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SPOTTED among bargain-shoppers at Saks off 5th at Waikele early one recent morning were Miss Hawaii Candes Gentry and her mom, Nora Meijide. Shopping "is mom's favorite thing," We hope Candes
is a shoo-inCandes said. Candes was buying shoes for the Miss America contest in Atlantic City, Sept. 18. Nora is designing and making five of Candes' Miss America competition gowns. Candes is an athletic Miss Hawaii. She is a marathon runner and is co-chair of the Outrigger Canoe Club's running committee with veteran marathoner Don Eovino. Don, incidentally, is a successful developer-Realtor but he was a bartender and junior high teacher during Waikiki's golden years of entertainment in the early 1970s. He was at JB's, Le Chateau, Point After and Infinity. Le Chateau guitarist Hank Kaahea encouraged him to go into real estate and he did, getting his license in 1974. He's also a good chef ...
Janet, 2 Kimos focus on Aloha
ALOHA Festivals' executive Director Janet Hyrne welcomed guests to a media reception at the All Star Cafe Wednesday night and thanked them for wearing aloha attire. She singled out Kimo Kahoano for his excellent taste in aloha wear. It should be noted that his aloha shirt was cut from the same cloth as her aloha attire. The Oahu festival will be Sept. 10-19. Festivals President Kimo Keawe, a fine speaker, gave guests details of the activities. Key events include the Downtown Hoolaulea Friday; Floral Parade Sept. 11; Waikiki Hoolaulea Sept. 17; Waikiki Shell concert Sept. 18, and the Royal Ball at the Hilton Oct. 29 ..."History of the Steel Guitar," a CD produced by Harry Soria and Mike Cord, has been released in time for Halekulani's Steel Guitar Festival, Sept. 11-18, at the House Without a Key. Music on the CD covers the 1920s through the 1950s. The steel guitar fest takes place in conjunction with the Aloha Festivals ...
Sharon Stone is a hit in the title role of "Muse," a role far from the seductive, sex-charged characters she usually portrays. Stone and Albert Brooks work beautifully together and keep the attention level high. The picture also takes shots at the film industry and its heartless execs. Brooks portrays a screenwriter who has been dumped by his studio and hooks up with the muse to "get his edge back." The twists and turns add up to plenty of fun ... "Muse" is much better than Hugh Grant's "Mickey Blue Eyes." Grant does well as an art auctioneer who gets involved with the daughter of a mob boss . But the picture is flat. The screenwriter needed help from a muse ...
THIS month's Bon Appetit "Millennium Special" gives high praise to Alan Wong in its R.S.V.P. section: "Pacific Rim and pan-Asian are two of the hottest cooking trends in the nineties, and nowhere do they come more vividly to the plate than at Alan Wong's eponymous (check the dictionary) restaurant." In the 1980s section it recalls that Roy Yamaguchi served up to 300 patrons at night at his eatery, 385 North, in L.A. The magazine also reports that in 1922 James Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. bought Lanai for $1.1 million ...
Symphony gala at Halekulani
The $200 tickets for next Saturday's Honolulu Symphony season-opener with singer Marilyn Horne include a post-concert dinner at the Halekulani's Orchids. Guests are invited to dress in turn of the century formal attire for this event, marking the Symphony's 100th anniversary ... Dixie Grill holds a Southern Shrimporee Sept. 15-Oct. 30 with many shrimp specialties on the menu ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com