Phil-ibuster on Garden Island
YESTERDAY the four big winners in golf in 1997 attracted huge crowds as they took part in the Grand Slam of Golf. Now the Garden Isle is gearing up for showbiz stars from "A" to "ZZZZZ" - that would be from Adam Arkin of "Chicago Hope" to Rob Schneider, still putting people to sleep by riding his one-trick pony on "Men Behaving Badly," only without an interesting co-star to play off in this, the second (and most likely last) season. They'll be appearing on the "LIVE with Regis and Kathie Lee" show, the mis-named daytime talker that is being filmed at the Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort Nov. 24-27. Chatty Kathie and Phlip Philbin also will say aloha to the likes of Roma Downey ("Touched by an Angel"); Antonio Sabato Jr.; teen throb Jonathan Taylor Thomas and his "Home Improvement" mom, Patricia Richardson; "Ally McBeal" herself, Calista Flockhart; Courtney Thorne-Smith; and "NewsRadio's" Dave Foley ...
MUSICAL kudos: Longtime music veteran Frank Day (who's managed the likes of Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker and Billy Joel, among others, and who produced the classic "Honolulu City Lights") is high on the new "Home Grown 1997" album. Day mastered the album at his Hollywood studio and says it's the best music to come out of Hawaii in the past 20 years. The album, a fund-raiser for Habilitat, will go on sale at precisely 10 a.m. Nov. 28 exclusively at 7-Eleven Stores. The cost is $9.63, picked because cosponsoring the record is KRTR at 96.3 on the dial. As it is, since there's 21 songs on the CD, it comes to less than 50 cents a song ...
Out of this world music
THANKS to NASA astronaut Edward Lu, musician Willy K now can lay claim that his CD, "Here's My Heart," is out of this world music. Lu took a copy of the CD when he went into space and says it was a big hit both with American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts when the Atlantis space shuttle docked with the Mir space station. Unfortunately, Lu can't be at the concert Willy K and Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom do Friday at the Hawaii Prince Hotel, but the two will dedicate a song to him as an out-of-this-world mahalo ...ANYONE wanting to check on the condition of popular TV film and commercial director Mique Quenzer, who's in intensive care at Queen's following a stroke and seizure, can get the latest report by calling 539-3427 ... Former isle broadcaster Ralph Barbieri, who's gone on to great things as an oft-quoted, acerbic, sometimes reviled sports talk host at KNBR in San Francisco, is visiting isle friends ...
THAT low-budget film made on the North Shore recently, "Escape from Atlantis," is coming to a TV near you. The film, which features localites Al Harrington, Richard MacPherson and Jo Pruden, airs Saturday at 3 p.m. on Channel 2 ...
Motorcycle Mama
WHEN professional fisherman Dudley Worthy turned 60, pals got together and gave him a pink motorcycle. He insisted its color was "salmon" in deference to his profession, but everyone teased him unmercifully over its being quite clearly pink. Recently he had it in a shop for repairs and it was stolen, prompting two questions: "Why?" and "Shouldn't it be easy to find?" The other day Worthy got a call from a friend who reported the pink cycle had been located. "Where was it?" the excited Worthy asked. The deadpanned reply, "A Mary Kay Cosmetics saleslady was driving it." The string of profanities that followed was Worthy through and through, but un-Worthy for print ...
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