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Ben Wood
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'Hawaii Five-0' DVD plans bring back many memories
THE NEWS that "Hawaii Five-0" is coming out on DVD in March brought back a flood of memories. The series, starring
Jack Lord, had a highly successful 12-year run from 1968 to 1980 and put Hawaii on the film industry map. The program also developed a large pool of local actors and actresses and used more islanders than any of the other TV shows filmed here. My longtime pal
Frank "Steiny" Steinmiller told me sometime ago that KWHE often carries "Five-0" weeknights at 7. I tune in. While recovering from recent surgery, I particularly enjoyed a two-parter that had
Melveen Leed and
Yvonne Elliman in key roles. Melveen played a veteran singer who owned and ran a bar called Sally's. Yvonne was a hot up-and-coming singer that the mob had eyes on.
Jimmy Borges was also in the show but not as a singer ...
MY SURGERY came about after podiatrist Greg Morris, a Stanford graduate, checked out my two little toes that were giving me pain. He said those toes were growing too close to the toes next to them and said an infection between the toes was imminent. He said shaving the two little toe bones was needed to straighten them out. Besides shaving the bones, the procedure by my Stanford sawbones involved breaking the bones of the two toes on both feet, making a small cut in the tendons and removing a small piece of bone from each toe. Morris, anesthesiologist Wei Chao, and Queen's nurses Joey Otani, Lorraine Frija, Debbie Hipolito and Susan Kaneshiro took good care of me. But needless to say, I was not kicking up my heels on the dance floor during the holiday season -- but expect to be soon ...
Bill goes all out to watch Sheraton Hawaii Bowl
LOCAL BOY and UH grad
Bill Olds really went out of his way to watch the UH Warriors clobber Arizona State, 41-24, in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl. Bill is a civilian working in Afghanistan. "I got up at 5 a.m. and drove 20 miles in 4 feet of snow to the nearest military installation, Camp Eggers, to watch the exciting game," Bill said via e-mail. He made the trip with a lone Gurka bodyguard. Bill said he saw the last half of the game and it "was well worth taking my chances with the Taliban. It was one of the few times I felt homesick, seeing all the great shots of Hawaii," he added ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of people, places and things in our Hawaii. E-mail him at
bwood@starbulletin.com