Hawaii
WHEN "The Playboy Show" holds its grand opening on Oct. 14 at the Ilikai, several celebs, directors and producers from Hollywood are expected to be on hand to see a new kind of "Year of the Rabbit" introduced. This version Bunnies hit Waikiki
is sure to be far different from other "Playboy Show" productions in that it won't feature topless entertainers. Lena Strong of PR Japan was given the task of putting together a 3-minute marketing video for use with tour companies. The producer of the show, Umbrella Holding Corp., provided footage from the Las Vegas show. It wasn't easy, but somehow Strong creativity provided a mild video that was useable. Well, no naked women, anyway ...
FORMER isle resident Jack Samuels is still heard doing reports on various golfing events including the four major tournaments on network radio. In a recent issue of Golf World, Payne Stewart told how "a radio guy" came up to him after his U.S. Open win and said, "Aloha," telling him he'd be in the PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Kauai in November. It was Samuels, who figures he is destined to be known as "radio guy." Stewart says he kept thinking, "I don't want to go. I want to take November and December off." He'll be here, in any case, as will the "radio guy." ...
THE State Department of Education appears to know what it needs. Hired as a communication aide in the DOE is Heidi Harada, who was graduated from Colorado State with a major in communication disorders ...
She'll have noun of that
IF this column is going to reflect the rules of the Grammar Police, writes Dorothy Turnbull, we should look into our own newspaper. She cites a headline reading, "Criminals and victims should meet face to face, reverend says." Turnbull says that while writer Mary Adamski properly used "Reverend" as an adjective, preceded by "the," that "reverend" is not to be used as a noun in good journalism, as it was in the headline. My American Heritage dictionary says it can be a noun in an informal sense though not as a form of address, which is considered impolite ...IT should come as no surprise to anyone that the Regis Philbin quiz show for dummies, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," got enormous ratings. Where else can you see a guy miss the first and easiest question after the liberal rules of the show enabled him to eliminate two wrong answers. The question: What animal did Hannibal take over the alps? After seeing rhinos and Chihuahuas eliminated (I'm not making this up!), he selected llamas over elephants. Bye bye! "Jeopardy" it ain't ...
ALOHA Hairlines is the name of a hair salon in Pearl City. If they were to name it Hawaiian Hair it might have sounded too ethnic, or at least confusing. It's like every time I see the sign on Hotel Street just off Nuuanu that reads "Brown Shoe Repair," I always lament that I'm wearing black shoes ...
Good news, bad news
THE bad news is that Ben Tamashiro -- he played Harry on those "Harry & Myra" TV commercials for Bankoh -- has a splint in an upper leg bone, and the metal clamps set off alarms whenever he goes through airport security. The good news is the condition entitles him to a disabled parking sticker, opening up a new world of opportunity for him. No longer does he have to circle through parking lots, looking in vain for a space. Says Tamashiro, "It's the most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me." ...
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