Pack of publicity at
Packers gameIN the final moments of the drubbing that the Green Bay Packers took at the hands of the resurgent Randall Cunningham and the Minnesota Vikings, the Kahala Mandarin got thousands of dollars worth of free publicity. Amid the rainstorm and Moss storm -- with the Vikes' Randy Moss turning the Packers' secondary green with nausea -- announcers Al Michaels and Dan Dierdorf started ruminating about Hawaii and the Pro Bowl. They told the new "third man" in the booth, Boomer Esiason, that one of the advantages of doing the telecast instead of being on the field in uniform is that you always get to go to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. Dierdorf complained good-naturedly that while he was busting his buns on the field, Michaels was living in Hawaii and doing sports broadcasts in the islands. And boy, did they wax eloquent about the Kahala Mandarin Oriental, wishing they were there right then instead of having to wait for the Pro Bowl ...
WHERE are they now? The former Isle public relations advisor for American Hawaii Cruises, Cheryl Gregorio Endres, is still working with cruise lines through her new employer, Diana M. Orban Associates. She'd been free-lancing with New York agencies. Cheryl and her husband, an Army officer, have a 3-year old daughter, Taylor Kiana ...
Slurping with the enemy
THEY may be competitors in the business world, but when the engines are turned off, Billy Williams of Hertz and John Angelo of Alamo are best of friends. So it was that Williams and wife Ramona hosted Angelo and wife Linda on their seventh wedding anniversary at John Dominis. Angelo has only been head of Alamo Rent-a-Car a few months, but he and Williams, a 23-year vet of Hertz, have been pals for 20 years ...SERIOUS golfers hate to hear stories like this one: Attorney John D'Amato, who captained the team with the worst score in the fifth annual Links to Literacy Golf Classic at Honolulu Country Club, ended up the big winner. D'Amato and partner Tom Maloney had only golfed a few times, and their third team member, Dave Lonborg, had never played before. But they rented clubs and helped the Hawaii State Library Foundation raise over $30,000 for local libraries. And then in the random grand prize drawing, D'Amato heard his name called as the winner of a trip for two to San Juan, Puerto Rico. He probably won't even pick up a club while there, either ...
THE first time A.R. Gurney's two-character show, "Love Letters," was performed in Hawaii it was at Diamond Head Theatre with Tom Selleck and Carol Burnett. Next it came to the Blaisdell Concert Hall featuring Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers, TV's "Hart to Hart" couple. Now Wagner is returning with the show, only this time it'll be with his real-life wife, Jill St. John, at the Hawaii Theater on Oct. 23 & 24 ...
Hey Diogenes, over here
IN ancient Greece, Diogenes is said to have carried a lantern in search of an honest man. He need only to have looked to Hawaii. Frank B. Shaner and Brickwood Galuteria were doing their morning show on 105.1 FM when Sharlene Miyashiro called in, distraught. She'd lost a jade pendant at Pearlridge Center, a gift from her mother worth $2,500. To Miyashiro's surprise, Danny Vierra of Kaneohe heard her plea and called in to say his daughter had found the pendant in the mall parking lot. Miyashiro burst into tears right over the air, and Shaner and Galuteria weren't exactly dry-eyed themselves ...
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.