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Miss Hawaii hopefuls get their kicks taking kick boxing

FOUR OF THE MISS Hawaii contestants are maintaining their figures and keeping in shape in an unusual way. Miss North Shore Brandie Cazimero, Miss Island Ilima Pilialoha Gaison, Miss Honolulu Ana Tsukano and Miss East Oahu Natasha Akau are working up a sweat by taking a kickboxing class taught by Geri Berger at the Honolulu Club. Geri is a former beauty queen herself, winning Mrs. Hawaii International in 2004. The beauties were filmed kicking up a storm by KFVE cameras and the segment will be shown during the live TV broadcast of the June 9 Miss Hawaii Pageant at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Brandie is part of the musical Cazimero ohana. She prefers to list two sets of parents, Lionel and Chiko Cazimero and Douglas and Rochelle Waite. Brandie is keeping things musical in her talent presentation as she will play the alto saxophone. Pilialoha's parents are Blane and Donnalei Gaison. And get this: Pilialoha, a HPU student and Tihati dancer, wants to serve as a firefighter. Daddy Blane is Kamehameha Schools athletic director. The former standout Kamehameha athlete was a football star at UH who went on to play for the Atlanta Falcons. Pili has the right stuff to be a firefighter ...

"MISSION IMPOSSIBLE III" actress Maggie Q (the Q is for Quigley), who was born in Hawaii to a Vietnamese mom and a Caucasian dad, is pictured in a full-page photo in this month's GQ mag ... Star-Bulletin reporter Katherine Nichols has a piece on the Vera Wang Lifestyle Boutique at the Halekulani in the June issue of Town & Country ... Award-winning sculptor and conceptual artist Kaili Chun will give a free lecture next Tuesday in the Academy of Arts' Doris Duke Theatre, 5 p.m. Kaili is a graduate of Kamehameha and Princeton ...

Doyle, Shaoling, Shelton are in Moore's western

"UNLIKELY LAWMAN," the Joe Moore western that Manoa Valley Theatre opens at Mamiya Theatre June 8, has a large cast of 21 members but only three are women. Katie Doyle, Sherry Shaoling and Tina Shelton are the belles who will have all those good and bad hombres to deal with. Joe, who stars in the play, adapted the drama from author Robert Broomall's book, "The Lawman" ...