a sign on the car that said I was ‘Steve Apanel.’ ”

The San Fernando Valley’s mystery of the Orange Lights in the Sky has widened.

You may recall that more than a dozen people phoned The Times on Sunday night to say they had seen two huge lights floating low over Encino.

Now, a woman says she spotted a similar set of lights a few days before that in Canoga Park.

And another caller reports that she saw a similar light show more than a week ago in Chatsworth.

“Two perfectly round lights,” she said. “They were flying very low over the hills. At first I thought they were planes, but they were moving too slowly.”

Which confirms what every Valleyite knows in these traffic-congested times--that it takes longer than ever to travel from Chatsworth to Encino.

The bone of contention broke one of Patrice Evart’s teeth.

It was embedded in a hamburger that she purchased from a fast-food restaurant in Granada Hills in 1986.

She sued for $35,000 in damages in Los Angeles County Superior Court. But before the case could go to trial, the complaint was dismissed in a summary judgement. The court cited a half-century-old precedent involving a man who lost a lawsuit after swallowing a sliver of chicken bone in a chicken pie. The latter decision held that it’s “a matter of common knowledge (that) chicken pies occasionally contain chicken bones.”

Evart’s attorney, Michael Kushner, appealed the dismissal. And the state Court of Appeal recently reversed the decision, reinstating the case.

The Court of Appeal agreed with Kushner that, in Evart’s situation, it was difficult to imagine how she could have avoided the accident, “short of removing the hamburger from its bun, breaking it apart and inspecting its small components.”

Kushner called the decision a “victory for consumers.”

Unless a settlement is reached, the case will go to trial in Superior Court in several months, at which time a judge or jury will decide whether Evart has a legitimate beef.

A pickpocket masquerading as a maintenance man has lifted five wallets at one downtown office building, the Los Angeles Downtown News reports.

A caller told the newspaper that the con man typically enters an office with a measuring tape and begins measuring the door. While workers ignore him, he cops the wallets from coats hanging on doorknobs or coat racks.

He is described as being chubby, of average height, with curly hair. The description is vague, the caller said, because “nobody paid any attention to him. We thought he was a repair man.”