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IF I told you Kona's in Zanzibar pushing Golf, you might think any number of things: That I have my local geography wrong, or I don't know the new Waikiki nightclub spells its name "Zanzabar," or that by golf I mean Arnold Palmer's sport. Wrong on all counts. I'm referring to Hawaii's Kona Carmack, a former Playboy centerfold who's gone on to other modeling and acting jobs. Kona turning heads
in AfricaAnd she is in Zanzibar, as in Africa, shooting for the Israeli magazine Golf, which has nothing to do with the game, but is that country's equivalent of the Gap. While she finds the poverty in the Zanzibar villages depressing, Kona says the residents are most polite and considerate. The kids especially love calling her by name and then giggling. Finally one of the Masai warriors who works at her hotel informed her that in Swahili, Kona means "to turn." As on a rotisserie? She misses Hawaii and has feelers out in hopes of getting some work on one of the movies that'll be filming here this year ...
THE Golden Girls were mentioned here yesterday -- and I don't mean Bea Arthur, who sometimes looks as if her name is on backward -- and we've got the lowdown on them. The two mysterious, exotic young women covered in gold paint (and precious little else) at the Academy of Arts' "Mystery of the Nile" preview party Saturday are Iona Pear dancers Maile Baran and Summer Partlon. If you missed their interpretive dance from "Worshiping Sun," you can catch it when they perform again at the Hawaii Theatre May 19 and 20. Sorry for no photo, but this family newspaper couldn't publish what you'll see ...
God bless residuals
CAPITOL Records in L.A. contacted Martin Denny the other day and asked him for the names of his musicians on the original version of "Exotica" that came out in 1957. Seems one of the cuts from the album, "Love Dance," was used in the Charles Schwab TV commercial at the Super Bowl, and Marty and his boys have some residual money coming. This will be the first time the other members of the group find out about it, but congrats to his original lineup, Arthur Lyman, John Kramer, Augie Colon and Harold Chang. Denny's not sure how much will be coming their way, but considering it only cost them $850 total to cut the album, and it sold in excess of 400,000 copies, it'll be a nice stack of found money ... That reminds me, I received my latest residual check for a role I played in a "Hawaii Five-O" episode about 30 years ago. I'd like to not think of it as indicative of my worth as an actor today, but it was for 69-cents! Ouch ...TV FOOD Network's Curtis Aikens will be guest chef tonight at Diamond Head Grill and prepare a six-course vegetarian gourmet dinner ... Guido Salmaggi recently had a reunion with former Kahala Hilton manager Louis Finamore in Sarasota, Fla. Louis and his wife, who live in Montreal, are looking for a winter home to buy like Salmaggi's ...
Brown and Borges
WHEN informed he'd been invited back to perform at a Vancouver jazzfest, singer Jimmy Borges was delighted. He was even happier at the prospect of being reunited musically with pianist Betty Loo Taylor and drummer Noel Okimoto at Rossini's, the noted local jazz club. But he's off the wall now that he's learned they'll be sharing the bill with Ray Brown, who Borges describes as "simply the best bass player that ever lived." Now if they can just get him to jam with them ...
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