Older than the
Prez, evermoreOH, no! I thought, looking at yesterday morning's paper -- a not unusual occurrence. There's another picture of President Clinton jogging. Then I read that it was the first time in public since his leg injury and it was on his 51st birthday; so we'll let it go. Then it occurred to me: Bill Clinton is the first U.S. president who's younger than I am. That's enough to make one feel old -- never mind that a rather substantial birthday of my own is but three weeks away. It was always a comforting feeling, knowing an older guy like Bush, Reagan or Carter, even Kennedy in the early 1960s, was in charge. I'll probably never see another chief exec older than I am ...
ALSO feeling a bit older these days is former isle ad exec Donna Merrill, now Donna Rovzar-Merrill, who lives in Oregon. When she was a drama major at UH 38 years ago, she recalls very well being in two plays I directed, including one I wrote called "The Puppet Master." Now things have come full circle and her daughter, Keahelani Rovzar, has moved to Hawaii where she's beginning her freshman year as an art major. An item here in 1979 announced Keahelani's birth, which Donna called then, "The greatest accomplishment of my life." She's yet to change her mind on that ...
HOW'D you like to shoot the bull with Tom Selleck? Well, perhaps you can do that after you shoot sporting clays with him -- we use to call them pigeons back in Iowa. Come to think of it, they were pigeons. Anyway, back to Selleck. He's hosting the first ever "$porting $kins" event at Lanai Pine Sporting Clays this Halloween. And if you'd like to sharpen your shooting skills so you can win up to $25,000, world-class British shooting instructor Jack Mitchell holds classes on Lanai today through Sunday. Incidentally, Selleck showed up on the David Letterman show sporting a goatee this week; he looked as good wearing one as anybody I've seen ... Feats of clay
HERE'S an "Only in Hawaii" item: Barbara Holm of Hawaii Foodservice News got back a copy of her publication with a "Returned to Sender" stamp on it, and a hand-written note from the postal carrier reading, "No stay." ... Windward auto dealer Mike McKenna has given away over a dozen cars as door prizes in the past five years, part of the "Project Grad" program to encourage students. So it's fitting that he won a raffle: McKenna got a blue anthurium-patterned Hawaiian quilt in a Soroptimist Club of Windward Oahu drawing. Not a car, but he has a lot of those ...
ONE of the up-and-coming chefs in America is up and coming to Hawaii. Chef Douglas Rodriguez, who owns Patria, one of New York's hot restaurants, recently appeared in People magazine. He also was named one of Newsweek's "100 Americans for the Next Century" and he even cracked coconuts on David Letterman's show." Rodriguez appears on Maui Oct. 16-18 at Kea Lani Hotel's "Grand Chefs on Tour" event ...
THERE'LL be some world-class beauties milling around the World Cafe in Restaurant Row tonight because they're having a send-off party for Mrs. Hawaii 1997, Aulii Chung. There'll be a fashion show with some previous beauty queens, including Mrs. Hawaii's sister, Lani Stone, herself a former Miss Hawaii, plus former Mrs. Hawaii title holders Cristy Agres and Bella Tomas. Aulii leaves next week for Las Vegas, and more than 40 family members and friends will be on hand for the Mrs. America Pageant on Sept. 6. ... Beauties of the World
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