So continues the tale of poor, pignapped Pigerre, the 2-foot high pig that once lived in a flower pot outside Covington's Chez Nora.

        Created by Sandy's Frame Shop owner Sandy Stonebreaker for Nora owners Jimmy and Pati Gilliece, Pigerre was abducted in June. (He is not a Big Pig Gig pig.)

        The Gillieces have gotten Pigerre notes from St. Louis, Vermont, Tennessee (he was working as a height requirement sign at Dollywood) and Florida.

        Now this: Last week the Gillieces received more photos — Pigerre at Mount Rushmore, atop an SUV with his backpack, on a prairie.

        According to the note, he has joined a prairie dog colony where they think he's a deity.

        And still the Gillieces have no clue: Original suspects, the Delta types who hang out there, have been eliminated, leaving “someone who's traveling the country,” Pati says. “That SUV he's sitting on has turned up before.

        “It's a process of elimination, but we've already eliminated most everyone.”

        (Find pig profiles and event details - and vote for your favorite pig — at www.cincinnati.com/bigpiggig)

        Moral issues: Hey, look who's been hauled in to court on national TV: It's Naked Cowboy John Robert Burck.

        It's a new court, actually, name of Moral Court (11:30 and 5:30 a.m. daily, Channel 25), and it's like other TV court shows in that two people have at each other. But in this one, they're debating moral issues. Like Cowboy's act, singing in his tightie whities, boots and cowboy hat.

        So, Moral invited him and girlfriend Mindy Osbourne, he to explain himself and talk about how he wants her to morph into the Naked Cowgirl, she to express outrage.

        They taped Friday in Los Angeles and, as producer Lee Goldstein was hoping, crackled. Look for it in November.

        But first, look for this: Cowboy also taped an episode of the new To Tell The Truth: “There were three of us in boots and underwear, and I fooled them. They all picked the wrong guy.

        “The other two guys were from trendy West Coast cities. They thought I was fake when I told them I was from Greenhills, Ohio. We made $4,000.”

        Look for it later this month.

        On the rocks: Meanwhile, out in Las Vegas, Cincinnatian Jim Hetzer was a big deal over the weekend at a convention celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

        Hetzer is leader of the Denton Affair, the group that stages Rocky every other Friday at Clifton's Esquire movie theater, tossing toast and hauling out squirt guns and stuff.

        He has led the group for eight years, and for that, Fox invited him to Circus Circus for a round of parties. About 1,000 attended, including some of the original movie cast. The award was from Fox and worldwide Rocky fans for service during the past 10 years.

        Check it out at thedentonaffair.com (the group's website) or cosmosfactory.com, a Rocky site he maintains.

        Hetzer and cast show off their award-winning stuff at the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission's annual Halloween party (Oct. 27, Old St. George Church), which is themed around Rocky's 25th.

        Call (513) 768-8513; fax: 768-8330.
       

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