By Dave Donnelly
Wednesday, March 12, 1997
Brook Lee, Loretta Yajima
Brook Lee, Loretta Yajima
RICE well may be in San Francisco quarterback Steve Young's future, but it'll be Jerry Rice, the 49er star receiver, and not the kind thrown at weddings. Reports from the Bay area have it that Young has broken off his engagement to Aimee Baglietto, the former isle woman he met while she was studying advertising at his alma mater, Brigham Young University. Young was amused when in town for the Pro Bowl that when he and Aimee visited her high school, he immediately was recognized and nobody seemed to know who she was. Now it appears it will always be thus. S.F. Examiner columnist Rob Morse says opinion is mixed over what caused the engagement to be broken off. He says patrons at Johnny Love's and in bars along Union Street and in the Marina think it was the groin pull, but those who've met the dazzling Aimee blame it on his concussion ... 49er QB breaks with
isle womanIF former Olympic weight lifter Peter George says it's so, I believe it. There's been a kind of "battle of the dentists" over the mouth of new Miss USA Brook Lee, and Dr. George is huhu about it. Since it was Dr. George's braces that Hawaii's first Miss USA, Judi Anderson, wore prior to winning her title, it's with some pride that he points out that Dr. Tammy Chang-Motooka, who has taken over his orthodontic practice, provided Brook Lee with the nearly invisible braces she wore during the state contest and had removed shortly before winning the Miss USA title. And what is George now up to as he phases out of orthodontics? He specializes in the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. In 1983 he invented an oral device that successfully treated severe sleep apnea, as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. Rodney Takeuchi, the subject of that report (also written up in the Star-Bulletin), has been sleeping quietly with his device for nearly 14 years. We should give the dentist a new nickname: Snoreless George ...
YEE Gads! Dr. David Yee of the Hawaii Foot Clinic got an SOS call from Loretta Yajima of the Children's Discovery Center, who admits to having something of a foot fetish. Not like shock jock Howard Stern has for his producer, Roberta Givens, to be sure, but just for fun. Yajima was asking Dr. Yee for more Biofoam to make foot molds. Seems word of her fetish for famous feet is getting out and celebs are more than willing to add to her footprint collection when in town. The newest additions, reports Yajima, are Olympic gold medalists Shannon Miller and Amy Chow and the "moon walker" himself, Michael Jackson, should anyone want to tred in his footsteps. The new Children's Discovery Center is under construction in Kakaako Waterfront Park and one of the exhibits will be the "Sidewalk of Famous Feet." Paul Bunyan would have been proud of Loretta ... Famous foot fetish
AH, the Irish are an eclectic bunch. Providing the music at the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick's annual Emerald Ball Saturday night at the Hilton's Coral Ballroom will be the Abe Weinstein Orchestra. Some tickets are available by calling ball emcee William Fenton (Everything but the Kitchen) Sink at 531-7162 ...
IT'S all in the wording: Invites to pianist Don Conover's first anniversary at the Marina Front Lounge of the Hawaii Prince Hotel on March 21 & 22 state, "Come and enjoy Don tickling the ivories and the many guest artists who stop in to sing." Conover had better keep those fingers to himself ...
LONG before there was Don Ho or Jack Lord, one entertainer stood far and above all others. That man was Alfred Aholo Apaka, the singer who opened Henry Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Hotel Tapa Room in 1955 and who performed there loyally until his early death in 1960. On March 19, which would have been the singer's 78th birthday, the Village, now operated by Hilton, will dedicate a statue of Alfred Apaka in his memory. It seems appropriate because most certainly, Apaka in life was truly statuesque ... Hawaii's No. 1 star
