Hawaii
THE quote of the week has to be the one from Murray Towill, head of the Hawaii Hotel Association, about local hostelries using sheets and towels for more than a day or two. "Clearly, some people will find it attractive and others won't," Towill said. Who are these people who spend $100 a day and then find it "attractive" to use a towel still damp from the previous day's use? "It's the kind of thing we all do at home anyway," Towill is quoted as saying. Of course, most folks are not getting hit up for $100 or more at home every day. It would be one thing if a guest were to be charged less for reusing towels and bedding, but the HHA expects them to pay full fare! It's a lousy idea whose time hasn't come, though a globe-trotting friend of mine now can collect the $1,000 he bet his wife that such practice has been going on all along. Call it the recycled Towill theory ...THE Princeville Resort has signed Auntie Genoa Keawe and Martin Pahinui plus a quartet of classical musicians to provide entertainment at the Prince Albert Music Festival May 23-26 at the resort. I hope the show is recorded so an enterprising publicist can say, "We have Prince Albert in the can!" And if you're too young to remember that hoary old gag, ancient even when we used to call tobacconists to ask the question so we could respond, "You'd better let him out!" Ah, what madcaps we were back in those gentler times before beating up tourists provided sport ...
Kim Gennaula
THAT was a nice balanced half-hour special on Kahoolawe which Kim Gennaula wrote and produced for KGMB Monday night. It took no sides in a terribly complex and emotional issue and while it showed the dedication of the native Hawaiians who want the island returned to them, it also provided the military a forum for explaining why a cleanup would be so costly it may be unrealistic to consider it. But dreams die hard. Once again: No easy answer ...
THEN there's "The Hula Mooners," a localized version of Jackie Gleason's old "Honeymooners" show. Ray Bumatai and Tracy Anderson wrote and star in the set-in-Hawaii comedy. It will play April 28-30 and May 5-7 at Manoa Valley Theatre during the off-nights of "Three Tall Women." It'll also be shot before a live theater audience and televised as Hawaii's first locally produced sitcom ...
HERE'S a way to help out the Olympic movement and get yourself a nice T-shirt at the same time. Clifton Sunada, an '89 grad of Damien High School, will represent the U.S. in judo in the Atlanta Olympics and for $12 you can get a T-shirt to help fund his trip there. He even autographed the shirt, which features two judokas in action with the Sunada name in calligraphy. Contact the Damien alumni office (841-0196) to get a shirt ...
