Hawaii
MY, my! Hawaiian activist Mililani Trask did a little "open mouth, insert foot" routine when she called Sen. Dan Inouye a "one-armed bandit," then mixed her metaphor to add, "If the shoe fits, he has to live with it." The senator will weather such namecalling, of course, much as he did in the Watergate hearings when one of Richard Nixon's men referred to him as "the little Jap." Combative talk can backfire
Trask should take note of what happened to Nixon after such Inouye bashing ... And as for Andy Anderson, self admitted conniver and schemer, if he's sincere about never investing another dollar in Hawaii if he isn't allowed to put up his 100-foot high Ferris wheel at Kewalo Basin, that's fine with me. Hawaii's skyline will be the better
for it ...
BUT enough of these serious issues. When you hear the phrase, "Remember the Alamo," chances are visions of Davy Crockett come to mind. But not if you're Dr. Greg Yuen and wife Keala. The two were in San Antonio and when they heard Ricky Martin was going to be performing at the Alamodome, managed to pull a couple of strings and score tickets for Row 12. The people sitting next to them paid $500 per ticket from scalpers. The entire concert sold out in eight minutes when tickets went on sale three months ago. But the Yuens have great karma. Like them, entertainer Martin is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist, and preached love, peace and compassion in between bouts of "Livin' La Vida Loca" and other tunes which had the crowd of 30,000 on their feet throughout the two-hour show. The Yuens compared the experience to some of the superstar acts who played the old Civic Auditorium, and are hoping promoter Tom Moffatt will bring some Martinesque "La Vida Loca" to Honolulu ...
Pearls for seniors
THOSE of us who are addicted to Dave Letterman's Top 10 lists may enjoy the following, 10 of the many pearls of wisdom Waco psychologist Dr. Hap LeCrone has collected: No. 10: When did my wild oats turn to prunes and all bran? No. 9: I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart? No. 8: A closed mouth gathers no feet. No. 7: When you are finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess? No. 6: If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees. No. 5: The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom. No. 4: Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun. No. 3: The first rule of holes -- If you're in one, stop digging. No. 2: If all is not lost, where is it? And No. 1: I started with nothing and I still have most of it ...IF you were a regular viewer of MTV's "The Real World: Hawaii," you probably had your favorite among the roommates who lived in a lavish house in Kahala. NBC's favorite, apparently, was Colin Mortensen. He's been cast in that network's midseason replacement series, "M.Y.O.B." I have no idea what it stands for ...
Cosell, you say
THERE'S a retrospective of the sporting career of Howard Cosell playing periodically on HBO that has a couple of local connections. ABC announcer and former Cosell co-worker Al Michaels, who honed his craft in Hawaii, speaks out at some length on Howard. And there's a shot of boxing fan Cosell at a fight at Madison Square Garden about 50 years ago with a young Les Keiter alongside him. Keiter ("The General") is now special assistant to the Aloha Stadium Authority ...
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