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JUST another case of Honolulu's loss being San Francisco's gain: Emerald Yeh, who used to be a news anchor at KITV locally, left here to join CNN and soon thereafter anchored herself at KRON in S.F. In the nearly 12 years she's been there, Yeh has won numerous prestigious awards. The UH grad, who has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia, is now branching out even further. This week she unveiled a new consumer column she and a colleague are writing for the S.F. Chronicle on Sundays. Consumer affairs is one of the beats she covers for KRON, where she's also co-anchor of "Midday." When Yeh married her boyfriend, who is Jewish, author Amy Tan spoke at the wedding party. Her talk was entitled, "The Oy Luck Club." Luck seems to continue to follow Yeh, and we wish her well in this first foray into print journalism as well as in her TV work ... GOOD indicator that Mayor Jeremy Harris is already off and running for re-election: At the Michael Feinstein concert Saturday, Harris was chatting with some people near the entrance door to the auditorium. I tapped him on the shoulder and deadpanned, "Excuse me, are you the usher." He didn't skip a beat, "Oh yes, may I help you find your seat," he replied. He used the same line on the couple behind me and, presumably, worked the crowd to follow as well ... Incidentally, there's a man running for the State Senate who promises to be a new Frank Fasi. It's the former mayor's son, Frank Jr. ...
ENTERTAINER Jimmy Borges is a golf nut, and so it was he found himself watching the LPGA tournament Sunday when one of the female commentators described one golfer as having a "rhythmatic golf swing." Borges pondered the word and wondered if it was anything like "athmatic?" Or perhaps it had something to do with "reading, writing and rhythmatic." Prod him, and maybe he'll do a rendition of "I Got Rhythmatics." ...
THE L.A. Dodgers have had four Rookie of the Year winners in a row. But one Laie family has another impressive streak going. When Jennifer Brynn Smith was chosen to be the only student speaker at the BYU commencement in Provo, Utah, nobody who knew her was surprised. Jennifer was valedictorian of her Kahuku High Class of 1990, the fourth Smith family valedictorian in a row. She's one of eight daughters of Phillip and Ruth Ann Smith, both professors at BYU-Hawaii ...
ASthis TV season winds down, one question is: Will Tom Selleck return as the "older man love interest" to the Courteney Cox character on "Friends?" Selleck's not saying for sure, but there is his smiling mug on the cover of the latest TV Guide with Cox, living every older man's dream, and drumming up a new age-group audience for the show. He'll be back. And they'll make it worth his while. Bet on it! ...
