Bo bravely sails
new watersYIP-ee-eye-oh: TV producer Cynthia Yip did a story for "Access Hollywood" on Bo Derek and the hunks of "Wind on Water" and found Bo highly accessible. Yip says Derek is obviously still grief stricken over the death of husband John Derek, but during their time together went sailing for the first time in 20 years and was "incredible." During a trek through Kona waters, her sailing companion, surfer Matt Stephen Liu, inadvertently caused the boat to tip over. Later she and Yip reminisced that it was the capsizing of a boat in the film "10" which enabled her to meet Dudley Moore. Luckily, Yip and cameraman Phil Giriodi captured it all on film, and it'll likely end up in the story. No air date set ...
ONE person who will not be in the stands for the next UH home football game with BYU Oct. 17 is UH President Ken Mortimer. It's not that he's boycotting the game or anything -- it's just that he and wife Lorrie are flying off to attend the L.A. wedding of their daughter, Lisa ... Can a wolf devour a fox? Of course -- even in the business world where Wolf Camera took over Fox Foto. Brenda Tadina, manager of All Wolf Camera (formerly Fox Foto) in Puck's Alley, already has cards made up reading, "Wolf has bought our Fox." ...
Model winner
MORE Modeling Agency head Sri Maiava Rusden was thrilled to hear that one of her models, Tenniel Gacayan, won the Hawaiian Tropics contest and will represent the U.S. in the international competition. She won a 3-1/2-carat diamond, a part in "Pacific Blue," a photo in Playboy with the girls of Hawaiian Tropics and several trips. She'll be traveling with the Hawaiian Tropics "A" team throughout Europe ...DON'T get the idea there's danger afoot for resident fish at Sea Life Park when Hari Kojima films his new cooking show at the park Oct. 17 & 18. Kojima promises to bring his own fish when he tapes "AT&T's Taste of Hawaii with Hari." The new show airs on Sundays on KFVE, and AT&T has elected to relinquish using commercial time within the program and instead will run public service announcements for non-profit groups ...
MEANWHILE, Jean-Marie Josselin, owner/chef of A Pacific Cafe, calls his cooking show "A Taste of Hawaii," but one upcoming show ought to be renamed "A Taste of Tonga." The chef will be preparing traditional Tongan fare, using vanilla, yams and breadfruit at the Pacific Island Festival at Ward Warehouse Oct. 16-18 ...
AND if you have a taste for ribs and a lot of them, be advised that throughout October, Sunset Grill in Restaurant Row is featuring "All You Can Eat BBQ Ribs" for $10.95. Want more? All you have to do is ask the waiter and he'll bring 'em 'til you're full ...
Numerologists take note
PEOPLE involved with the berthing of the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor have had their share of chicken-skin moments. Like when the battleship was first towed into waters off Waikiki and later put in place bow to bow with the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Recently, fund-raising director Adrianne Greenlees applied for a P.O. Box from the postal service for the USS Missouri Memorial Association. No special number was requested, but Adrianne stared in disbelief at the number assigned: P.O. Box 6339. The Missouri's battleship number is BB-63, the Arizona's BB-39. The accidental juxtaposition of numbers was the perfect P.O. Box for the "bookend" battleships. Together forever ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
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