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WHEN Richard Harris was in town over a dozen years ago starring in "Camelot," I was invited backstage to meet the actor by Jack and Marie Lord. My son, Brendan, and I sat with the Lords and listened to Harris carry on for about an hour. What got him started was when I noted that the program said he was from Limerick, as was a good friend of mine, Michael McCourt. "I know Mike McCourt and the whole McCourt family," Harris fairly Sons of Limerick spar
shrieked. He then launched a diatribe on the family, long before Frank McCourt wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes." Some time later I was chatting with Frank and his brother Malachy backstage in San Francisco when they were appearing in their comical concoction, "A Couple of Blackguards," and mentioned meeting Harris. Then they started on him, calling him a liar not to be trusted on any subject. And so it was with that background that I read Harris' piece in the Sunday Times of London rubbishing "Angela's Ashes," both the book ("without any literary merit") and film. The bad blood, apparently, still flows between these sons of Limerick ...
THE CBS morning show's weatherman, Mark McEwan, said yesterday there wasn't a warm spot in the country, then had second thoughts: "Maybe Honolulu." ... Incidentally, yesterday there was a classic example, I presume, of someone writing a news script and someone else reading it. The Channel 9 morning news reader referred to the Queen Elizabeth II as the "Grand Dame" of the sea, pronouncing it like "Grand Hotel" and "Nothing like a Dame." Try a little French lilt next time ...
The write stuff
WE mentioned the film version of "Angela's Ashes" is now playing in Honolulu, and ad man Marty Schiller advises that the made-for-TV movie version of the book written by his brother "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town," airs on CBS on Feb. 27 & March 1. Lawrence Schiller spent the better part of his time since the O.J. Simpson trial (and subsequent book) in Boulder, Colorado, researching the murder of JonBenet Ramsay, the subject of the book and TV movie ... By the way, the Hawaii Book Publisher's Association is holding its "How to Get Published in Hawaii" workshop at UH's Outreach College on March 4, a date different from the one in the course catalog. Among those attending will be authors Saleem Ahmed, Ricky Grigg and Laureen Kwock ...ON 101.9FM yesterday, co-host Scotty Blaisdell was going through the day's birthdays: "Paul Newman -- loves the ladies; Eddie Van Halen -- loves the ladies; Ellen Degeneres..." Here his female co-host Hudson stepped up: "Loves the ladies." ... "The Cemetery Club," being staged (appropriately enough) at Manoa Valley Theater and adjacent to a cemetery, has been extended with additional play dates Feb. 3 to 6 ...
Forties revisited
AMONG the Hollywood celebs here to swing and take their swings in the HNA Battleship Missouri Golf Tournament and dinner tomorrow night is World War II Navy vet Robert Stack. The Mighty Mo has special meaning for him. Others here for the occasion are Samuel L. Jackson, Loni Anderson and Tippi Hedren. The 1940s style show being presented at the pierside dinner is directed by Jim Hutchison and stars Jimmy Borges, Shari Lynn, the Savoy Sisters, the Tropichords, the Hep Cat Swing Dancers and Fascinating Rhythms, plus the Royal Hawaiian Band ...
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