Bill Soenksen
SPEAKING of age, Bill Soenksen was feeling pretty good when he visited a Sizzler on Maui and was carded. It wasn't that the waitress thought he might be under 21, but she couldn't believe he was 60, thus qualifying him for a senior citizen discount. He actually won't be 60 until November, but she gave him the price break anyway, for looking so youthful ...
AND time is passing faster than comic Fred Ball (a k a Professor Fun) can believe. He read here about the bar which had a "Christmas in July" evening, and recently attended a church service where the same theme was observed. But when he walked into Ala Moana's J.C. Penney and found Christmas decorations for sale, he still did a double take. Maybe Professor Fun should get out his red and green balloons and start lining up gigs for Christmas parties ...
WHEN Loretta Swit was booked to perform "Shirley Valentine," a one-woman show, into the Hawaii Theatre Saturday night, I remarked it may be the first but surely not the last non-musical event in the refurbished theater. And who should be booked next into the house but MTV comic Pauly Shore and his dad, Sammy Shore, which promoter Ken Rosene hopes will make its success a "Shore" thing. Pauly has gone on from MTV to make some movies, most of which have had critics licking their chops to find ways of saying how bad they were. Still, he keeps making more, so he must be doing something right. Father and son will perform at the Hawaii Aug. 23 with tickets going on sale tomorrow at the theater and through Connection outlets ...SHE won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts two years ago, and now Emma Veary returns to the Royal Hawaiian Monarch Room Sunday to sing at ceremonies honoring Anuhea Brown and Sonny Kamahele. The appearance coincides with the release of "Old Golden Throat's" first CD, "The Best of Emma," 25 Hawaiian classics recorded by Jack deMello and released on Mountain Apple Records ... You've been to parties where the guests were animals? Well, here's one where they're the hosts. Elephants, lions, giraffes, chimps and the like are playing host to this year's 56th annual Na Hula Festival at Ho'ike 1996. The cultural celebration takes place Sunday and again Aug. 11 at Honolulu Zoo ...
