Brooks lays
hard sell on ‘Andy’MICHEL'S owner D.G. "Andy" Anderson told Carole Brooks she should be a used car salesman after she put him through such tough negotiations to take over Michel's for last Saturday night's Chaine des Rotisseurs banquet. Carole heads the Chaine's Oahu and Kauai chapters. The members even have their own song, which Dr. Bob Flowers, Jean Hannon and Carole had the 73 well-dressed attendees sing. Chef Ian Russo and staff prepared caviar pie, trout, quail, fillet of beef, etc. Cristal champagne and Mondavi's Opus One were poured. Handsome waiters wore tuxes and white gloves. The cost was $125 per. I ate meatloaf at Steck's that night, served by cute waitresses in shorts. Managing Editor Dave Shapiro would have a heart attack if I laid a $125 dinner bill on him ...
AFTER dining, Dr. Maurice Nicholson, Kristin Altwies and Randy and Karen Preiser walked over to David Paul's to catch hot vocalist Anita Hall's jazz and bluesy ballads. Backed by pianist Lenny Keyes, Anita dresses up songs such as "Superstition," "Colors of the Wind" and "Georgia" ... Gene Hackman was in David Paul's Thursday, the same night Jennifer Zukerkorn celebrated her birthday there ...
Hamilton helps Rehab
GEORGE HAMILTON will help raise funds for Rehabilitation Hospital by taking part in a two-day wine celebration and dinner, sponsored by AT&T and others, at the Hilton Village next weekend. A Saturday dinner in the Bali will be prepared by Hubert Keller, chef-owner of Fleur de Lys in S.F. Besides wine, it includes cognac and Hamilton's cigars; $250 per. The next day, there's a wine tasting and auction in the Tapa Ballroom; $50 presale or $60 at the door. Working hard on the project are AT&T's Ken Sandefur, wine distributor Lyle Fujioka, Cherye Pierce, Jim Allen, Dr. Laurie Tom and Ko Miyataki, Rehab president. Honorary co-chairs are Dr. Gene Doo and Dieter Huckestein. Call 544-3385 ...STAR-BULLETIN cartoonist Corky Trinidad returned to work on April Fool's Day, no joke, after a year's sabbatical. He will have his comic strip book, "The Book of Zeus," in bookstores soon ... Islander Susan Essoyan wrote the main story in last Sunday's L.A. Times Business Section. Susan's piece on Hawaii's specialty coffee production is headlined, "Cafe au Lei." Tasty indeed ...
INTERESTING Honolulu Symphony concert tomorrow, 4 p.m., and Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., in the Concert Hall. The UH dancers will do Vaslav Nijinsky's 1912 erotic choreography of "Faun" with an intro by Terence Knapp. Hmmmmm. Cellist Matt Haimovitz will perform ... Ruth's Chris Steak House G.M. Al Hosoi is happy son, Jason, a Kalani grad, has been accepted by the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. ...
Kawohikukapulani's aloha
HELEN Kawohikukapulani "Baby Beamer" Desha Dahlberg, 79, whose hula career started at age 4, died March 23 on the Big Isle. She was the daughter of Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame composer Helen Desha Beamer. Composer Beamer's most famous song is "Kawohikukapulani," written for "Baby Beamer" when she wed Lt. Charles Dahlberg in April 1941. Helen also wrote "Pua Malihini" for the Army Air Corps pilot. She wrote both songs just prior to the wedding. Mahi and Milton "Sonny" Beamer Jr., brothers, recall that "Baby Beamer" brought about nine of the Hickam pilots' wives to their parents' Alewa home when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. "Many were in various stages of hapai," Mahi said. They stayed a month. "Kawohikukapulani" and "Pua Malihini" were sung by the Beamer family at Monday's Hilo funeral ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people,
places and things every Saturday.