Hawaii
By Dave Donnelly
Wednesday, October 2, 1996
'Typee' to-do and 'Sarong Girl,' too
IT isn't every day that you get to use a six-syllable word in a column, but the local South Seas Cinema Society is marking the sesquicentennial of the publication of Herman Melville's first novel, "Typee," next month. On Nov. 30 at the Academy of Arts Center at Linekona on Victoria Street, it'll be showing a 16mm print of Allan Dwan's 1958 film, "Enchanted Island," starring Dana Andrews and Jane Powell. It's the only Hollywood adaptation of "Typee." Just back from his latest South Seas visit is Society co-founder Ed Rampell, who'll make a presentation on Taipivai Valley today, 150 years after Melville's ... But prior to that homage, there'll be a tribute to Hollywood's "Sarong Girl," Dorothy Lamour, who died Sept. 22. A movie memorial will be presented, also at Linekona, and folks are urged to bring along Dorothy Lamour memorabilia. As for dress: "Sarongs optional." ...
NEARLY 5,000 Hawaii youngsters were "Kidprinted" by Blockbuster Video to help families gear up for the school year. It's like a video version of ID card and photo, and could prove valuable to authorities in the unlikely event one of the keiki turns up missing. Blockbuster provided the videos, including kids' voices, free to parents who signed up and deserves a "Mahalo" for its public service.
WHEN 50 women gathered at the Kahala Mandarin for lunch to go over plans for next year's Heart Ball, G.M. Seamus McManus looked over the attractive, all-female gathering and opined that hosting meetings such as this one made his job a little easier. Heart Ball chairwoman this year is Janet Schiller, wife of adman Marty Schiller, and it was she who organized the luncheon ... Yoshiko Sakurai, former news commentator on Nihon Television in Japan, is a UH graduate in history. She not only credits the university for her success, but also has established an endowed UH scholarship in history in honor of her mother. Last year, Sakurai received the UH Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni award and was recently honored at a reception at UH President Kenneth Mortimer's home.
Numbers, please
IT weighed 600 pounds and required 13 gallons of syrup. That was what it took to make 1,250 cones of shave ice made for 850 thirsty members of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association one recent muggy afternoon. As the visitors, in town for an AZA conference and representing 174 zoos and aquariums across the country, made their way from the Honolulu Zoo to the Waikiki Aquarium, they arrived to find the local cooling concoction which was whipped up by Current Affairs, the catering outfit ... More on the animal front: The Hawaiian Humane Society's PetWalk is scheduled for Oct. 27 at Kapiolani Park, where a melange of domesticated house creatures will enjoy a walk around the park. Last year there were 1,056 people, 880 dogs, 10 cats, four turtles, three birds, three mice, three guinea pigs, a rabbit and a pot-bellied pig participating ...
IF it hasn't died a well-deserved death by Saturday, that flotsam and jetsam of dance, the macarena, will be demonstrated by Charo at the Ala Moana Centerstage at noon. And if you're not sick of it by 1 p.m., something's wrong with you ... Yvonne Filius is well known to people attending local musical theater offerings, having appeared in numerous roles over the years. But now she's taken on a more challenging role with her band, Unison. They've been performing professionally for corporate and convention functions.
Play "Misty" for me
DISC jockeys often get strange requests from listeners, but Bob Zix, the isle-based jock now broadcasting as Kamasami Kong on an FM station in Osaka, Japan, reports an eerie e-mail he's received from a diehard fan. The woman wrote she's so taken with Kong that she's asked her husband to put tapes of his shows into her coffin "when I die before he does." She added, "Don't be scared please, I just would like to tell how much I enjoy this friendship." If she leaves the tape recorder running, will Kong become famous in the afterlife? Is this another "From 'Hair' to Eternity"? ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. His columns run Monday through Friday. Contact Dave by e-mail at donnelly@kestrok.com.
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