By Dave Donnelly
Tuesday, January 7, 1997
Cynthia Yip, Vinny Marino
Cynthia Yip, Vinny Marino
WE'RE only a week into 1997, but already we've learned not to be so insular as to think that's it! We're also about to enter the Year of the Ox, a special one for me since it's "my" year, and big Ox-like things may be in store. Designer Clarence Lee got big press play for the unveiling of the fifth in a series of Chinese lunar calendar animal stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. When he did his first one, the sole mention, I believe, was a note in this column. And at Temple Emanu-El, Kathy Mellon, head of the America Israel Cultural Foundation gifted Rabbi Avi Magid with a koa-framed first issue Jewish New Year stamp done by 23-year-old Sahar Pick, winner of the Israeli Postal Authority's stamp design contest. Pick's pick is special in that he has Down's syndrome and has been winning awards since 1992 ... '97 ox tales: 'My year,'
Lee's stampBACK around Thanksgiving I mentioned that San Francisco billionaire Gordon Getty and family chose to have their holiday bird at the Hotel Hana Ranch. Now it appears the Gettys are talking turkey about buying the place, including the entire Hana Ranch. The social column by Pat Steger in yesterday's S.F. Chronicle reports that Billy Getty and Gavin Newsom of PlumpJack fame (including the Fillmore Street restaurant of that name) are negotiating to buy the ranch, if not the farm ...
WANT to rid your office of evil spirits? That's a New Year's tradition for William Doyle, honcho of Century 21 Kailua Beach Realty. For the past dozen years, he's shot off aerial fireworks horizontally - something not universally recommended - inside his office. A number of friends and associates were there to witness the display again this year, and join in the traditional toasts of good cheer. I'm not saying it works, but Doyle does point to the fact that his office is one of the top producing groups in the entire Century 21 system ...
WHILE some of us took a couple of days off to meditate or whatever, Cynthia Yip was extremely busy over the holidays. For the past two weeks she's been acting as a correspondent for a nationally syndicated show called "Strange Universe." It's not seen in Hawaii, for some reason, but claims to reach 98 per cent of the mainland. So far she's done stories on a Stargate opening on Haleakala, dolphin healing, sovereignty and the "spiritual" mishaps on the H-3 freeway (cue the eerie music.) Yip also is producing four projects for KITV and just did a story for "Extra" that featured top model Cindy Margolis, who was on Maui being photographed for the cover of Sports Magazine ... New Year's Yips
NOTEWORTHY: Yesterday's annual story on the closing of the Tahitian Lanai ... The "Hawaii Five-O" theme finally being used as a backdrop for a national TV commercial - AT&T ... The Sprint TV spot that featured Pittsburgh head coach Bill Cowher and his team after they'd been crushed by New England ... Headline over a story on more flooding in Martinez, Calif.: "A River Runs Through It, Again." ... Number of uniformed HPD officers on duty at each Michael Jack-son/Aloha Stadium concert: 165 ...
HABILITAT founder Vinny Marino taped an appearance on the "Maury Povich Show" last month, and now has learned it airs locally on KGMB-TV at 10 a.m. Thursday. On the show, Marino pitches his new book, "Journey from Hell," whose proceeds go to Habilitat ...
COUNTRY singer Dita Holifield has been selected to perform in the half-time show of the Hula Bowl Jan. 19 at Aloha Stadium ... The Nashville Network is sponsoring the "Wildhorse Saloon Dance Contest Tour" and will be holding an amateur country dance contest Jan. 18 & 19 from noon to 4 p.m. at Windward Mall. Three winners will take home $1,000 each. Jo Thompson will host the events ... Meanwhile, jazz pianist Rich Crandall marks his first anniversary tonight at the Hot Lava Cafe in Moiliili. He's accompanied each Tuesday by bassist Steve Jones and drummer Rory Flores ... Country and all that jazz
