He’s glad to be
all jammed upLIFE has been full of surprises for Jams World founder Dave Rochlen, who's being honored for "Lifetime Achievement" at the governor's 12th annual fashion awards next week. Rochlen, you see, has been featured twice in Life magazine, once in 1965 as the focus of a photo spread on the invention and popularity of his famous Jams, and on another occasion in an article on California's best-known lifeguards. One look at the 1965 photo showed two things: Model Jeannie Tully is just as lovely today as she was 33 years ago, and it's evident why in all the years I've known Tom Rohr, the Waikoloa Land honcho has never mentioned the photo, showing him "looking cool" in a jacket, Jams and tennis shoes. Rochlen's award Sept. 16 should be well attended -- Jams World, a division of Surf Line Hawaii -- has invited the entire staff to attend and already reserved 80 seats...
WANT a sneaky way to find out a person's age? Give them this exercise: 1) How many nights a week would you like to go out? 2) Double it. 3) Add five. 4) Multiply by 50. 5) If you've celebrated your birthday this year, add 1,748. If not, add 1,747. 6) Subtract the year of your birth. The three-digit number you come up with will be 1) The number of nights a week you'd like to go out. 2) Your age. The quiz will only work in 1998, so be quick about it...
The Gripes of Roth
ATTORNEY Jeff Portnoy, talking with Rob Mizutani on the KHON-TV morning show, asked if he'd have given Mark McGwire the ball back after his record-winning homer if he'd picked it up. "Absolutely," said Mizutani. "That's the difference," came Portnoy's complaint, "between you and a lawyer."... Amid all the clamor of the class shown by McGwire in the wake of his breaking Roger Maris' 37-year-old record, I hate to throw even the minutest drop of cold water on things. But replaying on TV is a shot of McGwire with his young son in his arms, ostensibly just after hitting his 62nd home run saying, "I'm going to Disneyland." Then there's almost identical footage, only this time McGwire's saying, "I'm going to Disney World." Where is he going anyway, and how much did Disney pay him to say it?...HOOKED up on a machine at Queen's intensive care unit is Bill Cook, the former Honolulan who now resides in Waimea. They're monitoring his shortness of breath... Dropping by to visit Cook was Chris Parsons, whose wife is taking over the ministry of a church in Waimea, but has elected to keep her maiden name. She just couldn't take being referred to as "Parson Parsons."...
CHAMPS Elysees has closed! No, not the famed street in Paris, but the men's clothing store in Restaurant Row. Ed Reinhart bought the entire inventory (along with 2,000 bikinis from another store that closed) and is holding a liquidation sale with huge discounts on the second floor of Snap Shot on Pohukaina Street near Restaurant Row...
Once in love
YOU can add film and national TV credits to the resume of Amy Gilliom. She's become extremely well known as a "live" performer on stage on Maui and in Honolulu, but now she's just completed a film shoot for Joe Moore's movie, "Moonglow," in which she plays a singer doing the theme song in the opening wedding reception scene... And Amy is also doing a national taping for CBS's "All American Thanksgiving Day Special," where she'll be seen and heard by upwards of 52 million viewers on Thanksgiving Day. Watch for "Once in Love with Amy" fan clubs to spring up nationwide...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
His columns run Monday through Friday.Contact Dave by e-mail: donnelly@kestrok.com.