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CANDID cameraman Robert Cravens works in room service at the Hilton Hawaiian Village when he's not doing freelance photography. On Friday he asked a colleague in the kitchen to pass the Chefs toiled for
a good causejelly. When the "colleague" smilingly did so, Cravens realized it was celebrity chef Ming Tsai, here to prepare a feast for 600 people with chef Sam Choy at Saturday's Big Brothers Big Sisters dinner and charity auction. He managed to mumble, "Good morning, chef," before slithering off, still biting his tongue. Ming Tsai, who hosts "East Meets West" on the Food Network (for which he won an Emmy) is more "west" than "east," and was amusing in his apres-dinner speech with Choy and their kitchen associates. He even told a slightly off-color joke about an elderly Chinese couple, with the assurance nobody in the press would repeat it. How those two, even with all the help, could prepare a gourmet sit-down feast for 600, delivered simultaneously, I'll never know. Big Brothers benefited nicely thanks to sponsor Continental Airlines ...
RECUPERATING from a serious illness, artist Ramsay is once again on her feet and is overseeing her 202nd display at the Ramsay Galleries on Smith Street downtown. She's currently displaying some exceptional paintings by John Calvin, which are anything but Calvinistic in the religious sense. Good to see Ramsay up and about again, still sporting a fashionable hat each day ...
Rule Britney
THE big Britney Spears concert being filmed today at the Hawaiian Village will be aired on the Fox Network on June 8 as "Britney Spears in Hawaii." She was also in the islands when 'N Sync performed here; the teen idol is dating one of the boys in the group ... Radio station I-94 will be rolling its "Britney Bus" to the Village, and as it heads down Ala Moana Boulevard, fans with the most eye-catching Britney signs will be selected and picked up in an accompanying limo to join the taping. It was the idea of I-94 promotions director Sheri Lee Lewis (named for Jerry Lee Lewis?) who entered a similar contest on KKUA 25 years ago when they welcomed Yvonne Elliman home and Sheri and her sign were chosen. In case she's slipped your mind, Elliman was the isle lass who created a brief sensation singing the part of Mary Magdalene on the "Jesus Christ Superstar" album ...IT'S always fun hearing the dry bromides of Oscar Wilde on stage, even if they're not as crisp as the elegant fop would have done them himself. And it was fun watching "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Hawaii Pacific University, especially having directed it myself way back in 1963 at the Oumansky Magic Ring Theater at the Hawaiian Village. And according to the HPU program, production manager Terry Olival is one up on her colleagues as she's actually married to a man named Ernest ...
One good tern
JUST when the Academy of Arts people thought the new bird of consequence at the facility was the building crane, suddenly it's "Return of the Terns." For several years, a pair of Arctic terns have nested in the mango tree of what used to be the academy's Sculpture Garden. With the cranes and other heavy equipment there, nobody expected to see the terns again. Surprise! They're back, and with them a young hatchling. Their nest can be viewed from Kinau Courtyard near the entrance to "Mystery of the Nile." ...
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: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com