By Dave Donnelly
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
Charles Toguchi, Jack Bates
Charles Toguchi, Jack Bates
NEGOTIATING labor agreements can be a stressful thing, and it often leads to skipping meals. So it was when the UH professors and the state were in the throes of working out a new contract. It was about then that Charlie Toguchi, negotiating on behalf of the state, called the Hungry Lion's Roy Shimonishi and ordered a round of Oriental Chicken Salad for all. His boss, Gov. Ben Cayetano, may be limiting himself to a special Hawaiian diet, but Toguchi got the itch for chicken salad, and apparently it did the trick. The strike was settled about an hour after they wolfed it down. Now Shimonishi, eyeing the negotiations underway between the Hawaii State Teachers Association and the state, is standing by with a ton of chicken salad, just in case ... Chicken salad
on negotiators’ menuDID you see the photo is yesterday morning's paper of Lauren Bacall accepting a lifetime achievement award from Gregory Peck at a Palm Springs film festival? While it was hardly one of her greatest achievements in a lifetime of work dating back to the 1944 film "To Have and Have Not," she made a movie with Peck for the Turner Movie Network. Called "The Painting," it was a reworking of the Tina Howe play, "Painting Churches," which opens tomorrow night at Manoa Valley Theatre. Jo Pruden plays the character Bacall did in the film ...
APROPOS line heard on NBC News early one morning in a report on the showing of a sculptor. The commentator cited the always eminently quotable G.K. Chesterton: "Art, like morality, consists of drawing a line somewhere." ... Aloha Magazine publisher Rick Davis is still mind-boggled about an e-mail he received asking permission to quote Jane and Linus Chao of Hilo, from an article he printed last year. The request came from the couple's daughter, Mary Chao Rye, who lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and who's helping create a web site for her parents' bed and breakfast operation in Mountain View. Talk about your Global Village ...
THE auction at Monday's Hale 'Aina awards - honoring the top restaurants in Hawaii as voted by Honolulu magazine readers - benefits the Honolulu Symphony. And so it is that 100 per cent of the players in the orchestra have donated at least one item to the silent auction, ranging from a sailboat ride with violinist Dale Bechtel to an opportunity to play in the brass section with the Symphony musicians. Not to be outdone, maestro Sam Wong is donating a conducting lesson and the chance to be on the podium during an orchestra rehearsal. So here's a chance for all those would-be Toscaninis out there to ante up and rap that baton on the music stand ... Item item
SO why was consummate actor Gene Hackman at the "Mozart and Moore" concert at the Hawaii Theatre Center over the weekend? Simple - he and his wife were guests of piano teacher Ellen Masaki, who was the piano teacher of Mrs. Hackman some years back when the latter lived in Honolulu ... I can just see it on Starr Seigle Communications president Jack Bates' corporate resume: Backup singer for Michael Jackson. He was stoked when his son, Christopher, was chosen to sing in the kids choir at the Jackson concerts. While waiting for a rehearsal to finish, Bates was asked if he'd like to fill in as a singer in the "Earth Song" number. He quickly decided it may be the only opportunity he'd have to share a stage with son, for one, and certainly Jackson, for another; so he went for it and it proved to be a memorable experience for both father and son ...
PHOTOGRAPHIC artist Alan Houghton long has been fascinated with hula. Prior to its grand reopening, the Kahala Mandarin Oriental Hotel purchased 72 pieces of his photographic studies of ancient hula. Now Hawaiian Airlines has transferred about 100 of his "Heartbeat of Hawai'i" collection of fine art photographs onto a video that'll be part of the boarding video shown on all their overseas flights ... Art of hula
