Chamois cloth, we presume: No sooner did...

Chamois cloth, we presume: No sooner did we mention that I. Magnin’s new line includes a “black jumpsuit with carwash panels” than we found that Nordstrom is revving up with a “black stretch lace cocktail dress with an alluring carwash hem.” Only problem is, you know it’ll rain the day you wear it.

Walk of Faym: It sounded like a gag on the old “Dick Van Dyke Show.” A comic unveils his star on Hollywood Boulevard and it’s misspelled. In this case, it said, DICK VANDYKE.

Honorary Hollywood Mayor Johnny Grant handed Van Dyke a marking pen so he could make an honorary editing change (see photo). But, in reality, the brass plate will have to be replaced.

Oh well. It won’t be the first time. When actor Roddy McDowall received a new plaque during a 1988 refurbishing, it was spelled MACDOWLL.

Greek actress Katina Paxinou, who felt the earth move in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” in 1943, was spelled KATRINA.

The granddaddy of typos, however, was the star for Maurice Diller, who turned out to be no one, not even a relative of Phyllis Diller. A Jack Smith column about the phantom celeb alerted the Swedish Embassy, which asked the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to correct the spelling to Mauritz Stiller (the director who discovered Garbo).

On the other hand, Hollywood did a good job of pavement-editing after actor Sylvester Stallone signed his name in cement in front of the Chinese Theater in 1983. Stallone forgot to cross the “t” in his last name. A stand-in later completed his signature for him.

Luckily, it wasn’t his swan song: Brad Rumble, on a turbulent flight from Mexico City to L.A., turned on his airline earphones to soothe his nerves. Instead, he heard Elton John warbling, “The Last Song.”

Attention, lawyers: An ad in the L.A. Business Journal says: “6 Good Reasons Why You and Your Business Will Benefit by Immigrating to Australia.”

Give our regards to Bubbles: Almost as jubilant as the award-winners at the Grammy show at the Shrine Auditorium was emcee Garry Shandling, who revealed: “Michael Jackson just stamped my hand so I can go to his amusement park tomorrow.”

And the Angels have been jinxed ever since: Adding to our recent list of dogs named for celebrities, John Arnerich called to say that he recently met a mutt named after the Angels’ former first baseman, Wally Joyner.

“As a pup,” Arnerich said, “he lifted his leg and left a puddle on a photo of Joyner in the Times sports section.”

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Ken Schessler writes in the book “This is Hollywood” that actress Joan Crawford once removed all the bathtubs in her house, “saying that ‘it was unsanitary to sit in one’s bathwater.’ ”