Kay Lorraine, Roger Yu
IT simply won't go away. The Tyson chicken-livered ear-biting incident, that is. Host Pacific Magazine's Tom Haynes is very upset because, in his words, "I had Holyfield by a nose." Our own Jerry Tune was more consoling. Quoth he, "To ear is human, to forgive divine." And despite Tyson's "Mea Gulpa" apologia, most people I've heard from want the ex-champ turned ex-con turned ex-chomp banned from boxing for life. Yesterday, after all, is the day that "no rules fighting" became illegal in Hawaii. One person who'd like to see Tyson in the ring again is San Francisco wit Bruce Bellingham. Despite calling the match-up the worst miscarriage of justice "since Leopold and Lobe," he'd like to see Tyson in the ring one more time. He figures a likely opponent would be Richard Kiel, the 7-2 actor who played Jaws in the James Bond movies. Let Tyson try to get to his ear. There's even a local connection -- Kiel's daughter, Jennifer, is a friend of mine who attends Hawaii Pacific University ... Tongues still wag over
‘mea gulpa’WHEN attorney Evan Shirley sent out announcements that his step-son, Greg Ferren, was now associated with Shirley & Associates, he had no idea the postman would find it so amusing. The announcements came in a box also containing a "talking pocket lawyer," a doll which when squeezed sounds like an angry attorney with lines like, "Pay up, ya deadbeat." The postman told Shirley he delivered two large boxes containing 125 of the announcements to clients, attorneys, judges, etc., and every time he set down one of the boxes a number of the "pocket lawyers" would begin to talk. Very unnerving, to say the least ...
KGMB-TV is telecasting "A Celebration of Life: Iz," at 6 p.m. Friday, an hourlong tribute to late entertainer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. It's an encore presentation of "Island Music, Island Hearts," which was filmed on location in Makaha, Manoa and Miloli'i on the Big Isle ...
MORE national recognition for island talent. The International Teleproduction Society has again hired Kay Lorraine and her Chinatown-based Organization Headquarters, to produce the International Monitor Awards Show and Gala. She also did last year's Monitor Awards, which she built around a Hawaiian theme and it was such a success she's been asked to stage this year's event as well. The 1997 edition takes place July 13 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills with a gala celebration following the black-tie event. Previous Monitor Award winners were producer Steven Bochco, directors Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee, Pixar Corp. (which did "Toy Story") and Industrial Light and Magic Company, which did special effects for "Jurassic Park" and "Twister" ... Lorraine drops
YET more international recognition for isle folks. Goodson + Yu Design, the husband-and-wife design team of Carol Goodson and Roger Yu, has another international feather in its cap. Yu won first place in the "Diorama Class" at the 1997 International Model Car contest in Salt Lake City. His winning design was a depiction of three-time world champion Grand Prix driver Ayrton Senna crossing the finish line at the 1993 European Grand Prix. Yu's entry was praised for its technical innovation with everything from racing sounds to working lights. Senna was killed in a subsequent race ...
CITY Bank's Wayne Miyao has to be hoisting a lemonade or two. His bank's Pele-award winning TV spot, "Lemonade Stand," has won a coveted bronze Telly statuette at the 18th annual Telly Awards competition ... Meanwhile, back in 1984, Miyao led a Hawaii delegation to New Orleans for the Bank Marketing Association convention proposing Hawaii as a site for the next big banker's convention. With him at that time was First Hawaiian Bank's Walter Dods, who went on to be president of the ABA. Miyao now heads the Bank Marketing Association and is chairman of the 1997 Annual Marketing Forum, to be held in Chicago in September. Dods will again be there, this time to be inducted by Miyao into the BMA hall of fame. Not bad for two guys from Hawaii ... Add a Telly to the Pele
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