Hawaii
THE radio sexuality expert, Dr. Diana Wiley, gave a dinner party this week for Tyrone, the Marquis of Waterford in Ireland, who's visited Hawaii every February in recent memory. I first met the marquis when he came to Mokuleia with the Irish-English polo team to take on isle polo devotees like Tuna Sampaio, Ronnie Tongg and Fred Dailey. In later years, Fred's son, Mike Dailey, joined in the international matches. Now Tyrone simply comes to the islands to hang out and get a tan, rare in Ireland, particularly in February. Mike, his mom, Murph Dailey and Dr. Richard Kelley, who's visited with Tyrone at his historic castle in Waterford, as I have, were also in attendance. Diana is taking the marquis to the Heart Ball tomorrow night, gushing "This may be the first time Irish Royalty has attended." Well, he's not exactly royalty, though Tyrone does sit in the House of Lords when in London. Dr. Wiley was asked about hosting a series of sexuality seminars in the old sod. As she puts it, "I think they want to go beyond 'Kiss me, I'm Irish.' " ... Irish marquis socializes and
bronzes on yearly tripIMAGINE, segueing from an item about the Irish to one about beer! But the seventh annual Kona Brewers Festival is on tap (so to speak) on March 9 at the King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel Luau Grounds. You can sample 30 Hawaii and mainland brewery products and graze among the items served up by nearly 30 local restaurants, chatting with both brewers and chefs ...
Hottest coach in Hawaii
NO, we're not talking June Jones here. The hottest coach in the islands right now may well be photog Russell Tanoue. Aside from his photography of beautiful women (a nasty job, but somebody has to do it!), Tanoue is also a pageant coach. He coached Miss Hawaii USA Juliet Lighter to victory last May and will be in Indiana at the Miss USA Pageant for some last-minute grooming tips for Juliet before the competition is shown live on CBS next Friday. Russell also helped whip up a win with Miss Hawaii Denby Dung and helped Mrs. Hawaii International Monique Hsia win the photogenic award, evening gown competition and a third place finish in the national pageant in Tennessee. Most recently, Tanoue coached and groomed Jennifer Abreu who won the Miss Waikiki & Diamond Head Pageant at Mamiya Theater. I wonder if he needs an assistant? ...WE'RE being shown amniocentesis photos of the pregnant Channel 9 newscaster Kim Gennaula in a series on childbirth. So can "preparing a wedding" stories be far behind at Channel 2 where the striking Malia Mattoch, in her thirties and in no hurry, is at last getting married ... She was lost in the madness surrounding Janet Jackson doing an Aloha Stadium concert and HBO special simultaneously, but sister LaToya Jackson was also in town for the show ...
Aloha Knoxville
THE news operations manager of WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tenn., is Paul Wilson, who used to work at KGMB and KITV. He read here about the "Live Aloha" bumper stickers created by Paul Klink and wants to get one to go with the Hawaii license plate on his car. I advised him he could order them free at www.hawaiian.com
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com