Regis, Kathie Lee go
‘Kauai-Live-O’GUESS what: "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" isn't! Live, that is. Just like Monday night football telecasts in Hawaii, this "Live" show is being taped, and later next month it'll originate from the Garden Isle. Four shows will be taped, two each on Nov. 23 and 24. They'll originate from the Ilima Garden at the Hyatt Regency. You can anticipate every cliche of Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford and their staff -- grass skirts, ersatz hula and probably a fire dancer thrown in for good measure, all with predictable Regis quips. One question you won't hear will be, "So tell me, Kathie Lee, how was your flight over?" ... Before the show embarks to the islands, they're holding an on-air contest called "Kauai-Live-O" in which viewers answer clues on a postcard and if their card is pulled and they list all clues, they get a trip to the islands plus $600 spending money. That should buy 'em a couple of Kauai mai-tais ...
THE November issue of YM (Young and Modern) Magazine has created quite a stir on the Punahou campus, because 16-year-old junior Kimberly Danielle Nault was one of 10 finalists in the magazine's YM/Cover Girl Model Search. She's featured on page 74 of the magazine and appears in several other photos documenting the finalists' "Model for a Day" trip to New York ...
The plot thickens
BACK when he was producing records and managing Liz Damon's Orient Express ("1900 Yesterday"), George "Cubby" Chun rarely got wrong numbers on his phone, despite the fact there were 10 other George Chuns listed in the directory. Now, however, a new G.C. has popped up who's in the burial plot business, and tragically (so to speak) has an almost identical number to "Cubby." After a plethora of "Sorry, wrong number" responses, Our George has taken to saying, "Will that be cash, check or credit card?" Maybe the new George Chun will change his number. So too, might Kimo "Knuckles" McVay, the notorious St. Paddy's Day piano player at Columbia Inn. He doesn't like to work too often, so he limits himself to one day a year. Kimo now finds he's getting a series of wrong numbers from women seeking "Fabulous Eyes Forever," from tattoo beauticians. Don't even ask how "Knuckles" responds to those ...RAMBO returns to Vietnam: No, we're not talking movie sequel here. Relations have improved between the U.S. and Vietnam, what with the embargo ending and an ambassador taking up residence. So recently dispatched to that country was not Sylvester Stallone, but Terry Rambo, the American researcher at the East-West Center. Let's hope he's as successful as Stallone was on his trip back to Vietnam in "Rambo II."
Shoe enough
THERE'S a move afoot, if I may use that word, to find who can fill the shoes of Mayor Jeremy Harris. It's not that the mayor is stepping down, but he's helping the Bally people foot the bill at a fund-raiser for Parents and Children Together's Kuhio Park Terrace Community Teen Program. The benefit fashion show and auction is called "A Perfect Fit," and it'll be held at Bally's Kalakaua Avenue shop on Nov. 7. Mayor Harris and wife Ramona are cochairing the event and they've had their feet measured on Bally's state-of-the-art foot measuring device. Shoe aficionados are invited to follow in their footsteps. The first male and female -- and they don't have to be a couple -- whose foot measurements match most closely to the Harrises', will each get four tickets to the Nov. 7 event. Measuring is taking place daily ...
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