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Talks between Disney and the Maloof brothers about a sale of the Mighty Ducks are heating up again, the Insider hears ... Montage Resort & Spa is reaching across Pacific Coast Highway to acquire the Aliso Creek Inn and its nine-hole golf course from longtime owner Violet Brown, price undisclosed. Upgrades are planned and Studio chef James Boyce will oversee Aliso Creek's Canyon Lodge American Grill, Sandi Cain is told. A source put the sales price at a ballpark $12 million ... Christian & Timbers' Bob Lambert has left the executive search firm to set up his own consultancy in OC. Lambert and C&T had been working on Broadcom Corp.'s CEO search, but the chipmaker recently decided to stop hunting and stick with fill-in tech vet Lanny Ross for months to come-a course of action that seems to be to the liking of both Ross and Wall Street. Lambert said he's told Broadcom that when it revisits the succession question, the company should skip another outside search and instead tap its own "deep talent bench" for Ross' replacement ... Speaking of Broadcom, cofounder Henry Samueli got unexpected attention at last week's Lakers-Portland game at Staples Center: The Jumbotron zeroed in on his courtside seats during the "Kiss Me" segment, provoking boos each time Samueli refused to give the young woman next to him anything more than a peck on the cheek. The Insider assumes the crowd would have been kinder if they knew she was Samueli's 18-year-old daughter ... The Four Seasons Newport Beach is losing one GM but regaining another. Mehdi Eftekari is moving to the same position with the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. His replacement is predecessor Thomas Gurtner, returning to OC from Boston ... When Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle shook hands with George W. Bush at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, D.C., recently, the president lit up. "I just had dinner with Arte Moreno in Arizona ... I'm having Garret Anderson over to the White House," Pringle quoted Bush as saying ... Would Southern trial lawyer John Edwards be the ideal veep running mate for John Kerry? OC trial lawyer Wylie Aitken thinks another Southern lawyer (though not a trial lawyer) would be even better for the Dem ticket: retiring U.S. Sen. John Breaux ... Ms. S fashion tip: Ladies, leave the Ugg Boots at home ... It's hard to say what seven months on the South Orange County Community College District board are worth, but they're going to cost the district about $500,000. That's the ballpark price of a March 30 election triggered by teacher-union petitioners in a power struggle with trustees over who and how to fill a board vacancy. "It forces the board to spend badly needed education dollars on an election that will be held anyway in November," fumes Adam Probolsky, chairman of the district's Irvine Valley College Foundation.