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royal treatmentTHERE'S a royal feeling around the Hilton Waikoloan this week, and if someone were to make the right phone call, the King's Course could be reserved. For the King's sister! Princess Maha, identified in hotel memos as "Her Most Royal Highness of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia,' and sister of the Saudi King, has been staying with an entourage in some 40 suites at the Kohala resort and sweeping through the Hilton Waikoloan Village with Platinum Card at the ready. Imelda Marcos had better move over, as Princess Maha made a stop at the Sandal Tree in the Village and bought more than 100 pair of shoes (size 8, for the trivia minded) to cart back with all the other goodies she's picked up. Whatever happened to walking barefoot in the sand? Not, apparently, if you're a Princess ...
THE new film "Cop Land" appears as one word in Wallace Theater movie ads. Apparently there's little concern that there might be confusion among people thinking it's a documentary about "Appalachian Spring" composer Aaron Copland ... I was chatting with manager Paul Robotti at the Row Bar when I thought I noticed something odd about a waitress wearing shorts. I asked Robotti, "Is that girl's fly unzipped?" He looked over. "You're good," he said, alerting the young lady who quickly rectified the situation. She shall remain anonymous ...
LOCAL artist Lillie James created the controversial Hokusai-style wave on the side of the Wave Waikiki nightclub. The mural was deemed as too commercial by the Outdoor Circle and covered in 1992. James later painted the same wall with palm trees, which apparently was not offensive. (I thought they then should have renamed the place Palm Tree Inn II, but who listens to me?) Anyway, James has had her work on display at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum throughout the month of August ... Making waves
ALSO making waves on Broadway is a musical about that ill-fated cruise ship called "Titanic." Perhaps that was what Tony Ruivivar of the Society of Seven had in mind when he introduced singer Jimmy Borges from the audience during a recent SOS show. The SOS leader called Borges, "the former cruise director on the Titanic." Or perhaps it was Studio 1 Ruivivar had in mind. Borges just left as entertainment director from the Aloha Tower Marketplace club, now shuttered due to permit problems ... I thought filmmaker Leni Riefensthal, whose "Triumph of the Will" helped inspire Hitler, had been dead for years. But she popped up in Hawaii to celebrate her 95th birthday Aug. 22 and make a diving trip ...
THE UH athletic department honored Don Murphy of Murphy's Bar & Grill Monday for raising more than $50,000 for the football program with his annual auction. Last year's auction -- his first attempt at such a fund-raiser --raised $37,000. Everyone thought he was being too optimistic when he set a goal of $50,000 this year. But he and coach Fred von Appen had the last laugh. And as if he hadn't done enough, Murphy put on a huge feed for 150 players and coaches of the UH football team at Barber's Point, filling even the largest linemen to capacity. Maybe Murphy could create a similar menu in November when the Hawaii International Film Festival presents the program "Democracy in the Dark," with voracious critic Roger Ebert. I'm sure after loading up on chicken and ribs he'd find a way to give a "thumbs up." ... Thumbs up for Murphy
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