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ONE of the nicest and most venerable of ladies, hotelier Grace Buscher Guslander died this week and this time, unfortunately, never got a chance to read her obituary in the Advertiser yesterday. Guslander misses
obit #2In a monumental miscommunication in 1987, a front page story in the morning paper reported Guslander had died, when in fact she was merely hospitalized. A correction was run the next day, but it was a nightmare that forever hounded the paper's then managing editor, Buck Buchwach, who was a friend of Grace's. She actually enjoyed living to read her own obit, as did I when the paper prepared an advance one for me nearly six years ago when the doctors gave me 48 hours to live. You want to rewrite it, of course, but still being around to read it makes up for a lot ...
QUITE a few "Hawaii Five-O" fans emailed to remind me that the reason Jack Lord did the booking of the villainous Wo Fat after his capture 20 years ago was that Jim MacArthur, always the one to "book 'em, Danno," had left the show prior to the 12th season ... One of the photos used to promote entertainer Wayne Newton and his Shell concert tomorrow night has him looking mighty like Eddie Munster. When I saw him last year at the Hilton Waikoloa he looked like he'd dipped his head in a barrel of ink, but didn't resemble Eddie Munster ...
Remodeling Cook's life
AFTER 18 years at 420 North Highway, Hawaii Remodeling magazine honcho Jim Cook elected to forget about remodeling his old office and has moved his magazine to a new location in Gentry Pacific Design Center. Pal Connie Wright stopped by as he was getting under way and told him that April Fool's Day was a curious time to be making a move, given the gags Cook and the rest of his Trade Publishing gang used to play on each other, particularly the late Don Over. (Once they took out an ad for a "Moving Sale -- Come Early" with Over's home address. He wasn't moving!) But what blew Wright's mind was a framed letter from former U.S. Poet Laureate Archibald MacLeish. Turns out Cook had been a protege of poet Phyllis Thompson during his UH days and ended up carrying on a lengthy correspondence with MacLeish before deciding to sell ads rather than poetry ...WHO would have guessed that a restaurant featuring fine Hawaiian regional and Pacific Rim cuisine would become a key venue for numerous Isle entertainers? But appearing on various nights at Chai's Island Bistro in Aloha Tower Marketplace are Olomana, Makaha Sons, Melveen Leed, Brothers Cazimero, Hapa, Azure McCall and Glenn Medeiros ... After a lengthy period of fighting City Hall over parking space requirements, etc., Ed Wary is having a gala opening next week of his second Auntie Pasto's. It's on Kapahulu where the Internet Cafe used to be ...
Cooking on camera
WHAT a sneaky way of getting TV coverage of the "Celebrity Chef Brunch" at the W Honolulu Hotel to raise money for the James Beard Foundation! Each of the chefs preparing dishes at the Diamond Head Grill Sunday, April 30, will be teamed with a television personality who'll either help them out or get in their way, but surely film them. And, in the manner of promoter Kimo McVay's childhood lemonade stand ("Ten cents a drink or two for a quarter"), tickets are $75 each or a table of six for $600. How come? The tables get "corporate recognition," which I assume is a sign ...
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