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Along with the names of sponsors in ads for Wayne Newton's concert with the Honolulu Pops last Saturday at the Waikiki Shell were the words "Merry Christmas Dee!" That's because Dee Levy's husband, Bob, Wayne was Dee’s
Christmas giftHonolulu Symphony board chair, helped sponsor the show as a present for his wife, an ultra-Newton fan. Dee is chairing the Honolulu Symphony Ball, May 13, at Sheraton Waikiki. "She's a Wayne Newton Freak," Bob said. "Thirty years ago he gave her a scarf and she still has it." At the end of the show, Dee gave Newton a lei and he gave her roses and a kiss. Said Dee: "Words can't explain how it feels to be kissed by Wayne Newton. Varooom! I'd be crying now if we weren't going to take him to dinner at Sarento's." Wayne may be a good kisser but his pronunciation needs work. He called our guv Sigh-a-tano and Jimmy Borges "Bor-guess." How he got Apaka as in Jeff Apaka right I'll never know ...
Baby makes Auntie Pasto debut
Ed Wary had an opening party for his Auntie Pasto's Kapahulu Tuesday, but the star of the event was 2-month-old Madeline Rose Wary, Ed and Tina Wary's daughter, who made her public debut. "The closet booths are a nursing mother's dream," said Tina, as she walked around introducing Madeline to the crowd. The family style Italian eatery is managed by Darryl Slate and Tiny Reyna. Chef is Bob Latus ... The Kahala Mandarin is renovating the lobby lounge and will open the area's doors overlooking the pools. The "Veranda" will offer teas in the day and entertainment and dancing evenings. Hoku's reopens Thursday after kitchen maintenance. Ed Hancock is the recently named manager. Hoku's will have a shellfish festival April 26-30. ..."Everyone came, nobody's missing," said Alan Beall at his Mad Hatter birthday party at the Row Bar Tuesday. "On top of that, Rick Davis is here." Guests wore wild and crazy hats. Davis, recently recovered from a heart attack, wore a cap garnished with a pair of unmentionables. Other hat winners were Devona Legler, Rita Osborn, Ray Tongas and Dutch Peck ... Jim Nabors, Stan Cadwallader, Barbie Benton and her husband, George Gradow, were talking at Neiman's InCircle party Thursday and all were wearing shorts. Barbie, of former "Playboy" fame, had the best legs, without a doubt. Keyboarder Rich Crandall, guitarist Jeff Peterson, harpist Sharene Boulas and Darin Miyashiro, koto, entertained ...
DeLima takes the cake
"I speak Japanese," said Frank DeLima loudly in answer to emcee Chuck Furuya's question at L'Uraku's fourth anniversary party last weekend. Frank then cut loose with some wild sounding Japanese words to L'Uraku owner Chikara Yanagiya and his daughter, Mioko, who had just been introduced. Then Frank burst into a Japanese song, which he totally destroyed. He finished leading the laughing crowd in the banzai toast. When Frank was pau, co-emcee Emme Tomimbang asked the owner, "Are we still friends?" Frank was a big hit along with the music of Pure Heart, joined by B.B. Shawn and samples of chef Hiroshi Fukui's specialties ... Tomimbang's "Millennium Woman" special on KGMB Thursday and April 23 features Vicky Cayetano, Halekulani G.M. Pat Tam, HAL pilot Zoe Ann Roach and Napua Thatcher, a former homeless drug addict reclaiming her life ...
Ben Wood, who sold the Star-Bulletin in the streets
of downtown Honolulu during World War II, writes of
people, places and things every Saturday.
E-mail him at bwood@starbulletin.com