Good news, bad news: This column gets results, sometimes good. Filmmaker Edgy Lee was thrilled, for example, after a brief item here about her seeking home movies of Waikiki or Kapiolani Park in the old days. She got 10 calls right away that resulted in five boxes of material, including hundreds of slides and some 40 16-mm reels of films she's now examining plus footage owned by the family of Sun Yat-Sen, taken back in the 1930s. If you'd like to help her as she preps her documentary, "Waikiki," give her a call at 599-6403 ... Not so successful was the item about Channel 8's Guy Hagi. As he and broadcast partner Lee Cataluna pointed out on the air yesterday, he didn't say Jim Leahey's baseball broadcasts were almost as exciting as the Academy Awards, but as "Cataluna and Guy." That's scarcely an improvement, but Hagi insists he was just kidding in any case. As for me, I've got to get the old hearing checked. Mea Culpa ... Responses cover range
Walk the walk
HAVE any idea what the largest single day fund-raiser in the state might be? Here's a hint -- last year over 13,000 people participated statewide and raised nearly three-quarters of a million dollars and benefited 175 local charities. It's the Visitor Industry Charity Walk, an annual fund-raising walk and this year's kick-off rally was held at the Ala Moana Hotel, which refers to itself as "The hotel that cares for kamaaina." Some 350 people representing Oahu hotels and businesses attended the rally, and River of Life Mission director Jack Stankus spoke of the importance of community donations to organizations such as his. In in the "caring" spirit, Ala Moana G.M. John Cushnie donated a bountiful table of food to the mission ...SOME other caring folks on a mission of their own, the "Mission of Aloha," spent a month in Asia caring for those who'd otherwise suffer and/or die. They're back now, and a program on their mission, produced by Cynthia Yip, will air tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. on KITV ... He started doing magic at the age of 6, and now Michael Ching has become the 1999-2000 president of the local chapter of the Society of American Magicians. It was Ching who collaborated on Frank DeLima's bumbling magician, "Foo Ling Yoo" and did the comic illusions for Glen Medeiros' character, "David Coppertone" ...
WATCH for a "Chippendales" kind of show to open in May at the Virtual Experience Nightclub on Lewers. Described as a "tasteful, hot, new, all-male song and dance revue," it's the brainchild of Williams Brothers Enterprises. They recently previewed "J Men Hawaii" for landlord J.D. Watumull and representatives from tour groups JTB, Enoa Corp. and PR Japan. One of the "Men" in the show is former UH baseball shortstop Jamie Ahu ...
Beachin' music
THERE could be some big name acts performing in Waikiki on June 5 at the "Beach Blast Concert," part of Outrigger Hotel's week-long Hawaiian OceanFest. The reason is TEAM Unlimited, which produces the XTERRA tour events including the championships in Maui in October, has brought a big record company on board. Interscope, Geffen and A&M Records has signed to provide artists for XTERRA events and the Waikiki beach blast. Among artists it represents are the Brian Setzer Orchestra, No Doubt, Marilyn Manson, Hole, Sheryl Crow and many more. The company would want to put hot acts out there since ESPN will feature the artists' music in both Hawaii events. Stay tuned ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
His columns run Monday through Friday.Contact Dave by e-mail: donnelly@kestrok.com.