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RELAX, football widows - there's only one real football game left (not counting the Pro Bowl, really an exhibition) and that's when the Rams meet the Titans next Sunday in the Super Bowl. Anybody who'd have bet on that match-up in pre-season would be a wealthier man today. Rams butt in
to Super BowlDon't bet against the Rams and quarterback Kurt Warner -- he did, after all, matriculate at Northern Iowa, the same school Stan Sheriff left to come to Hawaii. And there's another somewhat tenuous local connection - Warner graduated from Regis High in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the same school that somewhat earlier unleashed the Oahu Country Club's Al "Lefty" Leftwich on the scene. The Rams didn't even let the celebrated Sports Illustrated "cover jinx" bother them, overcoming having Isaac Bruce on this past week's cover ...
SHE woke on a day off, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and when her boyfriend asked statuesque blonde Yvonne Landavazo what she wanted to do that day she answered, "Get married." Okay, said Charley Biegel and he set in motion the wheels that somehow provided a wedding license (on a holiday, yet), two quick ring purchases and a wedding ceremony, all by 5 p.m. Yvonne, whose 6-1 presence stands out at the Four Seasons Wailea where she handles public relations, returned to work like nothing happened ...
Super Bowl, super pupu
JUST as you wanted your finest champagne on New Year's Eve, the finest in pupus for the Super Bowl is a must. Doritos just won't cut it. Chef Tom Selman at David Paul's Lahaina Grill thinks he has just the super snack. Appropriating an item from the restaurant's appetizer menu, Selman is preparing Foie Gras Shumai topped with Lobster-Laced Chantilly Cream at a special price of $25 a dozen, packaged to go ... And diners at the Lahaina eatery have welcomed back with open arms (and mouths) pastry chef Nicci Tripp, who'd moved over to the Diamond Head Grill when Chef David Paul was running it ...WALKING into the new eclectic Tea at 1024 (Nuuanu) Friday for lunch, I took an immediate liking to the place. For starters, there were 18 women and me. Don't men drink tea any more? There are also fruit salads, sandwiches, scones and desserts. And the decor, carefully designed to look like a mish-mash, is charming ... Great entertainment tip: Nightly music at Chai's Island Bistro in the Aloha Tower Marketplace. You may catch the Brothers
Cazimero or Hapa or, if there on a Saturday night, the jazz stylings of Azure McCall, tastefully augmented by the piano of Rich Crandall ...
IF Edward Albee can call his play "Three Tall Women," then Ivan Menchell might have called "The Cemetery Club," currently at Manoa Valley Theater, "Three Aging Women." Widows, even. It's a combination of humor and pathos that tugs at the funny bone and the heart with equal fervor. And Jo Pruden, Sylvia Hormann-Alper and Sandy Ritz have a ball trying to out-widow each other ...
Only one Queen
DOCKING in Honolulu on its annual around the world passage is the world's most famous ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth II. The QEII made a rare stopover in San Francisco, but passengers seemed unimpressed according to S.F. papers. They'd as soon stay on board. Let's see if they feel the same about Honolulu. Of course if you're paying $350,000 for a top cabin, you might want to stay in and get your money's worth. Cheapest fare for the World Cruise: $30,000 ...
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