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HERE'S one for your "Awwwww" file: Sandy Kanemura felt sure she'd found her knight in shining armor in Alan Takeshita. And since she's in public relations and he's a creative director, they teamed up before their wedding, so to speak. She wrote the copy for a 14-page A royal wedding
"storybook" wedding invitation and he did the graphic design and layout. The RSVP card gave several options for those unable to attend: "Will be out of the kingdom on a crusade; must be off to slay a dragon that day; am locked in the dungeon for misdeeds." Guests at the Moana Hotel wedding were greeted by a tabletop castle complete with shingled towers and rose vines climbing the walls. As was Takeshita, one presumes, who designed it. A card on their chocolate rose favors read, "And they lived happily ever after ..."
MORE "awwwws" along with some oohs and ahhs. Beautiful blonde Brooke Burns of "Baywatch Hawaii" has been watching her own bay growing. She's hapai and expecting this summer. No word on how this will affect her role in the series, if filming resumes ... As adman Jim Loomis was attempting to leave a reception at the Halekulani Hotel, he encountered no small amount of traffic congestion. Several valets couldn't even make it to work because of the traffic. Loomis noticed a woman helping out at curbside by explaining the problem to those waiting for their cars. It was none other than Halekulani G.M. Patricia Tam. Small wonder, thought Loomis, that she's so often cited as one of the top hotel general managers in the country ...
Jazz goes postal
THE first Honolulu Downtown Jazz Festival took place last year on the grounds of the U.S. Post Office across from Iolani Palace. Festival organizer Bill Yee had a sign erected telling how the site would soon be a downtown galleria, projected opening in December of 1999. At the time I called the schedule "optimistic," since not a shovel full of dirt had been moved. Well, another year, another festival (Feb. 12) and another sign, this one projecting yet another completion date of the $55 million galleria, and still not a sign of construction under way. Don't let that deter you from enjoying the jazz, however. It'll be going on non-stop in the complex's courtyard from noon until 8 p.m. with 50 jazz artists involved including Frank Morgan, Gabe Baltazar, Azure McCall and Hula Joe and the Hut Jumpers. It'll be simulcast on KHPR-FM and 'Olelo ...YOU'D expect a lot of techies to show up at the Pacific Telecommunications Council conference, but Trekkies? Well, there were, thanks to the fact that George Takei ("Mr. Sulu") was guest speaker at PTC 2000. He noted the high tech gadgets featured on "Star Trek" seemed pretty far out, until they're compared to what's reality today ...
Captain News' crew
WHEN Bob Sevey and wife Rosalie sailed into town on the Oriana en route to Australia, they had but a few hours to spend with island friends, so they hosted a reception at the Pacific Club Tuesday night to mark their 50th wedding anniversary. "Captain News" was greeted by many folks he'd worked with when he was the "Walter Cronkite of Hawaii" at KGMB. His old boss, Cec Heftel, was also on hand to greet such former employees as Bob Jones, Tim Tindall, Jim Leahey, Kirk Matthews and Linda Coble, Gary Sprinkle and Joe Moore, who'd hustled away from his KHON base to pay his respects before heading back to anchor the news ...
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