Inside Scoop

TAKING SOME SHOTS

Whether it’s the Super Bowl, World Series or even the Grammy Awards, you

can bet super agent and Newport Beach resident Leigh Steinberg has one of

the best seats in the house.

This year was no exception, as he was invited to the Grammy’s as a guest

of Wells Fargo Bank. He sat with former game show host Pat Sajak and Jim

Burroughs, one of the co-creators of the popular television comedy,

“Cheers.”

Television critics panned the show, calling it dull and boring. But

Steinberg said things got interesting when producers cut to commercial.

Host Rosie O’Donnell was carving up some of the attendees with her jokes.

Her favorite target was rapper/producer Puff Daddy, who was recently

arrested on weapon charges.

Steinberg said the hostess was picking on the Puffster about his run-in

with the law.

“She was all over him,” Steinberg said. “Luckily he was backstage for

most of it and probably didn’t hear the jokes.”

POLICE AND POLITICS

No question who Costa Mesa Police Chief Dave Snowden will vote for during

the March 7 primary election.

Snowden is good friends with Arizona Sen. John McCain. The two met some

years back at a ceremony where a Comanche helicopter was dedicated in the

name of former Newport Beach resident and actor John Wayne. McCain is

reportedly a big fan of the “Duke” and wanted to be on hand for the

event.

As for trying to get McCain to Orange County, Snowden said he hopes the

senator will make a pit stop in Newport-Mesa this week.

CABLE UNCONNECTION

Costa Mesa residents are still complaining about bad service from the

city’s largest cable television provider, MediaOne, one month after the

company’s brass promised improvements.

(Gloria Franklin) told the City Council Tuesday that it took more than 20

phone calls to the company’s Hollywood offices before she got an answer

to why her service was cut off without warning.

“You have to hit them up again,” she told the council.

On Wednesday, Mayor Gary Monahan said he passed along Franklin’s dismay

to Costa Mesa MediaOne representatives.