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FLYING in and out of town: Former Star-Bulletin sports editor Jim Hackleman dropped in to see his son become Professor John Hackleman by virtue of getting his 10th-degree black belt. A perfect example of when to not try pushing your kids around ... Dan Gordon recently Carelli’s adds to
star rosterpulled up in front of Havana Cabana in a white limo filled with gorgeous young women. He's the first half of Gordon-Biersch, and was checking out one of the establishments that serves his product ... And Jason Scott Lee is leaving his role in "The King and I" to be with his father, Bob Lee, during his dad's bout with cancer in Honolulu. Jason's brother, Stuart Lee, is co-owner of Havana Cabana ... Emilio Estevez added his name to the list of celebrities chowing down at Carelli's on the Beach in Maui, taking his whole family ...
HE'S now Dr. Tom Foster, associate dean of the division of learning resources at Grossmont College in California, but he used to attend UH. Foster, who says he reads this column online every day, sent along a copy of the 1966 Gridiron Show program put on by the now defunct Honolulu Press Club. He hated to part with it, he says, but was doing a house cleaning and thought I may enjoy it. Incidentally, he recalls that '66 was the year he decided he ought to finish his B.A. degree and went back to college at UH. It was fun seeing all the Harry Lyons cartoons, and the photos of so many who are, tragically, no longer with us ...
Collectibles
THERE won't be anything at the Hawaii All-Collectors show this weekend at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall that will sell for anything like the $1.2 million some guy paid for a Honus Wagner baseball card the other day. In fact, the promoters would be thrilled to sell everything there at that price. But there will be some things many collectors will find of interest, such as items dealing with the sports heroes of years past being honored: Buster Crabbe, Herman Wedemeyer and Henry Ohana. The show opens at 4 p.m. Friday and runs all day Saturday and until 5 p.m. Sunday ...IF the turnout at this weekend's jazz fest at the Hawaii Theater is disappointing, it won't be from the lack of promotion clarinetist Abe Weinstein has devoted to it. He and a group of local jazz musicians offered a preview of the kind of music that'll be heard there at the Doc Severinson Shell concert, and at Restaurant Row he and other players such as Gabe Baltazar did another preview. Sitting in with them was Eva Johanos at the keyboard. She's a Yale-trained musician who teaches at the Ellen Masaki piano studio, and if her name sounds familiar, it's because she's the daughter of former Honolulu Symphony Maestro Donald Johanos ...
American beauties
THERE is going to be a veritable stageful of beautiful girls on view at the Center Stage of the Kahala Mall on July 26 from 1 to 2 p.m. They're the young lovelies competing in the third annual Miss Teen Asian International contest ... And as Candes Meijide Gentry gives up her Miss Hawaii crown, she says she's learned from her experience "to face challenges with fervor and embrace opportunities." She hopes to get into a master's program in business administration in the fall of next year, and in the meantime is coaching paddling, co-chairing several charity events and continuing her work with the National Psoriasis Foundation. She also hopes to get into the performing arts ...
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