Hawaii
TODAY'S column was to have been my final one for the Star-Bulletin after nearly 31 years of three-dotting. But people keep saying, "See you on Monday," so I guess Yogi Berra had something: "It ain't over 'til it's over." In any case, it's been great hearing from loyal readers who don't want Hanging out
and hanging init all to end, and that includes online readers from far off locales like London, Japan, Hong Kong, even the United Arab Emirates and various mainland spots where expatriate islanders have settled. People ask me daily, "What's the latest?" Hey, I tell them, it's in the courts. Any lawyer who tells you he can predict what a judge will say or do isn't one I wish to engage. So all I can tell you is that I'll be here 'til they throw me out. After that, I've no idea ...
PUBLIC relations exec Connie Wright is coming out of the closet. That's how she describes her emergence as a "closet poet" with her works included in a new anthology of writing called "Split Shift." Wright's poems follow works by Gerald Nicosia, biographer of beat poet Jack Kerouac, and the poet's daughter, Jan Kerouac. Wright found that ironic since it was Kerouac's "On the Road," which propelled her from Connecticut to San Francisco in the early '60s ...
Bumps and grinds
ON his way to a gig at the Pier Bar the other night, Ka'ala Boys member Rodney Bejer was coming down Nimitz when a car cut him and another car off, forcing them both to apply the brakes. The guilty party got away unscathed, but Bejer's vehicle was forced into the second car which had spun out. When the drivers emerged to access the damage (and utter a few oaths, perhaps, at the guy who got them in this predicament) Bejer discovered the other driver was Eddie Teo, drummer for Kapena, who was also en route to Aloha Tower Marketplace to perform at Gordon Biersch. Each ended up making music as if nothing had happened ... IF you watch the "Today" show Sunday on NBC, you'll see a touch of Hawaii. The show's travel editor, Peter Greenberg, is featuring Dr. Norm Estin of the Kapalua Doctors on Call office. Dr. Estin, who makes "house calls" at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, will be spotlighted in a segment called "Unusual Hotel Amenities." Incidentally, in his last visit to Mauli, Greenberg realized Dr. Estin's late father, Dr. Joseph Estin, was his personal physician when he was a child. And both Peter and Norm vacationed on Fire Island together when they were kids ...FOR those who've heard the mellow tones of host Gene Schiller on Hawaii Public Radio's "Mostly Baroque" and "Evening Concert," you can put a face to them by showing up at the Renaissance Revel tomorrow night at La Pietra. Schiller will be musical host and introduce the likes of the Early Music Consort and Skylark Recorder Society between courses of a Renaissance banquet created by Cafe Sistina's Sergio Mitrotti and bouts of swordplay by the wonderfully named Society for Creative Anachronism ...
Wild, man
SCOURING the island to feature segments for its "Wild on ..." series has been E! (seen locally on Oceanic Channel 20) with host Todd Newton a hit wherever he went. He was game for just about everything, but during a visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center when it was suggested he walk across hot coals to prove his manhood, he suddenly disappeared, and not in smoke, either. "Wild on Oahu" will air in December ...
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