IF you happened to watch "Blooper Palooza" on KHNL-TV last night, you may have recognized one segment that was filmed in Hawaii, but never aired here. It involved KGMB reporter Angela Keen, freshly arrived in Hawaii from Nebraska, assigned to do a story on Kalanianaole Highway traffic. She and camera operator Adam House got the idea to do a kind of "driving stand-up" routine, but instead of doing it in a relatively safe parking lot, took to the highway in question. At one point, viewers were treated to the view of her smile turning to a look of horror as she plowed directly into the car in front of her. Nobody was more surprised than cameraman House, who toppled from the hood of her car, where he was perched, onto his keister. Though he saved the $50,000 camera from smashing on the asphalt, House was given the door, so to speak. Keen, who'd just moved 5,000 miles to get here, was kept on, but there was some lawyering going on behind the scenes between the station and the woman whose car was crunched. House ended up at Honolulu Hale, fittingly enough, as in-House cameraman for Mayor Jeremy Harris ... JUST direct your feet, to both sides of the street. One Manoa resident recognized political activist Tom Heinrich, despite hat and sunglasses, waving a sign one evening for mayoral candidate Arnold Morgado on East Manoa Road. Then two days later, as the same resident drove to work, there was Heinrich on the other side of the street, literally, waving a sign for Jeremy Harris. This time he was without hat and glasses. Heinrich, a former House candidate and vice-chairman of the Manoa Neighborhood Board, seemed to be of two minds on the subject. Thus far he hasn't been sighted with a Frank Fasi sign ...
AT its recent company picnic, MC&A, the Hawaii event planning outfit, had a "Build Your Own Boat" activity that gave everyone a chance to sink or swim. Chairman Mary Charles captained a team constructing a boat,which failed the seaworthy test. Still, she said bravely, her business is smooth sailing ...
Heidi Chang
IN my vigilence to get KHNL to purchase a dictionary for its newsroom, may I point out to morning newscaster Lee Cataluna that "intravenous" has four syllables, and not five as she pronounced it over and over again yesterday ... Back in town for a visit was San Francisco jazz D.J. Heidi Chang. Among those she works with in S.F. is longtime jazz jock Al "Jazzbo" Collins, who's such an old-timer that I remember listening to him on Chicago radio when I was a kid ...
