By Dave Donnelly
Monday, December 16, 1996
Charlie Pietsch III, Glenn Cannon
Charlie Pietsch III, Glenn Cannon
TODAY is something of a personal landmark and I hope you don't mind if I share it with you. Today marks the beginning of my 29th year as daily three-dot columnist for this august newspaper. The very first column appeared under this byline on Dec. 16, 1968, and I estimate something on the order of 6,750 have been published since then. It's a staggering thought, but for those who ask (hopefully???) about retirement, I have no plans to do that, ever. I enjoy what I do and I hope the readers do also. So keep those bits of info you'd like to see turned into items coming and we'll do our best to carry on ... 29 years and still
connecting dotsIT was kind of fun watching those fifty- and sixtysomething people reliving their youth on the dance floor attorney Rick Fried erected on his Diamond Head lawn Saturday night. Many of the same people we used to see discoing at J.B.'s and Bobby McGees in decades past were out there living it up while a D.J. played music of the '60s and '70s. But Diamond Head being Diamond Head, the police arrived - at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night, mind you - to say neighbors had complained about the music. Heaven forbid anyone might still be able to have a good time on a Saturday evening in that toney neighborhood. As for Fried, he shrugged off talk of a wedding chapel being erected on land he owns in the neighborhood - it's not likely to happen - though one couple on hand, widower Charlie Pietsch III and a stunningly attractive San Franciscan named Diane Steere looked like they might be candidates for booking one ...
FORMER isle restaurateur Buzz Schneider, who once owned all those Buzz's Steakhouses, popped into town for the holidays. He's now retired and living in Riverside, Calif., but looks as if he's been eating well. If someone is in need of a Santa, all he'd need is a beard ...
PUNSTERS might want to file this under "Let Frenum Ring." The new governor of Hong Kong is named Tung-Cheehwa, but he has isle ties you may not know about. Tung is also known as C.H. Tung, and is the son of late shipping magnate C.Y. Tung, who began American Hawaii Cruises 17 years ago, giving up their interests in the company in 1993. Young Tung is a close personal friend of LeRoy Holley and his family, dating back to the days when they worked together on cruise business. And so it was that the Holleys received a surprise transpacific call from Tung who was still at his victory party in "Honkers" but wanted to share the good news ... Tung ties
TELEVISION stations are infamous for "creative interpretation" of ratings results, and the latest Nielsen numbers in Hawaii brought forth the best spin each station could bring. But the most creative math award has to go to KHON-TV, which put out a release saying their 10 p.m. news with Joe Moore had a 15 rating and 30 share while second place KITV had a 10 rating and 20 share, which meant Channel 2 had "150 per cent the audience (sic) of its closest competitor." ...
SOMETHING new has been added to the already spectacular "Honolulu City Lights" downtown. The new First Hawaiian Center has created a "Christmas Fantasy" on the King Street side of the bank, depicting seven 1903-era children in Hawaii preparing for Christmas. Researchers scoured the Bishop Museum Library in order to make sure the costumes, food and material in the 16-foot-long display was authentic. The animated and ethnically diverse figures are each three-feet tall ...
THERE'S such cooperation among theater groups in this town that the Army Community Theater waited for Diamond Head Theatre to complete casting for "Little Shop of Horrors" before finishing their casting of "Guys and Dolls." Director Glenn Cannon has all the dolls he can handle but still needs "a few good men" to play N.Y. gangster types, especially those between 30 and 50. Auditions for these guys will be tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Fort Shafter's Richardson Theater ... Guys wanted
