No shortage of drama for Liz
JUST what would it take to keep a budding filmmaker from showing up for a seminar from an Oscar-winning cinematographer, followed by a dinner at Roy's Poipu Bar and Bistro? In the case of actress Elizabeth Lindsey, it was a call from her agent telling her to hot-tail it to Hollywood to finish a movie shoot with Warren Beatty. Lindsey attended the fund-raising auction for the Hawaii International Film Festival and had successfully bid on a trip to Kauai to attend the Eastman Kodak Seminar on Cinematography given by John Seale, whose impressive credits include "The English Patient," "Dead Poets Society," "Rainman," "Witness," "Gorillas in the Mist" and "Mosquito Coast," among many others. But Beatty is like E.F. Hutton - when he talks, people listen. Lindsey did manage to arrange a dinner with Seale and his wife, Louise, before dashing off to L.A. ...
OTHER auction winners were Sharmane Miller and five of her friends who won lunch at Orchids with "Vision in Film" award-winning director Ang Lee and his wife, Jane Lin. Miller and friends also got tickets to all five of Lee's movies, "Sense and Sensibility," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "The Wedding Banquet," "Pushing Hands" and "The Ice Storm," which played to sold out houses during its film fest showings here and is being touted as a likely Oscar candidate ... Randy Preiser won the trip to Robert Redford's Sundance Film Fest in January for wife Karen. And shouting out her name when she was the high bidder on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's trip to the Golden Glove Awards in January was Heidi Ho ...
Da Bard, local style
AS Yogi Berra might say, "If Shakespeare were alive today he'd been spinning in his grave." But it's sort of in keeping that following on the slippered heels of "Bye Bye, Hana Buttah Days" at the UH's Kennedy Theater, comes the Bard of Avon's "Da Taming of Da Shrew," adapted for local consumption. The story line is a rough approximation of the original Shakespearean work, but with some not-so-minor modifications. In this plot, a traveling boxer, "Lightning Joe Petruchio" comes from afar to a local Honolulu neighborhood (resembling Manoa) to gold dig for a wife. But the object of his avarice, Katherine, isn't about to be "dug for" and the battle of the sexes is underway. With a difference. In this '90s twist, the actors portraying these two battlers, Kyra Poppler and Eric Dixon Burns, are trained in Tai Kwan Do and boxing. Local audiences may well enjoy the modern version ...DRIVING around town in something slightly more upscale than a "Little Deuce Coupe" has been Mike Love of the Beach Boys and real estate dealmaker Joe North, who's determined to come up with the perfect location for one of Love's "Club Kokomo" eateries. It was North who found that dynamite locale for Cheeseburgers in Paradise on Kalakaua ...
'Honor Thy Children'
WHEN Al Nakatani was honored Friday in the McKinley High School Hall of Fame, he felt his sons were with him to share the honor. It was a poignant moment for Nakatani, whose travails with his two sons, both of whom were lost before they turned 30, were shared with wife Jane and documented in the book, "Honor Thy Children." The two were on "Emme's Island Moments" recently and speak to audiences all across the country about how important a role parents play in the "safe passage" of their children to adulthood. Other McKinley grads honored Friday were Stanley Sticki, Alfred Suga and Giro Mitsui ...
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