Hawaii
WHEN you see her at work at Columbia Inn, you think that the young woman with the long ponytail and shirt monogrammed "Pebbles" is a speedy and efficient waitress with a ready smile. Then you see photos of Sharlene "Pebbles" Rivers winning the Miss Summer Surf Jam contest Saturday Workouts pay off
night at the Waikiki Shell and you go, "Wow." The C.I. uniform shirt and pants totally mask the award-winning figure Pebbles has, a frame that didn't happen by accident. She works out five days a week, two hours a day at 24-Hour Fitness in Mililani and I'd like to go on record as saying all that effort hasn't been in vain ...
THE big Star-Bulletin story about the new theater season in Honolulu was headlined, "Chicks Rule," but left out one of the most famous chicks of all. Maria and Fanny Brice and Miss Saigon and Cinderella are heroines all, but let's not overlook Lilly. Parents of youngsters 8 and under will recognize Lilly as the assertive young mouse who's the star of the Honolulu Theatre for Youth opener, "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse." It plays at Fort Shafter's Richardson Theatre in October after the Van Trapps traipse across those hills which are alive with the "Sound of Music." Lilly is the creation of Kevin Henkes, whose books on the heroic rodent are best-sellers ...
Rescue me
TRADING in his bathing suit for a white gown this television season is "Baywatch Hawaii" star David Hasselhoff. It's not a permanent wardrobe change, but merely for one episode of NBC's "Third Rock from the Sun," when the syndicated-series star guests this fall as a talented plastic surgeon asked to perform a little nip-and-tuck on the desperately vain Dick Solomon, played by John Lithgow, who does "vain" with a vengeance. You've got to love the title of the episode: "Dick & Tuck." ...FORGET political correctness. Today's the day for English correctness. Nancy Bannick sends along a story from the Key Reporter, the magazine for Phi Beta Kappas, on Eleanor Gould Packard (Oberlin '38.) Miss Gould, as she's known to all, is now in her 55th year as a nonfiction editor of the New Yorker, and pity the man (or woman) who misuses the English language in copy that finds its way to her desk. And says Bannick, "I'm always so delighted when I 'meet up' with someone who also cares." ...
THE list of people departing as morning news anchors at KHNL-TV continues. Erin Ostrem was the latest to quit, and you begin to wonder if all these walk-outs aren't going to give a complex to Guy Hagi, who smilingly continues no matter who his co-anchor may be. Lyle Galdeira is filling in temporarily, and yesterday he kept pronouncing East Timor as "ta-MORE." It's "TEE-more," as anyone with a dictionary can tell you. In the past I've suggested to KHNL G.M. John Fink that in the wake of hundreds of thousands spent on digitalization, etc., another $10 or so be coughed up for a dictionary ...
Adventures in spelling
AN author who wishes to remain anonymous writes, "Seeing as how you are the last bastion of correct pronunciation, this comes to you from a last bastion of correct spelling." He goes on with a list of misspelled subtitles on KITV, which he finds sorely irritating: "Missle" for missile, "Reciever" for receiver, "facination" for fascination, "East Langsing" for East Lansing, and his favorite, "Bouillon" for bullion. "There are more," he writes, "but I get tired of noting them." ...
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: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com